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The Megaproject Economy
Raises the question: what’s the closest human civilization has come to the megaproject economy? Pre-industrial societies had the mindset of distributing wealth to society scale projects. But they lacked industrial capabilities, so their “megaprojects�... (www.palladiummag.com) posted 1w ago with 11 replies coordination economics palladium

The Megaproject Econ

As a matter of historical fact, the communism part came first, then later the race part was added, and then the global part was added. 4d ago

As a matter of histo

Intelligence vs Production
"Optimize for intelligence" says Anglo accelerationist praxis. "Seize the means of production" says the Chinese. Who's right? It is widely assumed in Western discourse that intelligence, the ability to comprehend all the signals and digest them into a plan... posted 2mo ago with 9 replies technology accelerationism economics

Intelligence vs Prod

Look no comment on the current regime and its lack of tact. I support their priorities but there's obviously a lot of dumb stuff going on. In any case I consider it orthogonal to what we should be doing in theory and i wish not to be constrained by their r... 2w ago

Look no comment on t

Private capital is ethically indefensible and irreconcilable with the point of existence
"noblesse oblige" is a guilt-ridden liberal attempt to makeup for depravity (buttondown.com) posted 1mo ago with 1 reply economics

Private capital is e

What is the point of existence? What is the goal of society? This article seems to just make a bunch of unstated assumptions about how society ought to be a singular optimizer for some kind of collective fairness or something, and derive from that that we ... 1mo ago

What is the point of

Non-Linear Ethnic Niches. Arctotherium explains how diversity causes market fracture
https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/non-linear-ethnic-niches posted 2mo ago with 2 replies politics eugenics economics

Non-Linear Ethnic Ni

“In-group members have access in that particular industry to more talent, more capital, more assistance via their ethnic and family connections.”... 1mo ago

“In-group members ha

The End of Strategy
The collapse Yarvin, Thiel, Vassar, Burja, Tivy, Anders, and Tallinn saw coming was real.... posted 2mo ago with 7 replies ideology rationality economics

The End of Strategy

Collapse is not the end. Collapse is the winter.... 2mo ago

Collapse is not the

The Domestic Product. Ben Hoffman explains low fertility: we are poor where it counts
https://benjaminrosshoffman.com/the-domestic-product/ posted 2mo ago with 10 replies eugenics history economics

The Domestic Product

Thank you for the breath of fresh air. I wholly agree that status is not the most important factor. The economic arguments seem completely unconvincing as it doesn't explain how in terms of "leisure time, space, and childcare help" the average person was m... 2mo ago

Thank you for the br

The case for Trump's deficit-reciprocal tariff plan
I didn't get the Trump tariffs at first. It seemed like a hastily implemented half-thought economic trainwreck. Or at least that's what the stock market says. But now I think I understand some of the logic.... posted 2mo ago with 9 replies politics economics news

The case for Trump's

this criticism sounds wise but it has no substance. Who even is invoking global macro doomerism, moral narratives, or the "global trading system"? CTRL-F tells me its only you, anon. The basic subject at hand is the financial unsustainability of a trade de... 2mo ago

this criticism sound

Trump is crashing the financial economy with no survivors. Is this OK?
I see a lot of people complaining about tariffs and stock market crash and all this. We all knew Trump's agenda was gong to hit the fake economy hard. But maybe it's hitting the real economy too, and maybe for no good reason. I have no opinion but I'm curi... posted 3mo ago with 4 replies politics economics

Trump is crashing th

If tariffs were going to cause short term pain but long term gain, then financial markets would be reacting favorably. They're not.... 3mo ago

If tariffs were goin

Will All Our Drugs Come From China?
This is a fascinating article. In new molecular entities count (i.e. drugs entering clinical research pipeline) China has already surpassed EU and is rapidly catching up to US. All the major western pharma companies are licensing drugs from china and expan... (atelfo.github.io) posted 6mo ago with 1 reply politics economics

Will All Our Drugs C

Interesting. I'm skeptical of the existence of beneficial drugs. I always thought it was a dumb cope when Americans are like "yeah China might control the means of production but our pharma industry is bigger. It's like having a bigger entertainment indust... 6mo ago

Interesting. I'm ske

Hedging Against Economic Depression
As you all are aware, the U.S. has been experiencing tremendous levels of inflation recently. Much of this is a post-COVID stimulus reaction.... posted 14mo ago with 15 replies economics news

Hedging Against Econ

I have a finance friend who owns a lot of equity in farmland as part of his prepper-oriented portfolio. 8mo ago

I have a finance fri

The Drone Question. Is America screwed by lack of industrial capacity?
The war in Ukraine is teaching us that explosive hunter-seeker drones, FPV piloted or autonomous, are shockingly overpowered. Flying panzerfausts are wrecking armor for fractional cents on the dollar, and flying grenades are blowing the legs off of boys wh... posted 12mo ago with 40 replies technology economics

The Drone Question.

consumer demand is a complete red herring here. Consumers should not be buying drone swarms or even thinking about it. The question is whether hackers are building novel stuff and then getting into manufacturing, and then whether the manufacturing ecosyste... 12mo ago

consumer demand is a

Why don't people realize that 'high software profit margins' are fugazi?
The popular reason pure software companies have great profit margins is for marginal investment in providing the product/service to more users, given software's replicability. That's the reason everyone likes to repeat.... posted 1y ago with 19 replies politics technology economics

Why don't people rea

If we're going to delve into economics, I would advocate including the modern Austrians in addition to the conventional neoclassical authors like Marshall.... 14mo ago

If we're going to de