Message from @sɪᴅɪsɴᴏᴛʜᴇʀᴇ
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Let's have a televized lottery for every Congressman's name. 11 names drawn to die, 60 to be wounded
How about no
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Congresspeople aren’t the cause of the problem, it’s the system and the people the system represents
(actually, some of it is the congresspeople)
Why not set an example?
Actions have consequences.
I personally believe congressional salaries should be lowered
170k base? endorsements? donations? books? it's too much
not to mention benefits and the fact that their staff are paid separately from their salary
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Maybe, yeah, plus the whole election process takes an insane amount of time and money which makes them inefficient
Why not just abolish congress?
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full autocrat
@wahx mobility is irrelevant
There’s many other factors that determine this it’s not worth looking at
Such as intervention, mentality
how is it calculated
wjat does it mean
intergeneration earnings are very elastic = bad ?
In a society with equal opportunity, a father's income would have no relation to that of his son (a correlation of 0). On the other hand, a country where jobs and income transition from one generation to the next would have a correlation of 1.
i think if it was 0 it would be bad, but if it's 1.0 it's also bad
probably being somewhere in the middle is good
you want to some degree have the success of the father to influence greater opportunities for the son, say, but you also want to give opportunities to other people
there's a balance between these two imo
at 0.0, intergenerational family business would cease to exist, and death/estate tax would be 100%, that is socialism
1.0 is obviously bad as well
I mean moving up classes here is irrelevant to the American dream
If almost every class can afford the dream
Then no point moving up
But what’s killed the American dream is socialism, the intervention by the state into the economy
The 2nd chart is economic freedom
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