Marc Sobel
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No Amount of Hard Work and Planning Beats Dumb Luck. I retired when I was relatively young and have been wondering about the meaning of work beyond making a living. If we didn't have to work, but worked at what...
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Damian commented on
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By the way, Waring was on Philip Adams’ radio program last week. Podcast shouldn’t be easy to find on the RN site....
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Moz commented on
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https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/marilyn-waring---counting-women/10427332 :) thanks...
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Moz commented on
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I love her rant about coercing water and air into new replacements for the nonsense that is GDP when what's measured is so grossly heterogeneous. Well, more obviously so than it was in the past... As I said in response to "The Economic Case for Worldwide Vegetarianism"... the article makes explicit the assumption that we can simply buy another planet and move there once we wreck this one. Without that the cost of business as usual is not meaningful. The same problem applies to almost all of the economic analysis of the impact of climate change. Which is a limitation...
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Greg Tingey commented on
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moz @ 1263 Do we have to act like somebody else to be judged normal? Ask, ooh ... homosexuals. lesbians, people with long hair before about 1975, atheists before about 1960 ( Or right now in the USA ) or, or .... OTOH, youi were talking about so-called "Mainstream Psychiatry" - these people are crooked money-stealing dangerous lying charlatans, the lot of them. I'm with the late, great Sir Peter Medawar on them - he trashed them in a single paragraph in his book "Pluto's Republic" - a study of false thinking & corrupt memes....
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Trottelreiner commented on
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The Bronze Age Collapse didn't (quite) get Egypt or all of Assyria; it didn't have anything to do with China or India. Err, at least for India the Bronze Age Collaps would overlap with the final stages of the Indus Valley Culture, though the Harappan culture had problems way before that. For China, we have little historical data on this time. The Shang dynasty went down about 200 years later. It might depend somewhat on commercial relations; there were likely some between Mesopotamia and India. For Chine, I'm not aware of some, though I might be mistaken....
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