For most people in most societies it always was. It just used to be surplus value extraction from the wife for the husband and clan, and later the capitalist employing the husband. With the increase in bargaining power…
Hardware is tricky. Anything hands on really. For anything abstract I would argue that the people who are able to onboard and form teams and ideas remotely are inherently the best for the job and likely produce a…
Is that a rhetorical question? Because a person who makes conscious unethical choices is a bad person. Otherwise there would be no metric for "badness" and the word would be meaningless.
That's a very good question. Community cooperatives and municipal banks seem to be doing this, but not the commercial banks. I wonder why.
TBH, that works as long as your demographic pyramid is healthy. For most of Europe that is not the case. On top of that, return on additional debt has been stagnant since the 90s in OECD countries. There's simply almost…
This assumes that cash or bank money has the same counyerparty risk as a government bond. That is not the case. Negative interest rates essentially signal that everybody is short on the future overall.
It's more like a heart attack. There's plenty of blood, but the circulation to the heart itself (the people, ie demand side) has stopped. The doctor is pumping ever more blood into the patient without fixing the…
That’s more of an economic problem though. If you are further than 20min each way from your work place, monopolists are screwing you on income, cost of living, time, etc. Furthermore, you can work remotely.
Do you have any links or books on the topic or this specific calculation? Sounds very interesting.
Well demand is a good thing in this case. It implies good economic development. My point was more that market mechanisms don't make sense for public good infrastructure/monopolies. Building as much (and sustainably) as…
That's actually a really good point for housing as public infrastructure. The parallels to roads are very interesting.
Not from the US, but I lived there shortly and was asked to move there and had to decline. To me it's pretty clear that your single biggest problem is your suburbs and car culture. Everything from anti-social behavior,…
US style lawns definitely don't make economic sense. That stuff only happened because of cheap energy, which in term is artificially cheaper/subsidized due to not including negative externalities. In Europe lawns don;t…
On empty plots, yes it makes no sense. On rooftops with greenhouses it adds the benefit of additional insulation. That alone is already enough to make it worth it.
It's mostly because of the VC Ponzi scheme. US investors invest in US incorporated companies because it is easier to sell them and to get other later stage institutional investors interested. There's two ways how…
It's funny. The smart companies I know are all moving away from hiring full-time devs. They want a very small core team of highly skilled devs, all with relatively high equity, combined with tons of…
You mean their Intel's switch from RAM to CPUs? I have a feeling that something similar might end up happening here too. RAM was too much commoditized and cost-driven. CPUs were more IP driven. Finding a route from A to…
In my experience having any other type of people is generally more expensive because you are wasting higher level people on actively managing lower value tasks to get done.
That sounds very interesting. Could you go into more depth what techniques you exactly used?
Might I ask what some of these services are? This sounds intriguing.
What you call grid defection might very well happen in currently developing countries though, just as they never adopted telephone lines or stable postal services. In most developing countries the grid is the problem,…
Then again, there have been reports pointing to the US gov requesting social media accounts for scanning for visa waiver countries.
Maybe Canada, however, Europe is doing the same insanity to itself atm.
And then again, in Japan sexualization of teens is completely normal. The world is a big and diverse place with different values.
Even crazier, the criteria for which bonds to buy heavily favor German corporations. At this point the Euro system has become a system to shovel wealth from the periphery to the center at gunpoint. IMO next step of the…
For most people in most societies it always was. It just used to be surplus value extraction from the wife for the husband and clan, and later the capitalist employing the husband. With the increase in bargaining power…
Hardware is tricky. Anything hands on really. For anything abstract I would argue that the people who are able to onboard and form teams and ideas remotely are inherently the best for the job and likely produce a…
Is that a rhetorical question? Because a person who makes conscious unethical choices is a bad person. Otherwise there would be no metric for "badness" and the word would be meaningless.
That's a very good question. Community cooperatives and municipal banks seem to be doing this, but not the commercial banks. I wonder why.
TBH, that works as long as your demographic pyramid is healthy. For most of Europe that is not the case. On top of that, return on additional debt has been stagnant since the 90s in OECD countries. There's simply almost…
This assumes that cash or bank money has the same counyerparty risk as a government bond. That is not the case. Negative interest rates essentially signal that everybody is short on the future overall.
It's more like a heart attack. There's plenty of blood, but the circulation to the heart itself (the people, ie demand side) has stopped. The doctor is pumping ever more blood into the patient without fixing the…
That’s more of an economic problem though. If you are further than 20min each way from your work place, monopolists are screwing you on income, cost of living, time, etc. Furthermore, you can work remotely.
Do you have any links or books on the topic or this specific calculation? Sounds very interesting.
Well demand is a good thing in this case. It implies good economic development. My point was more that market mechanisms don't make sense for public good infrastructure/monopolies. Building as much (and sustainably) as…
That's actually a really good point for housing as public infrastructure. The parallels to roads are very interesting.
Not from the US, but I lived there shortly and was asked to move there and had to decline. To me it's pretty clear that your single biggest problem is your suburbs and car culture. Everything from anti-social behavior,…
US style lawns definitely don't make economic sense. That stuff only happened because of cheap energy, which in term is artificially cheaper/subsidized due to not including negative externalities. In Europe lawns don;t…
On empty plots, yes it makes no sense. On rooftops with greenhouses it adds the benefit of additional insulation. That alone is already enough to make it worth it.
It's mostly because of the VC Ponzi scheme. US investors invest in US incorporated companies because it is easier to sell them and to get other later stage institutional investors interested. There's two ways how…
It's funny. The smart companies I know are all moving away from hiring full-time devs. They want a very small core team of highly skilled devs, all with relatively high equity, combined with tons of…
You mean their Intel's switch from RAM to CPUs? I have a feeling that something similar might end up happening here too. RAM was too much commoditized and cost-driven. CPUs were more IP driven. Finding a route from A to…
In my experience having any other type of people is generally more expensive because you are wasting higher level people on actively managing lower value tasks to get done.
That sounds very interesting. Could you go into more depth what techniques you exactly used?
Might I ask what some of these services are? This sounds intriguing.
What you call grid defection might very well happen in currently developing countries though, just as they never adopted telephone lines or stable postal services. In most developing countries the grid is the problem,…
Then again, there have been reports pointing to the US gov requesting social media accounts for scanning for visa waiver countries.
Maybe Canada, however, Europe is doing the same insanity to itself atm.
And then again, in Japan sexualization of teens is completely normal. The world is a big and diverse place with different values.
Even crazier, the criteria for which bonds to buy heavily favor German corporations. At this point the Euro system has become a system to shovel wealth from the periphery to the center at gunpoint. IMO next step of the…