Patrick Julius
pnrjulius.bsky.social
Patrick Julius
@pnrjulius.bsky.social
Writer, tutor, blogger, economist

Bachelor's in cognitive science from the University of Michigan
PhD in economics from the University of California, Irvine

Taught at the University of Edinburgh
We don't need a precise answer. It's already utterly obvious that billionaires are well beyond it. In fact, hemming and hawing about not having a precise answer strikes me as little more than making excuses for the obvious injustice that billionaire wealth entails.
December 7, 2024 at 6:05 PM
Reposted by Patrick Julius
the fact that we have "serious" convos about whether billionaires are okay suggests public consciousness that is totally divorced from the 1) actual scale of private wealth accumulation 2) its political implications. helpful data visualization:

eattherichtextformat.github.io/1-pixel-weal...
Wealth, shown to scale
Wealth inequality in the United States is out of control. Here we visualize the issue in a unique way.
eattherichtextformat.github.io
December 7, 2024 at 12:54 PM
I mean, they already dismiss the concerns of fat people for not working out or eating right or whatever. So that's hardly a big change. Maybe we can find some way to make doctors not dismiss the concerns of fat people?
November 24, 2024 at 7:33 PM
This has the same energy as "I'm not racist, but"
November 24, 2024 at 6:45 PM
If one company has enough power to do this, that company is too large. Antitrust action is clearly necessary here.
November 24, 2024 at 6:39 PM
Seems to me that we just need to abandon the assumption of continuity. Human behavior didn't really follow it all that well anyway, did it?
November 24, 2024 at 6:35 PM
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“In theory, the I.R.S. could audit the Trump transition…”

It’s pathetic that we’re at the point where we acknowledge we could uphold the law “in theory” and we all know it’s just a joke.
November 24, 2024 at 4:04 PM
Reposted by Patrick Julius
I think that the public has conflated questioning authority with discounting the legitimacy of expertise, and that’s a dangerous mix-up.
November 24, 2024 at 4:07 PM
I found an exception to Betteridge's Law not long ago. The headline was: "Should you get a flu shot?"
November 24, 2024 at 4:51 PM