I'll save all the basic needs UBI money I would have spent on food and clothes by growing and making my own. Then I'll go out and buy books, movies and vacations. I get to keep 100% of the labor I put into doing for myself. You city folks can figure out who will kick in their 70% to feed you.
In the Soviet Union, the most productive plots of land by far were the small family plots that the Party allowed people to maintain. Without these, there would have been far more starvation. And as for the seamstress, let HER decide whether her time is better spent trading straight across for food (and other goods that local 'hobbyists' produce) or working for the system at 30 cents on the dollar.
Take 70% of a people's earnings away from them and people will just step outside of the current economic system. Let the idle bums in the cities starve waiting for their UBI checks. Which won't buy much once farmers concentrate on their own gardens and let the cash crops die.
Wouldn't I be better off doing something that I enjoy rather than working and handing 70% of my wages over to the government? I could grow my own crops. And trade the excess to my neighbor, who's hobby as a seamstress can provide me with clothes.
... went quiet just before they struck their target as well. People said that if you could hear them, you were OK. When you heard the motor cut out, take cover.
when investing in bribes and government subversion creates better returns than investing in production, a capitalist will invest in bribery and not in production.
Please be more specific. It's only bribery and corruption when it it is paid to a foreign official. It is protected speech when paid to a domestic politician.
Congress voted itself a monopoly in the taking of graft.
That said, I do not recall two blades on either side of the nose cones.
Some fighters and other military aircraft don't use AoA vanes. Instead, they use a pitot tube type sensor to sense the direction of the direction of the air flow. This type of sensor will just be a few more ports in the air data boom and a few more pressure transducers.
But if you're China or India you look at that graph and think fuck that, why should I have to pollute less than an American?
Because it's in their best interest to adopt the state of the art in energy production and consumption. Which, as a by-product, pollutes less. Sure, America went through the big-ass cars with tail fins era. But everyone doesn't have to follow that same path.
Perhaps as far as state legal issues are concerned. But on a federal level? Never. That pot bust is going to follow you forever through security and background checks. And as more private services utilize background checks for things like apartment rentals, bank loans, employment applications, you will quietly be turned down. And never know why.
I recall reading an article many years ago by a guy in Oslo. Who described his day driving around the city in nothing more than shirt sleeves. Going from one heated underground garage to another.
If you live in a rural area where outdoor parking is the norm, you probably aren't the target market for an EV anyway.
Unless you drop them immediately in front of or on a car, people can see them. In Seattle, dodging potholes and concrete chunks in the roadway is de rigueur.
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And the tubes are full of cats.
So you can figure out how to tax each other 70% to pay for my UBI. Meanwhile, I'll eat.
I'll save all the basic needs UBI money I would have spent on food and clothes by growing and making my own. Then I'll go out and buy books, movies and vacations. I get to keep 100% of the labor I put into doing for myself. You city folks can figure out who will kick in their 70% to feed you.
Nice try, comrade.
In the Soviet Union, the most productive plots of land by far were the small family plots that the Party allowed people to maintain. Without these, there would have been far more starvation. And as for the seamstress, let HER decide whether her time is better spent trading straight across for food (and other goods that local 'hobbyists' produce) or working for the system at 30 cents on the dollar.
Take 70% of a people's earnings away from them and people will just step outside of the current economic system. Let the idle bums in the cities starve waiting for their UBI checks. Which won't buy much once farmers concentrate on their own gardens and let the cash crops die.
Your basic needs are covered
Great. So why do I need a job?
so even if the government takes 70%
Wouldn't I be better off doing something that I enjoy rather than working and handing 70% of my wages over to the government? I could grow my own crops. And trade the excess to my neighbor, who's hobby as a seamstress can provide me with clothes.
but also a healthy respect for it being offered.
In other words, a reminder of who your benevolent overlords are, to whom you owe allegiance.
Until it tells you "no"
"No" sounds an awful lot like "gulag".
the only station I lost was the History channel
History did nothing wrong.
For all we know, they think "Tiddles" means "I'm opening up a tin of meat for you".
Strange coincidence. When I was young, I associated that with feeding time as well.
Who ever looked at the music industry, and thought it needed more middlemen?
The middlemen.
Lots of innovators with alternative platforms have probably been waking up with horses heads in their bed.
They turned it off. Then they turned it on again. Did they get tech support on the line or what?
when investing in bribes and government subversion creates better returns than investing in production, a capitalist will invest in bribery and not in production.
Please be more specific. It's only bribery and corruption when it it is paid to a foreign official. It is protected speech when paid to a domestic politician.
Congress voted itself a monopoly in the taking of graft.
That said, I do not recall two blades on either side of the nose cones.
Some fighters and other military aircraft don't use AoA vanes. Instead, they use a pitot tube type sensor to sense the direction of the direction of the air flow. This type of sensor will just be a few more ports in the air data boom and a few more pressure transducers.
*Not sure if there is an acceptable native Australian character, as everything down under eventually tries to kill you.
They already drop their packages from too high on my porch.
When new animal species (including our ancestors) sprang up, existing species diversified and successfully spread across all the continents.
Sounds good, man. I can hardly wait.
But if you're China or India you look at that graph and think fuck that, why should I have to pollute less than an American?
Because it's in their best interest to adopt the state of the art in energy production and consumption. Which, as a by-product, pollutes less. Sure, America went through the big-ass cars with tail fins era. But everyone doesn't have to follow that same path.
This.
And to a throw-away email account.
Perhaps as far as state legal issues are concerned. But on a federal level? Never. That pot bust is going to follow you forever through security and background checks. And as more private services utilize background checks for things like apartment rentals, bank loans, employment applications, you will quietly be turned down. And never know why.
Ah well. We'll fix that with a bit of global warming.
I recall reading an article many years ago by a guy in Oslo. Who described his day driving around the city in nothing more than shirt sleeves. Going from one heated underground garage to another.
If you live in a rural area where outdoor parking is the norm, you probably aren't the target market for an EV anyway.
Unless you drop them immediately in front of or on a car, people can see them. In Seattle, dodging potholes and concrete chunks in the roadway is de rigueur.