Guys, really. Our apparently brisk GDP growth is down largely to rentierism, attaching ever more, ever larger tolls to everything. It’s not meaningful prosperity. We are miserable. Don’t emulate us. Stick with Universal Scandinavia. cf @crookedfootball.bsky.social crookedtimber.org/2025/01/29/t...
The death of the hope of progress and the fear of being left behind
Link Preview: The death of the hope of progress and the fear of being left behind: At some indeterminate point in the fairly recent past, citizens and leaders of most liberal democracies probably looked forward to a condition to be realized in the imaginable future that we can, f…