This is more of an alternative to SVG than an alternative to JS. You could always create charts using plain SVG. Most JS charting libraries just do that for you.
Aren't more volatile valuations also better for the value seeking employees? Let's say in 1 year there's a 50% chance of the valuation going up 3x, and a 50% chance of it going down to 0.
You rest and vest if it goes up, or find another company if it fails. The ante would be 1 year's RSU and job searching for a payoff of 3 years worth of RSUs.
Yes, from people I know, the asymmetric risk is what draws them to working for startups. Go to one, see if it 10xs quickly, otherwise go to another one.
There is also a particular group of people who seek out pre-ipo (meaning a company that is expected to IPO soon) companies, or more generally those that are about to fundraise again. Generally equity offers are given based on valuations at the last fundraising round, so playing this game properly can instantly turn $100k in paper money into $400k. Of course, doing this only makes sense if you expect the new valuation to have some kind of staying power, otherwise you won't realize those gains.
Irresponsible gambling costs the government money because we have safety nets. This applies to both institutions and individuals. The government needs to bail out banks and provide social welfare.
It's not a moral issue to me. Gambling through leveraged stocks should to be taxed more heavily to offset its cost. Something like the rate on lottery tickets.
That's a clear straw man argument, that there exists a sequence of events between people buying stocks on margin, going bankrupt, and living off of government assistance. And this occurrence is so commonplace as to warrant a proposed punitive tax on margin trade profit? What evidence do you have that this actually happens? I think you ARE making a moral argument, namely around 'risk taking' being something that society should punish and discourage via taxation. You left the second part, the societal cost (which may be real, who knows, you only offered a hypothetical government assistance scenario) completely in the realm of speculative fancy.
Not to mention, if you really truly wanted to morally punish and discourage gambling, I seriously doubt a tax on profit would make a dent in it! Have you ever met a real gambler?
> Gambling through leveraged stocks should to be taxed more heavily to offset its cost. Something like the rate on lottery tickets.
I agree with your initial point, but I don't believe this would actually help. People who are gambling typically don't look at the expected outcome and make "rational" decisions. Therefore, taking action that just modifes the expected outcome is unlikely to have any impact on the behaviour. People will still assume/hope that they will win, and if they win just a bit less, then so be it.
The percentage of someone's income that they spend on property/land probably goes down as their income goes up. For someone like Elon Musk, the lower tax rate is probably more enticing than the lower property/land costs.
Funding UBI through "printing" money would cause inflation because that increases the money supply.
But most UBI proponents plan to fund it through new taxes and consolidation of the current "means based" welfare programs.
Which means the productive members of the society will be paying even more taxes, just to feed off people that think living of the UBI is good enough for them, if the UBI is not funded through the printing of the money.
How is that fair to working people with ambitions?
Ok, and who/what will you tax for the extra UBI money?
Can't tax the corporations and the rich or else they will "move elsewhere and increase unemployment" as we're made to believe so why then do I fear that the middle class worker will be hit yet again?
I'd rather we lower taxes on the workforce than increase them to give away free money.
For simpler math, lets assume someone makes $10k per month pre-tax. Their tax rate would increase by roughly 10%, and they would receive a $1,000 check in the mail. The net cost (and benefit) for most people could be 0.
Well, why do UBI at all?
I think the goal is to simplify our means based well fare system, which can create some economically inefficient incentives.
For example, imagine someone receiving disability checks who could go back to work. Going back to work would mean they stop receiving disability checks, and they could easily end up reducing their income.
There are various taxes that work that way. Depending on how high they are (and how high the taxes that work in the opposite way are) it works better or worse. The difference between rich and poor is not the same everywhere on the planet.
Then rape the women and molest the children in the process, then kill them all when you're done; it is as moral as your proposal, just finishing the sentence. "How is this a bad idea again", you say?
Sorry, it is not by intention, probably cultural difference interpreting the same words in different ways. What is the second comment that looks out of line?
There are 209,128,094 people over 18 in US. Let's assume $1,000/month UBI. It would mean we need to get $209128094000 (~ $210B) a month ($2.5T a year) from somewhere.
Where would we get it from? Are there any extensive papers explaining it? I'm super curious.
Committing to lockdowns is a powerful way to fight covid-19. I wanted to show its (encouraging) effects so I overlaid the lockdown dates onto different growth charts.
I think the comments in this thread captures it pretty well. If someone doesn't see the benefits of typed languages, TypeScript will just be something that slows them down for no apparent reason.
Same goes with RxJs, dependency injection, unit testing, and modules.
But Typescript is not a "typed language", rather a "language with types". Because of having to maintain JS compatibility it lacks the inherent type safety that other similar languages like Dart provide.
There are many fuzzy search libraries. Sometimes, a match appears near the top that is hard to explain. This tool was created to visually understand those matches.
This can also be helpful if you're curious about how fuzzy search works, or wouldn't mind a refresher!
