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We've been indoctrinated our whole lives to believe that "property" is somehow fair, rational, real, etc. Plenty of room for cognitive dissonance here.

... and unnecessary middlemen playing casino with human lives (aka health insurers) don't extract a huge payday.

> Rather than relying on a few giant platforms to police speech online, there could be widespread competition, in which anyone could design their own interfaces, filters, and additional services

To me this sounds something like "less walmart, more supply chains, warehouses, and storefronts." I agree in spirit, but it's the reverse of how capitalism usually works. The few giant platforms were built off the work of people who built their own interfaces, filters, and additional services. Why would we expect new/improved protocols (crypto or otherwise) to be any different?

You can't even teach an undergrad class without five administrators making five times your salary.

His memo was about "gender discrimination"? Sure, keep telling yourself that.

Like how the current system is called casino funded healthcare?

And how was the "law of supply and demand" verified? smh

This is a narrow view of science. If they're taking one or two courses on physical science, what are their other classes? Do they examine the hypotheses and evidence in economics, history, etc.? Or is their course load just 10% physical science and 90% indoctrination?

>you will not be able to verify centuries of scientific progress all on your own, from first principles. And this becomes even harder when you approach the softer parts of human knowledge such as economics

TBH most of economics is non-empirical ideology that's easy to debunk. More generally pseudo-science is rampant in "western science". That's another reason why this article is so ironic/islamophobic.

That's ten+ years of wasted resources due to "intellectual property". Imagine the total global losses due to this coercive construct.

Old newspapers? Like segregation era? Super objective times.

There's nothing objective about feeling vindicated by Bari Weiss.

This website is extremely ideological. It's just primarily tech bro ideology. This post is from The American Conservative, a proudly ideological right-wing publication. By eliminating dissent you're only making the echo chamber louder.

>Yet we continue to treat it (economics, the global financial system) as some kind of inevitable force of nature, rather than as something that we invented and (to some degree) chose. I wish I knew why that is.

The powers that develop and promote this ideology will profit from it even as the planet is destroyed.

Mises' fans "argue" without any empirical evidence that no plan is the best plan. Pseudo-science in action.

A probability problem has Euler's constant in its answer? And numeric approximations are close to that number?

Who cares? That's how probability works. Nothing weird.

Progress < profits and control

Why would right-wingers reference their own racist culpability when they can blame the government instead?

Why not look at decolonization as a step forward instead? Why not collect restitution from the colonial/imperial powers that have been extracting wealth from South Asia for centuries? Why not use natural resources for the local population?

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00472336.2018.15...

https://www.dandc.eu/en/article/contemporary-bangladeshi-law...

It's the WSJ though.

Not sure why they're doing all these calculations when capitalism already assigns everyone a numerical worth.

Because the stock market is a pyramid scheme propped up with printing money to enforce rampant inequality? Just a guess.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/27/the-feds-balance-sheet-just-...

The dishonesty of this group is manifest in the quote:

"Finally, a retrospective analysis of data from patients hospitalized with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection in all United States Veterans Health Administration medical centers found no evidence that, before ventilation, the use of HCQ either with or without AZ, reduced the need for subsequent mechanical ventilation"

Compared with what the paper actually says:

"In this study, we found no evidence that use of hydroxychloroquine, either with or without azithromycin, reduced the risk of mechanical ventilation in patients hospitalized with Covid-19. An association of increased overall mortality was identified in patients treated with hydroxychloroquine alone."

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/medrxiv/early/2020/04/23/202...

Patients should wear party hats too. It won't hurt.

Pretty sure there's only one economic system. Try another one and get bombed, couped, sanctioned, etc.

Not to mention systemic racism...

Now let's see how the gamblers and con artists who run health care can handle an uninsured nation in plague... smh.

Wow a fake university that promotes pseudo-science doesn't understand the first amendment? Shocker.

While mathematics is often motivated by physical phenomenon, it's epistemologically misleading to present physics as math or vice versa. All too common pet peeve.

Millions of people might not have died unnecessarily. The horror!