May 2012
2 posts
Let’s Be Less Productive →
The relentless drive for productivity may have some limits; if our economies don’t continue to expand, we risk putting people out of work.
April 2012
2 posts
Barney Frank, quoting Friedrich von Hayek
Barney Frank: These days in developed countries, everybody says you need a private sector to create wealth, you need a public sector to create rules by which wealth is created. Sensible people understand that. Let me read this to you.
[Picks up copy of Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom.] “In no system that could be rationally defended would the state just do nothing. An effective competitive system...
March 2012
6 posts
February 2012
2 posts
January 2012
4 posts
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“The conservative criticism of redistribution is a claim that conservatives would...”
– Squashed: Dumb Metaphor Friday: “Growing the pie”
1 tag
“I should probably say first that the kind of hope I often think about...”
– – Vaclav Havel, 1986
Happy New Year « slacktivist
December 2011
5 posts
“But back to Charles Prince. For his four years of in charge of massive, repeated...”
– My Occupy LA Arrest, by Patrick Meighan (via nickdouglas)
Reminds me of this:
A criminal is a person with predatory instincts without sufficient capital to form a corporation. Clarence Darrow
Sounds about right.
Don’t Tax the Rich. Tax Inequality Itself. →
To keep inequality in check, tax the wealthiest 1 percent when their income gets out of proportion with median income.
October 2011
3 posts
September 2011
9 posts
Southern Beale: Don’t Talk To Me About Death... →
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American misperceptions of foreign aid spending in... →
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A Holiday Message From Ricky Gervais: ‘Why I’m an... →
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Some real Shock and Awe: Racially profiled and... →
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When the free market gives you free money, take it... →
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August 2011
2 posts
July 2011
8 posts
“It’s a supremely ridiculous waste of everybody’s time,”...”
– Republicans Propose New State: Southern California - San Francisco News - The Snitch
I missed this one earlier, but it gave me a good laugh… what will they think of next?!?
Slate Magazine - on the constitutionality of the... →
Republicans are easy to figure out. What they actually want to do is the exact opposite of what they say. What they think something means is so far from the truth… and the cognitive dissonance required to support this upside-down world of theirs, and keep track of all their lies and falsehoods and made up fantasy shit… well, it must take all the brain power they’ve got (which...
Taxes and Billionaires - NYTimes.com →
June 2011
3 posts
Making a Living With Multiple Part-Time Jobs -... →
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May 2011
3 posts
April 2011
3 posts
