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Anywhere on Mercer Island is great for the other factors that you are looking for, but you would have to be flexible on price/age etc. But I would advise looking in the late spring, because that is when the most houses on the Eastside are on the ma…
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Seems that unions aren't a panacea after all. in 2006, German doctors voted to go on strike because of what they are paid under socialized medicine. "Estimates of hospital doctors' average annual earnings in 2002 ranged from $35,000 to $56,000 in…
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"Chinese workers are not allowed to form a real, independent trade union and, therefore, they have no power to negotiate with their employers," said Lucy Lu, CNTAC's spokeswoman in Beijing. In the US, we have right to work states. Washington …
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Today in China, people work 60+ hours a week for peanuts. It's not because they don't have technology; they do. It's mostly because people are prevented from organizing to break the stranglehold that the gov't and the wealthy there have on them. …
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But the legalization of unions keeps workers (union and non-union alike) from having to work 60+ hours a week for peanuts. Technological improvements wouldn't have changed that. When productivity was much lower, it required 60 hours of work f…
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You're guessing. Read some history. Life was more difficult because people were working 60+ hours a week for peanuts while the company owners were mega-rich. Technological improvements raised productivity so that more wealth could be produced…
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You seem to have a poor sense of history. Take a look at what life was like for the typical worker before the advent of unions. Yes, life was much more difficult a century ago and beyond. I credit the technological revolution that brought use…
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So, in other words, there is in fact not that much correlation between how much money you have and how "good" your life is. If I were inclined to argue for socialism, evidence like this is very powerful. It does not support more capitalism unless yo…
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I can't tell where that data came from, so it is meaningless. Here is a source that explains it numbers. http://www.economist.com/media/pdf/QUALITY_OF_LIFE.pdf They rank the US as #13. However, if you go to the bottom, you see that the US b…
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That's because poorness is due largely to corruption and/or dictatorship, problems that everyone working more don't solve. I very much agree. That's why I am so opposed to socialism, because it is so well suited to having a dictator siphoning…
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How is it better to be highly innovative and work hard for 30+ years, paying $hundreds monthly for premium health insurance, yet still be able to lose everything, even $millions, if you have a health issue? How is it better for hard workers to pay $…
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There are many ways to have socialism while still having competition. From the perspective of a customer, where transportation and other frictional costs are low, that is true. However, it is much more difficult for a person to move to a diff…
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Communism is simply when socialism is imposed by militaristic expansion. Theoretical communism is of interest only to other communists.
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There's a fallacy implied here, which is that you can't have material benefits without working hard. You can, when the economy is not geared toward making the rich richer at the expense of everyone else. There is a very small amount of duplic…
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I don't want my kid to work harder/smarter to survive, when greater cooperation and less capitalism works far better. We are in complete agreement that if your priority is to retire on a government pension, without having to work hard, produc…
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The mortality rate in other westernized countries is approximately 1/3 that of the United States. http://www.driveandstayalive.com/info%2 ... a-2004.htm That is the per capita-rate of accident fatalities, which obviously is going to be highe…
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I am not an economist, but is there an actual economic bubble theory? http://technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24023/
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We made another offer on a house fresh on the market. This house was more than we had dreamed we could get in-city (both yard and view), so we made a full price offer. It was declined (apparently for personal reasons). We heard it through the grape …
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The months of supply is so high in the $600K range that I think you can safely call their bluff, knowing that if it falls through you still have plenty to choose from, especially heading into the fall. I bought my current house with an escalator …
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but I worry needlessly. in a few months he will be installed again. drinking and chumming. somewhere. I hear government run health care is a good career to go in to.
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That makes no sense. If there were 100 old cars on the road, and now there are 100 new cars, it should be obvious we won't be needing quite so many new cars in the near future as we did 3 months ago. The alternative would have been 100 new ca…
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why does production have to increase? the destroyed cars have already been replaced from inventory. Production was ahead of demand. that is kind of the point of the program, isn't it? All the articles I've read talk about tight inventories an…
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The borrowing demand forward meme doesn't work because the old cars were destroyed. Production has to increase to replace those. Now for the important issue, I'll see if I can find some video of test crashes of sub-compact refrigerators to li…
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http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/east_king/m ... 80397.html "Up for sale years ago, the property was first offered for $34.5 million, only to sell on June 25 for $15.675 million. Still, the $20 million haircut taken by the seller, Proctor Landing L…
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Smoot Hawley was being debated by the Senate through March, 1930. In May, 1930 Canada imposed retaliatory tariffs and by September many other countries did as well. 1028 economists signed a petition pleading with Hoover to veto the bill. There we…
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That's another reason manufacturers will be reluctant to invest in automatic control, even if it makes actuarial sense. These stories will circulate long after the problem was fixed. Meanwhile, so many people follow their GPS into ditches or into on…
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Everything else being equal, it's clear that my demand next year is siphoned off this year. It doesn't really matter what you do with the old car, I won't want a new one for several years. In your example, your car consumption was 0.1 cars/ye…
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The demand is not being compressed, because the cars traded in have to be destroyed. The people who would have been buying the traded in cars will have to buy a car that does not qualify, thus driving up the cost for those people, and that demand go…
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If only a small fragment of the market is interested in older cars then why do they command higher prices than new cars in so many instances? Because the supply is small for cars that have some nostalgia appeal for the people who want those m…
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"The average fuel efficiency of the US vehicle fleet has risen by just 3 miles per gallon since the days of the Ford Model T, and has barely shifted at all since 1991." http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1 ... del-t.html That's because peop…