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- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 11 months ago:
Cool. I’m down with that.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 11 months ago:
No minimum parking, no height limit, no maximum FAR, no maximum unit count.
yeah get rid of these next and you’re set.
- Comment on As if the tip actually goes to the dashers. 11 months ago:
Dude there is a universe worth of difference between eating at a restaurant and being asked to tip like, a good truck or some shit.
- Comment on As if the tip actually goes to the dashers. 11 months ago:
It’s “how little can I tip before they tamper with my food”
Normal people never, ever think this.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 11 months ago:
This is specifically about Australia, but essentially all 3 parts of this piece (and related linked essays) sum up how to solve the housing crisis worldwide.
…substack.com/…/how-to-solve-housing-unaffordabil…
Boils down to:
1: change zoning laws to allow more multifamily construction
2: remove incentives for homeownership and generally disincentivize single family homes
3: build for density in ways that reinforce and support density
If you want more info, basically every mainstream economist in the world agrees this is the solution, and that this is a manufactured problem. It’s a result of regulatory capture by homeowners, essentially. There are many, many papers about it.
Here’s an easily-digestible article
businessinsider.com/economist-how-to-fix-america-…
And a well-cited study in an economic journal:
…umich.edu/…/the-economics-of-the-housing-shortag…
All these sources agree, because this is the solution. Realistically, the only bad solutions are subsidizing more demand via things like rent control - these will only make our problems worse.
- Comment on As if the tip actually goes to the dashers. 11 months ago:
Uh… what about the people actually paying the tip? How on earth is it beneficial for the person paying more money for the level of service they should be getting regardless? How is that extra $3 more important to the server than to the person losing it?
This is the crux of the argument. You’d be paying this anyway, because servers won’t take the job for less money. No matter how you slice it, you’re spending this same amount of money.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 11 months ago:
Unironically the answer is “shop less.”
Prices on goods rise when demand for goods stays sufficient to support the price going up. The less everyone buys, the less things will cost.
Prices for goods have almost nothing to do with the price of rent, but the mechanisms there are the same - it’s just that you have to encourage building rather than “live somewhere less” because the second option really isn’t tenable, for obvious reasons.
If you want rent to come down, campaign for, vote for, or even run for office to be the candidate that will change zoning laws and encourage building multifamily housing.
- Comment on As if the tip actually goes to the dashers. 11 months ago:
You’re not in favour of tipping because it’s the morally right thing to do, or because you altruistically support hard workers. You’re in favour of it because you personally make a shit ton more money.
I’m in favor of it because it helps everyone involved. There is no one that tipping is bad for.
- Comment on As if the tip actually goes to the dashers. 11 months ago:
As is this. I have no idea why people here are convinced tipping is somehow bad for employees and good for employers
It’s literally the same thing you just are more aware of it.
- Comment on As if the tip actually goes to the dashers. 11 months ago:
Servers make vastly more than min wage. I generally had $0 paychecks because taxes were higher than my hourly
- Comment on As if the tip actually goes to the dashers. 11 months ago:
You literally always pay the wages of the people that work for companies.
- Comment on As if the tip actually goes to the dashers. 11 months ago:
I’ve made more as a server than most Americans make doing “appropriately compensated” work. Hitting median wage for your area as a server is easy in 95% of the US.
- Comment on As if the tip actually goes to the dashers. 11 months ago:
Their employer is treating them like a tipped employee, which is so embedded into society’s fabric that we have a separate tax code for it.
You not liking that is not any different from you liking a given law. You’re free to not participate, but expect there to be consequences, and one of those is for people to assume you’re an asshole.
- Comment on Don’t DO IT Steamboat! 11 months ago:
That’s exactly what I said in my OP
- Comment on Don’t DO IT Steamboat! 11 months ago:
Yes I’m aware but it’s an empty point.
- Comment on Don’t DO IT Steamboat! 11 months ago:
This post is a meme tho
- Comment on Don’t DO IT Steamboat! 11 months ago:
It’s not wrong to enjoy things, but it’s ok to laugh at it too.
- Comment on Don’t DO IT Steamboat! 11 months ago:
People are pretending like this is a big deal when it isn’t, and Mickey mouse memes would never have resulted in any sort of action by Disney because they’re memes.
Here’s an old as shit Mickey mouse meme. Note how it is still online and no one is in trouble for it, and it isn’t even Steamboat Willie.
Expect this to continue for a while because people love feeling like they’re “sticking it to the man” even though they could’ve been doing that for ages and none of it matters.
- Comment on Square Enix’s president says it will be ‘aggressive in applying’ AI 11 months ago:
It is not doing that today.
It is absolutely doing that today. From medicine to fucking call center QA.
That you don’t know about it is further evidence of my claim - AI is currently being leveraged within existing toolsets that you also do not know about.
- Comment on Square Enix’s president says it will be ‘aggressive in applying’ AI 11 months ago:
if AI can’t find its market (which for all the hype it hasn’t thus far)
AIs market is every market, which is why it seems like AI isn’t “doing much.” The primary benefit of AI in its current form is finding and driving efficiencies.
It’s much more like the internet in the early 90s than it is the block chain. AI hasn’t had its “dot com bubble” begin yet, because right now it’s all targeted services.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Fidelity
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
You’re suggesting, with a serious face, that the fact that real estate investment trusts exist means that “rich people own the buildings their companies are in and want return to office to raise the value of those buildings.”
That’s a thing you think is real.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
I can name a fortune 100 bank that isn’t run by total asshole that does.
Efficiency wins in the end.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
C’mon man. You’re being serious?
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
It doesn’t matter how profitable the company is. It only matters how much the people who want to buy your shares are prepared to pay for them.
Man I am not being mean here, I promise, but you need to hear this: Stop getting your worldview from memes.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
My last job was remote for a fortune 100 company. Large companies are 100% on board with this because it is efficient.
Efficiency always wins in the end.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Because they also hold shares in the companies that rent offices
You know this isn’t true, right? Like, you know that?
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Shareholders like to hear that employees are having to come to the office, being fired, or pissing in bottles. It means more money for the shareholders.
How would any of these things necessarily correlate to more money?
- Comment on People who dont particularly care for or celebrate Christmas, Whats your favorite Christmas song? 11 months ago:
Father Christmas by The Kinks is my all-time favorite Christmas song.
youtu.be/fPPCPqDINEk?si=8V0_zTG1MOv2luIx
I have a very weird history with and a love/hate relationship with Christmas, but this song is always atop every Christmas playlist I’ve ever made.
- Comment on Does the rest of the English speaking world generally understand what an American means when they say "soccer", or does it help to clarify by adding "football"? 11 months ago:
I am amazing at geography, so that’s not an issue.
The real problem is getting around once you land, and I can say with absolute confidence that is universal.
