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Indeed. Communist societies build less, and somehow also pollute more.

The left has been in control of the public sector in California for approximately forever.

OK Thanos

The average time horizon for anyone with young kids is 80+ years.

This is an odd time to attack Amazon?

It's a problem that strongly correlates to the cities richest in high-income knowledge-intensive jobs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_choice

You'll never guess what happens next.

Was he right?

I have a harder time believing this after 2016.

"Being able to live near high-income jobs is the most direct path to the middle class in America." 100%

A bunch are changing in real time right now. For example, telemedicine being full legalized and paid by government insurance, same as in person doctor visits.

Well put!

The system is working great except there isn't enough censorship?

Are bugs discovered and corrected faster today in law or in code?

See also https://www.amazon.com/Justice-Matters-Rescuing-system-twent...

Most of the companies we fund are trying to go disrupt someone else's "dominant market position".

Fortunately, VCs have no regulatory protection whatsoever. Build a better way to finance innovation!

"When we were trying to think about what the future could look like, we scouted and examined a bunch of areas, and that's how we came to Singapore. There's nowhere that looks like Singapore; it's absolutely beautiful on a purely aesthetic level. And it's incredibly different from modernism in other cities, even the lines of it; when you look out of the window (of The Esplanade Theatre), you have these, linear lines, but it's cross cut by these curving rows, which on film always looks so beautiful. There's a different texture to everything and the bounce from the water off of the glass there. The other thing that’s really interesting is the incorporation of nature.

Singapore has done this incredible job of integrating nature into the city. We're staying in the Parkroyal on Pickering and there's greenery everywhere, just crawling up there. There’s a kind of beauty to a skyscraper."

https://sg.style.yahoo.com/interview-westworld-creator-lisa-...

Compare, as another example, the price curve for LASIK laser eye surgery which is purchased out of pocket, to the price curve for every surgical procedure reimbursed by insurance.

Build grid scale batteries too!

What's happened to the price of Las Vegas real estate since Tony bought his section?

Yes, exactly.

Harvard is subsidized by the federal government and the American taxpayer several ways. It benefits from federal student loan programs. It receives federal research grants. It is allowed to be a tax-exempt institution. And it is allowed to own a tax-exempt endowment. Normal private institutions in America have none of those.

In that case, we can replace degrees with an IQ test and a personality test and call it a day. Hmmmmmm...

Anyone who builds a new product is creating supply ahead of demand.

Yes! Law = code. Law should be turned into code, and made available to everyone. A great current attempt is https://donotpay.com/

Thanks, agree, great book. I think of it as "Why Nations Succeed" instead. Inclusive institutions = economic generativity = non-zero sum. A more philosophical version is https://www.amazon.com/Finite-Infinite-Games-James-Carse-ebo...

Nicholas is a British economist:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Stern,_Baron_Stern_of...

A somewhat stronger formulation of the same idea is from David Friedman: "People do things for other people for three reasons: love, money, or force."

Let's build what we need to make remote work fully practical and available to many more people!