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This is like asking "is a relationship code for abuse?" A relationship done poorly can be abusive. Similarly, public private partnerships done poorly can lead to enrichment of poli…

Precisely right. That's why printing cash (whether in the form of UBI or any other cash printing social program) is not a sustainable solution for lifting people out of poverty or …

However this saves us from inflation, since the money circulates among the wealthy and corporations rather than among the common person.

Many lines of evidence indicate that it is.

We can't wait for markets to sort themselves out while a few executives and their well connected friends control and decide the information we get to see and hear. The stakes are t…

Why do I need to see a doctor to get a mole or skin lesion checked? Why is it necessary for someone to go through 4 years of undergrad, med school, etc etc just to examine a mole a…

In the 19th and early 20th centuries there was in the US a proliferation of medical schools - many unaffiliated with Universities - with very few entrance requirements, extremely u…

While I don't see any examples of on this list, except perhaps for Pula, emerging archaeological evidence indicates that in the Balkans region around 7000 years ago massive towns (…

We will never be able to rid ourselves of the virus at this point. The only thing we can do is get healthy people out into society to build up immunity and eventually herd immunity…

Ida Tarbell's father was an oilman who was ruined by Rockefeller and Standard Oil while she was a girl, which is important to keep in mind when contextualizing her work. She lived …

Futures prices are significantly higher than $0. This is less noteworthy than it seems. https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/future/crude%20oil%20-...

It is not really progressive to allow biological males to play with and in many cases dominate biological female competition. This is an example of how the ACLU has lost its way in…

The devil on the shoulder has appeared

The mad rush to shout down the Wuhan Bio Lab escape theory was always so odd to me. It was mentioned as a possibility and then there was a sudden deluge of headlines proclaiming th…

Exactly, this seems like an friendly handshake agreement to cooperate with an official name and press release. OTOH, pacts like the popular vote compact signed by some states in th…

In any sufficiently high dimensional system with resource constraints it's inevitable there will be tradeoffs. Or more simply, no system is perfect.