Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Too Much Time on Their Hands: The Underemployment of Our Managerial Class by mlyoung57
cut-and-pasted from comments on the original Facebook post… (1) You are right that responsiveness to incentives not to work is, if anything, weakly correlated with any morally problematic “lack of work ethic.” And firm managers (and all of us) sh…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Too Much Time on Their Hands: The Underemployment of Our Managerial Class by mlyoung57
Tangentially related from the Drive-By Truckers. About a fuck-up employee getting fired and blaming it on his boss, the system and everything but himself (with a side helping — in the refrain — of a take on social justice and its relevance …
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Too Much Time on Their Hands: The Underemployment of Our Managerial Class by Roderick T. Long
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. https://praxeology.net/hipparchus.htm LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Too Much Time on Their Hands: The Underemployment of Our Managerial Class by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. This is the same Cardi B: “Fuzzy, fuzzy, fuzzy…” LikeLike
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Too Much Time on Their Hands: The Underemployment of Our Managerial Class by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Roderick T. Long. The considerations you mention don’t rule out the song’s being either a parody, or self-parody, or both. I think the video makes that clear: it’s too silly and over-the-top to be intended or taken serious…
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(QC RSS) Banishment
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Too Much Time on Their Hands: The Underemployment of Our Managerial Class by Roderick T. Long
I guess a lot of listeners aren’t sure “Bodak Yellow” is a parody. The details of the lyrics seem to match the details of her life; and bragging about one’s own wealth, power, status, and badassery, the expensiveness of oneR…
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(Our World in Data) The world is making progress on clean water and sanitation, but is far behind its target to ensure universal access by 2030
All countries pledged to provide safe water and sanitation for everyone by 2030. How far are we from reaching these targets?
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Western Civilization or Universal Culture or WEIRD Culture? by sean samis
In reply to David Potts. David; If you don’t “equate libertarian society with a market-based society” then it was senseless for you to write “A libertarian society (or a market-oriented society, which is the same thing for present purposes) …” We…
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(Policy of Truth) Too Much Time on Their Hands: The Underemployment of Our Managerial Class
I keep hearing hand-waving stories from right-leaning members of our managerial class about how unemployment benefits are dampening the desire to work among rank-and-file workers. Let me give you a small glimpse into the work ethic of this same managerial class in my own case. I’ll leave you to decide, at least in this case,…
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