Null Seer

Computer science researcher.

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@binneystreetbio @MattBruenig @jasonfurman @edavidds But “market income” is not a no-intervention baseline. It’s generated by property, labor, corporate, contract, IP, monetary, and antitrust law. Pre-tax income is already endogenous to policy; tax/transfer progressivity only measures one layer of redistribution.

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@MattBruenig @JStein_WaPo The gap between the top 1% and bottom 50% became ~58x smaller, from ~46,207x to merely 790x. We're on track for complete equality between the top 1% and bottom 50% by 2035!

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@kareem_carr Doctor got some good high-stakes practice in.

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@charliesinsight @MattBruenig @dlondonwortel @andrewelrod @Econ_Marshall @Birdyword @talmonsmith @DavidAstinWalsh @DavidpStein @aarmlovi @BrankoMilan @n_hold Predistribution in a market economy cannot eliminate the structural production of inequality without the welfare state, since almost half the population has 0 market income.

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@souljagoyteller He lost the the 2025 D NYC Mayoral Primary as well before this week.

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@VVBellerose @CentralUnplan @MattBruenig Smashing together two things that have bad vibes ("negative" and "income tax") is going to give people who just hear it in passing and don't bother trying to understand it at even a cursory level (so almost everyone who hears about it) bad vibes.

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@PortmanToes @rapid_rar @MattBruenig @coryfromphilly @oracleofoahu1 It refutes both, desert is a dead-end justification. You have to move to something else (usually utilitarianism or a variant).

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@augustofretes @MattBruenig @Noahpinion Still gotta have an accounting of initial property acquisition. How did the person who had the "something" get it, and regress. Eventually you get to illegitimate violent theft of the commons. Which you can legitimize through laws for expediency of course, but same with taxes.

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@willietrom @Alexand3rTheMeh I don't think Bruenig considered shame, associations or anything.

He's an args man through-and-through, and probably likes getting more income than posting to his blog.. He's contributed to the NYT+Washington post after all, which have far more heinous contributors than Yggy.

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@karimbitar @DavidKlion @TVietor08 Accountability for those with political power, big tent for everyone else. Only debate should be which side "public figures" with no formal political power or ties fall on.

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@constans @michaeldomps ~49% of people are nonworkers (children, elderly, home caretakers, disabled, unemployed, etc). You think <2% of the employed population (of which >20% have less than full-time hours), are not upwardly mobile?

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@liberalatheists @adamjohnsonCHI @EoinHiggins_ Do you really think young children are "dead conservatives that are being killed by their own policies"?

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@queersocialism @TaylorLorenz The original post says "meaner" and "more apathetic", and Taylor said people value lives "less than they did 5 years ago".

Those are all comparative claims, and imply the problems existed beforehand and the COVID response exacerbated them! What is your disagreement here?

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@_kxdyn @spooleyhi @JHWeissmann We do already have public providers (the VA) and there are examples globally (e.g. NHS in England).

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@William43130046 @spooleyhi @JHWeissmann People don't like being thrown off their health insurance. With M4A in-place, a repeal throws literally everyone off their health insurance.

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@_kxdyn @spooleyhi @JHWeissmann Single-provider.

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@IsaacRabbani @MattBruenig Tesla didn't have to invent electricity generation and transport, nor make it ubiquitous. That's already done.

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@3RenChengHu @MattBruenig @mattyglesias Treating capital gains the same as lottery winnings would represent ~50% increase in capital gains taxes in the US (and that's treating the benefits of realization timing control, tax-loss harvesting, and step-up basis as nil!).

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@cj_1871 @fromdadiff @pacificarchi @blarpvs This is an argument against electoralism in general, not against using any particular state-run ballot line.

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@crude2refined @joseph_h_garvin @colin_fraser Same way stochastic search can generate super optimized pieces of code https://t.co/LJZSjt8UqY

Randomness + fast correctness evaluators are powerful!