Joel3102

I couldn't agree more. Whilst fully onboard with the ideals of stage green, as somebody who's studied economics and knows finance, some of the stuff I'm reading with regards to policy prescriptions is super cringe.... This is part of the reason why progressives are deemed economically illiterate, because without grounding your higher ideals in real economic analysis, you're opening up yourself to picked apart by simplistic ideas that might not actually work. A smart and intelligent leftward shift is what is needed. For example rent control or protectionist policies. They sound good on the surface, but no serious economists support them (even left ones) because they simply don't work and do more harm than good.

I was extremely shy in high school, so when I got to uni I decided to join a lot of the party clubs/committees etc and get involved in campus culture (no frats in Australia but similar shit). A bit like Aurum, it was one of the best decision I ever made. Having been so introverted in high school I was able to loosen up and expand my confidence and social skills massively. Yes, there’s was a lot of bullshit like drinking and all that, but I got it out of my system during the years of 18-21 and now I don’t really feel like I missed out. I felt like I surpassed many of my high school friends in confidence despite my being more shy than they were in school. Having said that of course the activities were a distraction from other things so it’s good not to get too caught up in that for too long. Weigh up the costs and benefits I think, perhaps there’s something else you could join to allow you to become more social without all the low consciousness activities.

You choose to not identity as left wing but however if most of your positions are left wing then....you’re left wing lol

Just discovered a pretty small channel above. Very reasonable takes I think, about how all these guys need to be more pragmatic

Kyle has particularly gotten a bit stale and formulaic. I know what his take exactly will be usually from the title

@Leo Gura Yeah there seems to be a strain of spiritual people that have strange takes on politics. For example, see below self help/spiritual teacher endorsing conspiracies about election fraud

What’s your source for this? I think you may be confused, as Hawkins died in 2012 long before Shapiro was on the scene

Yeah listening to the podcast he’s definitely quite a sophisticated thinker. So is the Charisma on Command guy

@Leo Gura would you classify Weinstein as yellow? I know the left aren’t big fans of him

Yeah that one struck me as most problematic. Surplus savings in the economy generally becomes investment which are used as either debt or equity in the economy. By not allowing surplus savings to go back into the economy via equity, the only options would be cash (which is eroded by inflation), reinvesting back into your own company that you work at (which pools all your risk into one basket) or property (wouldn't make sense if everyone was investing in property). A lot of completely regular people are able to grow their wealth significantly over their life by investing a portion of their savings into a broad sample of the overall market. If your company (or worker owned co-cop) goes bust, you're kinda screwed.

@datamonster Exactly true. There isn’t a 10 year period in modern history where returns on an overall sample of the market would lose you money, as in the long run it will always provide returns. So it would be foolish to carry much more cash than you need for a rainy day.

I don’t think that’s true. Super rich people have most of their wealth in either equity or property. It’s actually less risky in the long run not to have all all your wealth in cash because it won’t grow and will be eroded by inflation, unlike other asset classes. Of course as you get older you’ll want more cash because your time horizon is smaller.

@Leo Gura Interesting idea. I guess I like to enquire how these ideas that sound nice would actually work in practice. A lot of cash not doing much.

Here we have a Medicare levy for everyone of 2% of your income, seems to work pretty well. although it doesn’t cover for example dentistry, so you’re screwed if you’re really poor in that area still

@Leo Gura But my point is that progressives should be willing to compromise to a public option for now, as many Western countries still have a much better system that is a hybrid. Rather than follow Jimmy Dore or Kulinski’s advice and spend all your political capital something which won’t get passed

I don’t entirely disagree that all employees could get some stock or dividends to share in the profit. But if your life savings are invested in one stock and it crashes you’re kinda fucked....the good thing about a 401k diversified portfolio is it mitigates for risk

Have you thought through the economic implications of this? A blanket ban on public investment would crash the economy. And where are people supposed their extra savings for retirement..?

That’s extremely radical. How are companies supposed to raise capital then? Also disallowing average people to make investments if they wish

Watching from Australia it’s a little bizarre seeing progressives die on the hill of Medicare for all completely replacing private health insurance. We have Medicare for all here but private health is still very prominent. Most people support a public option in the US and it would still be universal coverage, so why not move to that for now? Why insist on only moving from the furthest right healthcare in the developed world to the further left (abolishing private health all together)?

I use Onenote on my Mac just fine. however I had to do some digging to find the 2016 version before it became shittier. Try this link which worked for me https://onenote.uservoice.com/forums/327165-onenote-for-mac/suggestions/19829044-solution-to-getting-older-version-of-onenote-with If you prefer this version just make sure you have auto update turned off

@Hello from Russia DP is a real disorder, don’t confuse it with enlightenment. It’s a dissociative disorder caused by anxiety, don’t confuse the two

Weed and psychedelics are some of the most common triggers for DP, so doubt it

Good watch

JLP is so bad that he’s good

He’s like Vaush but more grounded and less ideological