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Easy fix to this, which is to provide more funding to rural schools. The private option only helps some of the kids leaving the others further behind. Segregating the kids from high and low socio-economic status further erodes the education equality again on top of the funding provided for it...

Why is it impossible? Simply ban private schools

Except emissions have dropped. In a number of sectors and now in entire countries such as Europe and the USA last year. So given you now know that emissions can fall (and you shouldn't need real life examples to realise this possibility) do you want to change your answer? And what has any of...

No education should be privatised. You cant justify a capitalist system unless there is equal opportunity in education. Privatised schooling prevents equal opportunity.

Stamp duty shouldnt be a thing. At all. It does economists heads in that stamp duty exists. It imposes a large inefficiency to society that benefits no one. We need much higher land taxes instead and zero stamp duty. To discourage rental properties (and encourage home ownership) we need to...

You know he is not using the original definition given what's in his post. So why pretend he is? People who claim they are against wokeness are not using the original definition. They are using other definitions whatever they may be. Let's stop pretending they are using the original definition.

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Boomers aren't 80 yet. How could you possibly come to the conclusion that living longer is a bad thing?

I dont think there are that many real republicans left and four years down the track i think they will be virtually gone from the party leaving just the MAGA members left. Those MAGA members are already starting to state out loud that they dont believe in democracy.

You base this robustness off what? Recency bias or something more substantial. From where Im looking Us democracy is far less robust then we believe.

Lol. Median and medium mean the same thing.

Good post. Although radical doesnt have to mean one thing. Its a vague term. It can mean wanting to overthrow the system rather then try work through it as you state. Or it can mean extreme positions compared to the average population. And theres probably a significant overlap between those who...

The left arent regarded as radical. A small subset of the left is regarded as radical. Those who want to ban flights, ban meat, reward and penalise people based off what some of their ancestors did 200 years ago, reject the scientific value of vaccines, advocate for population culls to save the...

Democracies are very hard to keep. They are incredibly rare. The republican party has slowly become the MAGA party and MAGA does not believe in democracy. If they control the house, senate and congress then there is literally nothing to stop them from ever handing power back. They will do...

If trumps wins this election and gets both the house and senate there will not be another democratically elected president in the USA. The facism risk is much bigger then what everyone thinks it is.

Censoring historical books is still pretty awful. Lets not default to whataboutism as an excuse. And the degree of change is more then what you claim it.

Cities expand out and up and new ones start up resulting in their never to be constraints on living in or near cities. The exception is Singapore and even they are building up and expanding their land into the ocean. Demand does not drive house prices beyond the short run At all. If it did new...

I really dislike this line as it fails to take in the past and present. The world we live in today is the product of both the short run implications of the last three years of policies and the long run implications of the last couple of thousand years of policies. When you phrase it this way...

You need to differentiate short run vs long run dynamics. In the short run supply is fixed so any demand growth boosts prices. But in the long run supply is fully flexible so demand has zero impact on prices unless supply is permanently constrained. It's not permanently constrained in...

Sometimes yes. But their presence and development of international frameworks has stopped far more numerous wars and helped overthrow countless dictatorships. The world would be a far worse place if it stayed isolationist in the 1940s.

You mean the peace (and dramantic rise in trade and standard of living) we have had for 70 years as a result of the us global policeman. An actual liberal global police would be far better but a large country that largely (but not always) lives by democratic and liberal virtues is better then...

You are missing my point. Land can be released to deal with any immigration rate. And The immigrants provide more then their share of construction workers to build new homes. The reason for high house prices is lack of land releases. Governments are pushing up house prices. Not immigrants...

And like most people you would be wrong. Both parties support high immigration because they know it improves the standard of living for the majority of existing residents. High immigration provides most of the workers in the low skilled service jobs that locals do not want to do. Without high...

Less intelligent people gravitate towards populism and authoritarinism. And they exist on both the left and right. Mostly the right. But there are plenty on the left too.

Allied couriers has a gender pay gap of nearly 10 percent in the favour of women (i.e the medium women gets paid 10 percent more then men). Why would this be the case? Because the majority of drivers earning the lower wages will be unskilled men while the women would be working in the...

Odd that they have chosen a medium pay gap measure rather then a mean based wage measure. Basically means that at the top of the company hierarchy where the big bucks are paid to a select handful no gender changes are required and companies can continue to be all male at the top cos it wont...

I disagree with this. Look at all the net zero carbon pledges. Bans on new coal generators in the west. Coming bans on oil based cars and use of gas heating in homes. Look at all the companies pledging to reduce their emissions and actively doing so. Now compare this to 1990? Or any other...

Emissions are now falling in the west. Large falls in both europe and the Usa last year. This will only accelerate going foward. China is building an incredible amount of renewables. Renewables are now so much cheaper then coal and gas generation its not funny. Your own chart shows coal...

How do you say there is not much respect for nature and climate anymore? Surely theres more respect for nature and climate now then there ever has been? You would have to go back to hunter gatherer societies to find a time where there was more respect for nature.

You may laugh about this but there are people in our society who want to eliminate the talent pay gap. Ive been trying to get a pay rise for this worker who is doing an exceptional job. My division is offering to pay her extra salary. I went to her boss (who is in a different division) and his...