On the one hand, prioritizing everything is prioritizing nothing.
On the other hand, we can walk and chew gum at the same time.
if spells actually worked, a very absolute First Amendment might prove ill-advised.
the private sector relentlessly talks itself up, so generally does a worse job than you come to think from its self-presentation.
the public sector broadcasts contention and controversy, draws contestation and criticism, so generally does a better job than you’d think from the shouty conversation.
The United States “needs to build up bureaucratic capacities that it doesn’t currently have.” @henryfarrell https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/small-yard-high-fence-these-four
// elon and vivek will get right on that, i’m sure.
what contemporary governments do you admire?
Faraday was the first quantum physicist because he finds himself in so many cages all at once.
the nazis had false theories about everything, but they were perfectly capable of building extermination camps nonetheless.
“The ideal of freedom and equality is something like the modern world’s official ideology—so much so that conservatives are always pretending that they’re the ones who honor that ideal best, even as they work assiduously to undo freedom and equality.” @Rickperlstein https://americanprospect.bluelena.io/index.php?action=social&chash=e22cb9d6bbb4c290a94e4fff4d68a831.3059&s=ce07d2b5feef04b26a83a61bce292370
sanity is mental illness now but thank goodness we have ketamine for that.
@scott splitting attention i’m finding challenging and time consuming. (i don’t think i’m sure i know who you are over there?)
@scott @seachanger i mean, it can. all that messaging actually doesn’t produce very much light.
but extravagantly paid consultants and others whose interests are not solidaristic devote most of their messaging to persuading people who fancy themselves smart and reason that it can’t.
@scott @seachanger solidarity can’t hold a candle to well-targeted messaging crafted by extravagantly paid consultants.
“We direct all our employees and consultants to comply with the law.” 😉
there are days and especially nights when i don’t see the point of seeing the point.
the policy you propose, if it were implemented badly, would not succeed. therefore it is naive and counterproductive ever to try it.
when you are affluent, you value choice. when you are hungry, you value food.
@louis it doesn’t matter. product superiority is ephemeral. entrenched market power long survives it.
even when a firm is on the merits extraordinary, we cannot allow its success to result in a consolidated industry. we have to keep throwing competitors at it until some of those new firms up their game.
if we have to argue whether a firm has a monopoly or not, the industry is too consolidated.
the way interest rate policy works is to impose a tax on the nonrich paid to the rich.
nonrich spend their marginal dollar bidding for (bidding up the price of) goods and services. the rich bank their marginal dollar. so such a tax can be disinflationary, if new money to the rich (Federal interest) doesn’t overwhelm
why is the cast of characters so small, that we have to recycle this particular villain?
it’s hard not to gotta-hand-it-to-them a bit on “US elites”, given how the same disappointments and mediocrities reinvent themselves in one another’s company where “new blood” or “merit” might otherwise appear. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11/26/world/israel-hezbollah-lebanon-cease-fire/andrew-cuomo-joins-netanyahus-legal-defense-team?smid=url-share?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes
(it’s even worse when you read the story. Dershowitz. Barr. a “dream team” of (in)famous hacks.)