AOC And Ilhan Omar Have LOST THE PLOT
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1970s pessimism bias
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What Life in the Soviet Union Was Like
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Good points
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Well said, Popper
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The Social Contagion Of Mental Disorders
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The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress | Steven Pinker | Rubin Report
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Bill Maher Explains to Ben Shapiro How He Was Tricked by ‘Woke’ | Rubin Report
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From a review of The Mystery of the Kibbutz: Egalitarian Principles in a Capitalist World Ran Abramitzky
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From https://www.marketsandmorality.com/index.php/mandm/article/view/1453
“The Mystery of the Kibbutz explores the history of the kibbutz movement and its vision of economic equality, how it thrived despite inherent economic contradictions, and why it eventually declined. He focuses on three challenges in particular: first, the free rider problem, that there is no benefit for working harder when you get the same salary or personal economic benefits; second, adverse selection – that such a social system would tend to attract people who would not be as successful in a capitalist market; or the inverse, a brain drain, that the smartest people or those who could find success outside the kibbutz would tend to leave. Finally, the question of human capital investment: that there would be a tendency to underinvest in human capital, in other words that there would be a lack of incentive for young people to study or work hard because in the end as kibbutz members they can depend on equal income no matter what their contribution is.”
No, peace activists want the other side to win
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Passages of life
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Ukrainian protestor kicked out of Stop the War Corbyn Rally
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Anti-science left
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Milton Friedman Why free markets work
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