If money is people (as per the Citizens United vs. FEC decision of 2010), meaning that companies can spend unlimited amounts of money to influence elections since restrictions "cannot" be imposed on individuals like humans and companies), then surely things like incarceration and the death penalty should also be an option for serious offenders.

Is this a specific jab at something? I don't understand you comment, please elaborate.

That's why, in Finland, the income of the offender is used to determine the fine (including for speeding). The largest fines for speeding are over 100.€. This is a very effective way to deter the bad behavior by rich people.

Breaking windows DOES increase GDP, just like the parent said. The argument ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window ) only argues that not all GDP increase is good, because of waste of resources, because of the opportunity cost. That's why measuring success only by GDP is a bad idea.

Capital allocation is not an IQ problem with only one correct solution that can be made only with hard data.

That sounds like the finance bro version of mystical woo. There's nothing special about it. There must be doctors who say diagnosis is an art form. But AI will still out perform the diagnosis.

You misunderstood.

AI can calculate stuff that can be measured and calculated.

But investing (in stocks or otherwise) is not that. Investing is about the phychology of the people (all other investors). If investors as a whole make stupid decisions, the market movements make their decisions correct (like the incredibly stupid drop in Nvidia's stock due to release of Deepseek). AI can be more objective and better at calculating facts, but it doesn't matter if the market is driven by emotions and people.

This is because of badly organized incentives. What we should do is to implement a tax on poor people. This will make them understand that being poor is less profitable than being rich and they will be motivated to become rich.

Well, Putin did border agreements with China and gave them territory no so long ago.

I am sure "Putin is a foreign agent working against the interests of Russia and Russians (killing them by literal millions)" is not the response he waited to counter his narrative of "Putin defending poor Russia". :-)

In this case, the more applicable are:

1. "Peter principle": "people in a hierarchy and organizations tend to rise to 'a level of respective incompetence' "

2. "Parkinson's law": "Work expands to fill the available time".

So people are filling all the available the time and working tirelessly to reach their personal and organizational levels of incompetency; working hard without stopping to think if what they are doing should be done at all. And nobody is stopping them, nobody asks why (with the real analysis of positives, negatives, risks).

Incompetent + driven is the worst combination there can be.

He started with $500. Friends and family helped. Got food on the road, from trees/etc. Also locals helped, hence his saying how good and helpful people are.

At some poing he also got sponsors.

Apparently it was his ex that took the child and moved out of his reach, to Northern Ireland, to the place he couldn't go because of his military background.

Perhaps this explains his motivation to just go on a ridiculous healing journey.