yossarian1408

Reminiscent of that quote from the Gulag Archipelago.

"Your punishment for having a knife when they searched you would be very different from the thief’s. For him to have a knife was mere misbehavior, tradition, he didn’t know any better. But for you to have one was ‘terrorism."

I reckon the burden of proof lies with those making the accusations! How can the claims be disputed when their evidence isn't even put forward in the first place?

Brilliant article. It's concerning seeing the attack on free speech happening under the guise of combatting hate/misinformation. As if we can trust the citizenry with the power of electing its government, but not with forming its own opinions!

People who commit crimes are not entitled to the same rights as everybody else nor ought they to be

Relevant context. Singer has a lot of clout because people read some of his stuff in a first year philosophy class. For those who didn't get the memo that the man is a crazy misanthrope, him taking the idea of infanticide seriously is a pretty good indicator of what his specific grift actually is.

1. SpaceX and Tesla do not publish news

2. If by "easy loans" you mean competing for contracts with the likes of BlueOrigin, Raytheon and Boeing, you ought to drop the word 'easy'

3. If the goal is getting back at the industry, one questions whether Elon Musk wouldn't have had an easier time just buying up a bunch of the papers like Bezos and Murdoch

4. Unlike the previous Twitter regime, Musk allows organisations free reign to critique anyone and anything they like. They just have to disclose who's paying for the criticism is all :)

Twitter, SpaceX and Tesla are not newspapers/publishers. The reason for labelling news organisations' government affiliations is for the viewer/reader to understand that there may or may not be bias, and where the funding is coming from.

If NPR's government contributions are embarrassing for the organisation, it might be best for them to forgo that funding. Additionally, if there's no influence/bias, then why does it matter that their funding is disclosed to the reader?

A flawed ideal maybe, but you can't say it's a scam.

Mobile phones an essential service?

The petrodollar might be valuable to the US, it certainly isn't doing the world any favours.

100% this. I wonder if people consider the carbon footprint of maintaining petrodollar hegemony.

But they will lose that hegemony. It happened to the denarii, it will happen to the dollar. The question is - what would be best suited to replace it? Our contenders are the Euro, the Yuen or Bitcoin.

Seems an obvious choice.

It's not even that. There are different drivers of inflation, it could be spurred by supply shocks, increased demand, greater supply of money, uncompetitive markets arising from government capture, etc., the economy is so complex that when you consider all these moving parts, a claim like "interest rates go down, inflation goes up" starts to sound incredibly reductive.

Sounds less like capitalism breaking down and more like a regulatory issue.. could fractional reserve banking exist in a competitive banking sector w/o a central bank?

You are referring to the US dollar correct?

Anybody is more than welcome to build their own garden, but if you own the garden you also get to decide if it has walls around it or not.