And slavery is what pushed certain empires and colonies to riches, that doesn't mean we keep doing it forever expecting positive returns
Moving electrons around isn't inherently immoral like slavery is. It's odd to compare the two!
Readit Newsmritterhoff commented on US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of it electrek.co/2026/01/16/us... · Posted by u/doener
Housing is expensive because of lack of housing supply and because of high housing demand because of both soft (non-finance-driven) desirability conditions and a sufficient concentration of very-high-income, price insensitive buyers on prices.
Everything else is so expensive because of the second of those reasons, plus everyone having higher salary demands because of high housing prices.
Increasing housing supply can mitigate the problem somewhat, but the other drivers of cost will still remain, and I Think most people would agree you don't actually want to deal with the other cost drivers to aggressively. I mean, even dealing with the high-income-earners-as-cost-drivers problem softly by raising high-end marginal tax rates somewhat is a a highly controversial position.
Housing is expensive because homeowners have weaponized zoning laws to make it illegal to build housing the city needs.
Isn't times square already pedestrian?
https://ny.curbed.com/2017/4/19/15358234/times-square-snohet...
A small section of it is.
> “Bowtie” bounded by Broadway and Seventh Avenue between 42nd and 47th Streets.
It claims a banana isn't technically living, but a banana has living cells so I'm not sure how accurate that is. I'm not sure when they're all considered 'dead' after harvesting though - maybe some wiggle room there.
My understanding is that picked fruits and veg are still alive [1], and often respirating [2]. This is a big component in figuring out how to refrigerate them at the optimal temperatures and atmospheric makeup.
1. https://healthland.time.com/2013/06/21/theyre-alive-harveste... 2. https://agriculture.institute/food-chemistry-and-physiology/...
They should make pedestrian-only streets in most dense places of Manhattan and use these money to improve public transportation. Even just a few blocks of no cars would make a huge difference for livability of the city center.
Big agree. Times Square would be a great place to start.
mritterhoff commented on Covid-19 mRNA Vaccination and 4-Year All-Cause Mortality jamanetwork.com/journals/... · Posted by u/bpierre
Indeed. A lot of antivaxxers mockingly say "my body, my choice" but they are highlighting their own hypocrisy, not anyone else's. One critical difference between the cases is that pregnancy is not contagious.
Agree. Also I don't think any adults were forcibly vaccinated again their will, they just lost out on certain societal privileges.
You are lucky to have employer-provided health care.
Seems 48.6% of US employees had employer-provided health care in 2023. Lower than I would have thought.
https://www.kff.org/state-health-policy-data/state-indicator...
> true market price
There can be no market clearing price, because healthcare demand is unlimited.
In some countries supply is rationed by using different means such as waiting lists, budgets for funding, or even corruption (I witnessed this in Cuba).
> because healthcare demand is unlimited.
How's that? Beyond some level of care I suspect demand drops of a cliff. No one goes to the doctor for the fun of it.
Ignoring the pandemic, the percentage has been north of 45% since 2014 or so, according to Moody's: https://archive.is/AW6rW
It also makes it easier for employers to get away with poor working conditions for those workers.