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Comment Re:An Example of Market Failure (Score 1) 31

Eh, market logic as designed (as high profits should attract more manufacturers).

But...

The amount of cash sloshing through will probably purchase that supply too.

The problem isn't exactly the market but the gradient of cash. When only dollars get a vote, the distribution starts looking tyrannical.

Comment Graft (Score 3, Informative) 45

If it is national strategic importance, why are these companies overseas? Why isn't it nationalized?

National security is corporate security, but when you have trans-nationals, governments only serve as whores of the corporate class.

Beyond lamenting the potential loss of markets, what difference does war make except moving headquarters?

Can't have it both ways.

Comment Damnatio memoriae (Score 3, Interesting) 95

There's a certain elegance that the modern AAA games industry would willingly do this to themselves in the name of absolute profits, and will be wiped from the memory of this era.

History is written by the victors, and publishers have already lost and are too dumb to realize it.

Comment Re: taxing unrealized gains is problematic (Score 4, Informative) 295

Eh, no. That would be land value tax.

Per wiki: Economists since Adam Smith and David Ricardo have advocated this tax because it does not hurt economic activity, and encourages development without subsidies., appealing to economist as diverse as Stiglitz to Friedman.

LVT is an in kind wealth tax.

Comment Re:should have been dead ten years ago. (Score 5, Insightful) 197

What is the saying- man with no health problems, short life. man with health problem, long life?

Most healthy-ish people aren't aware of the damage they do to their bodies until it is too late, whereas people with chronic conditions are more mindful of their health.

Especially for some careers, they aren't designed with health in mind and falls into to the same personal blame for any shortcomings instead of the system that lead them there.

Comment Re: scares me too much ill never do that (Score 1) 75

I'm leery of professional practice as there has been numerous document cases of abuse by both practitioners and government. Can't say if that aspect has ended or is just more well hidden. I doubt the quest for a mind control drug has gone away.

That said, the benefits of psilocybin are well documented. I just don't trust the current regulatory environment.

Comment Re:Closet Environmentalist? (Score 4, Informative) 293

Ryan Grim has made the argument Trump has done more to advance a leftist agenda than the democrats (yes yes yes, Republican lite) in the past few decades.

Trump will be a complex historical figure in that his monumental failures have changed the stagnation that defined the start of the 21st century, maybe for the better.

Of course he will still try to take credit for it as some pan-dimensional chess he was doing all along.

Comment Re:If it's the lowest salary you'll accept (Score 1) 96

And here comes the pedants.

Since there was an executive order issued in 2014 to the NLRB forbidding retaliation for discussing your salary, kinda implies that maybe there was some forbidding going on, no (I distinctly remember the whining)?

And why would employers demand that?

It's market manipulation that distinctly changes what your job is worth.

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