POTUS Election '24...you heard it here first!
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In Freakonomics 605 What do people do all day? They talk to a lady who describes what people do at their jobs and she describes watching a large airplane get assembled. It sparked my imagination. I’d love to see that operation and the sheer size of the facility.
Maybe it's not anymore, but if memory serves the Boeing assembly line in
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The world is a kaleidoscope of human-made wonders, from towering skyscrapers to sprawling developments. Some of the largest buildings were unsurprisingly built to house massive aircraft and NASA spaceships, but there are some other mammoth-sized buildings that have broken astonishing records for far
I believe that is the location described in the podcast.Maybe it's not anymore, but if memory serves the Boeing assembly line inRentonEverett was the largest single building on earth.
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.10 Largest Buildings in the World
The world is a kaleidoscope of human-made wonders, from towering skyscrapers to sprawling developments. Some of the largest buildings were unsurprisingly built to house massive aircraft and NASA spaceships, but there are some other mammoth-sized buildings that have broken astonishing records for farwww.touropia.com
Biggest building in the world doesn't need heat - the 15k people keep it warm enough.
But jerbs! And Bidenomics, which Harris is now responsible for!
Harrisnomics?
Kamalanomics?
Devinomics?
Economists had expected U.S. employers to have added about 150,000 jobs in September. Instead, they created more than a quarter-million jobs last month, while the unemployment rate fell to 4.1%, according to a report Friday from the Labor Department.
Harrisnomics?
Kamalanomics?
Devinomics?
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I’m convinced post-WW2 era was a perfect storm of economics for the USA and we’ve been chasing that anomaly since and holding it up as a model standard we need to improve upon, rather than accepting that there will be some regression to the mean. I really should do my own research to back up my feelings on this.
Manufacturing technology was ramping up and we were seeing tremendous economies of scale. The rest of the industrialized world was dealing with repairing damage to their homeland and infrastructure that the US didn’t have to manage, giving us a head start in the global economy. Women began entering the workforce creating two-income households. TV and radio and telephone technology were expanding enabling mass communication in ways never before seen. There were significant and unregulated resources available for development and profit. An economy where nobody has a TV and households are hungry to buy their first TV is going to look a lot different from an economy where a household has multiple screens and you have to convince consumers they really need a few more FPS and pixels.
As time has passed, that development has become normalized and standardized and regulated. And the rest of the world has caught up, if not surpassed the US in manufacturing and distribution of products.
Also worth noting that after WWII the United States and Canada were the only industrialized countries that weren't utterly destroyed and hadn't had millions of civilian casualties. The UK outside of London wasn't too bad, but I assume thinking beans and toast was high cuisine left them with low energy.
We had no competition.
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Per google’s AI results.
Seems plausible based on a Wikipedia chart and skimming a few other result. But it’s probably based on some Reddit troll posts about “homeownership” meaning something else.
Seems plausible based on a Wikipedia chart and skimming a few other result. But it’s probably based on some Reddit troll posts about “homeownership” meaning something else.
I was basing that on civilian casualties, for some reason I thought it was 20K, not the actual 70K. But still only about a days work for US Bomber Command.
Like a junkie chasing their first high.
Are you ready for another Bush v. Gore? The Supreme Court is.
Trump could win it all, thanks to just five votes.
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Trump may have cornered the market on middle-class and working-class racists. But Harris has proposed only the weakest tea for the millions who are not ideologically committed and looking for economic relief.
There is going to be so much legislative and judicial fuckery by the time this election is over.Are you ready for another Bush v. Gore? The Supreme Court is.
Trump could win it all, thanks to just five votes.
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Yes. We will never return to manufacturing during WWII or immediately post. Now our businesses want to be multinationals and sell in markets outside of the US. They also have to so we can remain competitive as far as technology. But emerging nations that are industrializing will always be able to leverage labor and manufacturing far more cheaply than we can. It’s development of technology, processes, etc. where our real advantage is, but you basically piss that away when you try to raise tariffs to far, countries embargo our crap in return or impose penalties on our companies operating overseas, now ford cant sell and compete against bmw, renault, toyota, etc, so the benefit of economy of scale is diminished and ford has less incentive to produce great stuff, since now its more of a captive audience, unless you can afford way more money for something foreign. Its basically showing zero knowledge of how economies interact and what benefits our population.
So, home ownership is down .04% in 24 years?
Seems fairly stable.
The two doors down from me retired on disability union plumber who rails against any sort of social safety nets.
We don't talk much...
Missing: a shot of the trump 24/maga bullshit wrap covering the hood of his truck.
We don't talk much...
Missing: a shot of the trump 24/maga bullshit wrap covering the hood of his truck.
Looks like 90% might be a bit high.
Also looks like Profits have climbed based on drivers other than the falling tax rate. While lower taxes help, they haven't been the driving force.
Income tax seems to have stayed constant with payroll tax taking up the difference from decreases in corporate tax.
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Freedom. Freedom to treat other people like shit. Freedom to force religion on you. Freedom to do anything as long as you get away with it. Freedom to claim that if you cant do these things you are a victim.
90% was a rate for a fairly high bracket. I searched for the inflation adjusted amount in current dollars but was too lazy to dig deep enough.
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iirc that was for $1mm income in then-present dollars, so on the order of $4mm/yr income these days
and it'd be very healthy to reinstate such punitive rates on the CEOs of the world. the CEO:worker compensation ratios in this country are just absurd, untied from any possible contribution they may have to productivity at all. Japan is much more sane.
and it'd be very healthy to reinstate such punitive rates on the CEOs of the world. the CEO:worker compensation ratios in this country are just absurd, untied from any possible contribution they may have to productivity at all. Japan is much more sane.
I was listening to this podcast and thinking about issues being noted here that drive people’s voting habits. I can’t help but think the divide between urban and rural life is a huge part of the divide and the traditions and culture of the past as each evolved have shaped the mindsets of modern voters (consciously or by exposure). Not unlike the religious splits in the chart I posted previously
Let’s talk about the notion of scarcity a bit, but let’s bring it into at least the 19th and then 20th and 21st centuries. In chapter 12 of your book, which is called — it’s a good title, “Malady of Infinite Aspiration” — you write, “For as long as people have congregated in cities, their ambitions have been molded by a different kind of scarcity from that which shapes those of subsistence farmers, a form of scarcity articulated in the language of aspiration, jealousy, and desire rather than of absolute need. And for the most part,” you write, “this kind of relative scarcity is the spur to work long hours, to climb the social ladder, and to keep up with the Joneses.”
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SUZMAN: I suppose the way to make sense of it is to get a sense of what came before it, or the difference between cities and countryside, first of all. Everybody in rural areas was involved in effectively creating, generating, and acquiring the energy we needed to live, grow, and reproduce. That was what they spent their working lives on. Within cities, by contrast, people spent their energy and time using that energy provided by people in the countryside. The move to cities was this massive act of liberation in a sense. People were suddenly no longer tied to the process of securing the energy they needed to feed themselves, to reproduce. And it resulted in this extraordinary proliferation of jobs. It also transformed the way people constituted value, and saw themselves in relation to other people.
What Do People Do All Day? - Freakonomics
What Do People Do All Day? - Freakonomics
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SUZMAN: I suppose the way to make sense of it is to get a sense of what came before it, or the difference between cities and countryside, first of all. Everybody in rural areas was involved in effectively creating, generating, and acquiring the energy we needed to live, grow, and reproduce. That was what they spent their working lives on. Within cities, by contrast, people spent their energy and time using that energy provided by people in the countryside. The move to cities was this massive act of liberation in a sense. People were suddenly no longer tied to the process of securing the energy they needed to feed themselves, to reproduce. And it resulted in this extraordinary proliferation of jobs. It also transformed the way people constituted value, and saw themselves in relation to other people.