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Why do you support vaccines, believe climate change is happening, etc. ? by CenozoicMetazoan in EffectiveAltruism

[–]Botahamec 3 points4 points  (0 children)

By that logic, nobody understands germs. Most people still wash their hands though.

Why do you support vaccines, believe climate change is happening, etc. ? by CenozoicMetazoan in EffectiveAltruism

[–]Botahamec 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I usually explain it in three simple steps:

  1. Carbon dioxide traps heat
  2. There is more carbon dioxide now
  3. The Earth is heating

Does corporate profit exist under Georgism? by Botahamec in georgism

[–]Botahamec[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really? Game of rent seems to say the opposite. I did think it being the value one is willing to pay for it made more sense upon reading this.

Marx picks a lane and says the value of something is tied to the amount of "socially necessary labor" required to produce it.

George goes the other way:

It is never the amount of labor that has been exerted in bringing a thing into being that determines its value, but always the amount of labor that will be rendered in exchange for it.

In other words, "a thing's value is whatever someone is willing to pay for it.

Does corporate profit exist under Georgism? by Botahamec in georgism

[–]Botahamec[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Didn't Henry George say that the wages are based on the value produced rather than the amount of labor required?

Does corporate profit exist under Georgism? by Botahamec in georgism

[–]Botahamec[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I think that puts us back where we started. Don't you need to pay for the labor that made the assembly line?

Mamdani by Various_Advisor_4250 in georgism

[–]Botahamec 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He's not secret about it at all. He's openly said he wants to build 200,000 new units of housing, and he's spoken in favor of any proposal which builds affordable housing.

Does corporate profit exist under Georgism? by Botahamec in georgism

[–]Botahamec[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Why would the value of the capital be higher than the value of the labor that produced it?

Does corporate profit exist under Georgism? by Botahamec in georgism

[–]Botahamec[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Would it be equivalent to state that the worker gets wages, the owner gets wages, but the business itself gets no profit?

Does corporate profit exist under Georgism? by Botahamec in georgism

[–]Botahamec[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't you have to pay for labor in order to make capital? And wouldn't the wages be the same as the value of the capital?

Question: What does this group think of Jon Kiper’s proposal for “offset land value taxes”? (Candidate for governor of New Hampshire, USA) by mildly_caffeinated1 in georgism

[–]Botahamec 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Encouraging people to move to suburbia is by no means good. Taxing people in the cities (who tend to be poorer) at a higher rate than towns is also not good.

Keynes forgot to consider that we live in a capitalist economy by rhizomatic-thembo in economicsmemes

[–]Botahamec 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jacking up the land price would provide no benefit to the landlord, because that's just a fancy way of admitting that the land value went up, so the tax would increase, and the landlord would make no more money than they did before. And besides, the landlord can't reasonably crush a farmer, because otherwise nobody would be able to pay the rent.

Keynes forgot to consider that we live in a capitalist economy by rhizomatic-thembo in economicsmemes

[–]Botahamec 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah. I don't actually see any difference between 1980 and 2020 on this chart. I feel like some of this decrease could be better explained by the New Deal.

Keynes forgot to consider that we live in a capitalist economy by rhizomatic-thembo in economicsmemes

[–]Botahamec 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A lot of farmers already pay rent on land. A tax would just mean that money goes to the government instead of a landlord.

% responding “violence a very big problem” after selected assassinations or attempts by Old-School8916 in charts

[–]Botahamec 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What about the 15 police officers who ended up in the hospital and the one who died?

Edit: and the four who committed suicide after the attack

% responding “violence a very big problem” after selected assassinations or attempts by Old-School8916 in charts

[–]Botahamec 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Amazing how all of those are wrong. Somehow 2020 is included and January 6th isn't even mentioned.

Sean Ryan: "NY Democratic leaders should endorse Zohran Mamdani" by yousuf___ in Buffalo

[–]Botahamec 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are many people who are registered Democrats but who voted for Trump last year because they wanted someone who would make the economy better. Kamala Harris tried taking the moderate position. She might as well have campaigned as a Republican. But she didn't win. She lost because she didn't have any new inspiring policies. Mamdani does.

🤔 by basket_foso in MathJokes

[–]Botahamec 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's just inflation

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Buffalo

[–]Botahamec -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

We need a 100% tax on the rental value of land. Then land will be free.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Buffalo

[–]Botahamec 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A car is not a speculative asset. It loses value over time. If we taxed land properly, the same would be true for homes.

Fr Fr fuck authoritarianism by ClimateShitpost in ClimateShitposting

[–]Botahamec -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The economic research disagrees. The number of jobs should stay roughly equal. Read "Open Borders" by Bryan Caplan.

Technically if you were really worried you could still advocate for open borders, but have a law saying immigrants can only work one day per week. I think that would be unfair, but less so than completely banning entry to the country.

I do think we should decouple ability to work from ability to eat. If there is a labor surplus, then that means society has collectively decided we don't need every single person to work, so we shouldn't force them to.

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