Or actually, in a better analogy - minute clinic is fine for a cold, or a basic prescription, but doesn’t replace a hospital when you’re actually sick.

I think it depends on the stakes involved. There is a vast difference between a good, or even average lawyer, and a bad one. Nowadays, most people don’t hire lawyers unless the stakes are high. If it’s a claim worth 10s or 100s of thousands, a criminal case, immigration etc. you don’t want cut rate lawyers offering…

Someone needs to do that to all the politician/corporate non-apologies.

then you can’t use the apple watch.

Well, we differ in thinking, but I see Law School as really a, you gotta spend money to make money, deal. And it really is, you’re spending $300k on a degree for the 1%-60% (depending on which school you go to) chance of making a 6 figure salary, and accepting a 99%-40% chance of making poverty wages + being $300k in…

he actually doesnt go to UCLA - Goes to Seattle U.

I don’t know what you’re seeing that screams “wealth”. The most expensive thing there is a $1000 13” macbook pro, which is pretty much what I see 80% of students use. And especially when you’re in law school, where the difference between a $160,000 job and poverty is performing without a hitch in a 3 hour final exam,…

probably speck?

or the flashlight...

I basically carry nothing to class - I find a laptop more distracting than helpful most of the time, and note-taking to not be worth it 90% of the time compared with just paying attention and interacting in class. And no idea what that folding knife is for.

Women need accurate information to make informed medical decisions. One piece of information they need to make informed medical decisions is how much time is needed for an average woman to recover before giving birth again. To help get this information out there, the CDC needs to determine whether enough women have…

The, as you put it “actual incubation of the baby” is really the only reason why the decision on whether to abort should belong to the mother alone. If you take that out of it, and it’s just a pure question of the right to decide whether you want to be a parent - then both the father and mother have equal rights.

actually your logic breaks down once other airlines get the same planes. The advantage Southwest had of wider seats at same price goes away, but that doesnt take away the incentive to lower prices - it creates the incentive to lower prices, since if everyone has same width seats - the only way for you to get the extra…

You know most famous actors, athletes, etc. didn’t pop up the womb a star making millions a week. (Gwyneth actually did have a relatively privileged childhood, but nothing like her current life). Most actors and athletes grew up in low-income environments and struggled for years before being lucky enough to make it.

You'd be surprised, you don't really see conservatives railing against the EITC? Or look at all the pains Obamacare took to avoid calling the insurance penalty a tax. Irrational beliefs sometimes need irrational solutions.

Yea, that's the same argument as walmart still needs stockers, neglecting the fact that some businesses really would restrict employment. If you own a quarry and need rocks to be smashed, sure you'll still pay $15/hour. If there's just a bunch of ugly rocks in your garden, if there was no minimum wage you might pay…

I guess you didn't read my answer fully. I absolutely do advocate a minimum income, just in the form of welfare payments - not a minimum wage (that's actually better too, a minimum wage means nothing if employees only get scheduled to work part-time 10 hours a week, whereas welfare payments can ensure workers actually…

That's what I said. I said that the poor gets charged the same sales tax rate as the rich, and that's what makes it regressive, since the poor end up paying a higher rate as a proportion of their income. I quote from my comment "That's because sales taxes, like higher prices, are regressive, because the poor spend…

Yes, a minimum income is exactly the same thing as expanded welfare (except welfare is better, as it can be targeted towards people who need it most, whereas minimum income doesn't. It really is just semantics/optics, but people hear minimum income, and think it's a great progressive idea, but have negative…

What most conservatives (and liberals) use isn't really economics, it's just cherry-picking the parts of economic theory that happen to fit in with their ideals. Economics isn't about trying to get everyone in the economy the highest wage, but about making the economy as large and productive as possible. This includes…