but government is the problem, right?

[Sava]

and i aint even mad at 1 star rating

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[Captain ******* Kirk]

Consumption tax seems terribly regressive.

It's not hard to make it progressive; just give people cash handouts equal to the tax they would pay at a certain dollar amount of consumption (the poverty line, for example). Much more efficient and better at reducing wealth inequality than our current income tax system.

[Sava]

I don't care what the **** happens just as long as weed becomes legal

[Captain ******* Kirk]

If we ever (by some miracle) get a government sensible enough to reform entitlements and the tax code in a smart way, marijuana legalization can't be far behind.

[Sava]

so it's never happening?

[Captain ******* Kirk]

Not at the federal level, no.

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[Sava]

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[Aeson]

90% of people are either lazy or stupid. That's why there is wealth inequality. The other option is to reduce the incentives to not being lazy or stupid. And while stupidity is incurable, laziness is not.

False dichotomy.

Inequality is a relative thing, and there's no reason to suspect that the absolute values where they are now are necessary to maintain incentive. There are other types of incentive that demonstrably get harder work out of people than running up the score does. Just because a certain type of person is never affected by those incentives isn't necessarily a bad thing though ... but it does speak to whether or not incentive for incentive's sake is a good thing.

Laziness has much less to do with wealth inequality than who your parents were, where you were born, and with what genetic traits. (And level of laziness/hardwork tends to be a result of those things ... and always of causal factors ... anyways.)

In short ... The hardest working people in the world are in almost all cases the poorest (who aren't actively dying on a very short timetable).

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[giblets]

How did Krazyhorse present a "false dichotomy" when he clearly implied that not all people are stupid or lazy?

[Aeson]

How did Krazyhorse present a "false dichotomy" when he clearly implied that not all people are stupid or lazy?

"the other option"

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