Except most those people have developed the separate skillset of playing work politics to make their job seem necessary.

And those trade-offs can only pay off if the extra food produced can be utilized. If the farm is producing more food than can be preserved and/or distributed, then the surplus is deadweight.

>Totally disregarding health warnings, and being insubordinately against precautions rather than becoming more neurotic.

It's not such a clean map between neuroticism and reaction there. My father was very against the precautions in a clearly neurotic manner. To the point where he was just sitting at home ranting about how he couldn't go anywhere or do anything without the vaccine, months after anywhere except a few voluntarily strict venues had stopped checking.

"Just like how you might measure productivity of a warehouse employee by the number of items moved per hour. Of course if someone just throws things across the warehouse or moves things that dont need to be moved they will maximize this metric, but that would be doing the job wrong - which is not a productivity measurement problem."

I fail to see how having a measurement that clearly doesn't measure what is actually produced isn't exactly a productivity measurement problem. If your measurement is defeated by someone doing their job badly, what use is it?

nearly all productivity measurements can be defeated by people doing their job badly and trying to game the measurement.

as a business analyst, there are a lot of things to consider to assess productivity and performance at a distance, and no single measurement is ever relied on too heavily - except if the analyst is doing the job poorly of course

The argument that some people can code with less lines of code but if no lines are written that’s an issue.

There's an argument to be made that Lucas wouldn't have brought it back if they didn't miss the check. A little over half a mil of it's budget came from the initial payout of the new Hasbro deal.

Ferrari can only enforce those terms by refusing to sell you any more cars, though. There's not much they can do beyond that.

GM also comes to mind, where they void the warranty if you flip your new Z06 or ZR1 within 6 months. It's nothing more or less than an encumbrance on the title, and they shouldn't be able to demand that without consideration in the form of a discount. But they can, because they have monopoly power in that particular niche.

Key point is that Ferrari and Corvette are niche markets. Car customers in general wouldn't put up with it, because there's plenty of competition for their business.

Not everyone can do that, some of use were blocked by him before we'd ever heard his name.

I'm currently reading 'Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat' and the author talks about this exact dilemma. She attributed the difference to the fact that box-cake recipes tend to use oil for the fat, while recipes from scratch often prefer butter. The way oil can fully coat the flour changes how the gluten chains develop during baking, which changes the texture.

It’s impossible — impossible! — for anyone to attend a mass gathering with the pure intention of causing trouble.

>Nobody here is actually even arguing about the proposal here, just repeating platitudes and analogies.

Well, given that they're responding to this:

>I think it's actually pretty clear that almost all people are not capable of secure and reliable self-custody and would be better off with an intermediary. We're not keeping our fiat currency in a safe under our bed after all.

Why would you not expect people to argue in the style you presented them?