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by StackRanker3000 1y ago
> worked for us for almost a year and did a solid job
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by StackRanker3000 1y ago
But the person you’re responding to said he did a solid job for almost a year.
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by StackRanker3000 1y ago
Just to be clear, I don’t think it’s fair to say that Sweden has higher disparity of wealth than the US: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44453264
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by StackRanker3000 1y ago
Sweden has more billionaires per capita, because it’s fairly friendly to businesses and there have been quite a few success stories over the last century. The US however have more millionaires per capita and SUBSTANTIALLY more people in pov
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by StackRanker3000 1y ago
The spirit of the law matters, but there are limits to how much existing statutes can be stretched to cover novel scenarios. Seems to me like new laws may be necessary to keep up (whatever the people would prefer them to be).
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by StackRanker3000 1y ago
This is a tangent from the original topic, but what do you see as unfair in how Spotify pays rightsholders? The problem as I understand it is that at the price users are willing to pay, and with the cut going to record labels, there are few
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by StackRanker3000 1y ago
The paid service would of course have to offer something else other than “no ads” if they started showing ads in it The type of people who have already indicated that they have disposable income, and are willing to pay for a service, are mo
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by StackRanker3000 1y ago
Did the person I was replying to say any of that? You’re putting words in both their mouth and mine I’m receptive to various arguments here that invoke power differentials, pragmatism, even deliberately breaking the terms of a service to he
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by StackRanker3000 1y ago
”I can get away with it, therefore it’s OK” is an interesting moral philosophy
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by StackRanker3000 1y ago
This is a weird framing Yes, society has deemed that it’s fine to make use of the avenues that have been explicitly created to reduce your tax burden - that’s why they were created. Society is also relatively fine with using unintended loop
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by StackRanker3000 1y ago
Where in that definition does it say that it can’t be done in the open? See for example Trump’s shenanigans, which are done in plain sight for all to see, but with few if any repercussions (a very brief selection: having foreign dignitaries
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by StackRanker3000 1y ago
Not if it limits growth to a commensurate extent (or more) A big part of why America is as rich as it is in 2025 is Big Tech. If laws and regulations had prevented that industry from taking off by stifling the now-giants back when they were
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by StackRanker3000 1y ago
Between 2022 and 2024, 0.1% of all fentanyl seizures were at the northern border with Canada, vs ~99% at the border with Mexico. There’s also an (equally small, relatively speaking) reverse flow of fentanyl into Canada from the US. Not to m
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by StackRanker3000 1y ago
> you're describing a level of control that the US government can already exercise using the current banking system You’re handwaving this away. Just because something is theoretically possible, it doesn’t mean that it’s as likely t
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by StackRanker3000 1y ago
Is there any particular segment of this chat where he said something you found insightful or thought showed his deep understanding of some complex topic? I don’t doubt that he can be pleasant and charismatic when shooting the breeze with pe
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by StackRanker3000 1y ago
> I don’t agree with the guy on most things, but I really think many people mischaracterize him pretty severely. How? What do you think people think of him that’s untrue? Since he first got seriously involved into politics I haven’t seen
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by StackRanker3000 1y ago
Why is that way of balancing this more real than the others?
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by StackRanker3000 1y ago
Automation and increased productivity can also lower the cost of necessities such as food and health care, meaning retired people could theoretically get by with less.
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by StackRanker3000 1y ago
I feel like it’s pretty clear that chabska was saying that China does more manufacturing per capita, creates more stuff , whereas the US captures more value. If a paralegal at a fancy law firm works 9 billable hours at $200/h, and a
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by StackRanker3000 1y ago
Edit: sorry, I meant to post this in reply to selkin’s comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43927123 I believe this has been the case for him and all of his senior staff since the beginning of his first presid
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by StackRanker3000 1y ago
I think the aim of the tariffs changes depending on President Trump’s mood, what the market is doing, what the press is saying, and who he spoke to last.
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by StackRanker3000 1y ago
But what do you mean by “warranted”? Businesses are free to set their prices as they see fit (with some caveats), and you generally expect them to do so in a way that maximizes profits. The prices before these tariffs were arrived at by som
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by StackRanker3000 1y ago
They’re regressive in the sense that people with lower income spend more of it on consumption than people with higher income or wealth, who can save or invest at a higher rate.
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by StackRanker3000 1y ago
You would be able to afford a lot less if everything you bought was made in factories where every worker was paid north of $100k. That includes your home, by the way.
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by StackRanker3000 1y ago
> In the US this can only be true for foreign citizens. Broad classes of assets and liquidity are well protected for US citizens unless you end up in the unusual situation where they sue the money itself. If you have cash in your hand no
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by StackRanker3000 1y ago
I’m guessing this is the article you submitted: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/eu-may-make-an-e... This is the first sentence in it, which links to the New York Times article the submission was c
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by StackRanker3000 1y ago
But they do? If businesses suddenly have to spend more money on advertising, where does it come from?
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by StackRanker3000 1y ago
> But at its core: "less trade, less global & more local" is a key pillar of virtually every Green Parties over here; it's so weird to me to see Trump (!!!) actually do something that looks like it aligns with those go
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by StackRanker3000 1y ago
> but then you are going to have to give me $$$ as well to pay for our national debt You realize this money will not be used to pay down the national debt, but rather fund commensurate tax cuts for the very rich? Their plan for the budge
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by StackRanker3000 1y ago
But what are you even asking? Would it be good for Americans if the US could produce every single thing conceivable to fully meet demand domestically? Yes, it would be. But it will not and cannot happen, so it’s not a useful thought exercis

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