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touché
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Sure, buts its a solid career break for a year.
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Your second point about zero-sum growth misses in that in a competitive system, investors and their proxies (management) are certainly not going to miss out on the wealth being created right now in this industry. Long term, economy-wide imp
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I think it would be interesting to incorporate loan words or phrases. Often these words become loan words because there's no good English equivalents so loan words/phrases sort of expand our ability to grapple these concepts.
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Nearly 20% for healthcare causes some reservations -- considering how little we get for our money in America.
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It's not attempted. Its executed. Below are the articles that define genocide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_Convention
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I think it's more of a shorthand for general mega cap tech companies
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certain domestic market protections would be wise for any politician to support, unfortunately the craziness of this administration smothers the conversation. https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/0
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I know someone at a growing division of a FAANG who has not been allowed to hire anyone outside of India for a number of years now. They're critically understaffed but the screws only tighten with each year.
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It also focuses the race around the center of the pool which works from a visual standpoint. Favorites in the middle, dark horses surrounding at the edge
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MAHA is weird because it correctly identifies that the shareholder driven food industry has completely warped health outcomes related to our diet. Then they completely miss the mark with their bizzaro and unfounded theories on the causes an
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Hahaha you're totally right
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I suspect a professional executive appointment was among the terms to finance Musk's purchase of Twitter.
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I saw something a while back about how to start a watch company. Essentially source some junk, use highly targeted social media ads to look like a real brand, then profit. https://imgur.com/a/how-to-create-unique-succe
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Is it a good product? Genuine question
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this NYT opinion piece from a few years back was impactful to my understanding about the destructive nature of such a false dichotomy - as it pertains to Lebanon https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/09/opinion/
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I think right leaning (in a traditional definition) sort of undersells the current right wing media/political sphere. Its difficult to evaluate the credibility of a movement that is fundamentally, albeit inconsistently anti-institution
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I think the only way to approach this is to have a panel of credible people for each beat (maybe from academia) who can qualitatively asses a range of articles and curate a spectrum of articles. However this is all scooting around the funda
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Stock market measures two things, 1) the performance of firms within their economic environments. 2) the level of savings to be invested in the stock market. Both are tied to the labor-share of income. That is, how much income is generated
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the only signal I can think of is returns on student debt to measure "employment quality" - i.e how well is my education capital being deployed, but any realistic evaluation of the labor market will be complex and include qualitat
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gig work platforms have definitely skewed the traditional significance of U-3
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Quatar has a very high GDP per capita, day laborers may not celebrate. We could use metrics such as GINI but it also matters to look at qualitative factors such as worker rights etc. to measure well being
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Of course we have alternative measures of unemployment but they're harder to measure and read. There's something about the so-called "vibecession" - that people might be better at measuring their own circumstances than m
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agreed. however the rate of wealth creation and concentration of capital are inverse to one another. Creative destruction does stem through market activity and the creation of Amazon did add to the collective wealth of America, as much of
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A market matching supply and demand in many conditions creates the most prosperity for the transacting parties, creating economic activity which is accretive to the overall wealth of society. However, as many economists may observe - promin
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It's like imagine playing soccer with your buddies and one decides to pick up the ball and kick anyone in their path - but the goals still count. The game sort of breaks.
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We will be expected to tip at self serve fuel pumps
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Access to capital/other's talent and/or access to your market (users) is the primary competitive advantage among those talented enough to design and build a product.
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ultimately sure, but there are exogenous factors at play
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While there is value from having the drug becoming available on the market, you would think there would need to be some form price controls in exchange for private production.
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