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Anybody want to meet in Taipei early Jan (1/1-12) to chat? May be a long shot because I don’t know anyone in TW—but please DM if you want to chat or know someone who does
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Wage growth is hot, hot, hot. There’s a lot more room to tighten with a tight labor market. https://i.imgur.com/Fc8Ku6r.jpg
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We are not out of the woods yet; we may have just walked in. Inflation is becoming increasingly more broad-based and sticky: both in goods/services and wages. There may be more pain ahead for longer. Please be careful. https://i.imgur.com/G8efuOt.jpg
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I don't understand why crypto for remittances hasn't been a success. Can someone explain? It seems like a natural solution to a painful problem, yet it hasn't really gotten traction, even over many years. Why? Network effects of MTOs? Regulatory hurdles? Crypto seems complex? https://i.imgur.com/D5Tb7eK.png
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This is a great point. However, people do create links for Google, so even though usage has switched to Google instead of links, so has creation
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“The more personal and introspective a work of art is, the more universal it becomes.”
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People just want safety and a safety net.
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Respect
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Currently using a Lelit which is more aesthetically pleasing.
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I dig Gaggia machines. The Gaggia Baby worked for me pretty great.
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Read more here: https://www.zaneausten.com/p/cities-that-pay-your-rent
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By driving down costs and earning a real and reasonable yield on assets, a country could pay for its citizens basic living costs in perpetuity. The bottom two levels of Maslow’s hierarchy: ✅ We’re working on the love part. We’re thinking about robots, but aren’t quite sure yet. https://i.imgur.com/0M7UK9U.j
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An LVT is a Land Value Tax, a tax thought to keep housing prices low, which is a multiplicative cost basis in the economy, and also not induce extra economic drag. A SWF is a Sovereign Wealth Fund, a fund that invests on behalf of a nation state and its citizens.
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That means different things to different people. To me, it means safety and a safety net. What if your country could pay your rent? And utilities? And food, water, transportation? How is this possible? LVTs and SWFs.
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So we must build alternatives. Start with safe neighborhoods, then safe cities, and safe countries. Then use the enormous chance we’ve been given to help our citizens reopen the frontier. The efficient frontier. The best possible country we can build.
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People don’t move because one city is slightly better. They move because they can’t bear crime-ridden legacy cities and you can deliver a beacon of safety in an sea of chaos. Unfortunately, I don’t see the majority of existing countries getting any better.
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The thing that people might not be able to get enough of in the 2020s is *safety*. The universe tends to disorder. And without thoughtful leadership willing to see the obvious and make the hard changes to fix it, our neighborhoods will continue to degrade. Murders are rising. https://i.imgur.com/ZvOYKNa.jpg
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The two fundamental values I want to see in new countries are: 1. Safety 2. Abundance We don’t have a livable country if you don’t have safety. And if we aren’t doing this to get to post-scarcity, what are we even doing? Here’s a spec for both: https://www.zaneausten.com/p/cities-that-pay-your-rent
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GM and Happy Thanksgiving!
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