“You can’t just take control of an entire segment of Equestria’s economy!” Twilight Sparkle protested. “Who said you could do that?”
“Nopony said I couldn’t do it,” Starlight Glimmer countered. “Besides, I did it humanely.”
Twilight stared at her. “What… what does that even mean? How do you humanely nationalize an entire industry?”
So, I was reading my usual dose of libcom links (while my dog is asleep), and this specific one (on education) definitely remined me about quite amount of shock I got when I first read that ""The UK is the world’s fifth largest economy, it contains many areas of immense wealth…The results? 14 million people, a fifth of the population, live in poverty." . I mean, how?! This is not my failing Rodina, this is "First World
I figure while I'm plugging one econ crossover, I might as well add another: sci-fi fans might be interested in Trekonomics (introduction and chapters 1 and 8 available at link), a forthcoming book on the economics of Star Trek. Or some of the preview videos on YouTube, like this one on how a post-scarcity society, one of the foundations of the series, relates to the real world,
This blog is also hosted at Offprint, which is a pretty great new platform that I'm hoping takes off. This is some of my standard stuff. I'll probably write something more sentimental for the new year soon.
This started at a train station.
Having a lot of money doesn't always equate to happiness. Most of the time, it can make anyone morally corrupt. The gap between the rich and the poor has been getting wider over time and it will continue to widen if there's no solution to economic inequality.
Going back to school for a degree in economics. I've dropped out twice, hopefully third time's the charm! It's weird being surrounded by 18-year-olds again.
I want to bring socialism to America, and I figure people will take me more seriously with a degree. 
Still reading Vultures Picnic, by Greg Palast. The book that pointed out the finance minister up a tree with an invisibility hex. There's a lot of background to Armenia and Azerbaijan that feels prescient, for a book that's now ten years old.
One thing he says that caught my eye; In countries that strike oil money, the people always get televisions before they get toilets.
Video made by me
Well, I honestly don't know what to say for this introduction since I've never read this fic.
This week we have a somewhat popular side fic starring a Unicorn Blacksmith living in the Bayou of the southern wasteland. I'm really not sure what else to say, but I'm really interested to see how this goes.
So here's a Thomas Piketty graph.
After reading some of the things bookplayer and Applejinx have been posting lately, I wanted to write up a blog on why you should care about networking, and why it's not a dirty word. I wanted to do a whole discussion of new economic ideas. I wanted to talk about
After my blog post about economics and crowdfunding a week and a half back, I promised you guys I had more to say on the topic. Now that <shameless plug>Vimbert has jumped on the Patreon bandwagon</shameless plug>, I figure I should deliver. So here we go—I'm back to discuss eco-economics, the Mondragón Cooperative Corporation, and
So I tried writing this thing once, and I wasn't very happy with how it came out. You know what that means.
...you don't? Well, you should. It means it's time for an old fashioned high school style persuasive essay! (When in doubt, go with the classics!)
Last weekend I was in London, with over 100,000 people, at a protest calling for a People’s Vote on Brexit. As you may have heard, the UK is scheduled to leave the European Union on 29 March 2019.
As the title implies, I'm a liar. A fibber of sorts. A little miscreant and dealer of mistruths. Around three years ago I promised you dear readers of the Rubydubious show that I would write a masterpiece about Starlight Glimmer leading an uprising against Princess Celestia in an epic to be titled: War Against the Sun. It was meant to be an extremely realistically written piece, and to accomplish that, I would read over two hundred books or so to fill my mind with the knowledge needed to
I wrote this just in time to see Reddit and Discord announce cryptocurrency integration. Hooray for me. If you want to link this to people you know, here's a non-pony option.
God. Okay. This is going to be a fun one. My favourite articles come from assuming something is common knowledge and being told it isn’t.
The most apes use decimal currency. In most currencies, the largest currencies are 100 or 1,000. The smallest denominations is generally .01. One could have these denominations:
1,000.00
0,100.00
0,010.00
0,001.00
0,000.10
0,000.01
The denominations are far apart, thus making change difficult. Most countries use pseudonbinary:
1,000.00
0,500.00
0,250.00
0,100.00
0,050.00
0,025.00
0,010.00
0,005.00
0,002.00
0,001.00
0,000.50
0,000.25
0,000.10
It's official, my household holds one the last remaining Satellite series of Toshiba's computers: considering they'd stopped making them several years ago, I should've been surprised by how fast technology itself has changed; however, this isn't about the future itself but the past thereof. Around last week, my first laptop from August 2012 has stopped working completely: somehow it must have happened after I'd shut it down ironically; despite having a working battery, I can't seem to get it up
A couple years ago, I wrote a blog post about how the value of Venezuelan currency was dependent on a guy who works at Home Depot. At that point, the Bolivar Fuerte - the official currency of Venezuela - was worth approximately 1/4000th of an American dollar.
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