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• Commented on Unemployment stats in the USA just got worse
  I am shocked to find out that some places are above the average. I never would have guessed....
• Commented on Public fountains are disappearing because the concept of public is disappearing
  MisterJuju, Poor, uneducated people all over the world strive to educate there kids. A big reason we have the "undesirables" is because public schools have failed them for generation after generation. It's about the freedom to leave. Imagine if black...
• Commented on Public fountains are disappearing because the concept of public is disappearing
  The point of charter schools is that I have a right to remove my kids from a school that isn't serving them, and charter schools are free to try to serve niche needs, if my kids need them. This is...
• Commented on Charlie Stross and Paul Krugman talk science fiction and economics at the WorldCon
  Are you allowed to claim the world isn't changing in a conversation that is beamed instantly around the world for viewing & commenting? I call bogus....
• Commented on Making a toaster from scratch, mining the raw materials
  #5, it's interesting that you mention the pencil, because "I, pencil" is a fairly famous essay on economics about exactly that, with the point being how powerful decentralized commerce is & how interconnected we are. http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.html...
• Commented on Where money comes from: fractional reserve and debts
  I'm glad to hear that, Zeroy. Get in touch with me & I'll tell you where to send the money....
• Commented on Naomi Klein on America's bailout
  Sorry - I have to elaborate. Let me get the story straight... The president is widely hated for disregarding civil liberties and has statistically added more regulators & more regulatory spending than all but a handful of his predecessors, and...
• Commented on Naomi Klein on America's bailout
  If only the Democrats had enough votes to stop this from being pushed through by the "Chicago Boys" in the Republican Party.........
• Commented on How SEC rule-exemptions led to the Wall St collapse
  That is sad. I assume since the government doesn't regulate Boing Boing's financial leverage, we'll be seeing the end of Boing Boing any day now. Because without the government to stop us with regulation, we will all cause our own...
• Commented on The 5 greatest things ever accomplished while high
  Rossifumi: Um....40 years in the desert, anyone?...
• Commented on Freeman Dyson on global warming
  #6 - For all the dangers of technological predications, don't you think the techno-pessimists or techno-stasists (?) look much worse in comparison to the techno-optimists? For starters, there are a good number of Malthusians that were way off the mark....
• Commented on Coupon queen spends $10/week on family groceries
  I think this is a great example of how the economy mitigates income inequality. Businesses try to match prices to a range of demographic targets, so that they can pull more revenue from people who aren't as price sensitive. So,...
• Commented on Some China firms outsourcing to USA to cut costs
  I would hope that there is much investment going in both directions, as there is with Canada, UK, Germany, and any other major economy. It's comparative advantage. It's why I don't make my own shoes from scratch, and why I...
• Commented on Naomi Klein on social change
  #30: "Part of the reason life is bad for many people is so ours can be better." Our government may do things that make some people worse off. But that has nothing to do with capitalism. And everything economics since...
• Commented on <i>Super Blockquote</i>: Hewlett-Packard, Workstations Division
  Sentences have the same information and relevance half gone......
• Commented on Farmers make a killing by killing 150,00 pigs for no reason
  Postmodern capitalism: For every one farmer running an automated parlor that milks 200 cows an hour, there are 500 other people sitting in their den, in their underwear, blogging about how it has something to do with immigration & health...
• Commented on Wal-Mart corporate archivist selling access to recordings of exec meetings to plaintiff-side lawyers
  Come on, Weatherman. It's Wal-Mart. So them bad, others good. Don't think about it too hard. I mean, in the 80's the company's founder actually suggested that he thought they should have more women in management. Now that's just evil!...
• Commented on IMF: one-in-four chance of global recession caused by US debt crisis
  I hate Bush, too, but I think it's ok for the world to push along imperfectly, with a problem here or there, and for it to happen independently of his incompetence. I don't see why he would be responsible, or...
• Commented on HOWTO Earn an artist's living in the 21st century: 1000 True Fans
  If there are 250 working days a year, and each true fan pays you a days' wage, then it looks like you'd only need 250 true fans to earn the same wage they do. Does that make you feel better,...
• Commented on Steam-powered battery charger
  Thank goodness they don't need to rely on petroleum. If only we could all burn wood in a 1940 boiler, for ourselves & for the earth....