#Capitalism

How sad is the state of affairs in #PuertoRicanStudies that we can't even muster a dialogue through our association #PRSA, nor even issue a statement condemning Krug pretending to be
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how are you distracting yourself tonight? we’re getting as drunk as possible while trying to get through more than 10 minutes of this opening on a sophocles quote is....... a
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My startup CEO has sent us something to read, https://stratechery.com/2020/how-tech-can-build/ which is a response/follow-up to https://a16z.com/2020/04/18/its-time-to-build/So here is me reading both of them. Gangway. "This monumental failure o
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We are living in a golden age of predatory capitalism, in which businesses that generate real value and stable employment are being destroyed by deep-pocketed quasi-tech firms that lose money
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Polls were successful at predicting Clinton’s numbers in states with paper trails (just a statistically inconsequential 1% difference), Clinton over-performed by an average of 9% in the states that use
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What is the basis of "Crypto UBI"? Besides a teaching tool, a simulation, how can it actually help implement Basic Income? I learned this from Marcus Brancaglione, of the @ReCivitas
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CHARLIE MUNGER'S 7 IRON LAWS: Charlie Munger has been the biggest COGNITIVE INFLUENCE on my life so far. Here are a list of my favourite PRINCIPLES from the eccentric billionaire.
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Super League and Super Villains [Thread] WTF is the Super League?European breakaway competition with 15 core teams and 5 qualifying teams. Core teams don't face relegation. They will each receive
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Trump got my support when he started calling out #FakeNews. Why? Because at the time I had begun reading a lot about propaganda and how its used to dehumanize opponents.
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#SomeThoughts:I think about colonization and slavery a lot and it is obvious that there is more to meet the eye. Popular discourse around these institutions have made it literally black
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A long thread about slaughterhouses. This thread was sparked by an interesting thread (below) from a historian I deeply respect. And I think the larger argument is mostly correct, but
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I haven't been great about attending all of your wonderful #aag2021 sessions... But if mine catches your attention, here's a thread. It's about two manuscripts I'm working on theorizing the
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1/ Claremont continues to send its...uh...best (such as it is) with this rather flimsy and unserious piece from Larry Greenfield in @JewishJournal's 'The Speech Project.'https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/336423/big-tech-is-bi
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Some of my favorite Naval Ravikant takeaways & quotes from his interviews "Anger is a hot coal that you hold in your hand while waiting to throw it at somebody
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*HUGE*@TheLancetPsych, one of the most powerful journals in the world, is calling game over for "global mental health" as we know it.Just *HOW BIG* could this be? Imagine if McKinsey
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Okay. I think we need to have a talk about What is Cultural Appropriation in Occultism. Because I love some of you, a lot, but you are missing a huge,
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