wealth
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On trust and money.
In economics textbooks, the origin of money is often described as a replacement for barter. Silly examples are given: if you raise cows and need a hammer, you have to find someone who has an extra hammer and specifically wants cows. You might travel all across town with a cow in tow, searching for someone…
addiction, barter, Braiding Sweetgrass, Buterin, community, consumption, cryptocurrency, currency, Ethereum, Frank Bidard, gift economics, Hernan Diaz, hoarding, late fees, Magic the Gathering, monetary exchange, money, money versus barter, non-disclosure agreement, origin of money, overconsumption, Price of Crypto, promise, reparations, resource transfer, Robin Wall Kimmerer, social contract, social network, Third Hour of the Night, tragedy of the commons, Trevor Jackson, trust, Trust novel, vampire bats, wealth, Windigo, Windigo economics
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On Roe v. Wade
What rights do you have, if a research experiment might instantly erase them?
abortion, abortion access, abortion rights, adversarial justice, adversarial law, adversarialism, artificial womb, caregivers, choice, conception, court arguments, David Cole, equal protection, ethics, external conception, fetal development, fetal viability, freedom, gestation, imbalance of power, infanticide, Jenny Kleeman, justice, Justice Sotomayor, motherhood, Mothers and Others, parenthood, personhood, philosophy, Planned Parenthood, Planned Parenthood v Casey, potentiality of human life, pregnancy, privacy, pro-choice, pro-life, reproduction, reproductive freedom, reproductive rights, right to life movement, Roe, Roe v Wade, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Sarah Hrdy, science, science versus philosophy, scientific research, Sex Robots and Vegan Meat, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, Supreme Court justices, Supreme Court opinions, ultrasound, wealth, women's health, women's rights
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On inequality and disease.
Whose lives matter enough that we shut down? Whose matter so little we won’t save them with Gatorade?
45, 77-year-old white man, 78-year-old white man, abuse, age-related disease, age-related immunosenescence, AIDS, Albuterol, Bernie Sanders, cancer risk, CDC, clean water, climate change, climate destabilization, communicable diseases, coronavirus, coronavirus coverage, coronavirus test, coronavirus testing, cost of care, cost of clean water, cost of health care, cost of inhalers, cost of medical treatment, Covid-19, Covid-19 coverage, Covid-19 epidemic, Covid-19 pandemic, Covid-19 stimulus, Covid-19 testing, damage to our economy, deaths of despair, Democratic primary, demographics, diarrhea, dirty water, domestic violence, Donald Trump, drug addiction, economy, election, epidemic, essential business, essential businesses, far right, flatten the curve, Gatorade as medicine, generational privilege, global warming, health care, HIV, HIV epidemic, HIV pandemic, ICU, inequality, infectious disease, infectious diseases, inhaler, inhalers, intensive care unit, intimate partner violence, invasive ventilation, Joe Biden, malaria, New York Times, old white men, Pandemic, PCR testing, PotUS, presidential election, presidential primary, privilege, quarantine, respiratory infection, respiratory infections, school closure, seasonal influenza, seasonal influenza versus covid-19, shutdown, social distancing, social isolation, stay at home, stay at home order, stock market, suicide, suicide risk, top causes of death, Trump, Trump administration, ventilation, ventilators, water-born illnesses, wealth, wealth inequality, World Health Organization
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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 gene duplication and oppression, a reprise.
Maybe horrific oppression helped get from our past to the present, but it’s certainly not the only way forward.
aristocracy, bacterial evolution, citrate metabolism, cultural evolution, DNA duplication, DNA polymerase, DNA replication, evolution, evolution in a laboratory, evolution of culture, global wealth tax, guaranteed basic income, history, history of violence, landed gentry, mutation, natural selection, oppression, Richard Lenski, taxation, taxes, theft, wealth
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On smell (again!).
In our polluted world, animals can’t always find their own kind to mate with. Not that all species barriers are good.
assortive mating, CAFO, CAFOs, chimera, choosing mates, choosing romantic partners, continuing evolution, cultural barriers, evolution, fish, heredity, history of violence in the U.S., human evolution, inequality, Loving, Loving v. Virginia, mating, mating based on smell, melanin, miscegenation, parental education, perfume, persistence of inequality, pollution, poverty, racism, romance, scent, skin color, slavery, smell, speciation, species, stick insects, wealth, wealth inequality, Wedekind
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On automation, William Gaddis, and addiction.
An inefficient world might be a much better place to live.
Agape Agape, AI, artificial intelligence, automation, Brian Alexander, Capital, capitalism, corporate managers, corporate takeover, death of small towns, delivery drone, drug prices, economics, evolutionary inefficiencies, Glass House, greed, heroin, human evolution, inequality, investors, J R, Jeff Bezos, jobs that robots can do, JR, labor economics, labor vs. capital, machine learning, Mark Binelli, meth, people want jobs, people want to work, piano roll, player piano, robot doctors, robot lawyers, robot writers, robotics, robots, robots designed by robots, The Michigan Experiment, unemployment, wealth, who should the stakeholders of a school be, William Gaddis
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On idle time, coincidence, and Vivek Shanbhag’s ‘Ghachar Ghochar.’
An idle mind often reads supernatural portent into every coincidence.
45, Annie Jacobsen, atheists in foxholes, author as God, CIA, coincidence, conspiracy, conspiracy theory, curse, Donald Trump, foreshadowing, fraud, germination of supernatural belief, Ghachar Ghochar, hewn stone, idle, idle mind, jubilee, lost car keys, Magic, numerology, Phenomena, PotUS, precognition, prophecy, Puharich, science, speculation, Srinath Perur, statistical manipulation, statistical significance, supernatural, Trump, Vivek Shanbhag, wealth
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On bitcoins and privacy.
Bitcoins: either I or other people were suffering from some fundamental misunderstandings.
antibiotic resistance, antibiotics, Bitcoins, black markets, blockchain, Canadian pharmaceuticals, civil liberties, cost of medicine, cost of prescription drugs in the U.S., drugs, economics, freedom of speech, GHB, gun control, healthcare spending in the U.S., how anonymous are bitcoins?, how could the government protect your property rights if they don’t know what you own, how much computer power would it take for someone to steal your bitcoins?, imported pharmaceuticals, John Bohannon, law enforcement, legalized drugs, legalizing drugs, monetary policy, money supply, opiate abuse, ownership, ownership by majority vote, policing, prescription drugs, privacy, property rights, Ross Ulbricht, senseless regulation, Shadow, ShadowCash, speculation, The Silk Road, transaction log, War on Drugs, wealth, what makes a law just
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On crashing waves of violence and Paul Kingsnorth’s ‘The Wake.’
People are raving about the new film “Racing Extinction.” What might impending extinction feel like for those last few survivors?
ancient humans, Beowulf, CK Scott Moncrieff, distribution of wealth, economics, extinction, Homo sapiens, human evolution, inequality, land holdings, land rights, Marcel Proust, mass extinction, Neanderthals, Norman Invasion, Old English, Paul Kingsnorth, Sapiens, Seamus Heaney, Stonehenge, The Wake, Translation, wealth, Yuval Noah Harari
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