Really?

Most Democrat Politicians today certainly are on board. But they were late to buy in. The Republicans actually introduced Neoliberal Economics into politics, chiefly with Ronald Regan.

Today it’s mostly the liberal side of the Democratic Party that introduces legislation to curb all the excesses of Neoliberal Economics.

When you say “neolib” are you referring the Neoliberal economic philosophy, or some slang term for modern political liberals?

I ask because Neoliberal Economics is all about this profit, and share holders first, type values. This is in contrast to the post Great Depression, Classical Economics philosophy where companies valued employees first, and shareholders last.

Will they apply to “Light Trucks”?

It’s called Star Trek

It eliminates the picking and choosing of tax brackets. What you’re talking about is making definitions. There is no way to mathematically fix that.

But what if you creatively identify your income?

That would be the lying part.

And then get a bonus of a bunch of stocks

Eventually those shares would be sold, or inherited. That income would be taxed at whatever the algorithm dictates.

A simple uncheatable tax doesn’t need to be flat.

Years ago I came up with an algorithmic progressive tax that tracks the income distribution curve.

Using the 2011 numbers I could get 1% increments for. With a top tax rate of 40%, the bottom ~85% of people had a tax rate below 5%, and the budget that year would still balance.

And being a fixed algorythm, it’s completely closed to manipulation. Unless you lie about your income, but that’s already a felony.

Even if a fetus a person, it doesn’t actually mean what they seem to think it means.

There’s no law stating one person is required to donate blood, organs, or even time and effort, to save the life of another person.

So a fetus is a person now. That doesn’t give it the right to take anything from its mother against her will.

We’re not thought to be at the center at all.

We’re at the center of what we can see. But that’s just a limit of the speed of light and the age of the universe. The universe almost certainly goes beyond what we can see. And there’s no way of knowing how big the universe is beyond that.

It’s like being on a ship in the ocean. You can see the horizon is 20miles in every direction. That doesn’t mean you’re in the center of the ocean. You’re only in the center of what you can… Sea

In a properly regulated functional market they couldn’t. Their renter would move to a place the owner didn’t do that. The same would apply to any other market.

In reality there would be temporary inflation, since there is a bunch of new money to drive demand. But again with a well regulated market working as it should, supply would eventually increase to meet the new demand and everything would reach equilibrium again.

That could be mitigated, by slowly increasing the UBI from 0 to 1000 incrementally. The slower it is, the more time the market has to supply the increasing demand.

They take money. It’s banks that make it.

Well yah. That’s how articles work.

I tried to read it. I couldn’t get past the first paragraph.
The anecdotal humanized narrative story type of reporting does nothing for me…
That’s not true. It anoys me.

I go to novels when I want a story.
For news, I want information. What’s the data? Who’s collecting it? How? What are the hypotheses and relevent historical context? What are some (if any) solutions.

If no agency is keeping track, how do we know?

Only 14% of Americans consider themselves wealthy

Only 14%? I’m shocked it’s that high!

I thought “Wealthy” was when the passive income of the money you already have, pays more than you typically spend.
Basically when you can “Live off the interest alone.”

It’s only mostly broken. And mostly broken means slightly working!

That’s not how any of that works.

That’s not why they were kicked out. The coach lied, to get them playing in the boys league, since they were so good.
So of course they got kicked out. What you expect the league to do?

He explained:
“In November of 2023, Next Level and Larry McGraw deceptively registered a girls team into the 6th grade boys league and under the gender listed as MALE.”
“We entered them into the league assuming they were a boys’ team as conveniently no roster was ever provided.”
“Subsequently, their first game was filled in by a boys 6th grade Next Level team because they played the 6th grade boys Cincinnati Royals team - coached by myself, so there was no reason to suspect anything different.”

He continued:
“It wasn’t until late January/early February that several teams from the 6th-grade division started traveling down to Kentucky to play their scheduled games, that it became apparent that the Next Level team was, in fact, a girls team.”
“Several complaints from coaches and teams were filed because of this deception.”

Social media users, however, saw SWOB’s statement as deflecting from another issue, one that accused the league of trying to keep their feelings from getting hurt in the event the boys were defeated by girls.

Lemmy has it (or did) already. Some instances use it, many don’t.

Yah that’s not great. But I can’t find their time metrics.
Does anyone know the period of those uptime percentages?

In the world of server stability, a period as short as 7 days is extremely short. And only 99,7 in such a short time is quite bad. That suggests it’ll go down for a total of 30min every week.