I didn’t have a budget or anything so I found it mildly interesting that it turned out an even number.

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    9 months ago

    Got it. I thought this was a restaurant receipt for Panera, but groceries makes more sense not to tax.

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      No they don’t!

      This creates a need for the law to distinguish between grocery stores and restaurants, leading to artificial barriers to innovation within the marketplace.

      Laws should be simple, and create a level landscape on which people can make design choices motivated by utility, instead of adherence to the unnatural incentive landscape of a highly-varied legal system.

      It only takes O(1) effort to adapt one’s brain to nature, and to the set of societal arrangements that naturally arise within nature. It takes O(N) effort to adapt one’s brain to new sets of rules that change the incentive landscape, where N is the number of times the rules change.