Delta_V @ Delta_V @lemmy.world

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The loophole:

The program offers developers a tax subsidy worth potentially millions of dollars in exchange for keeping units affordable and renting them only to . . . households making below 60% of the area median income . . . Rent and income restrictions are supposed to last at least 30 years. But, after just 14 years, property owners may ask their states to find buyers . . . States can only sell at prices set by a formula that almost always overvalues the properties. As a result, buyers are rarely found. If states can’t find buyers within a year, owners are free to raise rents . . .

The culture war would have taken a different direction, but the class war would continue unabated. The owners of the Republicans and the Democrats are all on the same side in the class war.

There's no content here, just a paywall.

non-zero chance Riker tries to flirt with you

Nope. Republican-lite is (still) unappealing to everybody.

Kerbal Space Program / Factorio / Stellaris crossover

Key elements would include:
-design a factory/macro-economy to produce aerospace components & weapons similar to Factorio
-using those components, design vehicles that obey real-ish physical laws similar to KSP
-arm those vehicles and use them as units in Real Time Strategy with the option to take First Person control of individual units

All that means is that $15 an hour over the course of a growing season is not enough to support a family and put down roots.

The very concept of "migrant" labor is flawed - its dehumanizing and precarious. People need a means of supporting themselves year around.

Not only do agricultural corporations need to accept slimmer profit margins and higher wage expenses, but an entirely new support structure is required to maintain the workforce in agricultural communities during the off seasons.

Oh no! The agricultural oligopoly might need to pay employees more to secure a sufficient quantity of labor? Gasp!

Economic devastation is when living wages.

Kerbal Space Program: progression from being unable to get a rocket into orbit, to collecting a surface sample from all 5 of Jool's moons in a single launch

Yeah, its not credible to claim that large, profitable enterprises will "implode" if the supply and demand curve shifts slightly.

At the most cynical level, businesses that depend on cheap labor from undocumented immigrants will get squeezed as their labor costs increase.

America's Military Industrial Complex isn't going to fail if market forces require they offer more money to secure a sufficient supply of labor.

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It crashed because people were broke.

What happened in 1929 was a result of low wages and high unemployment pulling the rug out from under the economy, and therefore it suggests that policy that leads to higher wages and lower unemployment is needed to prevent a repeat.

The "implosion" of oligarchs profit margins isn't something any of us need to worry about. Over the short term, the vast majority of us will benefit from it - like 90% of the population stands to gain, 10% will break even, and the billionaires will see their income reduced.

In the long run, putting more disposable income into the hands of working Americans will be a driver of economic growth.

Mass deportation is obviously problematic for many reasons, but negatively impacting the profit margins of the Military Industrial Complex isn't one of them.

Increasing salaries of American workers by making labor scarce is the purpose of restrictive immigration policy.

Cast iron skillets sure do make it easier though.

massively parallel synthetic aperture awacs via drone swarm

Anyone know what version of TacOps mod is compatible with OldUnreal's version of UT?