cjhartnell.bsky.social
Mostly systems thinking, complexity, organisational anthropology but also far too much amygdala hijack stuff
Substack: https://clairejhartnell.substack.com/
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Mel Stride for the Tories lambasting reeves for reforming the fiscal rules so that she can invest. Hard to imagine a more tone deaf response. Tories have done no internal searching for why they lost and it shows.
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Favouring investment where ‘economic return is greatest’ is why we have a bunch of Ponzi asset markets & decaying infrastructure? Patient, long term investment is what is needed. That is how we build a resilient economy.
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I think it was an unfortunate headline designed to attract attention. Her point about restraint of protest is correct but to conflate this with what Vance wants - a platform for Far Right hate speech, is pretty naive.
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To be honest, it’s all just free advertising for these awful people. They will be loving the attention. I would rather this report addressed the real problem - which is false reporting & lack of editorial oversight (or deliberate editorial scaremongering). Wasn’t there a time when this was not ok?
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I might add that while building a new hospital is unlikely to make a dent at least it has some positive consequences on wages, health & productivity. Whereas the grotesque shambles of dirty money in our asset ‘markets’ (snort) brings nothing but negative consequences.
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I’m surprised you don’t mention the current account? The reason we’re in this mess is because we’ve been a safe haven for capital fleeing domestic regulation. Without pressing this into useful investment we are left with insufficient savings to buffer against shocks (at every level) hence: debt.
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Right, now you’ve done it!👇
youtu.be/0THlRj2msOs
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Yes, I totally misread that! So in fact it’s probably more like a law of large numbers / wisdom of crowds effect - which is what you’d expect if conventional wisdom aggregates, intuitively, lots of prior experience.
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Sorry to ask but if meta analyses are bullshit then what are we left with? It’s sort of common law vs judicial inquiry?
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I think Vincent Bevins’ book is instructive. The problem facing all protest movements during this era is that they had no plan for what came next. Initial spontaneous conflagration appeared powerful & important - but it actually hardened the opposing forces. ‘Rejoin’ is a slogan but not a plan.
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Definitely this!
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Oh is that why? They’re always putting their music on in the car (Note: *I* had to listen to bloody Terry Wogan) & when I hum along they say: “how do you know this?” as if I spent 30 years in a Buddhist retreat before they came along.
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Peak Bluesky😁👆
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IBM assisted in the fascist Final Solution by providing punch card technology to identify and track Jews. The punch cards were used in the death camps as well to track the genocide.
Now we have Palantir providing assistance to track all Americans.
Our fascists got a technology upgrade.
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I’m old enough to remember when phallocentric males were just called dicks🤷🏻♀️
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Who’s leading the tech friendly oligarch movement?? I thought that was Biden😮
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😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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😮😮😮
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… forced to offer concessions to developers that wouldn’t be necessary under the disaggregated model funded by local banks (the model my father knew). It was demand led with lots of modular solutions. Now we have monoculture = huge market power & govts are defenceless. Truly depressing stuff.
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… 80s, house builders needed an investor - often from HK or India. They became nothing more than local managers just as VC is all about finding managers of capital & setting up a moat to protect it. Planning matters (as the Substack explains) but capital dynamics matter more. Labour will be …
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My father was a local house builder in the UK in the 70s so it’s close to home. Thatcher’s recession broke his business. 30 years of building & diversifying into industrial & office property development (demand led - those were the days!). He did it all himself from a poor background. After the …
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Sure, but the goal is: lower dollar, maintain hegemony, fuck Wall Street unless flight to safety tanks the $$. So far, it’s working. I think the taxes are about further debasing the $$. I want to believe they’re setting crypto up for a crash but that’s a shark too far.