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Lawyer (J.D.) turned historian (Ph.D.).

[Josh Barro @jbarro]

Find a partner who loves you as much as the British love being poor

[Der Abtrünnige @apostate64]

@LauraRbnsn People like you, who repeat the output of tendentious and partisan Excel models as if they were fact, give PhDs a bad name.

[Der Abtrünnige @apostate64]

@dig_deeper1 @therealmattcox4 The two don’t compete with each other. AirBNB providers compete with hotels, not long-term leases.

[Der Abtrünnige @apostate64]

@dig_deeper1 AirBnB units do not compete against long-term rentals but against hotels. Analogizong to long-term tenants is inappropriate. So is the comparison to house guests implicit in your term “personal residential property”. AirBnB units are not residential but investment in function.

[Der Abtrünnige @apostate64]

@JacoboPeterman @VittelMax This is simply false.

[Der Abtrünnige @apostate64]

@BarbaraRich_law @tomhfh I am your biggest fan, but isn’t there a germ of truth in the criticism that the English doctrine of cy-près is now very loose compared with its equivalents in other common law jurisdictions, allowing trustees to depart (too) far from the original purposes?

[Der Abtrünnige @apostate64]

@NewStatesman This piece is an embarrassment to your publication. You should withdraw it and reprimand everyone involved in it for insulting the intelligence of your readers.

[Der Abtrünnige @apostate64]

@johangreg You seem to have a lot invested in this thread in calling your commenters stupid, without ever answering the substantive points they make. Reasonable minds might wonder who the stupid one really is.

[Der Abtrünnige @apostate64]

@Kumar_EconIneq @3Sentinel4 Humiliations can be expected!

[Der Abtrünnige @apostate64]

@LocalNewsTrash There’s nothing compassionate about being compelled to participate in someone else’s self-delusion.

[Der Abtrünnige @apostate64]

@_dlwalker @UnitedCanucks26 @olsense1 Why? It’s not like your pious sanctimony is difficult to understand.

[Der Abtrünnige @apostate64]

@_dlwalker @UnitedCanucks26 @olsense1 Ah, so you want something shiny, expensive and new but have no plan to pay for it and are unwilling to make any of the trade-offs necessary for the country to afford. Typical Canadian seriousness.

[Der Abtrünnige @apostate64]

@_dlwalker @UnitedCanucks26 @olsense1 Spending on the health care system, on public pension benefits, on social assistance, etc. Getting a new system to compete with Starlink will involve high costs. What cuts do you propose to fund them?

[Der Abtrünnige @apostate64]

@Anthonysmdoyle The Supreme Court is very unlikely to let you do that.

[Der Abtrünnige @apostate64]

@dygytylace @ruth1783606 @Bias_Zebra @Lor_blueeyes @JohnRad15 I see you have difficulties with thought experiments and are unfamiliar with the concept of the costs of price discovery.

[Der Abtrünnige @apostate64]

@dygytylace @ruth1783606 @Bias_Zebra @Lor_blueeyes @JohnRad15 No, because you assume that I know EXACTLY what the value of the asset is to the Seller. Maybe I can spend time to find out and save 49, but maybe I have better uses for that time, uses worth >49 to me.

There is a reason why market economies outperform bazaar economies.

[Der Abtrünnige @apostate64]

@ruth1783606 @Bias_Zebra @Lor_blueeyes @JohnRad15 @dygytylace Your mistake is in thinking that all labor is fungible. It’s not. Some skills are more valuable than others. And if you develop them, you can definitely move out of the working class and demand a premium for the services you provide.

We’re not all baristas, dear.

[Der Abtrünnige @apostate64]

@dygytylace @ruth1783606 @Bias_Zebra @Lor_blueeyes @JohnRad15 But I’m still 50 better off than I was before, because I have something I value at Y+100 that cost me only Y+50. And the seller is also better off by 50 that he was before.

You are comparing the result against some imaginary best possible ideal. I am comparing before and after.

[Der Abtrünnige @apostate64]

@BillMelugin_ @jtLOL Notably absent from her statement is any protestation of innocence.

[Der Abtrünnige @apostate64]

@dygytylace @ruth1783606 @Bias_Zebra @Lor_blueeyes @JohnRad15 The point is that any price between Y and Y+100 results in an improvement for both parties. I just chose the midpoint ( Y+50 ) as the easiest example to show the point in such a way that even dimwits like you and “ruth” can understand it.