100 in rent - 100 in mortgage cost = 0.

There’s also building upkeep insurance and taxes to pay.

corrupt markets resulting from restricted/scarce housing supply

Housing has a hard limit as there is only so much ground available in desirable locations. Building houses also needs resources and labor and takes a while.

Let me show you how I make X passive income, by selling courses about making passive income

Coaches selling training courses to train new coaches and then for consulting to grow their coaching business is a whole thing as well.

Instead of a rich asshole, you can have worker owned cooperatives and such.

everyone’s time is worth exactly the same amount

That’s just objectively not the case. Some people are able to provide more essential or better quality services and labor than others. There are also more and less enjoyable activities.

Everyone’s time can be worth the same amount for the same activity at the same quality level.

how do we prevent kings or rich politicians in either scenario? Tax them in capitalism for one. In socialism we just downright make that illegal.

You will always have people in more powerful positions and some will take advantage of it. What you can do is rotate people with term limits and such. However that can also have downsides in effectiveness and efficiency.

You can also impose limits on how much stuff a person can own. There are ways to circumvent this with non profit NGOs and such.

Socialist economies also need taxes to pay for infrastructure and the operations of the state.

Without money, money is reinvented. For practicality reasons you want a fungible means of exchange that also lasts. Being small, portable, and not spoiling is also desirable.

That means precious metals or vouchers for something. If you standardize these, you end up with money again.

Without a standardized currency, you end up with a bunch of parallel currencies. That means there will be businesses, who only deal with exchanging one form of currency for another. They could even give out their own vouchers.

Now, the state also wants to collect taxes. Collecting a bunch of different vouchers and coins is a headache. So the state issues their own vouchers, which you have to use to pay taxes. Then we are back where we started.

An interesting approach to money would be, if money had an expiration date. So you have to spend it, or lose it. That keeps it in circulation, leading to more economic activity. Inflation serves this purpose as well.

A Short Hike is a fantastic game.

6/10 that’s a pretty low score. It’s an easy 7, maybe an 8.

This game is extremely innovative in the way it creates puzzles. It’s not particularly long, but that’s not a downside really, it’s a proof they didn’t pad the length with mindless repetition.

worth it if you’re a fan of the genre

If you like puzzles, artsy games, and especially innovative mechanics, then it’s very much worth checking out.

Superliminal draws heavy inspiration from Portal and The Stanley Parable

The narrative setting and tone is similar, otherwise even these two are very different games gameplay wise. Portal is a 3D first person puzzle game. Stanley Parable is a walking simulator with a parody, meta narrative, deconstruction of video games.

Check out Q.U.B.E. or Q.U.B.E. 2 for a good 3D first person puzzle game.

Hans

More likely to be named Urs or Ueli.

NPR is essential for national security.

We will see. Pax Americana has been a hugely stabilizing force in many regions around the world. If an empire falls, fighting over the power vacuum commences. Empires get replaced by chaos and eventually other empires.

Common law like in the USA has inherent weaknesses.

Yes, there are all kinds of dance events from the formal to the casual. It depends where you live, I guess what’s on offer.

Vienna has a fantastic ball culture for example.