If housing supply stays constant and there is more demand for housing than available, then prioritization is necessary. Allocation priority is often assigned either by
willingness to payinduced by a market economy,
first come, first serveinduced by rent caps.
If there is one thing this pandemic has taught us, then it is that few people truly understand exponential growth. This post is an attempt to explore this magical function with minimal prerequisites.
While equal rights could be viewed as an issue of the past (at least in most developed countries), equal opportunity is still an open issue. In a free market wages and hiring decisions are not up to the law and thus equal rights are not enough to guarantee equal opportunity. While wages for equal work can be achieved with transparency and public pressure, it is much more difficult to quantify hiring discrimination. For this reason many people argue for a quota to actually affect these decisions with written law, so that injustices could be tried in court.
On sunday the game of the “Hooligan Eagles” against the “LesserEvil Hawks” is taking place. The city decided, in order to protect the police, it will not send in police to enforce a peaceful game. Instead, it intends to supply the fans of the “LesserEvil Hawks” with handguns so they can protect themselves against the often violent fans of the “Hooligan Eagles”.
When the referee takes one of the Hooligan Eagles players off the field for a foul, the camera pans to an increasingly rowdy crowd of Eagle fans close to the Hawks fan section.
How much does it cost to become Carbon Neutral? Is it feasible? Or is it too radical? I think that many people paint a grimmer picture than necessary. In fact I would go so far as to say we can solve climate change in our lunch break. Let me explain…
Education is one of those topics, which everyone has an opinion on, and reforms are proposed every other day. In Germany it is even worse, as education is state’s jurisdiction, so multiply the mess by 16. So, is this just another proposal which claims to be much better than any others proposed before?
First of all: A tax and certificate system is equivalent to some degree. The main difference is that taxes set prices while certificates set quantities. But more on that later. And since taxes are easier to understand I will start with explaining them.
a lot of people would protest. There are of course more than two colors. For example “red, green, blue” are already three. Okay so maybe the statement was an exaggeration. How about “only 5 colors” (Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet)? Some people might start to agree with that statement. Other people might list a few more. At some point words for more colors will run out. Yet some people would still disagree with the statement: “there are only x colors”. Even though we only have a finite number of words for them.