brainsquig.bsky.social
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Could be a Gricean norms thing where the mirror condition is so needlessly complicated to an average participant that they may think they must be misunderstanding and it's a gamble. When someone explains it verbally that's less of an issue.
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So long story short, under $200 for very basic pair of sneakers (remember we started with a $70 pair) seems doable even when cost of materials rises quite a bit. Fancier sneakers under $200 probably not.
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You can and should!
I don't think you should take any of those numbers as a given but for me it helps thinking about how the cost would change. E.g., The US is a top leather importer and China is a top leather exporter, so the cost of leather would also go up.
For methods idk
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So if you assume labor to cost about 10* as much, it would be $30 in labor per pair. If material-costs don't change, based on the linked page a pair of sneakers that would normally be $70 would go up to $130. If the materials need to be imported and are tariffed ofc. it would go up by more. 2/2
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Your comment made me curious, there's no answer here, but it does specify all the current costs. It estimates $3 in labor for a pair of sneakers in a country where (based on quick google, maybe wrong) minimum wage is $150 per month.
shoemakersacademy.com/cost-to-make...
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I have another metaphor. Imagine you are a kid in school and a bully comes up to you and says give me your lunch money or I'll punch you. Would you say the right call is to give the bully the money because it is the least harmful out of the two?
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Have you considered that maybe your metaphor is just bad, and that if you had a good argument you wouldn't have to rely on bad metaphor?
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I would just choose to not be in the burning building.
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thanks!
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Can you suggest any reading /listening / watching re thiel/yarvin connection?
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I forget to bring a mask and then spend the entire bus ride staring enviously at the person wearing one for the same reason.
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docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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/7 But it’s possible to critique those things without becoming useful idiots for censorship. The difference between state censorship and “cancel culture” is fundamental to human freedom and the “free speech culture” crowd has never successfully addressed it.
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/2 Today the demand for “moderation” calls on people to accept the Right’s hysterical bad faith framing of trans issues in a way that demeans humans and reduces liberty. If you do that their next demand will be that you abandon some other group or value.
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heartbreaking
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as someone who only just last fall joined their local county Democratic Party, I can assure you, there are very few people going to these meetings, even in a blue city like NYC, and if you wrangle a few friends and start showing up you can wreck their shit and make things good
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Lot's of lines, but the main take-away is those lines are mostly flat meaning no relation between facebook usage and life satisfaction.
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for example, this paper looks at uptake facebook & wellbeing across the globe:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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It is really hard to study whether social media / smart phones / the internet affect wellbeing because so many things all change at the same time. However, if it truly did you would expect to see these consequences worldwide. I have not found any convincing evidence for the latter. 1/2
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I don't think those criticizing the dems for staying in a safe place mean they really want the dems to platform more nazis, hth.