Win-wintegrity

[Win-wintegrity @Winwintegrity]

It's about selection pressure. What contradictions haven't been penalized for a very long time? Religions often have patches to the valley of bad rationality (in terms of inclusive fitness), but along the way many religions were also self-extincting cults. Many of the false beliefs are immaterial to modeling the world seriously, but have positive effects on incentives.

[Win-wintegrity @Winwintegrity]

I want the economy to be broadly mutually beneficial. The problem with Social Security, Medicare, inflated government pensions and benefits is not just that they directly rob worker to inefficiently redistribute to the old, but that they drive massive cost disease for everyone. In old age people have saved the most money, so they can spend more inflating the cost of housing and healthcare for the age brackets where healthcare and housing are actually a long-term investment in the future. The system makes it impossible for people to afford to have enough kids to support the system.

[Win-wintegrity @Winwintegrity]

Rent control is yet another form of coercive redistribution to the old.

[Yan Q. @armsq17]

It's the same pretty much everywhere with rent controls. A story from Berlin:

[Win-wintegrity @Winwintegrity]

@grok @Youngblood111_ @grok, from the S and Top categories rank by birth rate, and rank by surveyed happiness

[Win-wintegrity @Winwintegrity]

@DrEliDavid He didn't pay for the croissants!

[Russ Greene @GreenPlusAnE]

This thesis went from X to the American Mind to Bill Maher in 15 months.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

We almost didn't get GLP-1RAs.

The management at Novo Nordisk was resistant to getting their drugs approved for obesity because of a stigma against doing so.

It took researchers continually pushing on this to realize the promise of the drugs.

[Win-wintegrity @Winwintegrity]

Years ago when I did research on how autocracies and democracies make regulations, I remember people trying to use indexes like these to score how free or Democratic various countries were... They aren't just a little off, they are complete bullshit.

[arctotherium @arctotherium42]

Belgium, you may be interested to know, is tied with Ireland for the #2 spot on V-Dem's Freedom of Expression Index. I love political science.

[Win-wintegrity @Winwintegrity]

@mattyglesias An equally honorable man would probably not have the same views on Social Security and Medicare, lol.

[Win-wintegrity @Winwintegrity]

@VoicesofWW2 @grok Is this a real story?

[Russ Greene @GreenPlusAnE]

This is entirely framed around the desires of seniors, who will still get their benefits even after the Social Security and Medicare trust funds go bankrupt. Just smaller ones.

Little mention of what will happen to the young, who are always left with the bill.

[Win-wintegrity @Winwintegrity]

@memeticsisyphus The way you phrase this is really dumb though. Obviously, you should still teach some degree of social self-defense to kids, so that at a minimum they can get another adult's attention if someone tries to do something bad to them...

[Win-wintegrity @Winwintegrity]

I'm all for cheap fast repainting that preserves emergency vehicle maneuver room and shifts enough people to bikes to keep overall commute times lower. That is positive-sum. Unfortunately, my most recent experience is watching a cyclist get whacked due to the bike lane construction taking *years* and removing the safe space + visibility for maneuver they would have otherwise had. There is also a proliferation of turning restrictions that bottleneck traffic and create pressure for cars to be far more aggressive in the seconds they have to turn through an intersection successfully, and which create a lot of unnecessary bikelane conflict. I'd like to see a lot more normal traffic circles and deconfliction for speed, rather than just slowing things down and messing up flows to either achieve safety at higher cost, or merely politically signal an attempt to get safety.

[Win-wintegrity @Winwintegrity]

@Optimisticbger They should have multiple tasers or bola guns on quick draw. Heck, even a bean bag shotgun might make it too painful to jump.

[Russ Greene @GreenPlusAnE]

yes, I literally don't want retired millionaires to get (as much) in Social Security because I would rather to keep more of my paycheck

this is true, and I stand behind it!

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Look who gets cited in this extremely based recent speech by El Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele:

[Russ Greene @GreenPlusAnE]

One explanation for this misconception is the imbalance between the French state's fiscal burden and what it delivers, due to increasing amounts being siphoned off to keeping retirees' even incomes higher than working people's.

30% of education spending goes to pensions, e.g.

[Douglas MechArthur ☭⃠ @Kicksbuttson]

"So your parents lived through a world war and brought about the greatest economic boom in the nation's history?"

"Yes, Dave."

"Then you grew up in the best economic and cultural conditions imaginable, with a thriving middle class, a strong manufacturing base, and relatively low cost of living?"

"That's right, Dave."

"So when you grew up and became established your first instinct was to offshore American manufacturing, switch all the pension plans for 401Ks, import tons of immigrants to supplement the low-skill labor market and undercutting American wages, lower interest rates which drives up asset prices, and reduce immigration enforcement so the team of 30-something year old Mexicans can keep mowing your lawn for the same price as the teenager you used to pay to do it?"

"You betcha, Dave."

"Now you're going back and forth from your condo in Florida to your house in Madison, while your grandkids struggle to afford groceries in their one bedroom apartment?"

"That's accurate, Dave."

"And you want them to pay more in taxes so you can keep receiving social security, which is only one of four retirement benefits you currently live off, half of them being taxpayer funded?"

"Yeppers!"

"And you think this is justified even though your generation was the first to not have enough kids to fund your social security benefits, and you told your kids and grandkids not to start families till after they were established in their careers, so they had even fewer kids to fund your retirement?"

"Sounds right, Dave."

"And you encouraged all your kids and grandkids to go to college because you knew the labor market was being manipulated with immigration and offshoring, because you're the one who manipulated it, and that resulted in a college degree bubble where a lot of in-demand degrees ended up not paying well-enough to repay the student loans?"

"Yeah, Dave."

"So you voted for the candidate that promised to make student loans federally guaranteed, which only made the college more expensive, and even more difficult to repay?"

"I guess so, Dave."

"And when you die, your family won't even inherit your house and condo because they reverse mortgaged them both to buy a top of the line fishing boat and a truck to haul it from Wisconsin to Florida and back?"

"Well... They'll inherit the boat and truck!"

[Win-wintegrity @Winwintegrity]

@jeremykauffman As long as your tax dollars have to go to EMS and dealing with druggies, a lot of currently known addictive drugs should stay illegal. There's literally nothing about that which has to slow down newer cancer drug development: complete different regulations at FDA.