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I have a 1st generation SE bought in 2017 and still haven't replaced my battery. It's life isn't great, but I can generally get through the day without charging.

I've thought of upgrading for the same reason as your mom though.

I love this post. Just the perfect amount of sarcasm to force readers to think for themselves.

Does this really effect anything? If it did you figure the economic statistics would show drastic changes starting round then.

Wait you don’t have an extra room to use as an office? What about in one of your other houses? One of them has got to have at least one empty room you could use right?

Lol. Did you even read what you linked. The government hired mercenaries and they were brutally evil. That must’ve been because the government doesn’t have enough power.

Let’s just say Amazon and the government are both equally evil. You get to pick one to have more power. Are you going to pick the one who has given us the wonderful invention called the dmv, or the one who will let me order whatever I want and get it to me in a reasonable time at a reasonable price. Amazon does a better job at serving the populace than the government does. They both act like rulers, but at least one gives you something worthwhile for it.

The article brings up that for most a home office is a luxury.

And i thought how is that possible, just use some extra room in your house.

Then I remembered having a house and an extra room might be an easy thing to attain as a software developer, but that is only true because I don’t live in the Bay Area or Seattle.

Yet in those areas you might have more fun on weekends.

Just to see, I looked at prices for a round trip ticket from the pacific northwest to the bay, and how much a 3 night stay in a hotel would cost. I was able to find a non stop flight and a cheap hotel for $200 (which seems crazy to me).

So if I could find those deals every other week I could spend bout $1000 (food and Uber included) a month and get to spend six days a month in the Bay Area.

My mortgage is like $1900 a month for 4 bed 2 bath 2300 sq ft on an acre and a 15 minute ride to the airport.

I feel like if I did that and spent $2900 a month combined for my trips and mortgage id have both a good home office and would still get to work once every two weeks on a Friday in the office and enjoy awesome SF food plenty frequently enough while probably paying less then what most people in SF pay just for rent.

Anyone consider this? (I have a wife and kids so biweekly trips would be a “not gonna happen” for me)

I love the space trilogy. Out of the silent planet helped me think of what the “heavens” are. I’d definitely recommend them, though I love thinking of t he symbolic nature of things.

> In a way, spacetime itself is therefore the aether.

This somehow reminds me of C.S. Lewis’s “Out of the Silent Planet”, where the narrator says regarding the protagonist

“He wondered how he could ever have thought of planets, even on Earth, as islands of life and reality floating in a deadly void. Now, with a certainty which never after deserted him, he saw the planets - the 'earths' he called them in his thought - as mere holes or gaps in the living heaven - excluded and rejected wastes of heavy matter and murky air, formed not by addition to, but by subtraction from, the surrounding brightness.”

What I figure is the printed money is given to people to buy things. It’s given to him who saved/inherited his money and could’ve bought that thing anyways, and to him who didn’t save/inherit his money and couldn’t. The seller of that thing now has two people competing for it so he can mark up the price further. He makes profit because he owns the capital, the non-saver or non inheritor, gets a good he couldn’t otherwise afford, and the saver is stuck paying a higher price. That saver/inheritor who doesn’t own assets but only has his labor to sell, or his inheritance to spend, is effectively having some of his money taken from him and given to the non-saver and the rich man with capital.

So at what point would printing trillions of dollars have an effect? If we just gave everyone 10k a month, would inflation occur then?

This seems counterintuitive to me if we assume a causal relationship. I’d imagine lessening religious faith would lessen ideological intensity. Then again when it was assumed most people were “religious”, it meant there was some higher thing than ourselves that we shared we could unify on. God however you take him, is at least a symbol of something above us, bigger than individuals, of an immaterial nature.

With the annihilation of God in the public discourse, we have to find something else bigger than ourselves that we can unify around on, and the ideological intensity maybe stems from arguing what that higher thing is. Is it science, love, security, pleasure, freedom? Different people will take on an ideology of some sort, and the intensity will because one groups higher thing they think is higher than another’s. God was the trump card for highest before, but now, I’m not sure what is for most people.

This seems counterintuitive to me if we assume a causal relationship. I’d imagine lessening religious faith would lessen ideological intensity. Then again when it was assumed most people were “religious”, it meant there was some higher thing than ourselves that we shared we could unify on. God however you take him, is at least a symbol of something above us, bigger than individuals, of an immaterial nature.

With the annihilation of God in the public discourse, we have to find something else bigger than ourselves that we can unify around on, and the ideological intensity maybe stems from arguing what that higher thing is. Is it science, love, security, pleasure, freedom? Different people will take on an ideology of some sort, and the intensity will because one groups higher thing they think is higher than another’s. God was the trump card for highest before, but now, I’m not sure.

These questions and some of the percentages really makes me wish I could see what other people think average is.

It would be interesting to see how often those who are actually less than average said they were more and vice versa.

Could it also be possible that it is experiencing well being that causes you to have a higher income?

Like let’s say I have a great marriage, good well behaved kids, lots of close friends, so I have maybe a network of people I can turn to, I have people to help me when I need emotional support etc, and having these things not only allows me to experience well being but then makes it easier to get and keep higher paying jobs?

To be fair I think it just goes both ways, but I really hope people don’t think more income is a magic solution for peoples’ problems leading to their happiness. I think the hard work it might take for a low income earner to get a higher income, is part of what also increases their well being.

(Take everything I say with a grain of salt because I haven’t had money problems for almost my entire life)

I’d say quoting Krugman is doing exactly what the ancestor comment said

> and yet we will continue to believe the people making the incorrect predictions, especially when they reinforce our worldview.

I take Krugman’s advice with a grain of salt. In 2002 his suggestion was

“To fight this recession the Fed needs…soaring household spending to offset moribund business investment. [So] Alan Greenspan needs to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble.”

I wouldn’t care but he was the type of thinker who caused people to say Ron Paul was a kook, who warned that the housing bubble was going to burst a couple years before it happened.

Asset inflation is most definitely occurring due to the increase in monetary supply. If I’m sitting in 100k in capital that I’ve saved by being frugal over the last 5 years, it is effectively becoming less and less valuable so I’m forced to spend it on some kind of asset not in hopes that the asset becomes more valuable but because my 100k is becoming less valuable.

To be fair there is much increase in home prices not due to inflation and more due to increased demand with the changes covid brought on.

And here is the legal crime that it brings about, I bought my current house with only 5% down for 350k and it would probably sell now for 390k, meaning my 20k of my frugally saved capital will have a 100% return in one year. You could argue if it lost 10% I would lose 100% of my invested capital but I bought right after I saw Trump turn on the printing presses so I was 99% sure this wouldn’t be like me buying a condo at the end of 2007.... shudder