| ▲ | K0balt 3 hours ago |
| UBI is the actual solution, and is well understood enough now to know that most of the arguments against it are moot points or simply falsehoods. Unfortunately, with regulatory capture at near 100 percent and electoral capture almost as bad, there is no incentive structure with sufficient influence to make it happen. Wealth will continue to be funneled to the top, and taxation schemes that act as a de-facto sales tax create incentives that favor even more centralized systems. But wouldn’t it be great? An interesting aspect is that I am constantly observing innovators with significant technical and technological skills that are employed in fields outside of their expertise as a “temporary “ measure that often becomes permanent if they get further encumbered, simply because they can keel out an existence while trying to build the next cool thing. So we are wasting probably trillions of GDP in talent because people need to go work in a labor job to support their wife and child instead of continuing his very promising project in training data for humanoid robots, which could easily net 100m+ in the next decade. (Actual example. I offered him $1000 a month to keep on it, but he unfortunately needs more to survive and he has eaten through his savings over the past two years of working on it.) |
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| ▲ | JumpCrisscross 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| > most of the arguments against it are moot points or simply falsehoods What are the falsehoods in complaints against police unions? |
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| ▲ | advael 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Police unions aren't the same thing as other unions. Most unions exist to equalize labor negotiation through collective bargaining, and police unions tend to include and align with the leadership in the organization that a union would traditionally be negotiating with. In practice they're a lot more like a military contractor than a union (in that their role is to prevent public accountability) | | |
| ▲ | JumpCrisscross an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | > Police unions aren't the same thing as other unions What about California teachers’ unions? European notaries? | |
| ▲ | AndrewKemendo 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | This is correct and the proof is that police do not strike with labor they fight labor on behalf of capital The core premise of a union is that you have solidarity primarily across unions which is actually how you get collective-bargaining at larger scales | | |
| ▲ | gruez an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | >This is correct and the proof is that police do not strike with labor they fight labor on behalf of capital I thought it was because they couldn't strike because they were "essential"? | |
| ▲ | JumpCrisscross an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | > core premise of a union is that you have solidarity primarily across unions which is actually how you get collective-bargaining at larger scales Police unions in New York regularly join hands with other public-sector unions. |
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| ▲ | K0balt 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | lol. I typed ubi is and the autocorrect put “unions.” It has been corrected . But it is kinda funny anyway. | | |
| ▲ | JumpCrisscross an hour ago | parent [-] | | This reminds me of a trading incident decades ago. We were unwinding a portfolio of correlation trades. The trades basically bet on continued correlation between assets. Unwinding those trades means assets which typically correlate now correlate less. When we fucked we they sometimes anticorrelated. Anyway, some of these price movements were noticed and incessantly commented on by CNBC pundits. Theories abounded. All wrong. Most amusing. |
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| ▲ | dmitrygr 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > most of the arguments against it are moot points or simply falsehoods. Ah the “I am sure we can all agree … that I’m right” argument. In actuality, there are plenty of very good arguments against unions. That you don’t like them changes nothing |
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| ▲ | K0balt 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | lol “unions” was thanks to AI deciding “ubi is” couldn’t be what I meant. This might be saying something about the possibility of this working out. | | |
| ▲ | AnimalMuppet 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | OK, but the same response still applies. There still are plenty of arguments against UBI, and you still need to actually refute them rather than just dismiss them with "they're false or moot". |
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| ▲ | whattheheckheck 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| If its an easy 100m do a startup and get funding |
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| ▲ | K0balt 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I’m working on that, but there’s an incentive alignment problem for early stage investment capital that requires investors with a little longer view to avoid kneecapping the value proposition, as well as the potential positive aspects to society. (Am I allowed to be a little ideological when we are facing the potential extinction of humanity?) |
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| ▲ | zer00eyz 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > Unions the actual solution No, they are not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co. Changing the table stakes is what needs to happen: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation for a counter example. Unions just create an us vs them mentality. The fact that the NUMMI plant ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUMMI ) was not reproducible is a pretty strong indicator of that. |
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| ▲ | K0balt 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Sorry, my AI autocorrected “ubi is” to “unions”. When I came back to all these “unions bad” comments I was like WTF are they on about??? lol. But, I will say, often, unions are very positive things. Other times, basically evil. So, I think unions are a mixed bag. But the threat of potential unionization is almost a universal good, so it’s a right worth exercising once in a while. | | | |
| ▲ | sc68cal 37 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | Imagine posting how unions are bad on a Saturday in your leisure time |
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