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This is an oft-repeated piece of received wisdom that is empirically untrue. https://www.statnews.com/2018/06/28/end-of-life-health-spend...

My pet theory is this boils down to investor confidence. Executives get more comp in stock, cutting workers sends the right signal.

Jevon’s paradox implies we’d have a brief respite, chronologically speaking, before having to tackle something like heat shedding.

Actually, originally no; stocks paid dividends.

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These are very different things.

“We are qualitatively different. All we need to do is open our eyes. You look out your window at that beautiful ~~city~~ anthill that happens to be out there that cannot be explain…

Would love to see some data backing up the authors assertions, otherwise this reads a bit as a screed.

I'm curious as I see this thrown around a lot; how does the slowdown in production and labor not factor into inflation, too? It seems to me like those are much stronger contributio…

So far as I've been able to tell, the only people who actually live that way are the wealthy.

It’s pretty shocking. Had similar discussions w/ co’s dominating organic and paying ~~fucking con artists~~ affiliate marketers. IMO those are faaaaar worse than poorly allocated s…

Ah, the relevance is that SpaceX is producing a ton of extra objects in space.