At Mullonde it is totally clear from the second Ramza opens his mouth that he is not here to negotiate

He was certainly under the most constant and motivated scrutiny of anybody we know about, including *checks notes* Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

To whatever extent that there was ever any logic to QAnon it was that Trump had, in fact, been a truly unctuous person and had been connected to other such people - who else would confide in him - but his presidential run represented a face turn for the purpose of uncovering it

Reached its apex with How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and there was nothing more to say on the matter

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IOW, US income inequality is an intended outcome of our tax policies.

Er...no? Gini coefficient pre-tax isn't too out of wack across OECD countries. We're about the same as Finland!

Thanks to the woke attack on gas ovens, none of the stoves get hot enough anymore

care; I don't expect you will because I don't think you do, but maybe someone reading this exchange can learn something about the forces various economic actors need to accommodate and react to.

I'm not talking about any of that stuff. I'm talking about productivity.

Were it not for technology, wages could be higher...and so would costs, as they are with health care, education, and child care, because you'd have to pay humans to do the work. You can read about Baumol's Cost Disease if you

It does, though. The areas of spending that eat up our higher wages like child care, education, and health care do so precisely because technology can't scale up productivity there to offset costs.

What do you mean, "trading having a life"? Productivity increases come from technology, not labor.

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