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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Going all out in the beginning can backfire, there’s a lot you have to think about. A couple things that come to mind:

    1. You lose leverage, the threat of more sanctions goes away if there’s no way to add more sanctions
    2. There’s a possible threat to American businesses who at least partly benefit from trade with Russia. Gotta think of how it impacts US citizens as well
    3. You don’t want to sanction people who haven’t done anything wrong (yet), since it disincentivises being “good”. Why bother doing the right thing if you’re getting punished regardless?



  • Well it’s true, to a certain extent.

    If an employee (or a chatbot, for that matter), promised an egregious sum for no reason, I don’t think the company should be liable either.

    Imagine getting hired to do support, having a friend open a chat and you promising to give him a milion dollars. Makes no sense.

    But getting mislead about ticket pricing and them then refusing to refund the fare at least partially (the part that they promised would not be charged) is absolutely something they should be liable for.

    And lawyer fees plus some pocket money for wasting peoples’ time, if getting a refund entails more than an email or two.







  • Do workers simply will iron ore into existence

    In terms of costs, yeah, that’s exactly what they do. Someone’s getting money for it, be it the land owner, the workers, the company providing the tech for it. Doesn’t matter, there’s always a person at the end of the cost pipeline.

    workers pockets X owner’s profit

    In terms of inflation, this just doesn’t help. Workers spend almost everything they get (living paycheck to paycheck), rich people do still spend the money (which means the money ends up in someone elses pocket) and yes, they will spend more than the average worker, but they also invest a big chunk, usually locking up the money, and at least temporarily taking it out of circulation.

    Which reduces inflation, that’s the point of high interest rates :)