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Obama and Bill Clinton are the same person now?

Where T<1 is the tax rate, spending X on a write-off allows you to avoid paying X*T in tax. But you still end up with X(1-T) less money in the end.

GiveDirectly is an extremely transparent organization and there's nothing secret about the experience of people who have taken money from them in the past. For them to suddenly start demanding organs or labor or votes or whatever it is you are worried about would be way out of character and not in the best interests of the continued existence of the organization. This behavior would not by tolerated by GiveDirectly's unusually high-minded and picky donors.

There are plenty of places you can live in a tent or RV if you don't care about being near jobs.

https://www.landcentury.com/under-1000-land-deals/

Though some local governments will go after you for zoning violations, check first.

What inflation?

>I can think of no reason why Oracle would decide to donate the OOo project to the Apache foundation other than to generate confusion in the marketplace and deflect criticism.

For a tax break? No, those assets have already been written off as R&D. Maybe it's just for the PR. I cannot conceive of Larry Ellison doing anything out of altruism.

Trump provided a list of conservative legal figures he might nominate - whether or not Clinton's choices would be ideal, progressives should find them better than Trump's.

To give a concrete example, the current deadlock has stopped Obama's deferred action immigration program, affecting the status of millions of immigrants. It seems likely a Clinton appointee would flip that result, while a Trump appointee would not.

Given the millions of unemployed Americans, it seems this is not true for at least some occupations.

Wal-Mart greeters can be wonderful people and I'm not saying they aren't valuable as humans. But in labor market terms, there is clearly not a shortage of them.

It blows my mind that any applicant gives negative feedback to the company before finding out of they got an offer. Even if they hated the interview and would never want to work there, an offer is still fodder to get a better offer somewhere else. Being positive is a strictly dominant strategy before an offer is made.