🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

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@GodfreyHendrix Yes I agree. the wording is clear "shall not be infringed" means pretty much everything should be legal.

That said I think there is at least some merit to the whole "should people own nuclear weapons" argument. So where is the line?

For me there are two tiers of logic to draw the line:

1) Anything that any agent of the government is allowed on american soil and is allowed to be used against american citizens (read: police or national guard) is a weapon an american should be allowed own.

2) Fuck it let them own nukes and tanks. Just make it so the government agencies, private agencies, and people have the same criteria. They must go through some sort of licensing and inspection to ensure they qualify but this process is accessible to anyone who has the education and training and other conditions.

Of the two I can understand #2 but myself would lean towards #1

@likho the problem with just making education free, without actually have experts themselves at your disposal, is that most americans have proven they are completely clueless on how to take infinite information and learn what is real and what isnt and ultimately understand the systems well enough to evaluate it.

We dont need degrees or credentials, but we do need demonstrated experts to help guide people to a deeper understanding. Give people a calculus book with no professor and your lucky they will study it at all.

@cee

Keep in mind my perspective may not be an Australian one, but it isnt an American one either. I'm a world traveler and spend as little time in the USA as possible. I've rented homes all over the world.

@icedquinn

@likho To be fair I really hate the educational system too. I think they do a really shitty and ineffecient job at teaching and there needs to be reform in how we teach.

My hope would be that with such a massive investment in education it would ultimately lead to that very reform.

The other thing is with everyone getting life long free education my hope is the focus moves away from degrees at all as everyone is educated by default. This alone might fix a lot of the problem as teachers are no longer authorities but partners with the students. They arent in a place to judge. I'd even do away with formal grades.

Either way what I know is that as shitty as the educational system is that we have, its all we got. The stupidity of the average american is absolutely overwhelming. So I'll take a half-assed educational system over nothing.

@cee

I dont think we disagree that there is a problem with landlords per se. I mean I dont know Australia well enough to say but I wont disagree. We just disagree on how to solve it. Your approach to me sounds like it makes the proposed problems much worse (and you havent convinced me otherwise), therefore, I would opt for other solutions.

@icedquinn

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@icedquinn

Yea this is what i mean, the issue isnt that antitrust laws dont work, its that antitrust laws just arent well enforced.

@cee

@cee

Of course she has a monopoly on england, you guys are an english colony afterall. You are just lucky she lets you guys live there instead of the prison building she built for you all :)

As an american might I suggest you guys throwing some of her tea in the ocean, I know from personal expiernce the only way to piss off the english is to fuck with their tea :)

Me personally, I'd be strongly against completely abolishing landlords, to do so in any effective way you'd need to abolish land ownership, if you dont then landlords will just own the land still but use it for other purposes and not let anyone live on it.

Sounds to me the issue you guys have is exactly what I said, your anti-trust laws just arent enforced when they should be.

Also if mold is a problem then sounds like you need either better tenet laws or to have them enforced more.

@icedquinn

@lupyuen I suspect all of Tarantino's Pulp fiction NFTs will effectively just be pictures of Uma Therman's feet :)

@icedquinn

I have no problem with a "union of elites" so long as they dont collaborate with eachother to engage in price fixing (which is against anti-trust laws). Obviously the word union here you are imply the act collectively for the benefit of all elites. I wont say that doesnt happen but i will say if it does then that is and should be illegal. The problem with antitrust laws isnt that they dont work, its mostly that they just arent enforced when they apply.

@cee

@niconiconi

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@eris

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@cee its also going to empower monpolies more than it hurts honestly.

A monopoly means you own a large enough portion of land to price-fix your rents. This means you exlude competition by lowering rent in any region where someone competes with you and raising it everywhere you dont have competition. Your competition goes out of business because they cant rent out land, and the monopoly owner ultimately buys their land at a discount and then restores prices in the region to high prices.

If you tax the land then the person struggling to compete with the monopoly will just fail all the sooner due to the extra burden of being a land owner. Meanwhile the pricefixing of the monopoly owner gives him a financial advantage and is capable of paying the taxes due to the price fixing and the extra income it brings in.

Overall that means land taxes will bolster monopolies and drive out small owners. The exact opposite of the intended effect.

@cee I generally would address monopolies through antitrust laws. If one person owns 95% of the land across the whole country (or even in just a really large region) then yea, probably a need to break it up. But this is rarely the case. It is usually land owned by many people rich and poor all competing with each other. This isnt a monopoly.

What seems like poor reasoning here is that they wind up taxing **everyone** in the hopes of breaking up monopolies that probably either dont exist in the first place, or if they do exist should be targeted without harming ordinary land owners.

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@lefarfadet Sorta I guess... It basically means anyone who ever commits a crime in a dangerous area is automatically innocent because the person they assault/kill/rob should have known better than to be around a criminal in the first place.