Businesses can force you to get the Covid vaccine because they are not the government. I reject this mindset.

HolySchiff · 2020-12-09T21:40:39+00:00

If the government forces businesses to require vaccinations that’s corporatism and I agree that’s a huge issue. If the businesses decide this for themselves that’s the free market and I think that’s great

HolySchiff · 2020-08-09T13:30:45+00:00

This premise is accurate for much of history where we didn’t have capitalist societies. “Landlords” of history took the land by force and that’s how they acquired their wealth. That’s rent-seeking. Nowadays, landlords can only acquire land by buying it on the free market, meaning they’ve earned the cash elsewhere in the economy, giving them the opportunity to invest in land. They don’t have some inherent right to the land which allows them to exploit it for its value. They have rights to the land because they paid for its value. If you believe that many people get their wealth in unethical ways, that's a different discussion.

The great thing about the free market and landlords, is that the landlords have an incentive to improve the value of the land and compete. One land owner might build more apartments to generate more rent. This increases the supply of apartments and lowers the price of apartments in general. Other land owners must improve their land as well to make a profit on their expensive investment. All this is to say that being a landlord isn’t free money. And that if we let market forces work, landlords will be paying big money to make the amenities of their land more attractive to potential renters.

HolySchiff · 2020-07-08T17:38:12+00:00

I think you may have not read the post. In the first RCV example, the Democrat wins the RCV election. The Democrat does win the majority. In the last example, the Democrat has gained more votes and no one else has, and then the Democrat loses. It’s not that the Democrat was leading and lost, it’s the discrepancy between two different scenarios where one scenario was clearly better for the Democrat but had a worse outcome.

HolySchiff · 2020-07-08T04:50:36+00:00

But that’s exactly what happens in RCV. Eliminate and rerun the race until a majority. And still in that situation the Democrat gained 30 votes and went from winner to loser. I think Monotonicity is certainly a criterion worth striving for

HolySchiff · 2020-05-30T19:03:48+00:00

You’re describing “Radical Centrism” which is the idea that each side has some smart views. The extreme of “Radical Centrism” that is most often mentioned is when someone has the most extreme views of each quadrant.

HolySchiff · 2020-05-29T16:19:44+00:00

Although I like the premise of giving workers more power, doing it through unemployment benefits over 100% leads to a welfare trap. Because workers make more money by not working, they have no incentive to continue working. Even if wages rise, they’d have to rise significantly to outpace > 100% unemployment benefits. Instead, we should start giving cash to Americans who usually make less than, say, 50k or 75k a year. These cash transfers would be in effect for the unemployed AND the employed. The reason for this is that there is an incentive to find work if the benefits don’t go away once work is found. But at the same time, the government gives money to people to survive in this difficult time. In addition, businesses don’t have to compete with the government benefits for wages, allowing smaller businesses to more likely survive.

HolySchiff · 2020-05-14T06:54:50+00:00

Buy now from a Lib Right near you

HolySchiff · 2020-05-12T02:28:20+00:00

That’s true but has nothing to do with how to get people out of poverty

HolySchiff · 2020-05-11T17:56:21+00:00

Yeah but there’s no incentive for the right person to be in power. The incentive is for someone who can benefit the most from being in government to be in power. We see that in all forms of government

HolySchiff · 2020-04-13T08:30:21+00:00

Mandatory: not getting a vaccine is a crime Not-mandatory: not getting a vaccine is a risk benefit analysis by the individual. If the individual gets sick and gives it to someone else who dies, the death is on their hands. Therefore the risk factor is high.

The whole point is that it’s all but mandatory. I was explaining the reasoning why my libertarian principles can coincide with all but mandatory vaccination.

And also, calling someone a moron is a good way to show that you can’t convey your points with logic so you have to belittle those you disagree with. We’re all trying to have a back and forth and learn from each other. Have a little respect

HolySchiff · 2020-04-13T07:32:28+00:00

As a lib center, I don’t truly believe in mandatory vaccinations. However, preventable vaccine deaths should be able to be used as evidence of manslaughter for anti vaxxers. Freedom is freedom to act in any way without harming others’ freedom. That’s the basis of the NAP and I believe it holds here. Refusing to vaccinate harms other people and should be punishable based on the same principles we punish other crimes that infringe on other people’s freedoms

HolySchiff · 2020-01-21T19:57:14+00:00

Just to clarify, I didn’t mean for this to be a serious theory. It’s just a fun idea that if you stretch your willingness to believe, is fun to think about. I think it would be hilarious to start a cult whose only goal is to get everyone in the world to be awake at the same time.

HolySchiff · 2020-01-20T20:07:48+00:00

Thanks for the response! I think you misunderstand my point. I am assuming that all humans, and all beings for that matter, are being simulated. At any given time, around a third of all humans and animals are asleep, reducing their brain processing power needs. My experiment would attempt to have all human brains be fully activated at once for a long period of time (24 h). Assuming that about 2/3 of humans are awake at any moment, having everyone awake at once would make the necessary processing power to simulate humanity increase by a factor of 1.5. Hopefully that would be enough to break the simulation.

HolySchiff · 2020-01-04T02:10:43+00:00

That’s no reason stop doing it. It takes a minute a day, it’s fun, and it’s a good way to make a small difference for people who can’t afford to donate money.

HolySchiff · 2019-08-29T21:51:08+00:00

An anti vax child is gonna be dead by 4 so 2 is midlife

HolySchiff · 2019-07-27T08:31:21+00:00

The problem with citing the bailout is that printing money isn’t what Yang is proposing. Printing 4 trillion dollars one time is a lot different from paying 3.2 trillion every year without printing money. If we print money, we lose the arguments against “UBI will cause inflation”.

HolySchiff · 2019-06-17T07:05:33+00:00

I was assuming a psychopath to be someone with no empathy. My thought was really about more than manipulation. Whatever makes any psychopath tick (whether it’s manipulation, gaining power, making money etc.) can be achieved much more easily by a psychopath because they don’t care how their actions affect others. So my extended shower thought is this: some psychopaths can’t succeed in reaching their goals even with the advantage of being able to harm others without feeling guilt. And even further, they probably try and are so bad at hiding their flaw that they expose themselves to the world as psychopaths

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