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The reason for Seymour’s rating came through loud and clear in some savage commentary. “This divisive approach needs to end,” said one respondent, who believed he was “losing support from many of those who may have voted for him in his electorate”. A legal firm leader said “I worry they are not focusing on the biggest issues…
This assault on reason itself is at the core of Kanter’s critique. He starts off by listing three cases in which academic economists allowed themselves to be corrupted by the monopolies they studied https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/25/epistemological-chaos/
Fuck yeah! Fifteen minutes. That’s how quickly one manager of an Auckland Warehouse Extra said te Wiki o te Reo Māori merchandise, which the Warehouse created in collaboration with Te Taura Whiri i te reo Māori, sold out in the weekend. But the man behind the collaboration said the sight of the merch selling out…
Looooove this… backstory here and lots more here.
A flawed journey of the übermensch
Friedman has blinded us… here is a much more sophisticated, positive-sum and hopeful perspective.
Arguing that communism hasn’t failed because those who claimed to be communist does smack a little of neoliberals and other ideologues screaming that their system has never really been implemented, so their ideas are still fine, but Marx was clear about the process of how Communism would occur and it didn’t include revolutions in agricultural…
… the “patient” kids weren’t demonstrating “self-control” – rather, their willingness to wait for a second marshmallow reflected a charmed life in which adults came through with the goodies they promised. That same charmed life saw those subjects enrolled in the best schools, backstopped by tutors and college application consultants, significant parental financial contributions to…
The dude is the purest distillation of ‘mensch’
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