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Why Don’t American Farmers Embrace Peasant Farming?
Last June, I quit my office job and booked a flight to France. I was 24 and dewy-eyed, and I wanted to farm—or, at least, I wanted to try. A few weeks later, I was face-to-face with 64 goat udders, being told plus de force, (less delicately), as I wiped them down for milking. It was a stark contrast to the day jobs I had known before, writing endless emails and leaving voicemails in professional-speak—“Looking forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience!” Staring down dozens of goats udders, not a meeting agenda or email inbox to be found,
Most young men are single. Most young women are not.
More than 60 percent of young men are single, nearly twice the rate of unattached young women, signaling a larger breakdown in the social, romantic and sexual life of the American male. Men i…
After Winnie the Pooh, these other characters will soon enter the public domain
'Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey' was a hit. Next, Sherlock Holmes, Mickey Mouse, and Superman will enter the public domain, complicating things for Disney, Warner Bros., and other studios
In the months following the invasion of Ukraine, cryptic anti-war graffiti began popping up across Russia. People started writing out the phrase “no war” using asterisks instead of the various letters in order to disguise the meaning of the message. Then back in September, a woman in Russia wrote out the Russian word for “no”
Predictions from *Average is Over* - Marginal REVOLUTION
My book is from 2013, here are some of the key predictions: 1. Increases in the power and generality of artificial intelligence will prove a major breakthrough within a foreseeable time period. 2. Labor market returns will accrue to individuals capable and willing to work with such services. 3. Resources and land are going to […]
Universal Basic Income Isn't "Left" or "Right". It's Forward.
Let’s talk about humanity. Human civilization was not ready for COVID-19, nor is it ready for the continuing impacts of climate change, nor the impacts we will increasingly feel as we automate more and more employment.
In 1971, a woman visited an F.B.I. office in Pennsylvania. She identified herself as a college student interested in learning about opportunities for women in the F.B.I. None of that was true. She was there “to see whether there were security alarms before we could decide if we could break in.”
The "sufficiently restrictive" Fed. Part 1: The labor market
Fed officials will eventually decide that they have raised interest rates enough. How they make that call is of great importance, and the Fed should share its thinking.
The failed promises of exporting American-style capitalism | Boing Boing
How do you define the economic, political, and cultural system named capitalism that organizes the world? A system contested and imposed through media, policies, laws, and forgeries of memory.and m…