#markblyth — Public Fediverse posts
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"How do you live in a world that you don't understand? What you do is you try and cover your downside for losses and open for the upside. And for that you need to be corrigible. You need to be open to being wrong."
This was a summary of Nassim Taleb's "Antifragile" book according to Mark Blyth, political economist.On bubbles, commodification, the values of economics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNlPnd4aVs0
#uncertainty #mistakes #corrigibility #criticalThinking #adaptability #learning #quotes #NassimTaleb #MarkBlyth #Antifragile #bookStodon #book #video #economics #wealth #taxation #austerity #concentration #capitalism #immigration
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"I have an 11-year old and I want her to actually have a future. If we’re not focusing on this stuff, if we are talking about trivia, if we’re doing the politics of distraction, you’re putting my 11-year old’s future and everyone else in her generation in deep, deep risk. That is unacceptable."
#MarkBlyth, 2022
https://pitchforkeconomics.com/episode/why-wont-trickle-down-die-with-mark-blyth/
Hell yes!
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"... if you think about the people who went to the Capitol building on January the 6th, they were morally outraged, too. You may disagree with those morals, but that was a motivator for their anger.
We got interested in this whole area and we basically settled on a story about macro-angrynomics and micro-angrynomics."
#MarkBlyth, 2022
https://pitchforkeconomics.com/episode/why-wont-trickle-down-die-with-mark-blyth/
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A good time to revisit this eye-opener by #MarkBlyth because if #Trump wins again, the economists would line-up to curse the working class people of the #USEmpire once again.
Blyth also hosts a brilliant podcast at #Brown which has many more gems that could help one understand the sham that is #corporateamerica . And, he's incredibly funny.Mark Blyth - Why People Vote for Those Who Work Against Their Best Interests
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@dcjohnson austerity was never a workable idea it’s just propaganda in support of robber barons . Via #MarkBlyth https://www.youtube.com/live/2ONGvkAoOI0?feature=shared
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>… auch nach dem Ende der #Pandemie [arbeitet] ein gutes Viertel der Beschäftigten von zu Hause aus.
#Endemierebellen 🖖😷✌️ #CovidIsNotOver
#MarkBlyth hat's schon vor Jahren in #RadioOpenSource vorhergesagt: "I wouldn't be going long on commercial #RealEstate"
Außerdem: Firmen, die ihre Leute schutzlos ins Büro zwingen, laden #schwereSchuld auf sich und sollten definitiv nicht über #Fachkräftemangel jammern.Folgeempfehlung zu diesen Themen: https://nitter.net/brownecfm/