Glassnoser
6mo ago
Some people do want to live with them though.
Glassnoser
6mo ago
Maybe I'm biased by the possibly unusual experiences of my close family members, but my mother for example had four children and that didn't stop her from being highly successful. From what I've heard it, she didn't find pregnancy difficult and couldn't wait to go back to work. But who said it had to be two weeks? You can take more than that off, but it doesn't need to be the whole year that some people take.
Glassnoser
8mo ago
Traffic congestion is caused by a lack of congestion pricing. It's a choice, not a necessary feature of any particular urban layout.
Glassnoser
8mo ago
I don't know anything about that or what point you're making.
Glassnoser
8mo ago
The original point was never to compare American workers to those across the rest of the world.
My point was that if the rest of the world gets by on much less, then they clearly get paid enough to keep up with basic necessities.
Wages are up, but the price of goods in the United States is outpacing that growth to the point that lower- and middle-class people making decent wages still can barely afford the necessities, e.g., rent, groceries, gas, childcare.
The word "real" means the numbers are adjusted for inflation, so if real wages are going up, that means that nominal wages are increasing faster than the price of goods. This is especially true for lower and middle class people. Their earnings have risen more than those of upper class people. The wages of the poorest have risen the most.
Swing state voters said this was their biggest concern and hope (and believe) Trump and the Republicans will come to the rescue.
If you look at polls that have been done over the last few years, most Americans say they're doing fine but believe most other people are not. These economic problems are completely imaginary. This has been the best period for the increase in the standard of living of the American poor in a very long time,
Glassnoser
8mo ago
Very few people actually live paycheque to paycheque though. The US economy has done really well and real wages, especially for the poor are up.
Glassnoser
1yr ago
How does prosecuting illegal acts done by the president interfere with his ability to do his job?
Glassnoser
1yr ago
He would only face that choice if he were protected from prosecution while in office, which he should not be.
Glassnoser
1yr ago
If you owe any capital gains tax, you're almost certainly already I'm the top tax bracket and you pay less tax the longer you go without selling.
Glassnoser
1yr ago
The median Canadian does have siblings. My point was actually that the average (not median) Canadian doesn't have enough siblings and does own enough property such that he comes out ahead.
Glassnoser
1yr ago
Were you specifically asking how the state is supposed to go from 50% nonwhite to 0% nonwhite?
No, I was asking who counts as white.
Glassnoser
1yr ago
Why should doctors need to be able to prove they can speak English to be allowed to work in the US? The point of medical licensing is to make sure that doctors know what they're doing, something that is not easily verified by patients. But patients can tell immediately if a doctor speaks English. If he can't, no one is actually going to be harmed by it and he may still be able to help patients who speak some other language.
If insurers in the US negotiated a lower price for drugs, that would kill the incentive to develop new drugs.
First of all, those are very different situations. It's not true that if Israel is justified in attacking Palestine that those other causes are justifiable, nor is it necessarily wise for the US to get involved. Secondly, it's not true that if the US helps one country it has to help them all.
Glassnoser
1yr ago
Food can be transported, so you don't need arable land. And there's a lot of arable land anyway. If the land isn't cleared, it can be cleared.
Canadian winter gets prohibitively expensive,
Clearly not, since people live in very cold parts of the country. If Winnipeg exists, then people can build in the ample open spaces of southern Ontario, let alone in the rest of Manitoba.
if you want to bring in millions of immogrants, you need to have an idea of where to put them.
As I said, they could easily fit in the GTA, let alone the many other cities we have and similar environments that haven't been built up.
Glassnoser
1yr ago
We need a rule against long-form bullshit then.
Glassnoser
1yr ago
- That's what moderation is for.
- I don't understand what your second point is saying.
Glassnoser
1yr ago
Not only do people not spend a very large portion of their incomes on food, but they spend an even tinier amount on mayonaise, and it isn't even necessary to live. My point being that people fixate on a few specific things whose prices have risen by a lot and ignore the many things whose prices have not risen by as much or at all.
Glassnoser
1yr ago
It isn't verifiable though. It's anecdotes focusing on a tiny non-representative sample of the data. Who has actually collected the data in a proper way and is reporting much higher numbers than the government?
Glassnoser
1yr ago
What territorial expansion? Are you talking about Israeli settlements in the West Bank?
Glassnoser
2yr ago
I mean that you may be hearing people misuse the term, which why you have heard it used to refer to all the systemic exterminations of WWII, even though it properly only refers to the extermination of Jews.
Glassnoser
2yr ago
That may be, but it's an incorrect usage of the term.
Glassnoser
2mo ago
Are you calling Scott Sumner a random partisan hack?
It's been three years. The emergency for which their rights were suspended is long over. Why can't they start giving these people trials to determine if they belong in prison? Why don't they have habeas corpus? Why do they need to experience such high levels of abuse while in prison?
the very few (ie probably less than 0.1%) innocently caught in the net via the policies are worth more than having a functioning society.
How could you possibly know what that number is?
Now Bukele over time may turn into a negative authoritarian and at that time if criticize him.
That time is now.
https://apnews.com/article/bukele-salvador-crackdown-price-gouging-7e99374c444a81a4009ec09d94857d25
Glassnoser
3mo ago
Yes
This isn't human trafficking.
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