This program is an insane disaster that will discourage people from working. People should make close to what they would have made an employment, but if you pay them more, why would anyone go back to work or even stay in the job they have today? This is a very concerning program.
Sydney Poitier
What your parents sacrificed for you should be repaid in kind to your kids, not back to your parents. If you don’t have kids, pay it to society.
Idea from HN I Like
Children are brought into existence w/o their consent.
Now I don’t believe this is* (edit: fixed) an evil or unethical act; it’s simply an unavoidable facet of reality. However, it creates a debt to children so massive, that it can’t be fully repaid in a lifetime.
In short, the debt between children & parents only ever runs one way.… read more “Idea from HN I Like”
How to beat Regulatory Capture?
Regulatory capture is a situation in which the companies or the industry being regulated takeover of their own set of rules and the enforcer of those rules. It is a bad situation because the company is then right rules to make it hard for new competitors to get started in their industry.
A great example of this is aerospace.… read more “How to beat Regulatory Capture?”
Protected: Daddy and the man
Ban Patents to Save Lives
If we abolished the patent system, anyone anywhere could compete in the production of any good or service. This would lead to no shortages of anything, the lowest possible prices, and a much better quality of life for everyone.
Griffin The Climber
Griffin likes to climb everything now. Unfortunately he is not very coordinated or balanced, and is always at risk of toppling over. He doesn’t understand how to fall safely yet either so he would bonk his head with each fall. We have to watch him like a hawk now!
Michael Burry of ‘The Big Short’ Slams Virus Lockdowns in Tweets – Bloomberg
Freaks – another great movie
Watch it!
The platform is a great movie
Laurel and I watched the science fiction movie The Platform last night. We were both very entertained. It’s basically a movie of a man in a prison where a platform of food starts at the top level and slowly goes downward. The people at the bottom level get no food because the people at the top eat it all.… read more “The platform is a great movie”