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  • Commented on Constitutional crisis ahoy!
    The lion’s share of revenue for the US Federal government comes from taxes on individual and corporate income. The majority of Federal expenditures go to retirees, medical care for the poor, and certain social-welfare programs. I would hazard to guess...
  • Commented on "Tomorrow belongs to me"
    IIUC "kike" is an Americanism. According to legend, at least, illiterate Jewish immigrants at Ellis Island refused to make a cross in the place for their signatures and drew a circle instead, and the Yiddish word for "circle" was "keikl"......
  • Commented on "Tomorrow belongs to me"
    So Northern Ireland are Scotland are both on the Remain side. I know that a significant faction, ahem, of the Northern Irish population don't see eye-to-eye with their neighbours to the south, but how do they get along with the...
  • Commented on A question about the future of the world wide web
    Clay Shirky wrote “The Case Against Micropyaments” in 2000, and I think his case still stands up. In brief, when a consumer says that a vendor is “nickel-and-diming”, it is not meant as a compliment to the vendor. You can...
  • Commented on A different cluetrain
    College graduates tend to earn more money than people who have never attended college, but the variance among graduates is very large. It seems to me, therefore, that the economically rational way to finance college is to treat it, not...
  • Commented on A different cluetrain
    What you're not seeing here is that we basically only need two laws: - 1) don't aggress against others - 2) respect other people's property rights. I’m going to resist the urge to get into a general debate over...
  • Commented on A different cluetrain
    Our capitalist overlords are happy to promote more immigration... on their own terms. For example, the American “H-1B” visa and the UK “Tier 2 Work Permit” tie an immigrant worker to his or her employer: if you are dissatisfied with...
  • Commented on A different cluetrain
    state enterprises [in the USSR] bore an eerie structural similarity to their capitalist Bizarro-world counterparts Lenin & Co. gave the capitalist system credit—perhaps more credit than it deserved—for having figured out how to get large groups of people to work...
  • Commented on A different cluetrain
    A very important piece of the puzzle, IMHO, is that while capital can move freely between the developed and underdeveloped world, labor cannot. A Los Angeles millionaire can invest in a Shanghai factory, taking advantage of the cheap labor and...
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