methinks prisons will suffice.

ha! not their choice!

we've developed a tool that supersedes and renders obsolete the guillotine. it's called taxation. we've never quite had the courage to deploy it as indicated.

the good die young.

the great thing about this approach is there’s no need for immigration police. the only people we ever deport are people who find themselves in the custody of the regular police anyway, for actually committing acts of violence.

Abolish ICE. If you want to enforce current immigration law, fine employers.

Impeach. Convict. Remove. Prosecute. Rinse. Repeat.

no good graph goes unpunished.

not after parties sort and negative polarization takes hold. then the threat the other guys might win largely obviates substantive negotiation.

“after all of those whom i resent have been crushed, i swear to you the world will be peaceful and good.”

very few administrations have resolved as many serious crises they created in such a short period of time.

perhaps it's too early to say, but i am heartened by the prospect of peace between the United States and NATO.

they mocked him for an apology tour that never happened, but whoever’s next better do a big one.

i like to sign up for expensive classes so i can have the pleasure of skipping school again.

thank you for the interesting question and clarifying discussion!

yeah, i agree that in isolation the p @ p=mc i agree tells you basically nothing interesting from a normative perspective. it just serves an important role in a framework that helps understand relative market power (for some markets), and that framework has useful normative implications.

i know everybody hates GenAI but it's a capable sycophant if it could generate a metaverse for Donald Trump in which every peace price goes to him and all of his tariffs make the economy "hot" and combat operations yield fast, lethal victories everybody cheers on televisions, mightn't he go there?