So do we keep bikeshedding and tweaking little levers or do we actually try and fix the fundamental problem?
So do we keep bikeshedding and tweaking little levers or do we actually try and fix the fundamental problem? I can't be the only one who is tired of seeing all of these snippets about small parts of a large system. We need to deal with wealth inequality. We live in a world... hell, we live in countries, in cities with 10 orders of magnitude wealth difference. A western person earns 10e6 - 10e7 over a lifetime, revenue. A western person stashes away 10e0 - 10e7 over a lifetime, balance sheet. Why? It is predominantly not about decision making and choices to save. Yes, people do make suboptimal decisions. But mostly, people are simply unable to save because the baseline of living sucks up all of their work. In the UK a poor person rents instead of owning because we allow the group of capitalists to own all housing and restrict new building. Until we deal with that we are just pissing around.
Posted by stegosaurus on May 28, 2015, 5:37 PM
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I had a similar random thought: Why don't we have a cloud company that does something opposite to what a Cloud company usually does.
China is controlled by the government.
> Prohibition never works, and piracy is a reflection of an unmet need.
Thanks, that's quite interesting.
My experience is that people are getting increasingly isolated anyway, so VR is great in this regard for more and more people.
You misinterpreted the summary.
> The biggest unmet need is housing, and in most areas that is definitely supply constrained.
> why should I not vote to block and prevent this growth?
So do we keep bikeshedding and tweaking little levers or do we actually try and fix the fundamental problem?
So do we keep bikeshedding and tweaking little levers or do we actually try and fix the fundamental problem? I can't be the only one who is tired of seeing all of these snippets about small parts of a large system. We need to deal with wealth inequality. We live in a world... hell, we live in countries, in cities with 10 orders of magnitude wealth difference. A western person earns 10e6 - 10e7 over a lifetime, revenue. A western person stashes away 10e0 - 10e7 over a lifetime, balance sheet. Why? It is predominantly not about decision making and choices to save. Yes, people do make suboptimal decisions. But mostly, people are simply unable to save because the baseline of living sucks up all of their work. In the UK a poor person rents instead of owning because we allow the group of capitalists to own all housing and restrict new building. Until we deal with that we are just pissing around.
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