blue-bubbles.bsky.social
Pensive/Analytical:
Geography#1, Hist#2, Econ#3, Hist of Industrial Policy#4, Civics#5, Law#6
Clifton Strengths: Strategic, Ideation, Connectedness, Learner.
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We need Bernie Samders as president more than ever.
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Pretty sure Trump did not hand the government over to Musk. It’s more likely like he sold it, or perhaps leased it to Musk at a rate of about $10 billion a month in personal remuneration via meme-coin scam.
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I’m American and I’m booing the American national anthem. Long live Canada and all our allies that Trump wants to wage war with.
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I wanna move there (or to New Zealand) but I’m too old and too poor.
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Not sure this is unusual for any west coast at LA’s latitude. Driver is the Arctic high pressure pushing dry air.
Best argument for climate change is Judge Learned Hand’s formula for negligence: Gravity of harm creates a duty to mitigate hazard. Let deniers sign up for liability for doing nothing.
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They’ll be like Puerto Rico and not get to vote.
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I wish policy giants like Musk and Trump would get their wisdom from watching old movies like “It’s a Wonderful Life” and “Fiddler on the Roof.”
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“When you’re rich they think you really know…”
- lyrics from the song ‘If I Were a Rich Man’,
- from the musical “Fiddler on the Roof”.
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The policy paradox circa 1946:
Per “It’s a Wonderful Life’s” (thesis):
A slightly left-of-center economic system (New Deal) begets you a slightly right-of-center social system (U.S circa 1958).
(w/ just enough wiggle room for us all to be what we want to be).
And isn’t that what we ALL want?
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I wonder what this analysis would find concerning people who are addicted to watching pornography on the internet.
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It goes back to 1992 & Gingrich announcing he will no longer compromise on legislation. Axelrod’s Game Theory says it pays to quit cooperating immidiately once you realize the game is going to end, even if the end s many moves from the present.
(See “Evolution of Cooperation”, Robt Axelrod, 1982)
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Lock in warp speed
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If you can read the book. It’s powerful. For instance, In WWI both sides began deliberately missing their aim, so long one didn’t break the deal. The Generals eventually got hip, came and broke things up.
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Trump also included him in his Thanks-Giving day dinner.
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The median wage has been flat since 1970 despite GNP quadrupling.
>80% of gains flowed to <1% (>$70 trillion).
See: See graph #2 at: bit.ly/EPI-study
Also:
Bit.ly/FED-RealGNPsince1972
Bit.ly/FED-Wages
Bit.ly/FED-PerCapGNP
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In the 1950s CEOs didn’t export factories. Back then unions had ties to the mob. If a CEO threatened to move a plant he’d get a brick thru his window reminding him that poverty=violence & violence begets violence.
In 1970s they passed RICO which defanged the mob. Export of factories became rampant.
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Axelrod’s study captures a mechanism in the sociali sciences, meaning it’s not a matter of opinion, but of mechanics.
Britain didn’t want to negotiate with Sinn Fein. So the IRA blew up buildings. When Britain got tired of the violence it negotiated w/ Sinn Fein. The Good Friday accords resulted
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A careful reading of Robt Axelrod’s seminal “The Evolution of Cooperation” suggests that cooperation doesn’t occur in the absence of a credible threat of violence. Mutually assured destruction paved the way for detente. If CEOs think they r immune to violence they’ll continue to inflict it.
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A careful reading of Robt Axelrod’s “The Evolution of Cooperation” suggests that cooperation doesn’t occur in the absence of credible threat of violence. Mutually assured destruction paved the way for detente. If CEOs think they r immune to violence they’ll continue to inflict it
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U’ve sustained me thru many darktimes over 30yrs. Please stay active
Now’s a gud time to teach “tit-for-tat” from Axelrod’s “The Evolution of Cooperation”
Cooperation occurs only in context of credible threat of violence in iterative relationship. Threat of violence changes how insurance cos act.
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High taxes like they had in the 1950s, forced rich&powerful to not take profits but instead reinvest in their businesses, expanding industrialization, jobs and workers life styles.
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Yeah I’m sure there r lots of ways this can happen.
My father’s gen everyone did some time in the military.
After I grad from high school & went to college out of state, met lots of people from all over the place living in the dorms etc.
I’m sure there are other ways to have this kind of thing.
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Actual experience is how you reprogram the emotive sphere. Back in the late 40s & 50s people went in military & had positive experiences w/ people from all over the nation. Communitarian structures/experiences provides positive experience. The rich don’t want this bcuz it creates duties beyond self.
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Neural scientists (& advertisers) have known for 50+ years that decision make ing is centered in the emotive spheres of the mind - which is rigidly set by experience.
We then use the intellectual spheres rationalize what we emotively have contrived.
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We’ll Cross that bridge only if & when we get there.
Ethics/decency/human values r middle class characteristics: the rich don’t need them & the poor can’t afford them.
By the time we get there many workers will convert to mid-class ethics. So it shuld ultimately work out okay.