you can model the tax on the supply or the demand. in most simple models the outcome is the same

tell me you don’t know history without telling me you don’t know history

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every dollar you raise, the fewer customers you get. the point is that you should want to raise the price whenever the relative drop in customers is less than the relative increase in price to maximise profits (where marginal cost is marginal benefit :) )

actually history is just our collective understanding of the past, so if it changes, history changes

you don’t need to say yes if someone asks you?

can’t you just buy a cheaper USB 3.0 speed cable anyway? or is this a hardware limitation that Apple have put in the port of the phone?

isn’t this supposed to be mitigated by the fact that the tritium eventually blends into the larger ocean such that the concentration remains in harmless levels at the end anyway?

no one wants lower wages, but wage increases lead to businesses increasing their prices.

supply shocks aside, there is a negative correlation between inflation and unemployment for a host of complex reasons. so there’s ultimately a trade-off to pick.

unfortunately, the issue is that given businesses also function from the idea that there is such a trade-off, supposing we announce we want to lower unemployment, they raise their prices in anticipation.

it’s a sad system

any effectively decidable system. that’s not quite the same, and doesn’t strictly apply to AI commands

you’d like all other communities to be echo chambers?

or make a ‘join lemmy’ sign?

the point is to take away traffic in the long run