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As he sends his kids off to public school (socialism), salutes our military (socialism), high fives his police officer (socialism) neighbor and drives on a state highway (socialism) to work.

It’s a bad setup where competition and small business are at a severe disadvantage, agree with Phin. What the book explains is a path to a a better combo of free markets and socialism where they are working in tandem and not against each other: There’s something called “market socialism” but usually what it means is socialism, but with some market institutions to keep it more efficient, and that is not what we mean at all. We mean that in order to have real free markets you have to have socialism, and in order to have socialism, you have to have markets. These two things, which seem opposite to each other, are actually two sides of the same coin.

Yea. No matter how far civilization advances, people resort to the same fundamentally flawed instincts unless they dedicate time and energy to expand their thinking outside of their comfort zone. Tip would probably do a better job at explaining this lol. But the idea is...once you cap yourself and effectively close yourself off to different thoughts and ideas, you actually become dumber over time as you continuously wrap yourself in the same ideological blanket.

And this is one of the biggest downfalls of our society nowadays. Political and ideological tribalism. Like Scooter says, go aliens.

No covid? I sent that to someone like DIT who trips over themselves on any economic ideas not touted on faux news to illustrate this book is not about his deepest fear (besides drought). It’s not political at all.

Correct. I’ve read the same. It’s getting tougher for each generation.

AFNATT.

Because I know some can only get their info from Tucky Carlson, here is a snipit: I think the problem with the right is that it believes in the free market, which we absolutely believe in, but it doesn’t know what the market really is or what it requires to have a free market. It assumes that by going backwards to a totally monopolized and retrograde form of markets we’re going to get the dynamic free market of the future, which I think is deeply naïve and mistaken. I think they have a good goal in mind, having a truly free and competitive system, but they created systems that ignored the ways in which what they called markets actually led to concentrated forms of power, very similar to the forms of state power that they decried. The left, on the other hand, also has good aims. It believes in greater equality and believes in breaking up concentrated corporate power, but it thinks it can trust in benevolent state actors to impartially execute this, which to me is just as naïve as trusting corporate actors or the owners of private property to somehow benevolently have the public interest in mind. Like the left, we want to reduce inequality, diffuse power more broadly, and have a more profound democracy, but we think that standard discretionary state power is a perfect way to reestablish the tyranny of the elite, precisely the same sort of oppression that they’re trying to alleviate

Nope. Try again.

It’s actually not but you don’t read so I would wouldn’t think you’d get passed the title.

I’ve started reading this book and I highly recommend it for anyone with an open mind on how we can fix our monopolist society: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691177502/radical-markets

I like dry warm months anyway. Keeps the ticks and mosquitos at bay.

It’s DIT.

He told them no rain, hot and humid so they planned for swimming trunks and hot dogs... only to wake up to rain jackets and soaked weenies.

You have to admit this does look like you:

Laugh at gfs, euro, nam...pick the model that fits the agenda or just don’t look at models at all?

It’s bizarre. Time for a straight jacket and white padded walls.

Surprised you were able to play with all the forrest fires in the area.

Rains and cold. Sustained warmth on hold as the -nao does -nao things.

Phineass knows it all.

That will bump back north over the next 36hrs. My ground is still soaked anyway so another .5-1.0 will be enough and just right to keep the forrest fires in the HFD suburbs from burning out of control.

I’ve never seen it done with a thermometer before so maybe dendy can show us pics...

ATM?

I tried to tell ya about the freeze warning but you ‘confused emjoji’ me.