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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
9d ago“When an economy grows but many people feel left behind, what does a good economy actually owe ordinary people?”
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Americans are a free people. Free people do not have to give anything to anyone. Helping widows, orphans and disabled people is done using Free Will with help from our Republic and churches. As free people, we take care of ourselves.... - reddeЯ...
Equating basic public services with communism completely misses the mark. What I am talking about are elements of a socialist or mixed economy, and there is a massive difference between the two.... - Aaron Oakley...
Paul Ehrlich was such a typical academic. That's not a compliment. He fits right in at the top of every ivory tower. They are conditioned to think they are smarter than everyone around them, despite mountains of contrary evidence.... Is capitalism broken?: Ordoliberals
On June 20, 1948, Ludwig Erhard abolished price controls and introduced the Deutsche Mark in a single weekend. He did not consult the Allied authorities. The American military governor told him it was a terrible idea.... Should AI data centers get their own power plants?: Abundance builders
The master variable For two centuries, every leap in human welfare rode on cheaper energy: the steam engine, the electric grid, the Haber-Bosch process that now feeds half the planet. Energy isn’t one input among many — it’s the one the others are made of.... How do you avoid violent redistribution of wealth?: Redistributionists
The napkin Piketty published the number that mattered on a napkin: r > g. The rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of economic growth. It has exceeded it in every century for which we have data except 1914 to 1975, when two world wars and sixty million dead temporarily... Is material abundance actually possible?: Distribution critics
The richest country in history The United States. 37 million in food insecurity. 580,000 sleeping outside on a given night. Infrastructure grade of C-minus from its own engineers. If abundance were a function of productive capacity, the US would have achieved it decades ago.... - onHave you noticed that when workplace performance dips, people's first reaction is to rush to explain it? What they rarely do is slow down long enough to notice how the work started to feel different first. by
Ralph, Thank you. This is a really thoughtful extension of the point and I agree with you on the core issue: more time is often a very blunt response to a nuanced performance problem. What you’re describing at the policy level mirrors what I see inside organizations....