Wow, that’s horrible. It goes to show how the republican legislators who refused to allow the government to provide more assistance to people who are hurting from the side effects of public health measures have more blood on their hands than I thought.

Republican controlled states will be willing to give over whatever amount of money Musk wants regardless of the economic climate. They’ll just cut social spending if necessary. The actual dollars and cents analysis is immaterial for republicans. They have ideological and resent based reasons give up state revenue to…

The USD doesn’t have value because of some society wide folie a deux. The dollar has “value” because it is almost impossible to live in America without having access to some baseline amount of US dollars. If only because the government has made US dollars the only acceptable form of payment for federal taxes. The…

So you’re admitting that there is nothing from recent US economic history to support your “just so story” about the inevitable disaster caused by government spending? I just want to make sure we’re on the same page.

When people keep making predictions which don’t come to pass, at what point is it reasonable to ignore (or at least take with a massive grain of salt) the exact same predictions as last time?

It’s pretty incredible that someone who clearly has no knowledge of macroeconomic theory, monetary theory, or just a basics idea of how a fiat currency works would tell other people to “take a couple of econ courses”.

No it doesn’t. You can only come away with that conclusion if you assume the only way for people to receive money is through exchanging their labor in “the market”. But that’s not true. It’s purely ideological.

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

Of course they take the houses from the construction worker. The landlord can’t have the house without the person who physically built it. In a world without property laws enforced by state violence the construction worker can build a house and live in it. The landlord can’t do shit because they don’t know how to…

And who can forget Biden’s spectacular bipartisan legislative achievements like the Bankruptcy “Abuse” and Consumer “Protection” act of 2005? Who cares that the disgustingly named bill made private student loan debt non-dischargable in bankruptcy or stripped individuals’ protections when filing for bankruptcy (while…

God, you must be just an incandescent ball of white hot rage right now. Please make sure you're in a safe, peaceful space tonight. Severe blood pressure spikes can cause serious health problems. I'm worried about you. 

I’m a plaintiff side employment lawyer who has litigated sexual harassment cases. The definition of a “hostile work environment” includes the same “severe or pervasive” language.

I don’t get all the outrage about Hill resigning while males in similar positions who do the same or worse do not. Hill made the choice to resign. She could have tried to ride it out, and probably could have succeed. The news cycle can be measured in microseconds. I didn’t see any enormous wave of outrage push her out…

Of course we desire “free shit”. It’s called “society”. Or do only rich people deserve “free shit” like property rights, government created intangible property like IP, the rule of law, dispute resolution services, public physical infrastructure, trans-national infrastructure, etc.? It’s so weird how some services are…

What mechanism do you think can control costs without being dependent on “government control”? Is there any existing system you can point to as an example for how the US should structure the way health care is distributed?

Because they are different people with different policy platforms. Warren isn’t depending on white women voting for her simply because she is also a white woman.

Yang’s proposal is just an attempt to placate the “losers” of increased automation without actually impacting the “winners” by redistributing their gains. A VAT style tax is regressive and taxing consumption does nothing to fight the real problem which is the concentration of capital ownership among a small group of…

And they’re only just now all of a sudden saying it’s “supposed” to be a “side-hustle”, when their backs are up against it. They weren’t talking about “side-hustle” when they were telling stories of how “partnering” with them was a great opportunity because some drivers were making $80k a year (based like 50+ hour…

We just need to hear what Henry Kissinger has to say. Then this matter should be consider closed.

It’s so gross. And then you get these people with the bare minimum of knowledge and $ signs dancing in front of their eyes taking out hard money loans to buy overpriced “investments” they won’t be able to make any money on. I’ve heard from a lawyer friend of mine who does real estate related work that some of the…