ItsMonkk

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by ItsMonkk 6d ago
Any price above the marginal cost produces dead-weight loss. Dead-weight loss causes less value to be created than is possible. What we need is a system that subsidizes the value created by the inventor, without any restrictions for the res
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by ItsMonkk 24d ago
A land value tax with citizen's dividend reaches all of the goals he is trying to hit here, without any of the very obvious drawbacks. Just do that instead.
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by ItsMonkk 1mo ago
UBI funded through LVT is not inflationary.
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by ItsMonkk 2mo ago
Keep in mind that this allows, and protects, the academic channel to do their own thing. Right now they are pulled by those that don't care about academia because they want a job and know having the credential is how they get it. If we
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by ItsMonkk 2mo ago
This aligns the incentives. Education provides positive externalities that the market will not provide. > allow companies to direct the research towards their ends So long as they hit the requirements to reward the prize, I don't mu
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by ItsMonkk 2mo ago
It's probably cleaner to directly couple those that want it, so that those that want to decouple can be left to the academic path. It's pretty normal to hear from people that when they entered the workforce they learned way more t
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by ItsMonkk 3mo ago
You're not trying to get individuals to complete work that requires thousands of participants. You're trying to get it so that those one level below currently working on such projects can make it pencil out. You're trying to
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by ItsMonkk 3mo ago
Governments can always offer prizes, and any model that sufficiently meets the criteria of the prize would win it and claim a large cash prize. Once claimed, the model would then be free to all forever.
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by ItsMonkk 3mo ago
Yes, businesses have the same flaw with a bit of better incentives. With a prize based approach, what you want is for researchers to make small targetted gambles early in their career, earn their prize profits from those gambles, and work t
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by ItsMonkk 3mo ago
Prizes pay for working results. Grants pay for possibilities. Grants are therefore riskier, and thus we allocate less resources to them. Since the people with the money don't understand the science, these possibilities must then be ass
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by ItsMonkk 3mo ago
This is where prizes come in. If you create a drug and keep it secret, the government can grant you a large prize as an offer to reveal your secret. This is a much better compromise. The company will end up with more money(and faster!) as a
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by ItsMonkk 5mo ago
A selfish player will claim that they will coordinate with the group, and then vote red in private. A coordinating player will pick what the group chooses, whether that be red or blue. You are talking about a coordinating player here. Yes,
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by ItsMonkk 5mo ago
You don't even have to go that far from the original question. If instead of the entire world being a single game, if you have hundreds of millions of sub-games where 9 random people are placed within, what should you do? Surely some o
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by ItsMonkk 6mo ago
Your concern can easily be addressed by having a 100% tax on the value of land and then distributing this tax money through a citizen's dividend. But this isn't all that related to the productivity dividend. That's more natur
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by ItsMonkk 7mo ago
Landlords should be pushing for an LVT so that in a downturn that can sync up all at once it is the local government that needs to take that hit. It makes no sense that they currently are the ones to take on society level risks. The LVT is
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by ItsMonkk 9mo ago
The disconnect here is that they built it this way, but still call it a question and answer site and give a lot of power over to the person who created the question. They get to mark an answer as the solution for themselves, even if the peo
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by ItsMonkk 10mo ago
Riolu is a uniquely terrible example. While he used Cheat Engine to slow down gameplay, he could have just as easily used TAS to record and replay his inputs since TrackMania is deterministic. This is still possible today. This will always
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by ItsMonkk 10mo ago
The problem here appears to be the banning. If the cheaters are never banned then they will continue to only play with other cheaters, and everyone is happy. And in fact, to a normal player I doubt they care very much if the player is legit
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by ItsMonkk 10mo ago
This argument is that the match-making software is incompetent. If what you say is true, and the match-maker could determine skill with any ability, then the cheaters would quickly find that the only people they match-make with is other che
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by ItsMonkk 10mo ago
Yeah, this is pretty clear. The community for any competitive game if you are a member of the top 100 players is always amazing. These players play the most, they end of seeing each other over and over, and you build up a rapport with the o
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by ItsMonkk 10mo ago
This is why the best form of UBI is a Citizen's Dividend funded through a Land Value Tax. Any increase in rents through the CD just make their way back into higher taxes that then raise the CD.
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by ItsMonkk 1y ago
Sure, but this has nothing to do with the land values which are still extremely positive. It has everything to do with Prop 13 allowing speculation. Repeal Prop 13 and all of those lots will be better cared for and rented out.
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by ItsMonkk 1y ago
If one of these fast food places shuts down, it's not like the lot is just going to sit vacant forever. The primary effect of these types of laws is that businesses that employ fast food workers are less profitable, and thus when they
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by ItsMonkk 1y ago
The abstract states that there are 2.7% less fast food jobs, not 2.7% less jobs. There might be 2.7% less fast food restaurants as a result of this change, but in their place will be other businesses that employ people of higher than minimu
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by ItsMonkk 1y ago
It's impossible to know with the data we collect. Census tracks the homeownership rate, which tracks if the house is owned by someone living in it. However if you are a tenant living in a house that someone else owns and lives in it as
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by ItsMonkk 1y ago
Mostly agreeing with you here but I've been through this journey and this shocked me when I ran the numbers one time so I'm sharing. A better way to be thinking about this is at what point will you stop gaining weight? If you are
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by ItsMonkk 2y ago
Yes, this nuance was already included in my previous post. Thank you for agreeing with me. > that we can Highways are designed to be unsafe by design, so without a redesign they require speed limits.
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by ItsMonkk 2y ago
Note that a Georgist tax on 100% of land rental value does not stop the landlord from earning a return on their improvement values. The land tax of a property with a 100% land tax will decrease the land price down to $0, and thus instead of
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by ItsMonkk 2y ago
If the safe speed of the road is 25mph, and the design speed of the road is above 25mph, you will not have safety no matter what the speed limit is. Vision Zero strategies take these factors into account to ensure safety.
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by ItsMonkk 2y ago
I understand this is a tangent but you picked a really bad example. We should be trying to remove every single speed limit that we can. If the design speed of a road does not match the speed limit of the road, people will drive the design s

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