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The points are valid. But it's entirely possible to replace 'Bad Economics' with even 'Worse Economics'

It's not just density, many books are pure nonsense. So 200 books of pure nonsense a year won't teach you much. They'll just introduce you to a ton of terrible ideas.

This is nothing new. Molten salt ideas have been around 30+ years and there are projects in Spain and other countries that tested them on small scale. The economics is still poor.

Real wages have been stagnant since 1970s in the US. Median household incomes have only gone up because some people work in highly paid industries, like IT, plus household incomes …

Clearly the Fed mostly. We'll see it once the supply chain issues go away, but high prices stay high.

And it's probably going to only get worse looking at Fed

It's not an indicator problem, it's a problem of people trying to time markets. Also, there are two ways to use the Buffet Indicator - right and wrong. The wrong way is to say 'it'…

Did you study the work of Ralph Nader and the auto industry? Or the history of tobacco industry? There are multiple examples when it worked in the past. I am quite confident that w…

Well, when each country does that it becomes economically unfeasible. Such fines work and work very well, once FB realizes that they lose more money from unethical behavior than th…

It's kind of strange to compare companies strictly based on their valuation. Saudi Aramco valuation today is higher than that of Apple but these are very different companies and I …

Though coronavirus is very different in many respects, it's worthwhile (especially if you are older like me) to remember the history of AIDS. We've learned to live with it and limi…

There's huge inflation in many things related to making cars (chips, steel, shipping costs as many cars are still being shipped across the ocean, labor costs, etc.). We are likely …

My argument is as follows - happiness can not AND should not be measured. Now, that doesn't mean that you can't define happiness as you want it and pursue it on an individual level…

Maybe, maybe not - you'd have to define which complex set of chemical combination is happiness and which isn't. But why? We know a lot about neurochemistry. We know a lot about rec…

No, it's not my logic and your conclusion is incorrect. Measurement units don't actually exist (meters, seconds, inches, pounds, liters) - yet that's how we measure things and very…

Wouldn't it then be easier and more logical to set the goal as 'reduction of work hours from ... to...'? Personally, I don't believe that working less (or more) makes people happy …

You are absolutely correct. Moreover, reifications can be useful or harmful - purely based on how they are being used. That's why maps are actually useful, except for several indiv…

Do you understand the concept of reification? If not, see https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/reification#:~:text=Re... . So if you feel happy (or miserable) it means just that -…

Should we be measuring at all? Claiming that people have to be more happy over time is a weird proposition for a biologist like me. Not only happiness does not exist (see reificati…

Similar things happen in US on a much larger scale. Simply search for 'Amazon hire to fire' 'GE Neutron Jack' or 'Microsoft annual review system'

Yep. So basically the same approach can/should be used here too.

Sure, there were, but things changed. Can you tell me how you see this 'right' realistically being implemented in the public sector, which is the largest employer in the western wo…

How is it different from current situation, where there are a ton of open vacancies for remote work already available on the market. I.e. why does it have to be the right? Here's m…

Yeah, but is working from home really a 'right' akin to 8 hour day or a 'perk' similar to office dinners or sabbaticals or corporate Christmas parties?

Yeah, but how is it different from any other human interaction? Let's say you have a partner and you have a kink that makes you happy. But your partner doesn't share this kink with…