@MattJFarthing@K_Niemietz A worker’s value isn’t directly measured, it’s more abstract. But taking the salary from a different employee doesn’t help. Regardless, of where the money comes from, that employee is losing you money. They are definitionally a waste of money.
@MChezzie@K_Niemietz The business as a whole wouldn’t be a misallocation then, just that position. But I suppose that IS what happens- jobs that would otherwise be under minimum wage are removed/replaced, like fast food cashiers with kiosks
@GZNYer@BIGDAD539@Polymarket It was banned because sonic booms are insanely loud and can be heard from the ground. The sonic boom ban is being replace with a noise limit, which will allow high-tech planes with quiet sonic booms to fly over the US
@ArmchairQB69@outtt168672@QuetzalPhoenix Jews are 0.2% of the global population, but 10% of the billionaires and 22% of Nobel prize winners. 1 in 3 jews in the US are millionaires.
@guineuIndepe@Nachtel_Hussar@NeoliberalAkiho It doesn’t happen everywhere in the world though. It demonstrably doesn’t happen in places with a surplus of housing. You don’t need to make things up, this is just an objective fact
@guineuIndepe@Nachtel_Hussar@NeoliberalAkiho Basic needs do get special treatment. Housing is just the worst-treated one. Food suppliers are heavily subsidized, and Trump ran on “drill baby drill”. With every other basic need, everyone understands we just need more supply, yet with housing it’s always “lets increase demand”
@fireflytohotaru@manucustil It’s still predatory bc of the way it’s designed. It makes you think you have a 1/6 chance of the jackpot bc there’s 6 balloons and they get shuffled. In reality your odds are closer to 1/16. If they actually were 1/6, the gachas would be amazing value and hardly a gamble
@loud_socialist That’s not how demand curves work. What you’re thinking of is price elasticity, which has already been factored into all the discussions & analyses. Quantity demanded & demand are two different things, and it’s only the quantity demanded that goes up, NOT the demand
@ZirvePS@sparr0@TrueSlazac I already told you, rent control will ALWAYS cause increased costs. This is a mathematical fact that has been proven empirically.
@ZirvePS@sparr0@TrueSlazac If that is really so important to you, then feel free to support increased costs in what is already one of the most expensive cities in the world. I just personally wouldn’t take that tradeoff and I doubt most people would if they knew the full effects