Surprising for an egalitarian economic text to admit that, on conditions, the rich are entitled to their wealth.

Taxation needs a total revamp because it's inefficient, slow and the rich adapt by becoming a moving target.

Exactly: decide the tax for each citizen at the end of the year, by a division of the required amount.

There is a systemic reason for inequality, and the rich people are controlling the knobs and dials of it: [[too-big-to-fail]] coupled with [[quantitative easing]]

Lemay, E., Kruglanski, A. W., Molinario, E., Agostini, M., Belanger, J., Gutzkow, B., Kreienkamp, J., vanDellen, M. R., team, P., & Leander, P. (2021). The Role of Values in Coping with Health and Economic Threats of COVID-19 [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/6j38h

university, government, and industry.

Sounds argument against neoliberal views for privitized R&D.

Science delivers x20 the typicall ROI!

Definition of the "Solow residual".

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WTF is wrong?

Where is the moral character and backbone of the American people. We know something is wrong! It smells and stinks yet no one does anything. Most of our elected politicians are useless turds floating in wastewater and the rest are multiple term professional corrupt politicians waiting for the appropriate revolving door opportunity. This has nothing to do with party affiliation, it is rampant on both sides. Political parties perpetuate the illusion as a control mechanism. We see it yet do nothing about it! WHY?

This paper (topic) is typical of the continued "head in the sand" passive financial regulatory system loaded with Sheeple and kiss-ass do nothing idiots. Alarms have been going off since 2005/6 and as predicted then, our financial system imploded in 07/08.

1. What lesson was learned?
2. Who were the players?
3. What disciplinary actions took place?
4. Who went to Jail?

Nothing has changed. Corruption and fraud fuel a dysfunctional financial system destined to cripple the American and Global economies. Economists and many within the financial sector know what is going on. Maybe they care about the average person but are afraid to come forward. Maybe they don't care and fully intend to rape and pillage as much of the global society as possible.

The question is what are YOU going to do to protect future generations, your children, grand children and so on?

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Briggs, A., & Vassall, A. (2021). Count the cost of disability caused by COVID-19. Nature, 593(7860), 502–505. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01392-2

But what about inequality, and the aggregation of tokens to few users? Reputation is the hardest currency, and the first to come, wins.

It sounds as a covert funny fiddle with the economy, or you will lose your power "by the people":

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A nice economic POV on this is given by the Greek blogger TechieChan: https://www.techiechan.com/?p=3537

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Δεν υπάρχει (πλέον) ανταγωνισμός, γινόμαστε σοβιετία, απλώς με μεγαλύτερες ανισότητες και κατανεμημένο πολίτμπιρο.

Topol, E. J. (2021, March 18). It’s Okay to Overreact: Devi Sridhar Shares COVID’s Humbling Lesson. Medscape. https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/947382

Tulips as Cryptocoins?

Δεν είχε καταλάβει ο Ανταμ Σμιθ πως ο πλούτος φέρνει πλούτο, δηλαδή.

Κρύβεται ένα από βιβλίο πίσω από τον Πλούτο των Εθνών!

Ποιοι είναι οι Spencer & Mandeville?

GDP & main components pin EU countries.

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Our week 8 module on Web 2.0 and the gig economy discussed this in more depth, and Barron alludes to this dynamic elsewhere in the article when describing both the typical user of an app like seamless and the typical profile of the gig economy worker who actually delivers their food - I appreciate the critiques of app design and user infantilization he is making here, but the article could have also discussed in more depth how these design choices help these companies to obfuscate and divert attention from the way they impact people besides the consumer. There is a whole class people whose primary interaction with these apps is on the back end- as struggling small business owners dependent on positive yelp reviews, delivery people, and rideshare drivers - maybe that is outside the purview of this article, but it would have been nice to see this angle explored a bit more.

Historical context for bitcoin

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How Taiwan triumphed over Covid as the UK faltered. (2021, March 24). The Guardian. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/24/how-taiwan-triumphed-over-covid-as-uk-faltered

Circular economies are good news for everyone

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Sudden death by stimulus.

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