labor versus capital
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On currency
Money is an illusion, but the consequences of not having it are very real.
asset pricing, banking, Bitcoin, Bitcoins, blockchain, Capital, capitalism, central bank, central banking, cum ex, currency, deflation, dentist in jail, dentistry, financial fraud, fiscal policy, fraud, history of money, incarceration, inequality, inflation, investment, investors, jail, jail dentistry, jail poetry, jail poetry class, jail poetry workshop, labor, labor versus capital, monetary policy, money, pulling teeth, QE, quantitative easing, stock market, stock market fraud, tax fraud, tax loopholes, teaching in jail, teaching poetry in jail, teeth pulled in jail, toxic assets, velocity of money, wealth
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On Robert Gordon’s ‘The Rise and Fall of American Growth.’
What if technological innovations are a cause of, not a solution to, our post-1970s economic morass?
Amazon, artificial intelligence, automation, CAFO, clean water, concentration of wealth, delivery drones, distribution of wealth, driverless cars, economics, electric appliances, factory farming, feminism, future technologies, GDP, GDP is not an effective measure of quality of life, GDP undercounts the value of caregiving, guaranteed basic income, Impossible Foods, increasing gains to capital, invention, labor versus capital, negative tax, no one’s choices should be curtailed because of gender, parenting, Pat Brown, pessimism, poverty causes stress, productivity, quality of life, reparations, Rise and Fall of American Growth, Robert Gordon, robotics, slow growth, social breakdown, Steven Rattner, technological progress, the value of a stay-at-home parent, wealth tax, William D. Nordhaus, women’s work has been historically undervalued
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