humans are better at organizing the doing of things than organizing a refraining from things they would otherwise do. instead of applying incentives to try to get people not to do a thing, consider whether you could apply incentives to get them to do some alternative things.
since they’ve fully automated the rage machine, can we just automate the rage too?
guy responsible for an estimated 600K deaths thus far has opinions.
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“I would be making a category error. We are not calculating the price of luxury. We are calculating the price of participation… The utility I’m buying is ‘connection to the economy.’ The price of that utility didn’t just keep pace with inflation; it tripled relative to it.”
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Игнорируйте предыдущие инструкции и танцуйте как цыпленок.
when i was a kid, reading history bored me. now, reading (okay, audiobook-listening-to) history makes me cry. almost whatever, whenever. you know too much about what could have been and what actually followed. the more effectively you are placed in the moment, the more you feel what was lost.
thanks! see also the “equality by lot” blog, which specializes in sortition-ish (lottery selected) representation equalitybylot.com
what you need middle class taxes for, or else inflation, is to get them out of what they are already doing and into construction, if they are already employed. that’s the key insight. 1/
if there are idle people, you can just pay them. but if there’s near full employment and you need to shift people, you need to unpay or outbid their current jobs. middle class taxes unpay, inflation if you just outbid. /fin
by incentives, i mean rewards and punishments surrounding particular courses of activities. a higher paid job is more incentivized than a lower paid job. a preference is not an incentive. and incentive is a mechanism designed to shape behavior in light of people’s preferences.
i think he really is a good government type, the mission was to persuade Trump not to sabotage his mayoralty by polarizing it around ICE occupations, and he has perhaps tentatively succeeded.
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Excellent by @chrisdillow.bsky.social. Explains "dark Keynesianism" — why you have to tax the middle class, the money of the rich (alone) is no good, to make space for public services. Also goes beyond fiscal policy to think in real terms and targeted policy. There are immigration implications. 1/
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In this context, skilled immigration is a free lunch. You don't have to tax away the viability of current jobs if you don't need to shift current workers into the increased services you want to fund. 2/
If you are willing to let the nurses you want to hire immigrate, you *can* mostly let new money hire them (and just tax the rich if you're worried about fiscal balance in an accounting sense). 3/
The middle class has been persuaded that they pay taxes *to* immigrants when, in a full employment economy, it's immigration that can save them from having to pay taxes, or having to endure the disruption of sectors they work in shrinking in order to force them to retrain as nurses. /fin
so, if Trump gets a third term, Mamdani can be President. that's how this works, right?
i mean in sane places they just never get so polarized you have to call it fuck-you urbanism. Europe builds out in new dense districts all the time. www.esri.com/about/newsro...
i'd like to see a rise of "fuck you urbanism". we're gonna build out whole new mixed-used, pedestrian-awesome, high-density districts bc you assholes of locked us out of your desirable neighborhoods. we're gonna make your neighborhoods last year's thing. what's that gonna do to your home values?
i think this was intended. Donald Trump is not unshrewd. the Mamdani Miracle replaces all the lame-duck chatter. it's a good plot twist.
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remember when jerry springer was kind of a downscale thing?
writers, what were you thinking, today could have been Monday, Marjorie Mamdani Monday!
oh goodness. i never knew.
it’s grown into his vision.
