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it's colder and more isolated in canada and fewer people want to live there. same for scandinavia. hence state-sponsored incentives in addition to market-drive
by awl130 11y ago
it's colder and more isolated in canada and fewer people want to live there. same for scandinavia. hence state-sponsored incentives in addition to market-driven ones. it is the economics of supply/demand that drive culture (state-sponsored and otherwise), not the other way around. we know this from states in the usa. north dakota pays farm workers higher than california. should we conclude that n. dakota is culturally more accepting than california? we over-attribute these kinds of effects to cultural norms.
- Moshe_Silnorin 11y agoWe wrestle not with flesh and blood, but against powers and principalities: http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/07/we-wrestle-not-with-flesh-and-blood-but-against-powers-and-principalities/ http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/07/we-wrestle-not-with-fle...
- vmorgulis 11y ago"But the puppetry expands past individuals toward whole empires and movements. If God reached into the year 1900 and removed every single Communist, and every Communist book, and erased all memory of Communism, I think it would take about five minutes before someone reinvented something much like the movement, because there were a bunch of very poor people who felt desperate and cheated crammed up against a bunch of very rich people who weren’t afraid to flaunt their wealth. The new movement might have differed from Communism in minor details – maybe their color would have been blue instead of red – but it wouldn’t be hard to identify." I think it's green...