Presenting political argument on Twitter, and the "prestige economy"

[stupendousman]

@bwv812

Reputational economies are inefficient and are obstacles to things like globalization

I meant applied to crimes. But I do think they’ll be important come post-scarcity.

@bwv812

Why less hours worked? Why wouldn’t the employer want to maximize the hours each employee works, and reduce the size of the workforce?

There is a finite number of customers. Additionally I was referring to the development of working conditions, litigious workers were rare back in the day so hiring costs were lower.

@bwv812

So you’re just ignoring the evidence which shows corporate taxes form about 3% of state & local revenue?

Seems you citation isn’t without critics.

[Businesses Paid Nearly Half of All State-Local Taxes in 2012][1]

[1]: Businesses Paid Nearly Half of All State-Local Taxes in 2012[quote=“bwv812, post:90, topic:15348”]
Huh? You’re saying that state imprisonment for copyright infringement isn’t coercion?
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I don’t agree with that nor did I argue with it.

@bwv812

And trespassing, as trespassing laws haven’t always existed.

Oh sweet Odin. Can I crash at your place at my leisure? Walk in when you’re going to the bathroom? No?

@bwv812

The only reason I appear to have the cart before the horse is because you’ve internalized the prevailing legal property regime.

It has pretty much always been so.

@bwv812

then presumably you agree that capital gains should be taxed at a higher rate,

Why is that? Aren’t the owners of the company (share holders) already taxed? Why even have a capital gains?

@bwv812

non-productive uses of property should not be protected (e.g., squatter rights should be expanded)

You decides what’s productive? Top people in government? Squatters rights, sounds like a mess.

@bwv812

Those who have property are always free to either bargain with those who have the means to take property from them or to take measures to ensure that others do not have the means to take property from them.

Slaves are free to either bargain for their freedom/wages or takes measures…

@bwv812

This would see to be a true market solution to the issue.

Nope that’s a violence based solution.