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  1. Nov 2024
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  3. Jun 2023
    1. the best policy for science is just more immigration into the United States. High skilled maybe, but just flat out more immigration.

      Isn't that just drawing from another exhaustible resource? Think end game. Don't we converge on an equilibrium where we are no longer able to exploit the outsized gains?

    1. Of course, the personal computer and its cousin, the smartphone, have brought about some big changes. And many goods and services are now more plentiful and of better quality. But compared with what my grandmother witnessed, the basic accoutrements of life have remained broadly the same.
  4. Oct 2021
  5. Feb 2021
    1. There’s so much money that goes to the creditors to the top 1 percent or 5 percent that there is no money for capital investment, there is no money for growth. And, since 1980 as you know, real wages in America have been stable. All the growth has been in property owners and predators and the FIRE sector, the rest of the economy is in stagnation.
  6. Nov 2020
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    1. reviewing all its familiar objects which she had dusted once a week for so many years, wondering where on earth all the dust came from

      Familiarity and repetition is a common theme among many of the stories in Dubliners. Nothing changes, and there is a certain level of comfort in that stagnant familiarity. Although she dusted her home regularly, it always came back, representing stagnation as a systemic issue that cannot be solved by routine remedies.

  8. Jan 2019
    1. This central focus meant that the arcs were perpetually shifting position and overlapping one another. Such shifting is what Ramus hated the most: "For arts ought to consist of subjects that are constant, perpetual, and unchanging, and they should consider only those concepts which Plato says are archetypal and eternal" (99).

      Although uniformity within a discipline can be beneficial, "shifting" and "overlapping" combat stagnation. Without this constant movement, would disciplines be able to grow and develop?