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by viburnum 6y ago
The first time I flew was as a grubby college student. It was upstairs on a 747. The people near me gave me dirty looks. I didn’t know what business class was or why I had been upgraded. I slept through the entire flight. I wish I had been
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by viburnum 6y ago
There’s a view that ADHD is badly named, because many ADHD people have incredible focus (at times), and many are not hyperactive in the least. It’s more of an issue about emotional dysregulation, which can be exceptionally painful for those
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by viburnum 6y ago
This has been my experience as well. It’s taken a long time to understand how I am different than most other people. Have you read about sensory processing sensitivity/highly sensitive people?
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by viburnum 6y ago
This is false. Redlining and racist covenants predate Brown by decades.
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by viburnum 6y ago
Local and state governments didn’t receive any federal aid so they needed the sales tax revenue from business. https://medium.com/@philrocco/life-and-death-in-the-fiscal-v...
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I’ve Seen a Future Without Cars, and It’s Amazing(nytimes.com)
4 points by viburnum 6y ago|2 comments
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The incredible arrogance of economists, blundering into every field that has a convenient data set for them to abuse.
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by viburnum 6y ago
The unstated assumption in this article is that only college graduates deserve to have a decent life.
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by viburnum 6y ago
Clearly private industry has run out of profitable investments. Better to shift spending to public investments (science, education, err, the current public health emergency) than to waste more money on delivery boondoggles.
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by viburnum 6y ago
Tankus has been studying economics full time for twelve years! He's earned it. His posts used to be not good but he's paid his dues.
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The Racial Wealth Gap Is About the Upper Classes(peoplespolicyproject.org)
9 points by viburnum 6y ago|2 comments
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by viburnum 6y ago
Hayek himself recognized that people are forced to submit to the market. He just approved of that kind of submission. I got bad news for you guys, Hayek was just making excuses for rich people running the world.
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by viburnum 6y ago
Why is spontaneous order desirable? Pandemics are spontaneously ordered too. IIRC, when pressed on this, Hayek resorted to a kind of crude biopolitcs -- market societies had more population growth so that made them better.
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by viburnum 6y ago
Fox News has dropped anchors because of ad boycotts.
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by viburnum 6y ago
You can’t just add anti-fraud sprinkles on top. The rampant fraud is built into Amazon.com’s business model. Monitoring product quality is hard. All the little shopkeepers and buying managers were actually doing work, work that isn’t easily
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by viburnum 6y ago
One easy trick is to simply not identify with dead people at all. America's founders were strangers to me. If they're terrible, that's on them, not me.
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by viburnum 6y ago
Related, social dominance orientation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_dominance_orientation
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by viburnum 6y ago
Anti-trust problems can't be solved by individual consumer choices.
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by viburnum 6y ago
They’ll quietly close the losing fund and start fresh with a new one.
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by viburnum 6y ago
Instagram’s explore tab has learned that I like pictures of English gardens. It works amazingly well. But if I refresh too often, it seems to run out of new garden photos and just shows hot young women and luxury cars instead (I’m not inter
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by viburnum 6y ago
This is my favorite example of insane requirements: He devoted an entire session to the French Railroad payroll program. The French Railroad had gone on an economy program and reduced their number of employees from 540000 to 360000. So tha
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by viburnum 6y ago
The whole “tort reform” business came about because injury lawyers were supporting democrats instead of republicans. There was an episode of Citations Needed about it. https://medium.com/@CitationsPodcst/episode-107-pop
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May Employment 2,500,000 Jobs Added, 13.3% Unemployment Rate(calculatedriskblog.com)
2 points by viburnum 6y ago|0 comments
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by viburnum 6y ago
Yep, Thiel’s fans will make any excuse for him.
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Thiel is against women having the right to vote because he doesn’t like who they vote for. Knowing this makes Thiel fans angry, because they worship wealth.
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by viburnum 6y ago
Federal government does cost of living adjustments all the time, it’s not rocket science. Local control and national funding is a completely possible policy choice. There are tons of examples.
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Financing and control are separate things. Social Security is national but recipients spend it however they want. And there’s already federal mandates in education without funding, some good, some bad.
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by viburnum 6y ago
You know who’s not laying off anyone? The military. Local funding of schools is ridiculous. Education benefits the whole nation. Educational investments shouldn’t be dictated by transient economic conditions.
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by viburnum 6y ago
So what if New Zealand is an island? How many people are walking to Sweden?
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by viburnum 6y ago
It’s still too soon to tell but it seems like the economic impact of a thorough lockdown (New Zealand) isn’t much greater than most people staying home voluntarily (Sweden). The difference seems worth it to control the pandemic. Two weeks f

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