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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
“When a leader promises to break with the old economic model, what would actually convince you they mean it?”
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- Eric Stevens...
After 50 years of fighting the same battles, the only thing that changes are the protest signs and actors. I am of the opinion that money backing the politics is where the larger problem is..... this makes me think: I'm not a history buff, but a few years ago I read The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant, and it changed my mind about income inequality—I used to think, "As long as the lives of the lowest are improving, why does the gap matter?" But then the Durants... - Mark Burns...
The Greatest Country on Earth Finishes Last in Its Class
What we lead in. What we trail in. What it would take to close the gap. For context, "we" is the United States of America, and we are all missing part of the story.... - Serpardum...
The question is intended to help us see things differently and play with each other in idea and conversation, not judge anyone or put people in camps; to generate discussion, about dreaming what we can do with abundance, seeing what we can already do without that much (most of my... - onIs climate change a science problem, an economics problem, a moral problem, or something else?: The Storyby62jazzmaster...
Climate models are statistically "unfit for purpose." In any complex system, small errors in variables (like cloud cover or humidity) don't cancel out—they compound. When you project these errors over 100 years, the margin of error becomes larger than the predicted warming....