Vaccines aren’t perfect, and the inaction of others can cause extreme adverse impacts on everyone due to total vaccination rate falling below herd immunity levels.
It is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to predict what new information can be derived from the combination of different datasets collected from your devices.
Free public roads and highways? Free public parking? Good, normal, should be encouraged. Add a lane or two to the highway? Always a good idea! (hint: it never is)
Free public transit? KILL IT WITH FIRE!!! It will never work (those places it did are aberrations)
Go look up:
1. Jevons paradox (induced demand): More road capacity → more traffic.
2. Marchetti’s constant (30-minute city): Average commute time is stable; faster modes → sprawl.
3. Downs–Thomson paradox (transit sets highway speed): Car speeds improve only if transit gets better.
4. Braess’s paradox (network effect): Adding a new road can worsen traffic for everyone.
It’s a commitment device: if the only way you’ll stay out of jail is if Trump is elected, you do anything you can, break any laws, whatever, to get Trump elected.
Also, what dumbass is gonna drop a million on this?
Literally the CIO of a $20b/year ARR company said to me: “I was gonna send my kids to school in the US. Now? Never in a million years. Even I won’t set foot there.“
You can’t win in the global economy AND nativist white supremacist politics at the same time.
Yes: they reinvested rather than pocketed revenue.
Anyway, if did the research, you’d see the effective tax rate for the top income earners in US was 40% back then. Substantially higher than it is today.
And that substantially larger portions of revenue were reinvested rather than recognized as profit: high taxes, oddly enough, incentivize investment.
Do the math yourself: $1m in profit, 30% tax rate vs 1% tax rate: which rate incentivizes you to reinvest?
Duverger’s law: first past the post results in two party system.
Any vote that is not proactively for the major party that is the closest to your political beliefs is effectively a vote for the major party least aligned.
It’s just like taxes.