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Good point, I guess another way to reduce inequality is by your ruling party having an extremely ideological stance, pragmatics be damned, although I imagine most people wouldn't p…

I think people also have a natural tendency to assume that the amount you are paid is correlated to how difficult the job is, which isn't quite true. The market value of a role has…

Definitely agree with this! Given the pace of technological development, we should basically expect entire groups of people to constantly drop out of the competitive labor market. …

While it's true that a lot of China's conveniences come from essentially labor market arbitrage and rural/urban inequality, the fact that the Netherlands can afford to attempt to r…

As always, correlation is not causation, so it's very possible that the people who tend to be happier also tend to maybe fit into society better and thus get higher paying jobs, no…

What about making it a daily style game where you have to guess which book the opening is from?

I also see the decline of reading, at least more "serious" long-form works, partly as an extension of the cult of productivity. Why read a 300 page book on something when you can g…

It was a pleasant surprise to see that the article wasn't about bashing on Bourdain at all. I was a little scared when I opened it. Like the author, I'm also a little conflicted ab…

I think this article mostly says what we already know about the negative effects of too much screen time, but I personally always struggle to follow the basic mitigating advice lik…