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Jan. 14th, 2018
В продолжение поста о полуграмотной арбатовщине и дискуссии у Романа Соколова:
A lead male actor got $1.5M for reshooting a part of a movie, while a lead female actor got less than $1K. From a homo economicus Pareto improvement perspective, they are both better off and we are not to worry about inequality. But as predicted by Sen and observed in reality, we can see that homo sociologicus is a bit more complicated than the Pareto Model.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2018/01/09/exclusive-wahlberg-paid-1-5-m-all-money-reshoot-williams-got-less-than-1-000/1018351001/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2018/01/13/after-outcry-mark-wahlberg-and-his-agency-donate-2-million-times-up/1031424001/
A lead male actor got $1.5M for reshooting a part of a movie, while a lead female actor got less than $1K. From a homo economicus Pareto improvement perspective, they are both better off and we are not to worry about inequality. But as predicted by Sen and observed in reality, we can see that homo sociologicus is a bit more complicated than the Pareto Model.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2018/01/09/exclusive-wahlberg-paid-1-5-m-all-money-reshoot-williams-got-less-than-1-000/1018351001/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2018/01/13/after-outcry-mark-wahlberg-and-his-agency-donate-2-million-times-up/1031424001/
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Jan. 14th, 2018 02:07 amA good insight about our so-called president:
This also applies to the so-called tax cut and the fantasy that you invest by spending borrowed cash.
Trump appreciates the power of fantasy. Con artists sell their too-good-to-be-true stories with such great ease because people want to believe them. The eagerness to believe is what make’s a con artist’s mark a mark — the mark always participates in his own deception.
Bernie Madoff ripped off a lot of well-off and financially sophisticated people and institutions who really should have known better than to trust his unwavering above-market returns, but they wanted to believe.
With his phony gilt Louis XV chairs, his casinos and beauty pageants, and his succession of prom-queen-jerky paramours, Trump has spent his career performing, and the role he has chosen is that of a poor man’s idea of a rich man. He went so far as to create an imaginary friend, John Barron, to lie to the New York press about his sex life.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/455428/donald-trump-porn-star-payoff-why
This also applies to the so-called tax cut and the fantasy that you invest by spending borrowed cash.
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Jan. 14th, 2018 02:26 amhttp://www.straitstimes.com/world/chinas-inexorable-rise-being-helped-by-us-retreat
Europe and Asia-Pacific now increasingly depend on China trade, e.g.
Europe and Asia-Pacific now increasingly depend on China trade, e.g.
"With China's economic footprint across the Asia-Pacific region already large, countries in the region are now increasingly concluding that the US is consigning itself to growing economic irrelevance in Asia," former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd wrote last month.
"US financial institutions will, of course, remain important, as will Silicon Valley, as a source of extraordinary innovation.
"But the pattern of trade, the direction of investment and, increasingly, the nature of intra-regional capital flows, are painting a vastly different picture for the future than the one that has dominated post-war Asia."
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Jan. 14th, 2018 11:10 pmWhen I was a college kid Flatland made an enormous impression on me. I was particularly impressed by how the author fused math, literature, culture, philosophy and psychology into a tiny book. Life in a two-dimensional world, with all its beauty, absurdity and ugliness, felt real. In some ways, Orwell's 1984 was a sequel to Flatland.
Now, my country lives inside a real-time book about the Liar Paradox. I wish I could skip ahead and see the ending.
Now, my country lives inside a real-time book about the Liar Paradox. I wish I could skip ahead and see the ending.