Tomas Heard

Doctor. Liberal democracy + globalism. YIMBY+LVT. Free speech+trade. Effective Altruism. Vegan runner+lifter. Systematically collected data over anecdotes.

[Tomas Heard @tomasheard]

Racial theories of growth fail in the 3 best natural experiments. Korea, Germany, and China were split into 2 states with radically different policies. The economically free states thrived, centrally planned states failed, despite near-identical genetics.

[Whyvert @whyvert]

Are some people still confused or ignorant or in denial about why this happened?

[Tomas Heard @tomasheard]

@BrunoDandolo @HannoLustig Jason Hickel is also not an economist https://t.co/DSSbUc6Kah

[Jason Kerwin @jt_kerwin]

Periodic reminder that Jason Hickel has a PhD in anthropology, and there is no evidence that he has ever taken an economics course in his life

[Tomas Heard @tomasheard]

@Hamasnik2 @CyStemSell @TheSportProhet How would you even know? You're determined to deny any report which paints the IRI in a negative light. You will find ways to deny the relevance of any evidence, no matter how clear and direct, or who it comes from, because you are ideologically prohibited from thinking.

[Tomas Heard @tomasheard]

@Hamasnik2 @CyStemSell @TheSportProhet Iranians living in Iranian cities aren't diaspora, by definition. I'm sorry that reality is repeatedly violating your narrative, but you really should update rather than this dishonest display of increasingly elaborate mental gymnastics

[Tomas Heard @tomasheard]

@Hamasnik2 @CyStemSell @TheSportProhet My idea of it came from the mouths of women I met in Tehran, Shiraz, Esfahan, Yazd, Kerman, and Hamedan

[Tomas Heard @tomasheard]

@Hamasnik2 @CyStemSell @TheSportProhet I got it from my Iranian friends, and confirmed it from IRI officials. Here's one on their government website https://t.co/qHNy1KIfrY

[Tomas Heard @tomasheard]

@Sani_B_Auwal @BohuslavskaKate Haha get recked bot

[Tomas Heard @tomasheard]

@shdeepsy @SecessionWA Yeah, least obvious CCP influence opp

[Tomas Heard @tomasheard]

@MisterNice187 @jungianlean @baselessassert The only essential nutrient in that list that can't be found in plants or synthesized in the body is B12, and that's very simple and cheap to supplement.

[Tomas Heard @tomasheard]

@MisterNice187 @jungianlean @baselessassert List them

[Tomas Heard @tomasheard]

@jungianlean @baselessassert You don't need a dietician or hours a day of working out to get ripped. Healthy vegan eating is dirt cheap and easy to plan, and gains diminish to ~0 after ~40 mins/day.

You're right about the T though, I would bet he's on >200mg/week, not a light dose

[Tomas Heard @tomasheard]

@BertF41 @bilbosfootcomb @KevinRenacido25 I find that claim pretty hard to square with the wording of John 8.

“Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.”

[Tomas Heard @tomasheard]

@granitarian @birdyluisa @JoeBellofatto @laralogan China went from a totally regulated command economy to a highly regulated economy with limited elements of capitalism. Low economic freedom, now backsliding. Which is they did much worse than other Asian Tigers

[Tomas Heard @tomasheard]

@birdyluisa @JoeBellofatto @laralogan PRC had the worst playbook of the Chinese countries and dramatically underperformed. Soon they're in demographic death spiral. https://t.co/qYSQCGrf7C

[Tomas Heard @tomasheard]

@Ken04989139 @JoeBellofatto @laralogan Doesn't matter, their working age pop shrinkage is accelerating, they didn't get rich before getting old. 2040s comes the demographic death spiral where labor shortages hurt growth, deter investment, living standards fall, young people leave/lie flat, labor shortages worsen.

[Tomas Heard @tomasheard]

@Ken04989139 @JoeBellofatto @laralogan Doesn't matter, their working age pop shrinkage is accelerating, they didn't get rich before getting old. 2040s comes the demographic death spiral where labor shortages hurt growth, deter investment, living standards fall, young people leave/lie flat, labor shortages worsen.

[Tomas Heard @tomasheard]

@MOTP42 @PredictitD @StatisticUrban PRC GDP per capita growth is actually very unimpressive by East Asian standards. Dead last out of the majority Chinese nations.

And pop size is cope given economies of scale.

[Tomas Heard @tomasheard]

@jessemarkboyd @grok @DeeTaylor102 @HistoryBoomer Both are different ways of conceptually subdividing the macroeconomy. If one firm captured 100% of the food industry, they would have a significant degree of capture of the labor market, though not total, because there is some mobility between food and retail etc.

[Tomas Heard @tomasheard]

@jessemarkboyd @grok @DeeTaylor102 @HistoryBoomer Please read the second paragraph, and note that only 8 of 135 subindustries are concentrated.

[Tomas Heard @tomasheard]

@jessemarkboyd @DeeTaylor102 @HistoryBoomer @grok Scroll up! You claimed that fast food billionaires become rich by market capture! Grok just told you fast food, retail aren't concentrated!

I know you would like to pretend that I made absolutist claim that every single tech firm is in a low HHI position. I haven't though, soz

[Tomas Heard @tomasheard]

@jessemarkboyd @grok @DeeTaylor102 @HistoryBoomer Your wording was very clearly calibrated to avoid the core of the argument and steer towards any caveat preserves your claim. Which was, let us remember, that a fast food billionaire becomes rich by market capture! Grok just told you fast food is not concentrated!

[Tomas Heard @tomasheard]

@jessemarkboyd @grok @DeeTaylor102 @HistoryBoomer Also noting you are still ignoring the ITIF analysis, from when you requested a "single other source", and are clearly prompting Grok to ignore it too. You wanted granular submarket data? Can't ask for more granular than 138 submarkets!

[Tomas Heard @tomasheard]

@jessemarkboyd @grok @DeeTaylor102 @HistoryBoomer lmao. Even with your prompt-massaging, Grok says markets aren't captured, and fast food, the root of this argument, is competitive! +manufacturing, retail, industries w many billionaires! Plus consumer value from tech, concentration downtrend!

https://t.co/4KHpJZOwM5

[Tomas Heard @tomasheard]

@jessemarkboyd @DeeTaylor102 @HistoryBoomer @grok It is obvious from this prompt that you have been furiously questioning Grok, looking for ways out of the bind you're in. Instead of picking the one excuse you found in the responses, you should listen to what it told you about how stock market HHI doesn't represent product...