Half Baked Ideas
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First name is Dominic Ideas are as described in my username Feel free to flesh them out and make them happen!
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I don't do it for moral reasons, but there's a lot of stuff I'll only buy after seeing in person, that others buy online

When it's a repeat purchase, why pay more? That's not the High Street's comparative advantage
For sure. In that sense the middle half of this century will be really interesting with the beginning of the global shrink, but significant growth in some places (esp Africa)

Economic gravity would change a lot unless the rich nations allow immigration to make up the natural shortfall (they will)
I find the people vocally supporting determination for the (Jewish/Kurdish) people to be nearly opposing groups

I also have friends who loathe the formulation "the Jewish people" from its association with tropes, quite apart from their unhappiness with Israel's actions & claim to represent them
A true Left party would have more factions than members
I'm a big fan of enabling renters to become owners through mechanisms like this

I'd also prefer a much more professional landlord class. Fundamentally when it goes wrong it has negative consequences like much heavier-regulated industries like food and health
Anecdote, yup.

Building stock growing slower than population.

Add to that a further increase in number of desired households from shrinking family sizes.

That's more than enough to explain the prices. Wrong type of home is trivial compared
And the deposit needed is so high because of the shortage. We build so much less than before, despite a growing population

And then we argue we should build even less because we can't afford those ones
There's a whole literature on the subject, what you're saying is flat false
The wealthy buy them, selling somewhere else. The next rung buys those. We used to refer to the housing ladder and to chains in the housing market.

Are those terms lost to history?
It's the same bill. Just some 65-67 now not in it
The benefits bill will be growing because the proportion of the population above the state pension age is growing

It's just some people don't like calling that a benefit. So attribute that rise to this unrelated group
So then, who gets rich picking up the pieces?

Can AI help me answer that?
This is a standard convention. It is a dramatic reduction that would be masked by showing 0-100% on the y-axis

There's no reason to believe 0% (or 100%) are possible states of the world, so it is reasonable to exclude them

Would you prefer a measure that showed only +/-5% from average?
Won't literally be true but you could approximate a $100 meal as
$30 staff
$30 ingredients
$30 building/overhead
$10 profit

So half portions would only come out 15% cheaper

Those ratios can change a lot with high customer numbers, city rents, or certain food types
Our goal is to ensure the ocean is flat again, when the storm is long past
Not automatically. Good for Reform, can be worse for Labour (and country)

We're much less two-party than we used to be
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I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news
Hi all, does anyone have a link to the training?
My poor paradoelia doesn't know where to look!
Luckily the UK has the perfect system for handling 5+ party politics
Some of us are just antisocial and prefer the self checkout or the less chatty barber. Some even wear headphones in the office