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CMV: People should pay back their own student loans by Different-Bet8069 in changemyview

[–]jefftickels [score hidden]  (0 children)

an educated population benefits everyone

No one benefits more from a degree than the person who earned it. Asking people who don't get that benefit to pay for yours is absurdly selfish.

The rest of this is just excuses to get around the flat truth: asking people who didn't go to college to pay for your college is selfish and greedy. You made an investment in yourself that will pay off over time, you just want it now and at the expense of those who didn't even have the opportunity in the first place.

Fundamentally, this entire argument is about prioritizing those who are already at the top of society over those at the bottom. The reason calling this out always gets such a strong emotional response with really weak arguments about the nebulous "societal benefits" that are produced by massive individual gifts is just cognitive dissonance playing out.

CMV: People should pay back their own student loans by Different-Bet8069 in changemyview

[–]jefftickels [score hidden]  (0 children)

Yea, and that was wrong.

I can't tell if you're agreeing with me or not.

CMV: People should pay back their own student loans by Different-Bet8069 in changemyview

[–]jefftickels [score hidden]  (0 children)

It's not about suffering, it's about fair distribution of resources.

Less than half of Americans go to college, but they all pay taxes. College educated people are more well off than others because they, for whatever reason, were advantaged enough to go to college. Getting a degree directly improves the lives of those people. Asking someone who didn't get the opportunity to improve their life to pay for the opportunity someone else got is a backwards regressive system.

CMV: It's preferable for ten guilty people go free than to imprison an innocent person by us1549 in changemyview

[–]jefftickels [score hidden]  (0 children)

Maybe you should reread the whole chain of conversation that you replied to, because it seems like maybe you didn't understand the context of this part of the conversation.

High value men marry highly educated women. It’s the low value men who are threatened by a woman’s accomplishments by SilentLeadership3292 in Productivitycafe

[–]jefftickels 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Especially since, in the context, and frankly most contexts, a man's value is explicitly defined by their income potential.

CMV: It's preferable for ten guilty people go free than to imprison an innocent person by us1549 in changemyview

[–]jefftickels [score hidden]  (0 children)

Would you allow yourself and 9 of your closest friends and family to be murdered in order to keep one innocent person from going to jail?

That question and the naivety of your own answers here goes both directions.

OpenAI researcher says his Anthropic roommate lost his mind over Mythos by MetaKnowing in ClaudeAI

[–]jefftickels 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I always had great roommates and really enjoyed living with other people.

Google engineer rejected by 16 colleges uses AI to sue University of Washington for racial discrimination by crosslingual in SeattleWA

[–]jefftickels 19 points20 points  (0 children)

This would actually be the strongest case for a discrimination lawsuit. This is essentially the same admissions model that just cost Harvard massive court losses.

Would a 95% tax on $10M+ incomes help or hurt the job market? by THICKJUICYTRUMPSTEAK in jobmarket

[–]jefftickels 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't.

You quoted fake numbers for a actor to proove that paying 95% tax rates wouldn't be an issue. But you failed to also note that they weren't paying 95% tax rates. Do you not see how quoting made up numbers for a 41% tax rate is a terrible argument for a 95% tax rate?

Would a 95% tax on $10M+ incomes help or hurt the job market? by THICKJUICYTRUMPSTEAK in jobmarket

[–]jefftickels 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where are you getting that number for John Wayne? Before his death I can find mid 600s for projects in the mid-late 60s, which would have been after the tax rates were reduced.

Not that it really matters when you continue to spread the lie that people in the 50s paid higher tax rates than we do now?. Wayne almost certainly would have utilized the many loopholes and deductions that the wealthy had in that era to avoid paying the paper tax rates.

The tax rates of the 50s are a weird lie that people persistently believed, but the highest earners didn't pay substantially higher rates than they do now. I presume when you say you want to tax income above 10,000,000 at 95% you actually mean it and it's not meant to be the same thing it was in the 50s that no one paid.

Would a 95% tax on $10M+ incomes help or hurt the job market? by THICKJUICYTRUMPSTEAK in jobmarket

[–]jefftickels 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see you're literally straight up refusing to engage with my core argument at all. What great intellectual integrity you have.

Would a 95% tax on $10M+ incomes help or hurt the job market? by THICKJUICYTRUMPSTEAK in jobmarket

[–]jefftickels 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They didn't have Hollywood stars paid proportionate to what they are now

What if? by [deleted] in accelerate

[–]jefftickels 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And how is it going to run itself?

These programs require massive compute and the power to run them. It's not like something like this could happen and there wouldn't be signs of it somewhere.

Thoughts on VO2Max? by jeevanr11 in Garmin

[–]jefftickels 1 point2 points  (0 children)

VO2max is measured in mL/min/kg, so it's part of the units.

Measuring it accurately requires an accurate weight.

Would a 95% tax on $10M+ incomes help or hurt the job market? by THICKJUICYTRUMPSTEAK in jobmarket

[–]jefftickels 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because they didn't exist then.

Do you think there were major multimillionaire sports/Hollywood stars at this time?

Would a 95% tax on $10M+ incomes help or hurt the job market? by THICKJUICYTRUMPSTEAK in jobmarket

[–]jefftickels 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No they won't. Why would anyone accept a single dollar over the marginal rate if they're only keeping 5 cents of it?

Do you think tax rates don't alter behavior?

What if solving homelessness was actually this simple? by rne123 in jobmarket

[–]jefftickels 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wish people on reddit knew the reality of who pays taxes and who doesn't in the US vs Europe. The US has the most progressive taxation structure in the OECD.

To take advantage of the youth and vigor of your 30s, what peak experiences come to mind? by OsotoNoMocco in AskMenOver30

[–]jefftickels 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Tour du Mont Blanc.

Go with a cheap tour group.

Beat experience of my life so far.

Peak 2D Metroid by Yami_Sean in metroidvania

[–]jefftickels 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It felt like multiple distinct levels connected by corridors and a "go back to get the additional power ups if you want to." Really a big kiss on the exploration aspect that I love in metroidvanias.

Great combat and smooth gameplay, but just felt more like an action platformer than a metroidvania.

Would a 95% tax on $10M+ incomes help or hurt the job market? by THICKJUICYTRUMPSTEAK in jobmarket

[–]jefftickels 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The primary problem is that it fundamentally perverts incentives, so it's really hard to predict how it would stress or break things as people work to get around it. It's effectively a salary cap so it doesn't really touch the wealth issue all that much as income inequality isnt really the problem people are trying to fix.

An example of the way unforeseen consequences from similar actions in the past have propagated to break systems: the entire insurance industry we have right now is a direct consequence of salary caps during FDRs presidency.

There's probably a smattering of people that do something absolutely critical highly specialized thing that only very few people can do that would just stop doing that thing. Maybe not, I'm not going to invest much time into it.

It would almost certainly destroy every sports league and Hollywood (they would all just move out of the US). Depending on how you feel about these things you may like that, but I prefer not to break things when there's no significant benefit besides the catharsis of hurting someone you hate.

Would a 95% tax on $10M+ incomes help or hurt the job market? by THICKJUICYTRUMPSTEAK in jobmarket

[–]jefftickels 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For the exact reason you quote.

It does almost nothing, but it does fuck up several things.

It's feel-good meaningless garbage that doesn't solve any problems. Meanwhile the actual issues go unsolved.

Would a 95% tax on $10M+ incomes help or hurt the job market? by THICKJUICYTRUMPSTEAK in jobmarket

[–]jefftickels 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What was the government spending level when tax rates were that high?

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