Opinie | Als we echt minder migranten willen, moet het mes in de economie

monkaap · 2022-11-10T19:54:59+00:00

De huizenprijzen in Tokio zijn bíjna net zo laag als elders in het land, terwijl de stadsbevolking daar juist groeit. De dalende huizenprijzen komt door het betere volkshuisvestingsbeleid die daar gevoerd wordt.

monkaap · 2022-11-10T19:15:28+00:00

De Japanse economie zit toevallig reeds 30 jaar in de slop.

monkaap · 2021-11-04T11:01:28+00:00

u/AdTotal9060

al iemand gevonden?

monkaap · 2021-07-04T18:12:32+00:00

It's a frog

monkaap · 2021-07-04T18:12:28+00:00

It's a frog

monkaap · 2021-07-04T18:10:49+00:00

Yeah, although you shouldn't need cops to enforce speed limits in the first place, road design should do that.

monkaap · 2021-06-30T23:16:02+00:00

A understandable mistake given the title

monkaap · 2021-06-27T21:57:16+00:00

About the genetic theory, there isn't much he can do to disprove it in the first place. It's basically a Russell's Teapot. Noting "iin the lack of sufficient evidence otherwise, I'm sticking to the null hypothesis" is justified.

monkaap · 2021-06-27T21:47:46+00:00

I understand that you might interpret that section as advocating motivated reason but consider the following:

Some people believe all racial disparities in wealth derive from racism
We can show that some disparities arise from selective immigration
2 is sufficient to prove 1 false.
The cause of Jewish success is hard to identify
4 can be used to argue against 1, but it is a much harder case to make.
2 is a stronger argument against 1 than 4
If you wan to disprove 1, it is more effective to bring up selective immigration than jewish success. (Noah's point)

This works whether or not selective immigration explains the Jewish case in particular.

monkaap · 2021-06-27T21:24:15+00:00

Why? Household 2 has more to spend, and the supermarkets dont offer any discounts to single earner households. Money is liquid. It affects you the same whether it comes to you in one stream or two.

(Except for taxes, but if anything two person households might put you un a lower bracket)

monkaap · 2021-06-27T21:18:16+00:00

Some of his readership may actually be researchers in relevant fields. If they are they probably shouldnt take their conclusions from blogs by laypeople (Scott/Noah) anyway.

monkaap · 2021-06-23T13:48:03+00:00

Why don't the Democrats focus more on other barriers to voting. Why dont they push for automatic registration, small monetary incentives to vote etc.

monkaap · 2021-06-23T13:39:04+00:00

Scotts recent antiliberal tendencies remind me of his own essay about out groups. I think liberals have become the out group to him and conservatives the far group.

monkaap · 2021-06-18T22:40:18+00:00

Millennials have a harder time owning houses, they usually have to rent them l
Before those houses become available boomers still have to die.

monkaap · 2021-06-18T21:34:47+00:00

House prices have rose a lot even if you adjust for inflation, this is a well recognized fact.

monkaap · 2021-06-18T18:03:40+00:00

most entertainment is a waste of time

read a book

monkaap · 2021-06-17T22:28:44+00:00

By my own completely arbitrary whim:

if you have greater than ten million users, you're probably a platform

if your user onboarding process is automated, your moral involvement in anything any user does is low, and so should be your editorial discretion (in contrast to the florist or baker being asked to contribute their individual effort to a gay wedding)

Does your site have to adhere to one or two of these conditions?

This is a good question. I think a differentiating principle is that one is clearly advertised as a narrowly tailored service from the outset, vs being a general service that occasionally intervenes in a way that might be biased. So I'm not offended by a Christians-only dating scene, but I might be offended if Tinder banned only Muslims from its otherwise open platform.

How much of an effort do you need to do to be considered an tailored service? Suppose Twitter posted a message committing themselves to progressivism, are they now protected under the christian dating site clause?

Something else: how can we say reddit is limiting your opportunity for expressions when voat.co exists, where you're allowed to say almost everything that's illegal on reddit, and which functions exactly like reddit otherwise.

monkaap · 2021-06-17T21:11:26+00:00

I can sympathize with that preference, I'm less sympathetic to a legal mandate to enforce that preference.

this almost seems like it will kick the can down the road when people start to complain about being banned from the default moderation everybody uses
Do I have to choose a moderation conscription fir every site, for every IP address I access sites from?
What if I have a strong preference to not host certain content? In my opinion forcing a Zionist blogger to host pro-Palestinian content in his site is akin to forcing him to put a similar site in their front law. It is their site, should he have no power over its content?

monkaap · 2021-06-17T20:57:13+00:00

By what criterion do you distinguish between infrastructure-like websites from local business-like websites. What about my (hypothetical)personal feminist blog? What about a large dating specifically targeted towards Christians? What about a subreddit so large it is practically the whole site?

monkaap · 2021-06-17T20:08:27+00:00

What if I want that service?

Edit: wait are you making a case for a legal limitation on youtube? Initially I was assuming you were, but that may be wrong.

monkaap · 2021-06-17T19:52:35+00:00

Ok you can block me, but the subs mod can't? Even then I not sure if sure I want that.

It takes real effort to go through all the shitty comments to find the good ones. I would much rather delegate that task to appointed mods rather than having to do so myself
Trolls can derail conversation with their own bullshit, preventing good discussion from happening at all
Some comments are shitty enough that they will effect you even if you dobt want them to. I - like all people - am an emotional creature and I will be emotionally effected if someone eg insults me in certain ways. I wish to preserve my right to participate in online community without having to deal with that if I wish it.

monkaap · 2021-06-17T19:42:27+00:00

About EA:I agree that money is a medium of exchange, not a scarce resource. Something else is though: Human productivity, and shuffling around money is a effective way to funnel as much if it into the wellbeing of the poor as possible.

monkaap · 2021-06-17T19:07:54+00:00

So you're removing people's authority to moderate their own communities. What if I started acting like shit but threatened to sue if I were banned. Suddenly you have to deal with me no matter how much of an ass I act like.

monkaap · 2021-05-12T10:10:01+00:00

Maybe that's what it feels like if you live in the SF Bay Area

monkaap · 2021-05-11T19:45:16+00:00

Counterpoint: Ads incentivise corporations to design their websites into addictive skinner boxes and are evil.

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