@kitten_beloved California has banned racial consideration in college admissions for like two decades and the racial makeup of their schools hardly changed at all. Youโre on one if you think this
@mcuculture @HairyShortStack Their attitudes seems to be that they are entitled to the exact market structure and technology as when they entered the industry and any change to that is some kind of moral and ethical affront. They are the horse and buggie manufacturers of the 21st centuries. Luddites all
@wanyeburkett The problems is we have generation upon generation of policy that WAS designed around groups and to pretend those effects evaporate overnight is simpleton shit.
@wanyeburkett This is facile. It ignores the fact that intra-group differences can be either innate or the product of discrimination or history or network effects. Itโs the simple minded lead in to libertarianism and itโs lazy thinking. College frosh level critical thinking
PAUL KRUGMAN WAS RIGHT, THE DUNKERS ARE WRONG
I wrote about how @paulkrugman has, in fact, been vindicated in his view that the internet's impact on the economy would be roughly the same as that of the fax machine.
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@jbarro@asymmetricinfo What are you talking about Josh? The spending has already been approved and voted on. What weโre talking about now is whether weโre going to keep there promises that Congress already made
@wanyeburkett I also quit drinking about two years ago and have had a similar direction (though likely smaller magnitude) but also think too many confounding variables (biggest being age and station in life)
@jordwanwolff145 @Noahpinion@morgan_390 Whatโs the counterfactual here? I can see a strong case that a more isolated, less developed China would have invaded Taiwan decades ago
@wanyeburkett โWhy do we have more rain?โ isnt an intractable exogenous problem though and itโs at least as interesting a policy question as โwhat do we do about all this rain?โ
@wanyeburkett Land is different thought. Itโs fixed, not just scarce. The supply curve of land is a vertical line so taxing it creates zero dead weight loss