... this is broadly the same problem as "why don't we stick a sign up with everyone's salary", isn't it. ...credit? from bosses being paid in different coin. And you don't want to let some workers know you don't trust them as much to be reasonable, because... you don't trust them as much.

Look, the actual holding in marbury v madison was "it is unconstitutional to give us the power to fix this legal wrong": the us constitution was never very good, scrap the whole thing and copy south africa's.

I think the story here is that rising capital costs were first internalized by corporations in the form of margin compression, then by the government in the form of tax cuts, and then by outsourcing to China (the time periods line up), which resulted in a permanent shift lower in worker share.

the thing about 3 is that (per description) the underlying project is fine, a standard providing-services-for-people-who-want-them enterprise rather than the *promotor* diverting public resources for private benefit.

[edges me towards "graft is less corrosive than bribery"... hrm]

I have a half-kilo of mung beans that i am extremely tempted to turn into moyashi. I think I shall. if anyone has advice, advise me.

Many extremely poor laborers back in Marx’s day owned their own tools.

The Uber driver does not own the fundamental thing they need in order to own the means of production, which in this case is the digital marketplace that allows them to access customers.

You cannot do this: what you are proposing involves a coordination problem and requires access to communication channels that will not be made available for that purpose.

The thing to understand about immigration as a policy matter is that while in the short term it invites a racist backlash, it really is the “improve the economy for free” button and not pushing it is racist

Western australian upper house is 37 seats elected STV statewide. New system, seems to work fine. NSW upper house has been electing 21 members statewide for... decades? One or two cranks each election, no real problems. At high magnitude stv gives the same results as list-PR, anyway.

LLMs and equivalent only work locally, there's no overall view.

Power demand growth on LLMs seems to be from trying to make "local" big enough to encompass the entire project: obviously doomed, but if wasting another 0.1tn gets you another job before your boss asks why you wasted the first 0.9tn...

I've said this before, but the heart of "professionalism" is telling your client "no" if they want you to lie to the court or skimp on the reinforcing or ignore fraud or machine-gun shipwreaked mariners. You can't "follow presumtively legal orders" and be professional, you have to personally judge.

This probably isn't what you want to hear but if 175 is the going rate for an interestingly collectable saddle then that sounds pretty doable at least on the cash cost side.

[me I want to collect anchors, but I very much don't have the space]