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  • Rich people are a threat for democracy, Oxfam finds

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  • Yes. But it's the same logic in different spheres. Just as you wouldn't concentrate resources in one industry, because it amplifies your exposure to market fluctuations and creates greater uncertainty. So too, you wouldn't concentrate resources in one person, because it amplifies fluctuations in their decision-making policy and... Creates greater uncertainty.

    I love putting the eggs in one basket.

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  • I don't think they're doing that for the robot's benefit 💀

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  • Try replacing the "one other thing" with a half a thing, or maybe even a quarter.

  • Americans are paying more than ever for cars. Cheap models are disappearing

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  • Hurray! The GDP is saved!

  • Buying Greenland could cost as much as $700 billion

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  • Dumb fucking headline.

  • Choose your path!

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  • book bad

  • "Basement with Supplies", Soviet poster, 1973

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  • Wholesome Russian man develops 68,000km² of useless sea into new land 🥰🥰🥰

  • People Who Visited Ark Encounter May Have Been Exposed to Measles

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  • I'm sure God will sort it out.

  • Sony AI patent will see PlayStation games play themselves when players are stuck

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  • Look, that ledge has yellow paint. I bet I can climb it.

  • Is this a federal crime? 🤔

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  • Donald Trump issues Greenland deadline

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  • Bro got attacked by his dementia mid-sentence.

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    When your daddy breaks the law it's "complex"

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    what is imperialism

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  • Well, this is a phenomenon that's discussed in the existing egalitarian literature, and the terminology is usually different, so it's a bit confusing to use the word "imperialism" imo, because it's not the done thing, even it would be a valid choice.

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    what is imperialism

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  • It's only imperialism if it's from the Inland Empire region of the USA, otherwise it's just a sparkling military operation.

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  • No, they can tell. It's extremely obvious to most people.

  • US seeks unpaid local interns at Greenland consulate as annexation threats loom

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  • Exhibit 1: Venezuela.

  • US Billionaire Wealth Surges to $8.1 Trillion as Affordability Crisis Hammers Working Class

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  • In your example where the money is literally taken & handed out, it'd result in short-term price surges, and probably have very little re-distributive effect (the money would end up flowing back up rapidly, and flow back down at the same rate as before).

    But that's not the only possibility. It should be possible to perform land & capital reform: altering the ownership & organisational structure of companies, causing them to allocate resources differently, causing the prices of goods (and of labour) to change relative to each other, and this can increase equality & overall standards of living. For instance, elite populations tend to hoard land & buildings, leaving them idle to fulfil their higher-level psychological needs (i.e. a big private estate) whereas that land could house a factory that contributes to lowering the prices of goods (or, I'm sure you can think of some other uses). They also tend to order the overproduction of prestige goods, when the effort that went into producing those could have went into producing goods that more effectively increase living standards. The relative price of bread & champagne isn't fixed and when the gap is small, it contributes to inequality, but measuring how much is difficult.

    Of course, actually figuring out how to do this is the hard part, but it has been done historically. Usually, the longer it lies, the bolder elites get with misallocations of capital, and the easier it is to come up with good suggestions. You are here (cough, datacenters, cough).

  • Building a React App with Formally Verified State

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  • So proud of Claude for writing this app.

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