Here's an easy way for the Dept of Education to have an impact: Reiterate that schools’ purpose is to help every child reach their potential, not to enforce equal outcomes.

Almost everyone has a spare kidney. We could just do a bunch of kidney transplants and save ~1% of the federal budget Elon Musk Department of Government Efficiency . Better for the patients too!

It’s frustrating that NYC democrats can’t offer moderate voters a good choice. Reminds me of the 2020 democratic primary where most of the serious candidates were very left-wing, even though that wasn’t where the voters were.

Cool programming contest: wincentdragonbyte.com/problems

I recommend this programming contest: eldarverse.com/contest/sep-25…

A controversial opinion I hold: people should be able to sell their kidneys. It would save thousands of lives (50k die per year due to the shortage) AND save billions of taxpayer $$$. Did you know that almost 1% of the entire US federal budget goes to treating kidney failure

I find “fair share” to be a weird handle for “tax the rich”. Progressive income taxes don’t seem “fair” to me (“fair” would be paying taxes according to public services consumed), although there is a strong utilitarian argument for them.

IMO this implausible argument (obviously AirBnB is not responsible for housing being expensive!) demonstrates that earning/deservingness intuitions support libertarian ideas - market incomes are pretty “fair” and it would be “fair” to be taxes based on public services consumed.