EnsignWashout @ EnsignWashout @startrek.website Posts 0Comments 66Joined 2 yr. ago
Things going to shit, in the US, correlates strongly with Reagen Era economic policies. The term "trickle down economics" says a lot about why it didn't benefit most people.
In my option, all presidents from both major political parties since Reagan have done more to make it worse, than better.
My conclusion is that what's really going on is class warfare by the ultra rich against the rest of us...
I used to always use Minecraft for this. Sure, they can't do everything immediately, but I put the game on peaceful and let them explore at their own pace.
I say "used to" because Luanti (formerly MineTest, an open source Minecraft Clone*) is finished and free.
(Okay, Luanti is a lot more than a Minecraft clone. But for this discussion that's all one needs to know.)
Nice. Minecraft used to be my go to answer for a first WASD game, too.
Lately, I recommend Mineclonia on Luanti, because it's free and has stronger optimizations supporting weak laptops and big multiplayer servers. (It's a popular Free Open Source Minecraft Clone).
Well the baker, knowing that everyone has twice as much money, puts his prices up because he knows the market can bear it. That's the way I reason it.
The good news is this simply doesn't happen (in civilized modern countries).
People with more money don't buy twice as much bread, they buy other things.
The bread maker is still competing with milk producers and video game makers and artists.
You can read about price elasticity for more details (and to not just take my word for it.)
Highly inelastic goods (water, transportation, eggs) are the most likely to have runaway price increases.
But civilized countries already have public options to supply these items at cost :public water, public transport, food stamps.
This means we already have the necessary buffers against any impact by UBI. Any provider of an inelastic good who raises their price too far loses business to the public option.
Schwinn and Ferrari will all see slightly more sales with UBI as a few people use their additional income to purchase a bicycle or a supercar, but the bus lines must still run to keep them honest.
The risk is minimal because we already know what public consumption of these goods looks like, when they're free or heavily subsidized, in each civilized country.
This was really helpful. Thank you.
Where do you get books for the Kindle if not at Amazon?
- BAEN sells eBooks directly.
- Libby has various options to check out eBooks from local libraries.
- Project Gutenberg has free and DRM free eBooks for most books in the public domain. A huge number of classics are available this way.
When I look for a specific book, I usually find that simply searching for "BOOK NAME purchase DRM free” results in plenty of results.
Sadly, I find it dramatically easier to find a free DRM free copy of most eBooks than to find somewhere to legally purchase a paid licensed DRM-free copy.
As a flawless upstanding citizen, I never partake of such amazing convenience, myself, of course.
I remember those days, as well!
I bought a "fixer-upper" recently, so I fill most days off with minor home repair projects. I'm using it as an excuse to build a decent little project workbench, though.
Just so you know, this isn't Reddit. You've just been blocked by everyone reading along here.
If you start to feel like no one replies here, it's actually you, in this case. It could help to try again with a new account.
Sure some people might say hi back but that doesn't mean they're a friend.
True. But I've had some great friendships grow after years of just "hi" in passing. We weren't friends yet, but we were destined to become friends.
Are you suggesting that our total and complete lack of health and safety standards and really even a modicum of self respect - hurts our international product sales? How could that possibly be?
As an American, I was taught that maximizing quarterly profits will solve all of my problems, so I have no framework to use this idea, and so I will ignore it.
P.s. Help welcome. Some of us realize we're disgusting. Discussing here probably does help. Thank you.
I'm with you.
Thankfully, corporate bullahit isn't the only way to create a discovery algorithm.
I expect that we will have a diverse set of discovery algorithms available to opt into here, in a few years.
Thank you! You're doing Lliira's work!
Any politician launching their own media network is a reprehensible piece of shit.
Prove me wrong.
Thank goodness. We didn't have enough Stars Wars, yet.
I always wonder about the people who drop off just before finishing the game.
That's me. It used to be common for games to have a sharp ramp up in challenge at the end boss, and I often don't have the time to get through that.
So I habitatually abandon games when I feel close to the end, and I watch the ending on a stream, instead of playing it.
I realize that minimal research could tell me which games are which, but even less research finds me a decent stream of the game ending.
Nothing anotger fireball won't solve...
the low rollers having been filtered out by dart traps, lucky kobolds, etc.
True. That's mage survivor bias, right there.