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by viburnum 6y ago
Not every inflation is a hyperinflation. Look at inflation in America in the 1945-1951 or the 1970s. It wasn’t the end of the world. A little inflation is easier to deal with than mass unemployment and bankruptcy.
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by viburnum 6y ago
This buys, what, ten years of the status quo? Sooner or later carbon has to be zero (and no, carbon capture is not going to scale up to be a solution).
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by viburnum 6y ago
Nope, it was a political battle that labor lost.
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by viburnum 6y ago
It’s sad to see elite American economists fumbling around with productivity and employment issues that Swedish economists like Wigforss, Karleby, Sandler, and the Myrdahls had worked out in the 1930s and 1940s.
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by viburnum 6y ago
So many prominent creationists are engineers. It’s weird.
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by viburnum 6y ago
It’s not just philosophy. So much of economics education is getting students to narrow their vision down to the something that somebody else wants them to see. Force the assumptions on people and then tell them how smart they are when they
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by viburnum 6y ago
What LA Paul takes from this is that since you can’t predict what will happen after a transformative experience, the question you’re left with is, “Am I the kind of person who wants to find out what it will be like to have kids / get m
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Digital Scab, Digital Snitch(phenomenalworld.org)
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by viburnum 6y ago
Uh huh, I said Norway. The point is that not every cost has a benefit. If you're so offended by international comparisons, check out US states: https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/states/occupant_death...
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by viburnum 6y ago
American has three times the traffic death rate of the Britain and six times of Norway’s. What’s the benefit?
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by viburnum 6y ago
A million people killed by cars prevents five million from dying how?
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America Is Officially in ‘Fuck It’ Mode(melmagazine.com)
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by viburnum 6y ago
That's a study group not a book club.
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by viburnum 6y ago
Both tobacco and oil companies have been trying to undermine science generally for decades now by promoting things like “DDT is actually safe.” It’s well-documented. Take a minute to google it.
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by viburnum 6y ago
Probably should be a law to do this automatically after four months or so.
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America’s Deadly Obsession with Intellectual Property(newrepublic.com)
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The Kitchen Counter Observatory(kieranhealy.org)
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Covid Underdogs: Mongolia(medium.com)
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After the Crisis, Big Business Could Get Even Bigger(prospect.org)
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The Grift Goes On(eschatonblog.com)
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by viburnum 6y ago
I agree, the stag hunt / assurance game seems way more relevant to real life situations.
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by viburnum 6y ago
The big difference is in the social housing model rent is on a sliding scale so you get a mix of incomes. In America public housing was only for very poor people. America's public housing era also coincided with deindustrialization, th
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by viburnum 6y ago
I’ve read elsewhere that the wage-earner funds were never very popular, and were actually a break from the tradition of the Social Democrats to only pursue popular policies, often with the support of the Liberals or Center.
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by viburnum 6y ago
They are in New Zealand, depending on where they’ve been.
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by viburnum 6y ago
Economics is the most cliquish field by far. There are basically five universities that matter, they get all the citations, no matter how dumb their research is. It's just fashion (and grant money). Everybody else desperately tries to
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by viburnum 6y ago
Making little notes (instead of trying to keep it all in my head) has helped me tremendously. Simply writing stuff down helps clear away the fog.
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Marx on the Corporation(jwmason.org)
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How Finance Gutted Manufacturing(bostonreview.net)
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by viburnum 6y ago
I heard they even developed parking lots into places for people to work and live. It’s incredible.
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by viburnum 6y ago
How is seattle car hostile?

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