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- Comment on They say "Change is slow" for anything that benefits the working class, but change is always instant for the Billionaire Class. 3 hours ago:
Are we sure this is economically unreasonable? I think this happens in many financial systems; all you need is for a price increase in one place to cause cost increases at a delay (ie, fast inflation), eg: by workers getting paid more so they can afford the aforementioned price increase.
(We should also note there are markets that don’t do this. Air travel is a notable example.)
More interesting to me is price spikes when there’s no actual increase in costs. Several of those as of late.
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 4 days ago:
One should probably at least consider the military applications. Meteors killed the dinosaurs…
- Comment on Just to get this straight. If I stand outside a voting center and give each person 500 bucks to vote for me. That is illegal? But if I am a Dipshit In Chief and offer 5k that is 100 percent legal? 2 weeks ago:
(I’ll note that even states refused to pursue Musk. It appears that you can claim to do something illegal for a few hours on the internet, reap the media rewards, and then edit the post. Political activists, do take note.)
- Comment on Just to get this straight. If I stand outside a voting center and give each person 500 bucks to vote for me. That is illegal? But if I am a Dipshit In Chief and offer 5k that is 100 percent legal? 2 weeks ago:
Presidential immunity only extends to official acts see here. That said, its so poorly defined as to be irrelevant at the moment.
Still, I suspect distributing checks from the federal government that was not appropriated by congress would very much fail to qualify.
- Comment on Just to get this straight. If I stand outside a voting center and give each person 500 bucks to vote for me. That is illegal? But if I am a Dipshit In Chief and offer 5k that is 100 percent legal? 2 weeks ago:
Yes it is illegal for you to do that, as it would be for Trump. But no, Trumps proposed 5k checks to all adult citizens, as I understand it, is legal. I’m pretty disappointed in the other answers. A few relevant points.
- Remember the model for sending checks to folks: CARES. Both Biden and Trump have previously done this.
- Congress can legally amend and pass laws. Note that the law that makes bribing for votes illegal is not in the constitution, so it requires only the usual legal action to amend it.
- I note that the policy Trump proposed isn’t discriminatory on who you vote for; your hypothetical does. (I suspect this is irrelevant for the legality, but certainly helps the optics.)
- Comment on Profit over people is a failed system 3 weeks ago:
It would if it cited its sources… Though my understanding (if we’re even thinking about the same regulations, sigh), is that several things did go down and many more have improved over inflation.
But sure; meme makes me feel good = evidence.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
This would be compelling with sources; the OP explicitly disputes some of these points afaict.
- Comment on Paid Time Off Hypocrisy 3 weeks ago:
It seems one can agree with a person on one issue and not others. Fortunately Lemmy attention isn’t very valuable, so we don’t have to pretend that upvotes here are deteriorating the fabric of society in quite the way they did on reddit.
- Comment on Just checking in to see if anyone cares that the mumbling turtle is still on full salary while being MIA for two-and-a-half months 4 weeks ago:
Is a source easily available?
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- Comment on Blow up fossil fuel infrastructure 1 month ago:
Honestly can’t tell which one is which. Most manifesto’s don’t do anything but social-signalling; and neither does the average climate report…
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Wish we’d do this to academics more often. Give them enough to live on, no responsibilities, and beat anyone who tries to socialize with them with a big stick.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
This is what you can expect from a mathematician. Always ahead of the curve.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 1 month ago:
They’re welcome to lie with the numbers! But then I can at least reason about it. Right now, we’re looking at some cherry-picked end points and ignoring the proposed numerics entirely.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 1 month ago:
Note that cheaper self-checkout means more demand for it (and less demand for cashiers). So we’ll have fewer jobs, and worse service for those who can’t (for w/e reason) use self-checkout.
Most of its happening anyway.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 1 month ago:
The numbers are public. You can do the math and convince us.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 1 month ago:
That’s an abysmally small number compared to the amount of product they move.
Yes, sure, CEO’s should make less. But that amounts to fractions of a percent on the typical purchase, not 10%.
- Comment on Pizza Party and Casual Fridays 1 month ago:
Is this meaningfully distinct from measuring monpolization/oligopolies? I can’t recall how we filter out small businesses + self employed folk (and how that plays against companies eating other companies.)
- Comment on Any politician who disagrees needs to go 2 months ago:
Yeah… innumeracy really isn’t helping anybody here.
Confused at where the 1.5 trillion comes from, but maybe I’m just not following closely enough.
- Submitted 2 months ago to workreform@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on A Majority of Americans Now Support Seizing Wealth From AI Industry 2 months ago:
See an extended version of this take from Bruce Schneier. (He’s also going to spend awhile arguing for a public option on AI; something using the technology in an open way, respecting IP, and distributing the benefits.)
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 2 months ago:
Do we have data on how much free time and external costs the poor have been burdened with over time?
I could see it going either way (and this is presumably monstrously tricky to account fairly). My lived experience is that many folks have things they’d prefer to do than organizing (I’m looking at phones and social media), over and above the impositions on their lives. But I’d like to know that I’m wrong.
- Submitted 3 months ago to videos@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on ‘Hundreds of job applications’: young people on their struggle to find work 3 months ago:
Good to see anecdata that actually include the people they are about, instead of what an old person thinks their lives are like.
Getting started today does seem bleak.
- Comment on Praise Helix 4 months ago:
and I for one am very happy you’re here!
- Submitted 4 months ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 22 comments
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 4 months ago:
source on the size of the effects of lobbying vs flight risk?
I would like to agree with you, its just very not-obvious which influence dominates.
- Comment on wage theft 4 months ago:
There’s something I don’t understand here. See the wikipedia article, which shows billions in losses, and (eyeballing) a ratio of ~20-200, not 3. Anybody know what’s up?
- Comment on Playnix: Boutique Linux PC released with better gaming performance than Valve Steam Machine 5 months ago:
I admit to hoping it was more… nix?
- Comment on Being Difficult 5 months ago:
good bot
