Hahaha comments agreeing with this sentiment are getting downvoted, and the thread itself has been flagged.
Well, the wealthy get to take time off of work to go camping and hiking, and the poor people get to dynamite the hills their ancestors settled. Surely they're equivalent.
That's weird. A very large chunk of poor people I've met live in urban areas, and if they don't, often lack the time or resources to do those things. I must know a special type of poor person that OP hasn't bumped into.
It reads like "the Poors can live Outdoors!"* but I'm going to assume I'm mistaken or that that couldn't possibly be a popular opinion on hn. *this is a joke and if you want to argue that i'm implying that everyone in…
Can you expand on this? I genuinely don't understand the "poor people are adjacent to trees" statement in the context of an entire country. Like genuinely this sounds like solid comedy unless I'm missing something here.
The responses to this are genuinely some of the funniest posts I've seen on this website. The amount of gymnastics people are doing to avoid mentioning that these large companies have gotten millions/billions of…
There would never be rent seeking behavior without regulations. The natural state of mankind is perfect harmonious cooperation without the spectre of rules agreed upon by communities.
You're totally right. All of those movie theaters that were heavily subsidized by billions in public money or tax cuts based on the promise of providing foot traffic and value to adjoining businesses should have their…
Depends on if you're buying your groceries from Airbnb or Twitter honestly, the economic impact of buying produce and meat from them over a local grocery store really varies between the two tech companies.
Yes I too trust the clearly defined category of "employers", with their uniform set of values and practices with regard to employee health and safety. Why on earth would a person trust somebody who was elected by a…
Sounds like you've extrapolated your anecdote about a particular product into a very sweeping generalization about the population.
Growing up affluent and attending prestigious schools all the while making otherwise inaccessible contacts also helps productivity in a general sense, similar to the broad prescriptive statements in the article. I…
Hahaha comments agreeing with this sentiment are getting downvoted, and the thread itself has been flagged.
Well, the wealthy get to take time off of work to go camping and hiking, and the poor people get to dynamite the hills their ancestors settled. Surely they're equivalent.
That's weird. A very large chunk of poor people I've met live in urban areas, and if they don't, often lack the time or resources to do those things. I must know a special type of poor person that OP hasn't bumped into.
It reads like "the Poors can live Outdoors!"* but I'm going to assume I'm mistaken or that that couldn't possibly be a popular opinion on hn. *this is a joke and if you want to argue that i'm implying that everyone in…
Can you expand on this? I genuinely don't understand the "poor people are adjacent to trees" statement in the context of an entire country. Like genuinely this sounds like solid comedy unless I'm missing something here.
The responses to this are genuinely some of the funniest posts I've seen on this website. The amount of gymnastics people are doing to avoid mentioning that these large companies have gotten millions/billions of…
There would never be rent seeking behavior without regulations. The natural state of mankind is perfect harmonious cooperation without the spectre of rules agreed upon by communities.
You're totally right. All of those movie theaters that were heavily subsidized by billions in public money or tax cuts based on the promise of providing foot traffic and value to adjoining businesses should have their…
Depends on if you're buying your groceries from Airbnb or Twitter honestly, the economic impact of buying produce and meat from them over a local grocery store really varies between the two tech companies.
Yes I too trust the clearly defined category of "employers", with their uniform set of values and practices with regard to employee health and safety. Why on earth would a person trust somebody who was elected by a…
Sounds like you've extrapolated your anecdote about a particular product into a very sweeping generalization about the population.
Growing up affluent and attending prestigious schools all the while making otherwise inaccessible contacts also helps productivity in a general sense, similar to the broad prescriptive statements in the article. I…