GissaMittJobb @ GissaMittJobb @lemmy.ml

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Incredibly weird thing to say with Russia just having spent around 2 decades routinely violating our airspace at Gotland, and with them quite literally cutting up our undersea cables in the Baltic on a weekly basis.

Dude has a crazy distinct Swedish accent

You might be looking for a handcart. Popular during medieval times, and among Mormon pioneers.

Same, but also apps

Technically correct, yes. Still has all of the hallmark negative effects of privatization.

I wholeheartedly support culinarily disrespecting Italians, honestly.

Dudes trying to convince us that they are presenting ancient traditions when their precious dishes are invented in like the 60s

Fuck him up

I've managed to set up Summit to be close enough to the RiF-experience. Probably even a bit better.

Summit, it's the best.

Privatization of the postal service in Denmark (and Sweden) was a terrible mistake, and the perpetrators should be held accountable.

There's potential for mitigating some of the negative impacts using a mixed approach, although I'm not convinced it's going to be straightforward or even worthwhile.

Please refer to the section about the negative effects of reducing property taxes.

They are most likely running an A/B test on exactly those metrics.

We'll know if it's successful if they roll it out in the end.

Using retirees as a tool to work against property taxes has historically been an effective strategy, but it's important to remember:

1. What we're actually trying to accomplish
2. Will the proposed change be effective in accomplishing the goal
3. Will the change have other consequences that are negative to the extent where the potential benefits outweigh the consequences in aggregate
4. Are there any alternative means to accomplish the original goal

One-by-one:

What we're actually trying to accomplish

Seems to me that the root question is one of housing affordability, in particular for retirees, who may have a lot of assets, but limited cash flow

Will the proposed change be effective in accomplishing the goal

Reducing/capping property taxes does indeed make it easier for some retirees to keep affording their homes, but reducing property taxes makes real estate a more lucrative investment, driving up the overall prices of real estate. This applies for both private persons intending to use the property to live in, for private persons looking seek rent, and corporate actors doing the same. Messing with property taxes is a large part of the housing affordability issue present in many places in the U.S and elsewhere (zoning laws being another major contributor, in particular those mandating single family homes, and lack of public housing being the other major contributor). Hence, this change would only benefit those lucky enough to have purchased a home in the past, at the expense of all retirees not already that lucky, which are now less likely to be able to do so.

Will the change have other consequences that are negative to the extent where the potential benefits outweigh the consequences in aggregate

Apart from driving up the prices of real estate for other retirees, everyone else interested in purchasing a home will also feel this broad increase in prices. This has led to large swaths of the population being effectively priced out of home ownership. This has the second order effect of making owning rentals more lucrative, as higher rents can be charged, further exacerbating the larger problem of housing affordability, but now also for even poorer people.

Finally, reductions in real estate taxes limit what public services can be funded through their use. In the U.S, this primarily means schools, infrastructure, firefighting, transit etc, all of which are suffering a lot in quality, much as a consequence of having messed with property taxes in the past.

There's a very, very strong case to be made that the consequences have very much outweighed the benefits in this scenario. I would even say that they have been devastating, being part of the root cause of a large amount of issues seen today.

Are there any alternative means to accomplish the original goal

There clearly are good means to tackle this problem in other ways, the principal of which I believe should be massive public investment in social housing. By building a huge supply of high quality homes affordable to everyone, we make sure no one will have to be forced to go without an acceptable home, regardless of whether they are retired or not.

The second strategy should be to entirely remove the kind of zoning laws that have contributed to the kind of increase in housing prices seen today - mandating that only single family homes should be allowed to be built on massive lots with low utilization is hugely harmful to housing affordability.

These two measures would address housing prices having gone up in the way they have historically, which would also lead to property taxes not rising in such a dramatic fashion.

What should never be done, however, is reducing or capping property taxes.

True? Yes, to a point. Climate solution? No.

You're broadly going to have a bad time trying to force the wrong language for the job, fwiw.

You could always stop doing web frontend dev - there's plenty of other stuff in programming to do. If you're into UI dev, then modern native mobile dev runs on either Kotlin for Android or Swift for iOS, both of which are highly competent languages. Their modern UI toolkits are Jetpack Compose for Android and SwiftUI for iOS, both of which are reactive in the style of React, but unburdened by the shortcomings of JavaScript.

American English (derogatory)

Who told Donny's fluffer that he could speak again? Better sow that mouth shut

Used to respect the process enough to hide the corruption, now it's just all out in the open and no one cares apparently

Trump recession has begun