zeke5123a
1d ago
Also true. I do wonder if long term that is bad for the Igbo. Assuming in 200 years there is still an economic return to hard work and intelligence do you short circuit selection pressure when the economic return is provided regardless of hard work and intelligence?
zeke5123a
1d ago
There are populations in Africa that are pretty smart. It is an oversimplification to talk about blacks. There are too many different populations.
zeke5123a
1d ago
What I can’t tell is whether you are sneering because you think ethnostates are bad or good.
zeke5123a
1d ago
If you come to someone’s house for a nice dinner party, you take your shoes off? That’s so foreign to me.
zeke5123a
1d ago
And alien abductions, of course. But you know maybe people are into that.
zeke5123a
1d ago
I just think in the main where it isn’t obviously dirty one way or the other, fretting about dirtiness is obsessive.
zeke5123a
1d ago
That level of aversion to any dirt seems wild to me. What about socks? How do I as a guest know your floors are to that level of clean?
zeke5123a
2d ago
I’m coming from the perspective of footwear as being formal. So I wouldn’t still expect your footwear when coming over for a social call to be muddy or dirty in the first place.
zeke5123a
2d ago
I find it (1) odd for anyone to ask you to remove your shoes and (2) incredibly uncouth to put up any pushback about removing shoes if asked.
zeke5123a
4d ago
And putting aside conflicting statutes, on what basis would it be a lawful arrest? Mamdani cites ICC. The ICC is not controlling in the U.S.; in fact the opposite (we have a provision to invade The Hague). So that dog doesn’t hunt. What is the NYC law he could enforce that isnt preempted by federal law?
And if there isn’t one, then what credible argument could Mamdani make re the arrest?
zeke5123a
7d ago
Making extended family geographically remote comes with numerous costs (eg less socialization, lack of built in baby sitters, loss of safety nets, no informal matchmaking). This is one of those things that doesn’t show up in GDP but is a real cost.
zeke5123a
7d ago
There was also rank dishonesty re Kirk. There were people who called him a Nazi who at the same time said the murder was tragic. Which one was it?
zeke5123a
9d ago
I think you just run into network effects. It is hard to take on the incumbent because of network effects even if your replacement is better.
zeke5123a
9d ago
I’m pretty right wing but I find a little of Marx’s writings interesting. For example, I think he is right on the alienation of labor. Doesn’t mean his solution makes sense.
zeke5123a
10d ago
It’s amazing how many popular songs were actually written by Dylan. Dude has no competition.
zeke5123a
10d ago
I actually think Sailer would include white people (women specifically) that have a large out group favorable bias as consistent with dem racial spoils
zeke5123a
12d ago
Nah — the point is zoning is top down with one body deciding everything. Restrictive deeds would be more de centralized so you end up with a lot more actual diversity in land use while maintaining the ability to minimize conflicts.
zeke5123a
12d ago
I know the most hardcore anti-transers will say the only thing that matters is your birth sex.
Are you sure that is the position of the most hardcore? Might be the plurality position.
zeke5123a
12d ago
Zoning law is kind of a shitty version of common law nuisance. You won’t find defending zoning qua zoning. But it is an out growth of common law nuisance and is getting at something inherently different than rent control (ie what do you when rights are incompatible). Thus comparing the two is a category error.
FWIW, I would get rid of zoning and permit restrictive deeds including racial.
zeke5123a
12d ago
Depends on what you mean by property rights. You bring up nuisance but that really involves a situation of conflicting property rights. A wants to use its property for X which conflicts with how B wants to use its property. How do you solve that? Well the law of nuisance. Or if you like law and Econ read The Problem of Social Costs by Coase.
That is fundamentally a different kind of regulation compared to rent control. In the first, there is a conflict in property rights. In the second, there is no conflict.
How do you explain a positive “popcorn gap?”
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