Zach W

Mostly politics. Trying to focus more locally these days. UBI + Walkable Cities. Confrontational Pragmatist

[Zach W @ZahTalks]

@AlexHowlettUBI So I'm starting to understand that UBI and debt limits are limited to improved productive capacity, but wouldn't increasing it also affect the labor market, which would then affect productive capacity?

[Tim Pool @Timcast]

Just giving people $12,000 won't erase poverty

It will cause a substantial increase in the cost of low skill labor which will see the cost of goods go up along with it

In turn we will see rapid inflation to cover costs of low skill labor wiping out the buying power of the 12k

[Zach W @ZahTalks]

@mousdrvr Red voters are more liberal on economics than they’ve been in the past (except on gas prices).

[Zach W @ZahTalks]

@T4YPodcast FPTP means that the best strategy is to make people hate the other side because there’s only one other option and it’s easier to criticize than to effectively govern.

[Zach W @ZahTalks]

Logged on for the first time in about 6 months. This was the exact reason I got off of Twitter.

But was cool to see a bunch of familiar faces. Hope you all are doing well!

@eddiechu888 @novasandler @PhoenixCongress @PoopOnBezos @PinkoPatriot @JonMunitz @AllLeahWrote

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

In real conversations, speakers who frequently spout anger, contempt, insults, and obscenity are shunned. On Twitter, they are amplified. Twitter is not a public conversation, it’s a public coliseum. @elonmusk, please rethink the social incentives.

[Zach W @ZahTalks]

@davidhogg111 @JonMunitz And I've studied history enough to know that in that time period, you never did anything that didn't appear bi-partisan and that practically everything needed to appear conservative in order to be received well by the populace.

[Zach W @ZahTalks]

@GenZUniversalis Coalitions do.

Absolutely no gun reform is unpopular, immigration bans are unpopular, corporate and top 1% tax cuts are unpopular, but you put those groups of single-issue voters together and it's incredibly powerful.

[Zach W @ZahTalks]

Republicans appointed the judges, Republicans pushed the rhetoric, and Republicans are to blame.

Andrew Yang says Democrats need to apologize. I logged into Twitter for the first time in 6 months to say this is garbage and the final straw for Andrew from me.

I'm out.

[Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang]

It feels like Democrats owe their people an apology for being bad at their jobs - they had a long time to codify Roe v. Wade, defend a balanced court, get RBG to step down, etc. Instead they got played and trounced. “Help undo our failures!” is not a compelling rallying cry.

[Ezra Klein @ezraklein]

I want to be careful in how I say this because obviously you can't just break into the Capitol and desecrate offices and hit police officers with pipes. People should be arrested. But I don't think they should be our focus.

[Zach W @ZahTalks]

@WisdomOfDan The security was so light at the Capitol because Trump wanted his supporters to disrupt this process. Not because he’s a grand chess master, just because he believes chaos is a ladder.

[Gregg Housh @GreggHoush]

Parler right now, when it’s actually loading.

[Zach W @ZahTalks]

The bar for 2021 is so low, but let’s just be like Lindsey Graham and clear it.

[Lindsey Graham @LindseyGrahamSC]

I prayed @JoeBiden would lose.

He won.

He’s the legitimate president of the United States.

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are lawfully elected and will become the president and vice president of the United States on January 20th.

[Radical Centrist ☭⃠🇺🇦🇹🇼 @radicalcntrist]

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