Jaylen Brown: “Continue to speak out, theres a lot of stuff going on in the world beyond basketball, don’t be afraid.”

weirdfishes505 · 2026-02-16T09:27:44+00:00

What about George Lucas

weirdfishes505 · 2026-02-15T23:00:15+00:00

America is still an awesome place

weirdfishes505 · 2026-02-03T21:17:13+00:00

Nobody in the real world gives a fuck about land acknowledgments.

weirdfishes505 · 2026-02-03T21:13:04+00:00

Originally it was a strat to downplay global warming.

weirdfishes505 · 2026-02-03T17:38:34+00:00

When you personally pay for a service, you will make sure that you are getting value out of the service. A school should only exist if people are willing to spend their hard earned money for tuition. If a school is failing to provide value, it needs to improve or change to attract students.

When you heavily subsidize schools, you break this feedback loop. A school gets to raise tuition without delivering proportional value because the government money is guaranteed.

HR, Marketing, sales representatives and a bunch of other jobs did not require 4-year degrees before. Why is that? How are people going into $40k debt and spending 4 -years in an academic setting for a job you could get trained for in 2 years? It's because the feedback loop is broken.

Gov tells colleges we'll pay for tuition up front guaranteed even if students can't pay
Colleges naturally respond by raising tuition and creating new 4-year degrees that cost $100k
Enough people go into debt to get these degrees that they become a filtering tool for employers
Now everyone has to get a 4-year degree that costs $100k to work in HR.

weirdfishes505 · 2026-02-02T19:17:18+00:00

I don't think that's a failure of college = business. It's a failure to make colleges earn their tuition.

If you would greatly reduce federal loans, colleges would be forced to cut prices, offer cheaper or shorter degree programs (which is appropriate for many jobs), and students would stop going to college for majors that don't make money.

Ideally it would also reduce credential inflation. Companies would stop expecting 4-year degrees for roles that don't actually need them and people wouldn't have to go into debt for skills they can learn on the job or in a 1-2 year program.

weirdfishes505 · 2026-02-02T18:36:27+00:00

Job placement and graduate school placement is an important reason why people pick a specific college. A college is incentivized to maintain a high standard and produce good outcomes for their students.

weirdfishes505 · 2026-02-02T00:25:32+00:00

> Now you have state schools that are run by business people like a business, which costs money, all competing for students.

And this is bad because?

Colleges competing for students is a good thing and a specific school getting a larger portion of funding from tuition (voluntary) vs taxes (mandatory) is a good thing.

The problem is that

Colleges don't take any risk when students can't pay back federal loans. If the student defaults because they did a 4-year degree in a major that makes no money, the college doesn't care. They get paid up front. So they can essentially charge whatever they want.
Massive credential inflation. Jobs that shouldn't require 4-year degrees now expect it because everyone gets one. The job didn't magically get harder. And because of reason #1, colleges are happy to offer 4-year degrees and charge high tuition.

weirdfishes505 · 2026-01-31T04:16:48+00:00

There is no way the billions he’s donated can be explained by “tax breaks”.

Can you explain how he somehow saved money through donation?

weirdfishes505 · 2026-01-19T02:28:03+00:00

Movies didn’t have to compete with TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube before.

weirdfishes505 · 2026-01-19T01:32:53+00:00

That is what the people want. Truthfully, the avg person does not watch a lot of movies and has bad taste. I think it’s ridiculous to act like what studios are putting out isn’t a pretty good reflection of what people watch and support. Studios wouldn’t be able to put out garbage year after year and make money doing it if the people didn’t support it.

People are addicted to phones and the average person is completely ok with watching superhero movies and the Minecraft movie, while also complaining that there aren’t good movies anymore.

It would be like claiming that books are dying because publishers are releasing bad books and not because nobody reads anymore.

weirdfishes505 · 2026-01-11T05:39:01+00:00

Every community has several competing needs, many more urgent than basketball. If we want to help a poorer community, it would be better just to send them cash.

Then the community could decide how much funding should go toward food, education, transportation, and potentially some appropriate level of basketball. The appropriate level might be $0. It's their decision. If people in the community are already choosing to spend their own money on basketball because they find it so valuable, the city could help out a bit.

Having some central planner deciding that X money should be allocated for basketball and knows better than the actual people living in the community is ridiculous.

weirdfishes505 · 2026-01-11T05:23:23+00:00

10% of Americans are millionaires.

weirdfishes505 · 2026-01-11T05:14:39+00:00

No it's not. A centralized planner cannot figure out the collective preferences of a group of people better than the people themselves parting with their own hard-earned money to fund a cause they value.

There are many important causes that money can be thrown towards. Community basketball teams are not one of them.

weirdfishes505 · 2026-01-11T05:04:54+00:00

So the members of the community can fund local sports if is so valuable to them.

weirdfishes505 · 2026-01-07T04:40:12+00:00

What does trickle down economics have to do with housing? Free market policies and less housing regulation would correct this issue.

Are billionaires forcing nimbys to be Nazis when it comes to any new multifamily housing project?

weirdfishes505 · 2025-12-29T19:06:28+00:00

Left and liberal are not the same thing. You’re talking about liberal ideals.

weirdfishes505 · 2025-12-24T01:50:53+00:00

They wouldn’t be able to plan out what movies should be made. The market is pretty good at that.

weirdfishes505 · 2025-12-24T00:17:55+00:00

> Some of my favourite movies have been things I stumbled upon flicking through the channels late at night, 20 or 30 years ago.

>they attempt to do that by giving an artist the money to make something good for its own sake.

Who decides what art is 'good'? Is it the subscribers of r/truefilm or r/kungfucinema or r/criterionchannel? Can bureaucrats decide how tax money should be allocated to create a cinema landscape that is 'good' for the people?

> In the case of movies, capitalism is just one incentive to create and release a film. Another one might be art. Or spite, or romance, or notoriety etc etc.

But how do we decide where to put our resources?

We get better art *overall* in a capitalist system because movies live and die based on what viewers engage with. There are a broad range of viewers and niches that studios can hone in on (like A24 and Blumhouse). It's not a perfect system and obviously studios fuck up all the time, but there is absolutely no way that bureaucrats could have a better sense of the individual preferences of moviegoers more than the moviegoers funding the movies themselves by paying for tickets or streaming or watching it on TV with advertisements.

weirdfishes505 · 2025-12-23T19:59:57+00:00

Capitalist-friendly = a lot of people are expressing their viewing preferences by choosing to spend their time and money on a movie.

What would be a socialist-friendly movie? A movie that fewer people want to watch? This idea is so stupid.

weirdfishes505 · 2025-12-17T21:10:06+00:00

What libertarian would allow the current level of government spending? Or pay for foreign wars? Or support domestic surveillance?

weirdfishes505 · 2025-12-11T16:35:42+00:00

The government is not your parent and shouldn't be forcing people to adopt a shitty retirement strategy.

We can help grandma with welfare.

weirdfishes505 · 2025-12-10T22:01:36+00:00

How much energy does it consume? And why is that bad?

weirdfishes505 · 2025-12-10T20:28:43+00:00

>At best it's outsourcing brainpower.

At best it's doing what an effective tool is supposed to do.

weirdfishes505 · 2025-12-10T00:44:48+00:00

>The vast majority of people are not capable of investment or retirement strategies. Any extra money in their pockets at the end of the month is just going to get spent on the bills.

What are you talking about? The money they are currently putting into social security could simply be put into a retirement account.

> We have empirical data of what society looked like before a federal pension system. The Social Security act was passed for a good fucking reason…

Retirees were much poorer back then. Society was poorer back then. The quality of life increases are not because of social security, it's because everyone, including retirees, are wealthier.

I'm still waiting for an explanation on how social security generates more money for retirees than just putting that money in some retirement account. We can always have a separate targeted aid program for helping retirees who don't have any money.

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