Comments by "josh fritz" (@joshfritz5345) on "MentisWave" channel.

  1. Two things on tariffs that you didn't directly address that can still make them desirable sometimes. 1. They are a type of protectionism. Yes, tariffs are a tax, and those costs do usually make their way to the consumer in part. However, they are primarily designed to favor domestic industry over foreign industry. By making foreign goods more expensive, a country can make it more viable to produce those goods locally even if the locals demand a higher wage. The result is also an increase in the cost of goods, but some would consider the additional jobs created a net positive. Protectionism isn't very libertarian, but it is seen as desirable to some people. 2. Tariffs as a negotiation tool. This is very relevant to the current situation in the US. A certain president is using tariffs as a means to strongarm other countries to lower their tariffs on his own country, or to address a trade deficit. In the short term, imported goods get more expensive, but the one imposing the tariffs is gambling that they can use them to get more favorable trading terms to export their own goods, spurring local economic growth. Tariffs aren't creating any new resources, they're a tool to try and get the country implementing them a larger part of the pie for themselves. Even if you're honest about that, some people would still consider that a goal worth pursuing.
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  2. Can you give us a video about how inflation affects people's time preference behavior?
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  3. Ah yes, because greed fluctuates over time in relation to how much money is printed by the fed.
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  4. Apparently I'm not allowed to speak because Youtube keeps deleting my comments
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  5. Reddit is run by woke feds.
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  6. I saw one of the new mods threaten to grape a server member, I feel like we're in good hands.
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  7. The point of tariffs isn't really to extract money from the nation on which tariffs are applied, it's a type of protectionism that is designed to favor domestic producers of a given product over foreign producers. Additionally, orange man in particular likes to use tariffs as a negotiation tool in order to get his desired results in foreign negotiations. Tariffs can be used as a method of revenue generation, but like other forms of taxation, the costs are often at least partially passed onto the consumer.
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  9.  @MentisWave  Your entire Discord server got nuked
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  10. I'm of the opinion that IP should last 25 years before becoming public domain. People maintain possession of their innovation for long enough to profit off if it, thus incentivising innovation, but not so long that IPs become stale, so eventually others are allowed to contribute to the idea.
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  11. The US military has been doing training drills about how to put down a blue igloo event in America. There have been 4 "incidents" at orange man rallies in a couple months. Start stockpiling rice and water.
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  12. It ain't good
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  13. Unbearable stupidity
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  14. It's not insanity. They don't believe in human rights. These are the same people who want to censor speech they disagree with.
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  15. Was your discord server taken down by the commies?
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