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I’m starting on Piketty’s Capital, but it’s long and even just from the i… | |
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@Patricia yeah this thing is a bit of a slog and not just from the length, Debt… | |
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@datalouis yeah, I could tell from just a short start on both | |
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Oh wow, this will be rough. This is the book form of when people write a thread… | |
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If this guy doesn’t soon discuss how his data is skewed because it doesn’t … | |
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I have never read a book by a woman that has a whole section on “why my book … | |
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@Patricia More then that. Capitalism, classism, sexism, ableism, colonialism...… | |
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@WhyNotZoidberg YES | |
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Oh wow this makes me grumpy. He is doing it. He has already in the freaking int… | |
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This thread might actually end up being even more grumpy than the Team Topologi… | |
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He is actually going to go on through a whole book where the whole thing is goi… | |
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Past Patricia was on the money here https://social.vivaldi.net/@Patricia/112644… | |
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Sir, I dispute your data, I dispute your assumption that it’s relevant and I … | |
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@Patricia the field reminds me of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency: … | |
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@mensrea oh bless the ChatGPT scholarship of the future… we’re doomed | |
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How the hell did these people get to rule the world? | |
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@Patricia What? The book's primary focus is wealth and income inequalities … | |
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@trost I’m not reading this as ideology, I’m reading this as science, and a… | |
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@trost feel free to catch up on my other book reading threads (pinned) | |
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@trost regarding your updates to your post, if you think I’m wrong you need t… | |
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@trost my criticism is on method, not conclusion. | |
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@trost I don’t even know what the conclusion is, I’m barely past the introd… | |
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To clarify, since there seems to be some confusion, I am not judging any of thi… | |
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@Patricia On Graeber's Debt book: There was a catastrophic book seminar abo… | |
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@trost I haven’t read it yet, just a short stint of the beginning of the intr… | |
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@Patricia for judging methodology though, isn’t that too much of a non-scient… | |
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@fl0_id apparently they think it’s great so I’m reading it. Do you have ano… | |
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@fl0_id also probably relevant: have you read this book? | |
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@Patricia If you calculate in the inequality across the entirety of society, do… | |
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@alper I don’t know what you mean? His whole data set is based on the people … | |
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@Patricia Honestly, I think Piketty is methodologically the strongest economist… | |
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@alper maybe 🤷🏻♀️ but his data is massively skewed (and so far he … | |
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@Patricia Ah sure, I don't think his data extrapolates to the third world r… | |
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@alper well, that’s disappointing because I kind of feel I have to read it now | |
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Ok, since it’s coming up in comments here is what might be the whole thing. �… | |
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If this is the level economics is at… we need to stop listening to them. | |
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“Look, if I reduce reality to two variables, then I can make graphs ok!!! The… | |
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These people made the big mistake of thinking their field was like physics. Tho… | |
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@petersforbes oh my god yes 😭😭😭😭 | |
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Physics is science and economics seems to be… well not. At all. | |
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Imagine having this level of confidence. That must be awesome. | |
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@Patricia And way more precise predictions. | |
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@Patricia The funny thing is that Piketty is one of the more empirical economis… | |
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@audunmb I’m really disappointed by this entire field | |
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@klefstadmyr oh, and they do the bananas thing of running experiments to test t… | |
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@Patricia physicist here. Some of us have no idea what we're doing either �… | |
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@hattom that might put you head and shoulders over these people tbh. A bit less… | |
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@Patricia Offtopic; but I read an article about some physicists would like to r… | |
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@range_marten 🤷🏻♀️ | |
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@cpm 🤷🏻♀️ I don’t understand the motivations tbh it just reads l… | |
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@Patricia and physics people know that their models will be superseded by bette… | |
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@PeterSommerlad this is where physicists messed up, they should’ve created th… | |
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Scene: tech meeting, devs around a conference table, one guy on a sofa in the b… | |
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That story is extremely relevant to my entire argument, but if you don’t get … | |
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@Patricia @PeterSommerlad did you look into Steve Keen's economics yet? he … | |
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@mrsbeanbag @PeterSommerlad did he have a book? I don’t remember | |
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@Patricia you missed the tag #sarcasm, I hope. | |
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@PeterSommerlad I clearly need a rundown on physics drama | |
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@Patricia @PeterSommerlad oh yeah it's called Debunking Economics https://e… | |
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@mrsbeanbag @PeterSommerlad fingers crossed it has an audio book | |
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@mrsbeanbag @PeterSommerlad ah I remember, no audio book only a podcast https:/… | |
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@Patricia All I will say is that the equivalent books for physics are not bette… | |
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@Patricia I would compare it more to the Agile or SE scene... academic or indus… | |
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@Patricia So.... yeah. Also I bet that if I filter the population of devs by &q… | |
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@Di4na I’m trying to understand the foundations and methodology so if you hav… | |
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@Patricia so much of economics has always felt to me like "first, assume h… | |
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@tedmielczarek apparently yes, but greedy self serving spheres | |
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@Patricia no I haven’t. But when it was new it was basically a bestseller, wh… | |
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@fl0_id seems to be a bestseller because people in economics like it and think … | |
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when people write a thread rather than a pithy post because they expect someone… | |
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@cy all of us, it’s all of us, you’re ok | |
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@Patricia @audunmb Don't know if you need this rn, but *nothing* beats Keit… | |
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@twilliability @audunmb oh shit that’s funny. I just talk about Future and Pa… | |
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@Patricia @audunmb Dude's of course entirely clueless about linguistics and… | |
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@twilliability @audunmb rofl that’s like the pastafarian pirate thing 😂 ht… | |
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@adriano @twilliability @audunmb for proper blame and empathy distance we need … | |
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@Patricia I like the definition of science as doing the damnedest with one'… | |
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@bjoernstaerk that is pretty much maybe my entire argument | |
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@Patricia ok, guess I’m wrong then. I thought more along the lines of another… | |
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@fl0_id feel free to read it with me, misery loves company etc | |
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@adriano @twilliability @audunmb A central tenant in this religion is that if y… | |
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@Patricia @PeterSommerlad *string theory has joined the call* | |
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@Loungeiguana @PeterSommerlad I need the soap opera version of this in audio fo… | |
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@pilum @twilliability @audunmb but with business suits! | |
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@Patricia Dunno, man "You gotta have these jobs nobody wants to do, it'… | |
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@adriano unfortunately that’s the reality his people made all over the world,… | |
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@Patricia isn't that the book called Capital, from the guy who was flouting… | |
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@meena 🤷🏻♀️ I want to read it just to cross it off my list | |
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@adriano 💔 | |
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“For men, at any rate”My dude, you’re so close, come on, you can do it! | |
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Capitalist = smart people Communism = stupid people This guy is a charmer.Also,… | |
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@RosaCtrl I will at some point summarize, foreshadowing I believe it will be: c… | |
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@nocoursewalks no but this one looks interesting, is it good? | |
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@Patricia By telling powerful, evil people what they wanted to hear. | |
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@Patricia :)Well.. that depends on whom I'm talking to. To some people I ob… | |
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@hattom @Patricia careful Tom, lest the mathematicians overhear 😉 | |
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This constant focus on labor vs capital will radicalize me, I can feel it. This… | |
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Omfg trigger warning for fucked up white people talk about slavery | |
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@adriano @twilliability @audunmb I am not changing my wrong spelling on purpose… | |
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@Patricia @adriano @twilliability @audunmb"tenet", or does the religi… | |
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@AlisonW @adriano @twilliability @audunmb https://social.vivaldi.net/@Patricia/… | |
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@Patricia sounds great, though it would probably be detrimental to my present a… | |
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@fl0_id you can decide from my rant which will probably take a few weeks tbh | |
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@Patricia So many years since I read that… but the big take-away I remember i… | |
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@timbray looking forward to Jane Austen | |
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@Patricia I don't understand how you get through these books really 😆 | |
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@Paxxi is spite/anger driven reading a thing? I am doing opposition research | |
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@Patricia and on the same note, my favorite science book recently is How instit… | |
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@bjoernstaerk oh no, now I want to read that, that sounds way more enjoyable | |
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@Jackiemauro omfg 🙈 | |
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@Patricia To be fair, confusing the map for the territory is a common fail in *… | |
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@jcgregorio I don’t really know physics unfortunately, I just know physicists… | |
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@jcgregorio tbh that goes for so many fields, I feel reassured that some folks … | |
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@Patricia Your hot takes are hillarious. | |
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@csaetre I’m just gonna take that as a compliment and not worry if it was sar… | |
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@Patricia Called it 😁https://mastodon.me.uk/@krans/112670833215879619 | |
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@krans this book omg | |
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@Patricia Check out Dr Angela Collier (acollierastro) on YouTubehttps://youtu.b… | |
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@krans @Loungeiguana @PeterSommerlad oh wow, I need to see that | |
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I just can’t get over how the man who has done zero analysis on how his data … | |
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@Patricia discussing the abolition of chattel slavery like it was some tax loop… | |
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@tedmielczarek oh yeah, I thought it was just me, but he sounds disappointed ri… | |
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@krans @Loungeiguana @PeterSommerlad I don’t know her but I love her | |
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@Patricia @tedmielczarek I don't even see why anyone would even discuss spe… | |
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@jubilee @tedmielczarek oh, based on what I have read so far in terms of foresh… | |
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@Patricia It was definitely a compliment. When the professor next door asked wh… | |
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@csaetre I love that! Say hi 👋 | |
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@Patricia @tedmielczarek not to defend the book's content, but the style of… | |
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@hisham_hm @tedmielczarek well, we’ll see, so far he seems unconcerned that h… | |
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@Patricia @tedmielczarek *squints* ...very interesting. | |
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@jubilee @tedmielczarek yeah… 😬 | |
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@Patricia @tedmielczarek I'm looking forward to your impressions! My rough … | |
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@hisham_hm @tedmielczarek the audiobook has the figures as a pdf so I have thos… | |
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@krans @Loungeiguana @PeterSommerlad that was awesome “that’s not even wron… | |
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It’s a trip to hear a French economist nonchalantly speaking about poverty in… | |
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Mr Piketty, are we going to discuss the Haiti Independence Debt?https://en.wiki… | |
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@krans @Patricia @PeterSommerlad this is freaking awesome, just followed her ch… | |
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@Loungeiguana @krans @PeterSommerlad same | |
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“This means that nearly 20% of Africas capital is owned by foreigners” oh, … | |
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@adriano I mean, they had stuff and as a White Man Who Owns Things, I was justi… | |
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Omg this shit is so racist. He has zero shame. The colonialism is strong with t… | |
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@Patricia Related and on going economic control in former french colonial afric… | |
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I just can’t about how much he seems to crave colonialism. And seems to blame… | |
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“These are the main lessons that history has to teach about global growth and… | |
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Ok, he might prove me wrong, and I’m here for it, but… I think I will hate … | |
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I’m failing hard on this one, this shit is so extremely racist. And he doesn�… | |
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Ah yes, the amazing growth of post WWII Europe when we got the Marshall Plan mo… | |
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@Patricia You're obviously right about the racism at the core of the global… | |
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@timbray sure. But he is apparently going to argue that this has predictive pow… | |
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@timbray and the absolute gall of using colonial Britain as a model for India�… | |
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This is the problem with having two variables, mr Economist, you lose absolutel… | |
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@Patricia i've been meaning to ask, why are you doing this to yourself? | |
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@mensrea so when I say it’s bullshit they can’t say I didn’t do my homewo… | |
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@mensrea it started at “omg it can’t be this silly” - but my annoyance ha… | |
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Guy who did not spend one sentence on the bias of his data, or how colonialism … | |
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Omg apparently compound interest is going to be our driver here, because just a… | |
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@Patricia for a slightly less bad book from economists, different school of tho… | |
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@Di4na wasn’t he a doctor? Or is this a different guy? | |
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People tell me this guy is a leftist-economist… and I’m here in chapter 2 g… | |
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I’d be very interested in what Americans and especially black Americans would… | |
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@pilum I am currently assuming that he is going to say that rich people should … | |
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@Patricia does this just imply the other economists are card carrying fascists?… | |
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@leftpaddotpy if this is left then I don’t really want to consider the scale.… | |
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You know when you listen to someone and you go “Nah, I’m sure he didn’t m… | |
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This is too banal for me. He is basically saying that the average wealth per ca… | |
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@Patricia if that made sense then we'd all be millionares. | |
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@olafurw @Patricia where are my millions 😭 | |
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@Patricia I know that some, I think lefty, Political Scientists didn't like… | |
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@trost I haven’t gotten to that bit yet, but on the surface Tarik seems to be… | |
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@dorinlazar tbqh, the fact that he has not once acknowledged the impact of dise… | |
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Americans, how did the abolition of slavery impact population numbers? Did the … | |
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@Patricia I think they were counted as 3/5 of a person while enslaved which is … | |
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@Moosader omg, for some reason that feels worse. “I acknowledge your humanity… | |
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@Moosader @Patricia yup, it's in the constitution: https://en.m.wikipedia.o… | |
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@tedmielczarek @Moosader I don’t even know what to say about that | |
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Sociologists would be infuriated by this book, he keeps on saying stuff like �… | |
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@Patricia Here in the US, we're constantly told by politicians that we'… | |
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It is clear that he will not at any point acknowledge that what he is talking a… | |
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@Patricia @tedmielczarek @Moosader yes, but note that that's what they were… | |
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@Patricia @tedmielczarek @Moosader (to clarify/reinforce the first point: accur… | |
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@luis_in_brief @Patricia @Moosader right, the "Compromise" part of th… | |
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This brings to mind the extremely relevant TED talk by the prominent Norwegian … | |
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The entire chapter 2 seems to be about reducing the “growth” of a country t… | |
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Ok, lol, he is inadvertently dissing MAGA by saying than in historical economic… | |
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@Patricia what a thread. I never stomached the will to read him, but people th… | |
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@Migueldeicaza with Team Topologies I am convinced they’re lying if they say … | |
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@Patricia it’s worse than you think. I went to Princeton and saw it first han… | |
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@rebelwarrior wow | |
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@Patricia followed you for this thread, so when I saw you were grumpy about TT … | |
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@james ✊ | |
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@Patricia @Migueldeicaza I read it (albeit 10 years ago). I liked it. I was le… | |
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@timbray @Migueldeicaza I’m just on chapter 2 of… 16 (omg 😰) but so far … | |
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We have now spent a ridiculous amount of time looking at how there was little i… | |
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Oh joy, we’re gonna take a “brief detour through literature” as we start … | |
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@timbray @Patricia @Migueldeicaza Most people on the Left don’t know (m)any f… | |
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@alper @timbray @Migueldeicaza the charts, numbers and math in this book is bar… | |
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@Patricia @Migueldeicaza Heh, I recommend stopping at the 3/4 point when Pikett… | |
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@timbray @Migueldeicaza so far the weakest part of all of these books are the c… | |
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@timbray @Patricia @Migueldeicaza In a way, this kind of reminds me of visiting… | |
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@adriano @timbray @Migueldeicaza | |
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@Migueldeicaza @Patricia I have long wanted someone to do a good 50-100 page su… | |
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@luis_in_brief @Patricia in defense of whoever that Graeber guy is, we all coul… | |
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@luis_in_brief @Patricia oh fuck, it is the author of “Debt”, whose name I … | |
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@Migueldeicaza @Patricia yeah, his final book (published right after he died) w… | |
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@luis_in_brief @Migueldeicaza oh, this I want to read | |
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@Patricia I thought this was the weirdest thing I'd seen since the "an… | |
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@Patricia OTOH, at least we covered the Horatio Alger books as propaganda 😀 | |
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@jcgregorio I would totally attend that class 😂 | |
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@alper @timbray @Patricia s/Most people on the Left/Most people/ | |
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@Migueldeicaza @alper @timbray tbf most of these books could’ve been a blog p… | |
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@Patricia @Migueldeicaza Debt, you mean? The core thesis is interesting and pro… | |
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@luis_in_brief @Migueldeicaza ah yeah, someone linked to that. I mean this post… | |
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I refuse to read Jane Austen to understand Piketty’s book. She deserves bette… | |
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Tbh I learned much more about capitalism from Nevil Shute’s “A Town Like Al… | |
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Oh wow, he managed to end on: is being poor now any worse than being poor in th… | |
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So far he’s just going on about what is capital and I just realized something… | |
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I think he’s wrong about the “human capital” thing and I think any early … | |
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I think he is now talking about how having colonies was great for Britain. But … | |
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Basically this whole section is: being a colonial power is great | |
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And decolonization is not great for business | |
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@Patricia oh dear, he needs to talk to a historian of European colonization. | |
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@dhedgehog it seems on purpose now, not ignorance, but explicit erasure | |
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Mathematical concepts covered up to now:AdditionSubtraction Multiplication Divi… | |
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@luis_in_brief @Migueldeicaza @Patricia The Dawn of Everything, with D. Wengrow. | |
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@adriano we’re missing root 😅 | |
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Ok, just so nobody is wondering, fighting in a war is bad for the economy of a … | |
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@adriano fair 😂 | |
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Lol, I think he just tried to say that private money paid for the revolutionary… | |
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@Patricia ah, but what if one “takes advantage of surplus human capital in co… | |
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@tofagerl omg, Tom, that was way too realistic | |
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Omg we’re back on Jane Austen | |
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@Patricia You knows what? I was looking forward to reading Picketty until you g… | |
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@cstross sorry 🙈 | |
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@Patricia is it human capital, or knowledge capital? Because, perhaps he doesn&… | |
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@fabs I think the next chapter is on the US so I guess we’ll see how much he … | |
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We have arrived at the first mention of models!“Representative agent models�… | |
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I think these people need more math. Like differential equations or something. | |
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I think maybe this type of modelling is what got us into the average wealth thi… | |
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@Patricia they do plenty of experiments on real people and countries, they just… | |
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@matus_chochlik 😭😭😭 | |
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It went nowhere really. Our two colonial powers got into debt because of wars, … | |
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Moving on to what I suspect will be the absolute dumpster fire of this book: Ch… | |
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@Patricia they use Lagrangians apparently, but in a really weird way. the darnd… | |
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@mrsbeanbag I would watch this YouTube video | |
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@Patricia Seems to be true of economics in general; it’s trying predict human… | |
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@causticmsngo sigh | |
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@PatriciaI'm finding your narration here very interesting, because, I defin… | |
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@mattdm tbh from what I read so far I think people have just been seduced by th… | |
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@Patricia ok well i just found this let me know how it goes https://www.youtube… | |
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@mrsbeanbag Ooh Thanks! | |
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@MonniauxD they should ask their kids who I’m sure learn this at school | |
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Ok, so we’re going to start off with Germany, and then go to the US, no idea … | |
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I am going to piss off some Americans again. It’s unavoidable. | |
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Apparently he has zero data from Germany before the unification (think Bismarck… | |
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It’s weird how he manages to be so casual about things, giving zero context. … | |
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Ooh new thing “Rhenish Capitalism”, this sounds interesting.“It can be at… | |
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Anybody want to guess how Milton Friedman felt about that… I’m not even goi… | |
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He emphasized again: war sucks for national economies.He’s only worried about… | |
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@Patricia I'm really enjoying this deep-dive monster thread. | |
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Omg this guy is shameless: “the period 1914 to 1945 was a dark one, for all E… | |
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@mattblaze I’m glad because this book is really long so we’re not done any … | |
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@Patricia "Read and critically analyze this book with me" is an insuf… | |
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This is the “leftist economist” - this is the first time he has pulled out … | |
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@Jackiemauro no, he seems sad that he can’t own people, it was a whole thing … | |
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@Patricia Isn't this because people have argued that war is good for the ec… | |
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@drgroftehauge omg | |
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@Patricia The goggles! They do nothing! :) | |
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@Patricia from your messages on him, he seems more like a fascist. And he uses … | |
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@pinskia he seems like a regular capitalist economist to me (with all that enta… | |
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@malwareminigun 😅 | |
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So he’s saying that high inflation is good for people who have mostly debt, b… | |
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Clearly we will continue to dive into fiction rather than to discuss the realit… | |
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Apparently not having all your “capital” (buildings) bombed and no massive … | |
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The TV series Mad Men made an appearance | |
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“To sum up: The world of 1913 was one in which Europe owned large parts of Af… | |
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I think maybe this book is a massive European self own. | |
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He’s about to start on slavery but that will have to wait till tomorrow. Goin… | |
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@Patricia yes, abstraction is dangerous. | |
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@Patricia whatever other flaws are in the book, he also had errors in his sprea… | |
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@jsdutky tbh I don’t really think that matters. It’s pseudoscience. It’s … | |
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@PatriciaCanada deserves to be dragged in. While slavery wasn't as big a th… | |
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@CleoQc The Canada section was so short, it was basically: even though Canadas … | |
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@Patricia @jsdutky I think the moral of this whole book review thread is: go re… | |
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@matus_chochlik @jsdutky what is the original? Because I am actually concluding… | |
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@Patricia it sure mattered at the time. The book got rave reviews when it was f… | |
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@jsdutky again it’s astrology enthusiasts arguing, it’s not interesting. Wh… | |
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@Patricia that's the thing: whether or not the field is bullshit, Piketty&#… | |
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@jsdutky arguing star alignment with astrologists is best case useless and wors… | |
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@Patricia @jsdutky I agree with the economy as a science field is BS thing, Mar… | |
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@matus_chochlik @jsdutky I want to read him but folks seem to say it’s really… | |
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I’m not looking forward to this bit because I’ve realized that it’s not A… | |
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Alright, let’s go. | |
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Holy shit. “owning slaves” “import of slaves” fuck you Piketty. | |
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This fucking guy. TW for fucked up white people talk about slavery. | |
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Everything he is saying is pissing me off. I hope it’s over soon. | |
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Holy fucking shit. He’s going into an analysis on pricing of enslaved people.… | |
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“Since they had the bright idea of owning not just the land, but the labor fo… | |
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There will be a lot of swearing in this section. It can’t be helped. | |
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Did anybody actually read this fucking book | |
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I know we just started, but I need a break. | |
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@Patricia Can you think of the mindset or worldview of the people that can read… | |
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@dascandy I’m hoping people are just lying when they say they read it | |
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@dascandy @Patricia unfortunately there are *a lot* of people in what is referr… | |
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@matus_chochlik @Patricia to me it always looks like a form of tribalism. The s… | |
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People who asked me why I bother to read the books: THIS. This is why you read … | |
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@Patricia Allow for irony | |
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@noctuaminervae feel free to read it in context. | |
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@Patricia mostly because he consistently propose we vote for the socialists and… | |
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@romeu @Patricia > Picketty is a condemned wife beaterMarking the checkbox o… | |
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I was thinking about how the book doesn’t talk about women, and the only wome… | |
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@dascandy @romeu samehttps://social.vivaldi.net/@Patricia/112693138050055606 | |
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Ok, I’m just going to go through the chapter and give you a summary. No more … | |
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@Patricia I skimmed the parts where he redid the analysis on other sets of data… | |
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@Patricia and yeah Piketty is an awful person AND YET is in many ways less awfu… | |
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@vaurora I’m not not skimming this drivel. I’m reading every single word. | |
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Fuck it, I can’t. This fucking guy is the leftist economist? Fuck, I hate thi… | |
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@Patricia Just to be clear for other readers who aren't attempting to read … | |
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@vaurora ROFL. Then you haven’t read it. | |
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@vaurora Pick your heroes more carefully.https://social.vivaldi.net/@Patricia/1… | |
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@Patricia 🫡 FYI it took me a YEAR to read so I am in awe of anyone who even … | |
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@vaurora this book is absolute drivel mixed with very clear white supremacy so�… | |
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European racism is so insidious. | |
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“Attributing a monetary value to the stock of human capital makes sense only … | |
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@vaurora this guy?https://social.vivaldi.net/@Patricia/112693337147476156 | |
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Do not come in my mentions making excuses for this guy before you go back and r… | |
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@Patricia my friend was once told in a complimentary manner by a German person,… | |
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@__head__ 🤬 | |
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Recap of chapter 4… Germany has surpassed France and Great Britain and did so… | |
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@Patricia I’m amazed that one can write such a sentence and not having all th… | |
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@samantha this is what came out after editors, fact checkers and translators…… | |
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Starting Chapter 5: The Capital/Income ratio over the long run | |
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I think I need a break from this guy after this chapter. I don’t actually car… | |
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Since it's come up again, this is the math he has reduced the world to:This… | |
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You know what this whole book is about? It's been said 500 million times on… | |
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@Patricia This is why God gave us theft. | |
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And to the left: you don’t have to quote an economist when you can look out t… | |
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@Patricia Paul Krugman might be the one to read next. | |
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@mrsbeanbag eWhich one? | |
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@Patricia i've no idea i haven't read any, i just heard he was consider… | |
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@mrsbeanbag I can’t take another one. I’d rather read Marx tbqh | |
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@Patricia my understanding economics is it is the study of how goods and servic… | |
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@kaynSD My book thread on Unaccountability Machine (pinned) explains (kind of… | |
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@Patricia I mean yeah, post WWI hyperinflation was a key contributor to the ris… | |
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@dascandy @Patricia Ten years ago the world was a lot different than it is now. | |
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@alper @dascandy being a racist while Obama was president isn’t exactly an ex… | |
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@Patricia That first bald assertion is manifestly wrong: Germany not only had o… | |
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@cstross that’s funny, he made a big deal over the Germans being jealous beca… | |
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@cstross but the whole book is sloppy like this, no critical analysis, no real … | |
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@Patricia The important bit of maths for politicians to learn: Two divergent ge… | |
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@david_chisnall yeah, he was very thorough on explaining compound interest 🙃 | |
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@Patricia Germany went through *two* hyperinflations:1) in the early 20s, when … | |
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@Patricia @cstross well the Germans were very late to the party and therefore t… | |
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Irl conversation: why don’t you want to burn it?Me: book burning doesn’t si… | |
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@Patricia At Aalborg University Departmenet of Computer Science we have a song … | |
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The book is lovingly burned on the yearly Fyttetur by memeber of the F-Club. I … | |
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@looopTools ROFL | |
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@Tallish_Tom sounds refreshing, I’ll have a go | |
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@Patricia The US census counted enslaved people, but the methodology of the cen… | |
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@dashdsrdash yeah… but they didn’t get a vote, so not only were they kidnap… | |
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@dashdsrdash @Patricia not exactly related but a somewhat "fun fact" … | |
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@Patricia I wonder if Piketty is going to cover "redlining".That'… | |
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@dashdsrdash not mentioned because he is doing extremely shallow analysis | |
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@Patricia @dashdsrdash I always interpret it in a slight different, equally rev… | |
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@hattom @dashdsrdash so appropriating their vote, and that is the only reason t… | |
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@Patricia I can't believe you've stuck with this book. I'm definite… | |
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@Nonya_Bidniss 💜 | |
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@jsdutky @Patricia So they are court astrologers. | |
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@antnisp @Patricia no, if they were just astrologers there would be no wrong an… | |
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@jsdutky @antnisp yeah, he was wrong about star charts so the other astrologers… | |
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@Patricia I haven't read any of his books, but I think the other thing that… | |
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@danlyke the whole field is nonsense | |
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@Patricia welcome to economics. The biggest and longest con of all was when sel… | |
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@randy right now I think I’m still in the anger stage of grief. | |
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@Patricia I want people to also remember that numbers in that book are not repr… | |
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@morenonatural economics as a field is pseudoscience, what I say in the above p… | |
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People are coming in my mentions telling me “well actually, his numbers were … | |
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@Patricia i think my biggest issue with the field of economics isn't that i… | |
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@mensrea I think by now that field would need another name, for all I know it m… | |
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@Patricia Haha. I'm yet to read the entire thread (it'll be like readin… | |
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@prasoon I would recommend my thread actually | |
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Thank goodness it isn’t just mehttps://ciberlandia.pt/@per_sonne/112848254340… | |
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@Patricia My dad, near the end of his life, also read Capital. He was so appall… |