It's offtopic, but this is very good advice. As near as I can tell, there aren't any real similarities between the book and the movie; they're two separate zombie stories with the same name, and honestly I would recommend them both for wildly different reasons.
As irresponsible as it was to let a handful of banks become too big to fail, they really were, and that was just a subset of the financial sector. The blast radius of the "leaving the house" sector is best described by your favorite zombie movie. The economy can feel like a bunch of remote fatcats, but at this scale that model breaks down. It's everything, everywhere, that isn't done by either you personally or mother nature. We should bail it out and prop it up because we like having those things.
What exactly is wrong with bailouts? Moral hazard is the main one. I don't think my neighborhood coffee shop will take its payout as a license to start breeding bats.
Inefficiency can be a concern. Maybe the economy would perform better if all the real estate and capital equipment made its way to smarter managers, who would not make such stupid mistakes as... business models that involve physical presence in any way?
The survival of the fittest thing is about competition. Capitalism is pretty quiet on the issue of shocks that hit all the competitors equally. That's why we've had monetary and fiscal policy for a while now. This would be a hell of a time to give them up.
You don't own the land you own, even if you bought it. You are paying the zombie tax. Which is to say the population is growing too fast, there isn't enough land, and if there weren't regulations humans would kill you and steal your land and eat your corpse because humans are animals.
So you pay a tax, that tax supports a system we call "society", which kills or controls the masses who would otherwise murder you and take everything you think you own.
I call it the zombie tax because the best way to imagine the alternative would be the unstoppable hordes of zombies we see in hollywood films.
Most humans get enjoyment from hurting others at a base level, but decent people try not do it because of a higher level of functioning and because of cultural values.
Unfortunately many parts of society, accept/encourage this behavior in certain situations. (IE the way smokers are treated by many people, what a turn culture has had there)
Even if it was him, he should not have been doxxed. A decent human would try and help him if he was wrong and it also sets us up for a decent society.
This conversation really should not be around guilt or innocence, it should be around doxxing and attacking individuals.
Stick to zombie movies. That's what they are there for, we get to hurt 'people' but not 'real' people.
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It's offtopic, but this is very good advice. As near as I can tell, there aren't any real similarities between the book and the movie; they're two separate zombie stories with the same name, and honestly I would recommend them both for wildly different reasons.
As irresponsible as it was to let a handful of banks become too big to fail, they really were, and that was just a subset of the financial sector. The blast radius of the "leaving the house" sector is best described by your favorite zombie movie. The economy can feel like a bunch of remote fatcats, but at this scale that model breaks down. It's everything, everywhere, that isn't done by either you personally or mother nature. We should bail it out and prop it up because we like having those things.
What exactly is wrong with bailouts? Moral hazard is the main one. I don't think my neighborhood coffee shop will take its payout as a license to start breeding bats.
Inefficiency can be a concern. Maybe the economy would perform better if all the real estate and capital equipment made its way to smarter managers, who would not make such stupid mistakes as... business models that involve physical presence in any way?
The survival of the fittest thing is about competition. Capitalism is pretty quiet on the issue of shocks that hit all the competitors equally. That's why we've had monetary and fiscal policy for a while now. This would be a hell of a time to give them up.
You don't own the land you own, even if you bought it. You are paying the zombie tax. Which is to say the population is growing too fast, there isn't enough land, and if there weren't regulations humans would kill you and steal your land and eat your corpse because humans are animals.
So you pay a tax, that tax supports a system we call "society", which kills or controls the masses who would otherwise murder you and take everything you think you own.
I call it the zombie tax because the best way to imagine the alternative would be the unstoppable hordes of zombies we see in hollywood films.
Most humans get enjoyment from hurting others at a base level, but decent people try not do it because of a higher level of functioning and because of cultural values.
Unfortunately many parts of society, accept/encourage this behavior in certain situations. (IE the way smokers are treated by many people, what a turn culture has had there)
Even if it was him, he should not have been doxxed. A decent human would try and help him if he was wrong and it also sets us up for a decent society.
This conversation really should not be around guilt or innocence, it should be around doxxing and attacking individuals.
Stick to zombie movies. That's what they are there for, we get to hurt 'people' but not 'real' people.