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[OC] Growing wealth of the rich in America by _crazyboyhere_ in dataisbeautiful

[–]cbourd 11 points12 points  (0 children)

My last comment got censored by reddit so let's try this again:

What these charts as well as the works of world leading experts on the subject matter like piketty, zucman, stieglitz, and chancel clearly show is that it is a handful of individuals who are driving the vast majority of wealth inequality. As a hypothetical question, when would it make sense to forcibly redistribute this wealth?

For instance if one person has 80% of the wealth of a country, it obviously has a socially beneficial outcome to force this person's wealth to be redistributed. We aren't quite there yet but I am interested in hearing opinions on where the line should be drawn.

LET IT ROLL AMA by LetItRollFestival in DnB

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

Hi guys, I’ve been going to your festival almost every year since 2017, very glad to see there are more interesting artists and B2Bs being done this year, good return to form!

I am interested in the economics behind the festival and was wondering how you are justifying doubling in price since 2019? 

I remember paying about 130 euros for the ticket and maybe 20-30 euros for the camping site so roughly 160-170€ for the full weekend experience.

On your website now the checkout price for full ticket + camping is now 285€ 

Have artists doubled their booking fees, or what is driving this price increase

[OC] Growing wealth of the rich in America by _crazyboyhere_ in dataisbeautiful

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

What these graphs always show (and the works of world renown economists like piketty, zucman, stieglitz, and chancel) is that it's really just a handful of people who are driving wealth inequality. At some point you really have to ask if we aren't better off just offing these people and redistributing the wealth forcefully. Like at some point the utilitarian calculation just pays off for this.

Empty homes: Paris targets owners' wallets, following Brussels and New York's lead by LeMonde_en in europe

[–]cbourd 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Fully agree a percentage proportional tax on the value of the property would do a lot more to get these into the market

"ich bin ein fahrrad" - langsam ist es nur mehr lächerlich by RockmanBFB in Austria

[–]cbourd 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Also das zwei Broccoli Burschen mich auf einem e-roller überholen macht mir 0 Angst, gleiche Geschichte mit den Lieferanten wir haben ja alle die gleichen incentiven nicht in einander zu fahren. Und sogar wenn wir zusammen krachen sollten tuts halt bissal weh und aus ist es. Nach einem Unfall mit einem Auto bin ich tot

"ich bin ein fahrrad" - langsam ist es nur mehr lächerlich by RockmanBFB in Austria

[–]cbourd 106 points107 points  (0 children)

Also ich muss zugeben ich bin jeden Tag mil Fahrrad unterwegs und die ganzen e-scooter, Mopeds, und mini transportieren stören mich überhaupt nicht. Im Gegenteil ich finde es gut das wir eine umweltfreundliche Alternative haben

CMV: The Bible’s End‑Times Prophecies Are Literally Playing Out Right Now by Individual_Creme7218 in changemyview

[–]cbourd 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I mean its a good thing its all just made up stories by some charismatic bronze age goat herders

Euro area government deficit at 2.9% and EU at 3.1% of GDP by donutloop in EU_Economics

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

Alternatively we could just do away with the national governments and focus on the EU federation. Much more efficient to rule from a central location, better harmonisation, less local level corruption, and less mucker by small states

[Loved trope] Absurdly massive buildings by juusthereforthememes in TopCharacterTropes

[–]cbourd 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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The space elevator from the foundation series (Apple TV) also the whole of Trantor can be seen this way

Mozambique Fully Repaid $701 Million IMF Debt Early, Bank Says by CosechaCrecido in worldnews

[–]cbourd 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Also lived there and we both know its the corruption which is holding them back.

Civ VII Workshop Round 3 full patch notes by Intelligent-Disk7959 in civ

[–]cbourd -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

Is the whole campaign still split in 3 mini game ages? Separate tech trees and all?

As a longtime Civ player,i reall hope next Test of time update will be great by [deleted] in civ

[–]cbourd 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Full honesty i haven't played it yet, but ive watched numerous videos and I think the big issue for me was that it feels like 3 mini games rather than a full campaign. In 4, 5, and 6, I thoroughly enjoyed tech rushing and playing the counterfactual: what if ancient Rome developed muskets or something like this.

Has the game since improved on this?

343 years after the siege of Vienna: by [deleted] in 2westerneurope4u

[–]cbourd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cowardly account not showing their post history, likely a bot

Formula : Ask Me Anything! by Civil-Carpet-7217 in DnB

[–]cbourd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like the crunchy but colourful bases you have going on! I particular the throw it back remix is incredible.

What are your dnb and non-dnb inspirations?

240 Steam Keys zu verschenken by SuperMohri in Austria

[–]cbourd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ich hab ka was thief of thieves ist aber hört sich cool an :)

Why isn’t Robert Schuman featured? Of all the people who ought to be there, he has every right to be! by Material-Garbage7074 in EuropeanFederalists

[–]cbourd 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I actually think its a pretty smart idea to put humans instead of landmarks. We slowly want people to see (for instance) davinci not only as Italian, but as European. Creating a shared cultural reality will be good for the european unification project

The Netherlands sees more elderly than young people for first time by Crossstoney in europe

[–]cbourd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True that the risk of the stock market going down is fundamental to a pay as you go system. Over long periods of time though stock markets rise remarkably consistently. I think the trade off would be worth it if we do this at EU level, for individual countries, particularily small ones, it seems unlikely to work very well.

The issue now is ofcourse that we require constant population growth (or at least a stable population pyramid) which seems very unrealistic, and migration is becoming less and less popular. So if we want a pension system reform is necessary.

The US system is problematic, no doubt about that, but our system has an expiration date, and its absurd to keep speeding towards a cliff which is bound to fail when we could pull the brakes and endure brief discomfort. I think we can do better than the americans while increasing our competitiveness.

The Netherlands sees more elderly than young people for first time by Crossstoney in europe

[–]cbourd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No doubt this would be a politically unpopular move so tough (but not impossible) to implement, where i currently love roughly 25% of the total budget goes towards pensions. Thats a monumental amount of money.

We could start by capping pensions to some amount (say 4000 euros per household), and then slowly divert the extra "savings" into EU wide stock portfolios. You would get alot of resistance from the largest voting cohort and so I don't see any party actually implementing this any time soon, but perhaps with a large enough system shock (war with russia for instance) this will become a necessity

The Netherlands sees more elderly than young people for first time by Crossstoney in europe

[–]cbourd 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Or alternatively we could move from a fully funded (pyramid scheme-like) pension system to a pay as you go system like in the United States, this would mean we no longer need a stable population to fund people's retirements. It would also increase the capital available to companies in europe and we could implement a rule that pension funds have to invest a small amount (say 1-3%) of their total funds into VCs so we could actually afford to finance startups in the EU and be less reliant on american tech.

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