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by imgabe 8d ago
These are really cool. I made a map of them a few years ago: https://roadside.photography
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by imgabe 25d ago
Hard work is often necessary but not sufficient. You can work very hard moving a pile of sand with a pair of tweezers but you’re not going to get wealthy doing that. The people who simply think that because they worked hard wealth should ju
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by imgabe 3mo ago
The employee doesn’t know who you are. They met “Bob the support rep from Vendor xyz” who just needed access to fix an issue.
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by imgabe 3mo ago
It literally says “what if people could only make a hundred million dollars?” I agree they do not provide any specific details about how to implement that, because it is an incredibly stupid idea that would be impossible to implement. He
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by imgabe 3mo ago
Once again, OP is proposing not a tax but a wealth cap. A tax takes a percentage of whatever - income, wealth, transaction. It does not impose a limit on how much you are allowed to have. That is an entirely different phenomenon. We do have
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by imgabe 3mo ago
Why is it sprinting toward me? Is it pulling me out of a burning car or is it hunting me?
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by imgabe 3mo ago
Wealth taxes are also economic suicide but most of the "rah rah billionaires shouldn't be allowed" people seem to have absolutely no idea how anything works and think billionaires have billions of dollars sitting in their che
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by imgabe 3mo ago
I think the newspapers and books alone still probably made Waterson a decent amount of money. More than enough to live comfortably forever. I remember Scott Adams (of Dilbert) once saying his syndication deal was something like $6 million p
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by imgabe 3mo ago
"A job had requirements I didn't want to do, so I left and didn't do them" "help, help, I'm being exploited!"
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by imgabe 3mo ago
I mean, when you're like "I have to make a hidden wifi server in a light bulb to distribute these books" that does kind of imply some dystopian totalitarian state that will put you to death for reading those books or somethin
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by imgabe 3mo ago
> USA is ultra conservative on the average in comparison to just any European state for example. Are you serious? The UK and Germany are arresting people for social media posts. That is actual impingement of free speech.
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by imgabe 3mo ago
Words exist in a context. "User was banned from a site" and "Book is banned" have different connotations. You have to be purposely obtuse to conflate these.
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by imgabe 3mo ago
We already have taxes, the vast majority of which are paid by the wealthy. Taxes are not a cap on allowable net worth. That is a different thing altogether. That is economic suicide.
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by imgabe 3mo ago
No, it's called rule OF law. Not rule BY law. We create a law, like property rights, and we work within that framework. We don't suddenly decide that property rights don't matter any more because someone happens to have stuff
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by imgabe 3mo ago
So you mean workers who find it disagreeable freely leave to do something else? Hmm, doesn't sound like exploitation to me.
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by imgabe 3mo ago
None of the other workers know how to build a house. The electrician doesn't know how to build a house. The carpenter doesn't know how to build a house. The guy hanging drywall doesn't know how to build a house. They know how
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by imgabe 3mo ago
In the extreme there is no distinction. This is why the US and almost every other democracy are not direct democracies.
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by imgabe 3mo ago
Mob rule is not something to celebrate.
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by imgabe 3mo ago
Now the kids can learn to code online or post videos on YouTube or do a hundred other things we couldn’t do. The world moves on.
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by imgabe 3mo ago
Sure if people could just pick whatever they want we'd all be sitting on the beach having drinks with supermodels, but then who's going to make the drinks? People can pick among various jobs. If they picked warehouse worker that w
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by imgabe 3mo ago
Who is going to cap how much a company is allowed to be worth? Or how much of the company you start you are allowed to own? Why should anyone have the power to do that? That is a far more evil power than any billionaire has.
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by imgabe 3mo ago
Someone working a job they freely chose is not being exploited. This word is losing all meaning. Amazon pays more with better benefits than most other warehouse jobs.
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by imgabe 4mo ago
This is something people keep saying out of inertia. It hasn't really been true for a few years. There's been a ton of original movies lately. I guess they just don't get a lot of press or people don't go to the movies a
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by imgabe 4mo ago
It's not a qualification, it's a competition. It's not like there is a minimum bar to meet and everyone who meets it gets to go in. It's like "We have 10 seats, so we take the 10 best people who apply". Your qu
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by imgabe 4mo ago
> Warning: the following video contains rapid strobing of light. I’ve written this out so people who are reading this with a screen reader know not to watch the video! Uh...if you need a screen reader are the strobing lights really going
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by imgabe 4mo ago
Being old enough now to have lived through several golden ages of this or that, you have to understand there's always another golden age around the corner. Don't spend so much time wishing for the past that you miss what's ha
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by imgabe 7mo ago
This should be called “The Engineer’s Credo”
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by imgabe 7mo ago
If you just place the pie to cool on your window sill, the smell will cause some nearby hobos to float over, or so cartoons have lead me to believe. Then you'll have some friends.
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by imgabe 8mo ago
Aw man, I'm only 112 places away from breaking into the top 1000. Time to go pick some fights... (I kid, I kid, dang don't hurt me)
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by imgabe 8mo ago
I've been using the secure knot for years now. It's vastly superior to the standard shoelace knot.

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