When the topic of Palo Alto came up, ex-Soviets seemed to think that's where Gorbachev lived.
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$0 -> $16
Nissan Versa at $15.5k: https://www.nissanusa.com/vehicles/cars/versa-sedan.html
Kia Rio and Hyundai Accent aren't too far off at $16.5k: https://www.kia.com/us/en/rio
Before, society grew with the average working age person only needing to half support an elderly retiree. Now, that same working age person will need to support more than 2 elderly retirees themselves, over 4 times the resources.
Has it occurred to people that, maybe, modern fertility is a tragedy of the commons? If everyone chooses to act in their own interest, society is worse off than collectively pressuring to have more kids? Ideally, that would look like major subsidies and benefits to parents to account for the extra work they are doing for society.
I fear if nothing else changes, developed countries are dysgenically wiping themselves off the planet, and the traditionally oppressive-to-women societies will evolutionarily outlast us.
At this rate, there will only be 3m South Koreans in 3 generations. I don't see how you expect a country to survive that decline. In 1960, Pakistan had 45m people compared to South Korea's 25m. Now, Pakistan is forecasted to reach 450m in our lifetime as South Korea implodes. That looks like our future.
Guess I need to (b), get more internet cred, and actually branch out to internet people rather than familiar territory.
Do you think this is realistic getting access to these just by living in the Bay? I don't think so.
This is the same flawed argument that US Republicans use on why Trump couldn't have gotten 46.9% of the 2020 popular vote, but he did, and is thus, unpopular.
That is when a Protestant might say, "Well it is clear and perfect in it's [Protestant / sola fide] meaning. And that the billions of other Christians, try as extremely hard as they may, with millions spending immense portions of their live trying to ascertain what God meant for them, have been led astray for all of time."
> For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. — John 3:16 (NIV)
That is your choice of a "very clear meaning"?! Ok, then do you believe man goes to heaven through faith alone, or by faith and actions that prove their faith?
Because a billion Protestants would say that the verse tells you it is by faith alone, and a billion Catholics will quote James 2 20:24 in saying that faith without works is useless:
"You foolish person, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless? 21 Was not our father Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? 22 You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did. 23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend. 24 You see that a person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith alone."
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(2) Land value can appreciate while housing prices dramatically fall when the land is able to be better utilized according to (housing) demand.
What isn't a serious argument is you offering no rebuttal except "Please stop." Your quip about externalities is tangential; externalities should be accounted for a properly functioning market. Nowhere did I make a contrary claim.
'The nation that...can still be held least responsible for the outbreak of the war is France. This is so even if we bear in mind all the revisions of historical judgments, and all the revisions of these revisions, to which we have now been treated....The French, in 1914, entered the war because they had no alternative. The Germans had attacked them. History can be very simple at times.[1]'"
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Remak
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_entry_into_World_War_I#...
Both of these examples are some of the farthest things from free markets. Try to build an apartment complex and run a medical service on the ground floor. Them being so far from free markets is the reason they're so expensive.
That's the problem. Housing has been regulatory captured. Abundant housing contruction due to a free market would allow people to live in dwellings at a slim margin above mass construction. Houston is still $270k homes while adding 20k people a year.