ctoll

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   by ctoll 1y ago

   The industrial revolution was not a single event. There is enough data since then to say that economic uncertainty is correlated with suicide and that technological upheaval is correlated with economic uncertainty. The period we are living
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   by ctoll 1y ago

   There is no meaningful 'best time to be alive' distinct from psychological reality. If people are not adapted to their environment and either don't value it or aren't valued by it, it doesn't matter how much materia
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   by ctoll 1y ago

   Saying that economists are scientists and therefore above reproach from non-economists ignores the way that ideology and research become intertwined whenever public policy is involved. Saying "trust the science" at all times, even
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   by ctoll 1y ago

   This is like arguing that politicians don't need to be corrected by non-politicians, or that people with no understand of programming can't criticize the tech industry. No one is arguing that being a computer programmer gives a pe
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   by ctoll 7y ago

   Would you say he's holding it wrong?