“ a special committee of Chinese Communist Party members”
Perhaps the fact that he died 20 years earlier.
Those are not examples of true Veblen goods but rather goods which use price as a signal of quality. True Veblen goods are things like staple foods for the very poor where the increase in price eats so much of their…
I think we are talking at cross-purposes, but I read your comment as suggesting a single account. No one calls our IRA the CPF MS, CPF always refers to the IRA and Medisave is totally separate even if it is partly…
HSAs are just like bank accounts. It reflects a debt owed to you by the govt/bank. The govt/bank doesn’t actually store all the money it owes on hand, it lends it out, makes investments or spends it. That’s why bank…
I agree with most of your ideas except energy ownership. However, as a Singaporean I have to say that Singapore has HSAs. They are called MediSave accounts and are separate from CPF although both earn interest. CPF is…
Elimination of the price mechanism eliminates a key way to sort out who truly needs healthcare (or whatever service). Consider a safe elective knee surgery. If you knew it was paid for by the government, you would just…
If inflationary pressures get to high, the Fed will raise the Fed Funds rate, affecting the market interest rates, incentivizing saving, decreasing inflationary pressures.
Are healthcare outcomes worse in the US than other first world countries? Life expectancy is endogenous to variables like diet and exercise. Looking at cancer survival rates, the US is best at some and mediocre at…
World with IP: Expensive Range Rovers. World without IP: No Range Rovers. Your imagined world of cheap range rovers if we suspended IP only works once but destroys all future incentive to create.
If modern factory farming processes are not obviously cruel to you, I don't know what would.
So much metaphysical blabbery to justify cruelty.
How much of your consciousness is grounded in sight, sound, taste, touch and smells? How many plants have eyes or ears or any kind of vivid sensory organ? Your argument lacks any kind of credulity.
Those open-air stockyards in Chicago look like crap, and even then still miles better than what pigs go through today. At least they saw the sky for more than the few minutes just before their deaths.
There isn't extensive documentation on the welfare of animals in large farms in history, but if you knew what goes on today, you wouldn't even dare write that. Chicks sent to the shredder, cramped living conditions for…
But it says "plans to hire".
Can't go to next page and the search function doesn't work. Great mission!
“ a special committee of Chinese Communist Party members”
Perhaps the fact that he died 20 years earlier.
Those are not examples of true Veblen goods but rather goods which use price as a signal of quality. True Veblen goods are things like staple foods for the very poor where the increase in price eats so much of their…
I think we are talking at cross-purposes, but I read your comment as suggesting a single account. No one calls our IRA the CPF MS, CPF always refers to the IRA and Medisave is totally separate even if it is partly…
HSAs are just like bank accounts. It reflects a debt owed to you by the govt/bank. The govt/bank doesn’t actually store all the money it owes on hand, it lends it out, makes investments or spends it. That’s why bank…
I agree with most of your ideas except energy ownership. However, as a Singaporean I have to say that Singapore has HSAs. They are called MediSave accounts and are separate from CPF although both earn interest. CPF is…
Elimination of the price mechanism eliminates a key way to sort out who truly needs healthcare (or whatever service). Consider a safe elective knee surgery. If you knew it was paid for by the government, you would just…
If inflationary pressures get to high, the Fed will raise the Fed Funds rate, affecting the market interest rates, incentivizing saving, decreasing inflationary pressures.
Are healthcare outcomes worse in the US than other first world countries? Life expectancy is endogenous to variables like diet and exercise. Looking at cancer survival rates, the US is best at some and mediocre at…
World with IP: Expensive Range Rovers. World without IP: No Range Rovers. Your imagined world of cheap range rovers if we suspended IP only works once but destroys all future incentive to create.
If modern factory farming processes are not obviously cruel to you, I don't know what would.
So much metaphysical blabbery to justify cruelty.
How much of your consciousness is grounded in sight, sound, taste, touch and smells? How many plants have eyes or ears or any kind of vivid sensory organ? Your argument lacks any kind of credulity.
Those open-air stockyards in Chicago look like crap, and even then still miles better than what pigs go through today. At least they saw the sky for more than the few minutes just before their deaths.
There isn't extensive documentation on the welfare of animals in large farms in history, but if you knew what goes on today, you wouldn't even dare write that. Chicks sent to the shredder, cramped living conditions for…
But it says "plans to hire".
Can't go to next page and the search function doesn't work. Great mission!