Category: Oppression
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Hyperbolic discounting, extensive margin, rebalancing, New Thought. Or... how economic jargon reshapes Society
Competitiveness, debt hair cuts, rebalancing, debt ceiling, zombie banks, deleveraging, automatic stabalizers, extensive margin, hyperbolic discounting (1, 2), Oops (3), price caps, minimum wage... Economic jargon is something more than just a set of weird words used by weird economy people. They are a tool of re-defining society. As Orwell very intuitively put it in…
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Pray for few followers!
If everyone accepts what you do... If no one disagrees with you... If many people like your work... If too many follow you blog... Then you are certainly doing something wrong!
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Evolution of Human Rights. (but whose?)
Once upon a time we had slavery. Once upon a time we had this... And this: And this: But then some people decided this was all too much... Why have slaves and have the obligation to shelter them and feed them? Doesn't anyone think of their poor master who lives in wealth while he can…
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Iran, US, torture, finesse...
The revelation of a machine used in Iran for punishing criminals, has created a public outrage in the "civilized" world. (1, 2) Of course! When will this "primitive" country stop using such crude devices?!? When will they start being more civilized like the US is? At last! When will countries like Iran learn civilization from us…
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Religiosity statistics among scientists - A tale of oppression
A demographic survey of TED Conference attendees [1] showed that very few scientists selected any kind of religious affiliation (e.g., Christian 1.6%, Jewish 1.9%, Buddhist 1.6%, etc. [2] Could this mean that the higher intellectual status of TED attendees is the cause for them not being religious? Not. Many other researches have shown that the…
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