This is a simple point, but a very useful one to make. People on the left, who I consider allies, are often instinctively hostile to pricing and I think this is a mistake. Pricing can help us use limited resources more efficiently, which benefits everyone. HOWEVER, these efficiency gains can only be realised if there is sufficient equality in cash incomes. I'm inclined to think the best possible formula would be a generous universal basic income funded out of general taxation (firmly a left-wing view), combined with quite a lot more pricing than we have now (generally considered a right-wing view). Vox
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There's some cool stuff in the world. Cracked
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"We cannot know if the cotton industry was the only possible way into the modern industrial world, but we do know that it was the path to global capitalism. We do not know if Europe and North America could have grown rich without slavery, but we do know that industrial capitalism and the Great Divergence in fact emerged from the violent caldron of slavery, colonialism, and the expropriation of land." Chronicle
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The second in our series on logistics and shipping. First entry was pallets; now barrels.
"The barrel, Work points out, is a far from simple idea. Many civilisations came up with buckets, probably first by hollowing out logs and then by binding slats of wood together, but barrels tapered at both ends seem only to have been devised by Northern European Celts." Spectator
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"In the Western world, the front crawl was first seen in a swimming race held in 1844 in London, where it was swum by Native North Americans. The Anishinaabe Flying Gull and Tobacco easily defeated all the British breaststroke swimmers. English gentlemen, however, considered this style, with its considerable splashing, to be barbarically "un-European" and the British continued to swim only the breaststroke in competition." Wikipedia
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""If you make your students do well in their academic career, you get worse evaluations from your students," Pellizzari said. Students, by and large, don't enjoy learning from a taskmaster, even if it does them some good." NPR
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"the automobile and the elevator have been locked in a “secret war” for over a century, with cars making it possible for people to spread horizontally, encouraging sprawl and suburbia, and elevators pushing them toward life in dense clusters of towering vertical columns." Boston Globe
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"To be considered ‘vulnerable’ in this investigation they had to fulfill one of the criteria, of which working in a brothel was one, which labeled the whole group as ‘vulnerable’. Other criteria were having an economically disadvantaged position (not speaking English, not having had an education), having a disadvantaged social position (being an illegal immigrant for example), being wrongly informed (it was sufficient if you were working in a different city than had been agreed on) or having been abused/having been forced (was found only rarely). Four of these criteria were enough to be considered a ‘victim of human trafficking’ in this report, regardless of whether you actually were a victim of human trafficking. 11% of the women included in the investigation complied to these criteria. Next, this percentage was raised considerably based on preconceptions (“this has to be too low, in reality there must be more women from vulnerable countries”) and the results were presented to the world: thousands of victims of human trafficking in the UK! They hadn’t found even one…"
Marijke Vonk
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There's some cool stuff in the world. Cracked
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"We cannot know if the cotton industry was the only possible way into the modern industrial world, but we do know that it was the path to global capitalism. We do not know if Europe and North America could have grown rich without slavery, but we do know that industrial capitalism and the Great Divergence in fact emerged from the violent caldron of slavery, colonialism, and the expropriation of land." Chronicle
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The second in our series on logistics and shipping. First entry was pallets; now barrels.
"The barrel, Work points out, is a far from simple idea. Many civilisations came up with buckets, probably first by hollowing out logs and then by binding slats of wood together, but barrels tapered at both ends seem only to have been devised by Northern European Celts." Spectator
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"In the Western world, the front crawl was first seen in a swimming race held in 1844 in London, where it was swum by Native North Americans. The Anishinaabe Flying Gull and Tobacco easily defeated all the British breaststroke swimmers. English gentlemen, however, considered this style, with its considerable splashing, to be barbarically "un-European" and the British continued to swim only the breaststroke in competition." Wikipedia
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""If you make your students do well in their academic career, you get worse evaluations from your students," Pellizzari said. Students, by and large, don't enjoy learning from a taskmaster, even if it does them some good." NPR
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"the automobile and the elevator have been locked in a “secret war” for over a century, with cars making it possible for people to spread horizontally, encouraging sprawl and suburbia, and elevators pushing them toward life in dense clusters of towering vertical columns." Boston Globe
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"To be considered ‘vulnerable’ in this investigation they had to fulfill one of the criteria, of which working in a brothel was one, which labeled the whole group as ‘vulnerable’. Other criteria were having an economically disadvantaged position (not speaking English, not having had an education), having a disadvantaged social position (being an illegal immigrant for example), being wrongly informed (it was sufficient if you were working in a different city than had been agreed on) or having been abused/having been forced (was found only rarely). Four of these criteria were enough to be considered a ‘victim of human trafficking’ in this report, regardless of whether you actually were a victim of human trafficking. 11% of the women included in the investigation complied to these criteria. Next, this percentage was raised considerably based on preconceptions (“this has to be too low, in reality there must be more women from vulnerable countries”) and the results were presented to the world: thousands of victims of human trafficking in the UK! They hadn’t found even one…"
Marijke Vonk
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