Sam Quigley

I'm Tom Selleck.

[Sam Quigley @samquigley]

@DrCameronMurray Exactly how and why is my income likely to be high in my old age, again?

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@LinseyMcgoey I’m sure that I said something like this to you shortly after its publication, but, again, thank you, congratulations, and well done on an excellent book.

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@shitshowdotinfo Pretty sure that one of you would be Milton Friedman, the other would be Ludwig von Mises, and you’d be lunching at the Mont Pelerin Society. So, whichever one you were, you’d be utterly right to be embarrassed.

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@yanisvaroufakis Goddammit, Yanis, if you launch into a spirited defence of what Adam Smith ‘actually’ meant, I will fucking … well, I’ll be disappointed, and then move on with my life.

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@ggreenwald It’s almost as if there’s a common interest between moneyed voices on the center-left and on the right! If only we could figure out what that was.

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Tl;dr: The World Wide Web (hereafter: “the internet”) was supposed to be like post-1945 capitalism.* Regrettably, we are now discontinuing our support of the internet.

*That is, a network of vacuum cleaners sucking surplus-value back into its rightful place: the USA.

[Council on Foreign Relations @CFR_org]

The era of the global internet is over, argues a new CFR Task Force, out today.

Read the recommendations for a more realistic U.S. foreign policy for cyberspace. #CyberForeignPolicy https://t.co/J16xchNdtq

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@prafxis Can’t wait for the Left-Right-CIA conspiracy this becomes in 5, 4, 3, 2 …

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@HartWexford Historians like to describe the lead-up to fascism as involving a concentrated crack-down on satire, but there’s not a lot of evidence for this. Sure, lots of people become dobbers and the consequences become harsher, but it’s also much more difficult to mock ridiculous regimes.

[Padraic Gibson @paddygibson]

If you can’t solve a problem by intensifying a racist border regime are you even Australian

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@burgotastic Pretty simple, really. ‘No job, no wipe.’ It’s basically how every prior revolution got started.

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@lastpositivist Oh, REALLY, Mr. ‘kinda’?

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@bammcguinness @figgled There was, but the Team Leader’s name sounded a bit Chinese, so that department’s not a thing anymore.

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@DavidSligar Polanyi’s is fundamentally a theory of equilibrium, which is how we know it’s wrong. Nice to imagine, though.

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@jathansadowski These authors chop and change a bit between saying certain terms (‘sharing economy’, etc.) are not fit-for-purpose and then using them anyway, but it’s worth a look just for how casual/part-time/full-time workers view Uber differently.

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Translation: We offer them ‘microloans’ that must be spent on sewing machines to make goods for people in their community who have no money to buy said goods. It’s a perfect system!

[World Bank Group @WorldBankGroup]

“Over 80% of businesses in SSA are SMEs – many are run by women, and most of them are in the informal sector – supporting and enabling this segment is a critical part of driving Africa’s growth.” - @SolaDavidBorha

Watch the #InclusiveFuture event recap: https://t.co/A0MR56cDD7

[Liam Bright @lastpositivist]

Growing increasingly concerned about some of those that work forces.

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@AlyxG Look, I can’t read German, so that could well be what he said.

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@AlyxG It’s not possible. I’m unsure as to exactly why, but I am confident that Henryk Grossman has some things to say about it.