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When did "X is built one marble at a time" become popular? Maybe search analytics can tell us.

Winston Churchill once laid bricks as a means to outrun the black dog.

If not for taxpayers, the opportunity cost would be incalculably immense.

Thanks for this, I hadn't come across it before.

Last time this happened in the US was during GFC. Mercedes-Benz and BMW "went into hiding" instead of Birkins.

Who's they? Members of every generation have to become class-conscious at some point, no? Some just pick it up quicker, perhaps through a European classic novel or a Great Depression archival newspaper.

Heard from the grapevine that CloudFlare uses it for their analytics.

While traveling by car during one of his many overseas travels, Professor Milton Friedman spotted scores of road builders moving earth with shovels instead of modern machinery. When he asked why powerful equipment wasn’t used instead of so many laborers, his host told him it was to keep employment high in the construction industry. If they used tractors or modern road building equipment, fewer people would have jobs was his host’s logic.

“Then instead of shovels, why don’t you give them spoons and create even more jobs?” Friedman inquired.

How tall was the guy? 80mg a day? Far beyond a reasonable amount.

Do you have a link to this?

Hasn't it always been flexible?

I'll buy someone a coffee if they propose a state-space model that identifies a location on the author's plane as a function of time and incentives :^)

Ostensibly this roostful homecoming is a result of increasing capital costs.

David Goggin's public persona comes to mind as an extreme example. He frames his journey as one that involved embracing pain and discomfort. Now he preaches it incessantly like a sort of addict to masochism. I think this highlights the point of the study which attempts to say, instead of avoiding discomfort one could welcome it with the added risk that you become some sort of firestarter in the sense that you now cannot sit with being comfortable.

A natural extension of this work may be to study at what point does burnout occur.

I had anticipated that this would've ended with you becoming Captain America.