I'm only ~98% sure other people are conscious. That's more than enough to treat everyone like they are. I just don't understand the level of epistemic certainty a lot of people have about a lot of topics.

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Glad to see the party running on this. AI will be by far the biggest entrypoint for UBI support in the coming years.

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Interesting to me that it seems like the folks who say "trans folks are such a tiny minority that it is solid electoral strategy to throw them under the bus" are the same folks who scream that trans folks have to vote for the people who throw them under the bus, or they will cost Dems the election.

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The best wealth tax is a tax on land wealth. It can't move and unlike other types of wealth, it impacts cost of living. "A land value tax of just 0.2% would raise the same $20B the wealth tax promises. A 0.86% rate would fund California's entire $87B health and human services budget."

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Property taxes are a disincentive to build. Let's replace it with LVT. "As Missouri and its cities look to encourage population growth and development, adopting a land value tax is a simple and straightforward way to do so."

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