Straight to jail, right away

Nope. Whenever the screen on my phone breaks it’s because it fell on the corner and a screen protector wouldn’t have saved me. I don’t have any noticeable scratches so I’m not worried about that

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Half of these people would accept living in a tent if it meant a liberal had to sleep rough

That’s even worse than most of the shit Donald Trump says. Does this mean she’s running for president?

Who here in the comments is saying anything that would justify your accusation? All I’m seeing is people saying the comic is cringe and mid and exaggerated, not that it’s the tip of the propaganda spear of some misandrist defamation conspiracy.

The animals self-harm and then post about it on Instagram?

If you don’t think my joke is funny you’re a racist

Hey, this moustache isn’t going to twirl itself

They really do, I hadn’t noticed this before

Do you mean to tell me you’re just trying to have fun when you play games?

You must tell him he is a good cat, and a pretty cat.

Cause and Effect? Outstanding episode.

Which game is your favorite, who is your favorite character, and do you only know their longest combo?

You speak such good Merican that I’m going to trust you with our nuclear codes

Subsidies on consumer goods. You do not want to be in Bolivia right now.

I can appreciate that your intentions here are good but I remain convinced that you’ve got the economic aspect of this quite wrong. If the rewards of staking were zero the network would be at risk because nobody would be willing to do the necessary work of securing it. This is in stark contrast to land, which would be just as capable of productive use even without a rich person to own it. Validator slots are freely available to anybody who is prepared to do the required work and dedicate the required capital, and they are subject to unrestricted competition from other stakers and other networks, their profits do not come from any privilege given by law or unnatural strategic advantage. The full cost of staking is surprisingly difficult to determine, it’s potentially much more than just the cost of hardware and electricity given the risk involved, not just from slashing but also from holding a volatile asset, in addition to the sacrificed opportunity cost of the staked capital. The rewards of staking would fall to less than half of what they are today if the percentage of Ethereum staked were to get anywhere close to 100%, and if the price of Ethereum were to fall in the future they could well already be effectively less than zero.

Being a landlord can be a kind of hybrid, it depends. If you just own land and collect rent while doing nothing to provide value to anybody then yes, all you’re going is gatekeeping access to something that you didn’t make which is basically the textbook definition of economic rent and it’s parasitic. Using your labor and capital to build or maintain an improvement (like a house) and then leasing that out isn’t economic rent, it actually is a real job just like any other, but only for the portion of the income that is due to the improvement; the lion’s share of the income is almost always due to land ownership so it’s still parasitism but with a garnish of legitimate work.

I don’t think reading only the first sentence of the Wikipedia/Mirian-Webster definition in isolation is very helpful, you really have to dig deeper if you want to have a good sense of what economists are really trying to communicate with the concept of economic rent.

The kernel giveth, the kernel taketh away

That’s a greatly oversimplified definition that would capture essentially all productive activity. If I paint someone’s house and charge them more than the cost of paint, am I earning economic rent? As the owner of my tools and my own labor, the answer according to that definition would be yes.