Loquitur Ponte Sublicio
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Thinking out-loud in real time. if you disagree, I hope you'll feel I showed my work.
In which i make my long delayed case that financialization is good
One of the most heartening things in the Discourse is a growing recognition that the US is rich relative to Europe. The existence of the Europoor is one of those critical table stakes facts to making sense of policy impacts and i am hopeful that as the gap continues to widen it…
There's sort of a weird meta question about what we're actually doing here when we moralize. It's pretty easy to describe a model of the word "good" that this obviously qualifies as. But i dont have any desire to do it at all, i dont feel any compunction in the least about not…
I'm sorry but there is no rejoinder on Earth that will convince me that donating 50% of your income to charity is not morally impressive! even if the charity were dogshit (which most are, but that's a central concern of EA!) I would still be impressed by the sacrifice shit,…
This "debate" is one of the odder things on X because it's pretty obvious if you're around advanced degree or nationally ranked college crowds really at all that basically everyone marries rough educational peers. Many have said this and the data bears it out. The spike in stay…
Are you online? Then you've probably seen the takes: rich men should just marry a pretty, submissive Applebee's waitress. There's a whole genre of tweet that seems to fantasize about highly available food service workers. I decided, at my peril, to take it seriously and test it