What makes you think people with degrees can afford a house by 30?

Why would anyone believe that to be true?

This guy’s business model is being hated so much that people will pay for him to get beaten and everyone is eating it all up.

Idk most vegans I know try not to talk about it and sometimes even hides it due to stigma.

I just wish that the narrative would focus more on the anti-competitive behavior of these firms to make sure we don’t fall into the same monopolistic trap in Europe. We need variety, we need competition. Focus on standards, low switching costs, and allow reverse engineering.

I recommend “the high cost of free parking” by Donald Shoup.

This is more of a critique of private landlords than of capitalism. So it’s more of a Georgist than socialist argument.

Law suggestion: every phone has to have multiple options for operating systems

The best thing you can do in these situations is to ask a critically reflective question for them to sit with. You can and never have been able to change someone’s mind just like that. What you can is be part of the web of critical thoughts that help them towards thinking critically about their idea.

Not even our far left parties in Europe are socialist

I love an ambitious person. Just not if the main motivation is money, fame, beauty, or status. But give me someone geeky, curious, and exploring person anytime.

Don’t encourage them. Making a profit would mean ads on ChatGPT.

It won’t really matter what she says, because republicans won’t hear this argument. They live in a different online reality than we do.

Fun fact, when you remove real estate from that calculations, the claim is no longer true (Rognlie, 2014). Land is a severely underrated cause of this. Edit: citation: https://doi.org/10.1353/eca.2016.0002

I’ve been using Tuta, and while I like them as a company and for their privacy, it bothers me that I have to use their email client. It increases switching costs for me because I can’t use the same client as my previous as I switch. I also don’t like the client. I understand why they do it - to control privacy, but I don’t see why I shouldn’t have the choice and why for example using Thunderbird doesn’t still comply with that.

I don’t trust proton because of its right wing expressions. Infomaniak is (to my knowledge) not focusing on privacy.

Wouldn’t this make everyone interested in the bad business practices that would increase the profits?

Henry George saw that land is fixed in supply and because of this any profits in companies and wages from workers get swallowed up by rents. If people start making more money, rents will rise. If businesses start making more profit, rents for them will rise. The beneficiaries of all progress and investment, including public infrastructure, are landlords.

This is not the case for capitalists if there is competition (unless they are also landlords, which many are).

The matter is that all landlords extract rent, but only capitalists with market power or land extract rent.

This doesn’t mean we don’t need antitrust and public ownership of natural monopolies, but it illustrates our severe undermining of land. Land makes up almost 50% of all wealth. It’s much more efficient to tax than capital and much harder to evade. It will likely increase housing affordability, reduce urban sprawl, limit impact of housing bubbles, increase investment in innovation (instead of land), and reduce inequality. It also has support from scholars in both ends of the political spectrum.

Because debates in the US are often set up to be a fight with a winner and loser. Real debates are about learning and instigating truth. Those debates are effective.

Also shares of heating, electricity, and production.

Or when people ask about products and options for services, that certain services can pay to be more likely to be mentioned defeating the whole purpose of actual comparison.