Economics

Economics and markets: prices, incentives, inequality, macroeconomics, crypto

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Trusted voices in Economics

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  1. patio11 — trusted by 112 posters here
  2. eigenrobot — trusted by 115 posters here
  3. visakanv — trusted by 139 posters here
  4. eshear — trusted by 126 posters here
  5. nosilverv — trusted by 126 posters here
  6. myhandle — trusted by 90 posters here
  7. AskYatharth — trusted by 89 posters here
  8. DanielleFong — trusted by 78 posters here
  9. xsphi — trusted by 78 posters here
  10. DefenderOfBasic — trusted by 69 posters here
  11. RomeoStevens76 — trusted by 68 posters here
  12. RichDecibels — trusted by 77 posters here

Top posts in Economics

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  1. capitalism can integrate your aesthetic faster than your aesthetic can disintegrate capitalism https://t.co/p2QMck5Ifi (AskYatharth) — 33 likes
  2. >live in a society >rich beyond belief >enjoy fruits of a thousand generations of cultural development >complex and subtle technology for solving all manner of collective action problems… (eigenrobot) — 26 likes
  3. "Bitcoin" comes from the old Hebrew "Beit Cohen", meaning "house of the priest" or "temple". Jesus cleansed the temple in Jerusalem by driving out the money lenders. The implications of this on… (myhandle) — 25 likes
  4. recurring conversation: me: I love how this abundance allows us more freedom to do what we love them: I liked the scarcity more because things were more meaningful when it was scarce me: ? you can… (visakanv) — 25 likes
  5. imagine Aella’s recent festivities being how you discover e/acc https://t.co/u3eJXjRkiF (m_ashcroft) — 24 likes
  6. The French Polymarket whale commissioned polls with a specific alternate methodology, the “neighbor method” 1. What a baller 2. What a killer example of how betting markets can surface contrarian,… (mbateman) — 24 likes
  7. the nature of markets is such that there’s always someone out there who will pay you more money than you think anybody would, for something you already know how to do (visakanv) — 23 likes
  8. my friend is bummed because he thought there was "abundance for everybody" but then he sat down and "did the math", there's 95 trillion dollars in the world, 8 billion people, that's only $11,875… (bashu_thanks) — 23 likes
  9. Another feature of low trust societies is a breakdown in the ability to spend more money to get better outcomes. You can spend more money, but the quality of the outcome is fairly random. You've… (RomeoStevens76) — 22 likes
  10. it's kind of a blackpill on humanity that there's such an enormous market for "a crap version of the thing" https://t.co/KqSoNROowY (RichDecibels) — 22 likes
  11. "oh, yeah. the reason nobody's looking out for you is because they don't believe you could possibly exist, statistically speaking. this isn't your fault. because of the lemon market problem. you're… (visakanv) — 21 likes
  12. $130k/year is a rarer gift than being "gifted" imagine being despondent about it lmao couldn't be me (bc I wasn't born a surplus elite American) https://t.co/mLYirUo4Ou https://t.co/X2AaynPMGd (myhandle) — 21 likes
  13. You don’t have to play Capitalism® your whole life but it’s definitely worth a few years, really deep game, good combo of strategy and luck and skill. Plus the points you get are redeemable for cool… (eshear) — 21 likes
  14. I think many people would be surprised at the difficulties billionaires have in converting money into smart people and/or their outputs. https://t.co/u7pes0vlFp (patio11) — 21 likes
  15. You think your problem with capitalism is the profit motive, when in fact what truly bothers you is alienation. Replace the profit motive with any other within a global system and the alienation… (eshear) — 21 likes
  16. I’d kinda like to witness Google get crushed by a competitor. Just like for narrative reasons. We’d then have lived to see the rise and fall of an empire within the span of a couple of decades,… (visakanv) — 20 likes
  17. This is my entire argument for universal basic income https://t.co/RY4CWCuq3l (frideswyth) — 20 likes
  18. my most feminine trait is i can never remember which one is “bullish” and which one is “bearish.” like those are both just large dangerous mammals what’s the difference??? (QiaochuYuan) — 20 likes
  19. I feel like everyone is close to giving up the ghost on late stage capitalism. People just… don’t want to work anymore. Not the bullshit stuff anyway. In an age of impending bio collapse everyone’s… (frideswyth) — 20 likes
  20. when I grow up I want to be a rational actor with perfect information (xsphi) — 20 likes
  21. @BecomingCritter middle class person: wow it's so easy to make your way up even if you start with nothing (AskYatharth) — 19 likes
  22. I have an untaxable inflation-proof untraceable store of wealth: a massive distributed network of favours owed (RichDecibels) — 19 likes
  23. The rise and fall of corporations where they are vigorous and dynamic and then become capable but no longer growing and finally enter a death spiral is one of those obvious patterns oft remarked on.… (eshear) — 19 likes
  24. I think most of the untapped wealth in the world is in the connections between people who do not yet know each other (visakanv) — 18 likes
  25. capitalism is not in a late stage. the old system is not dying. a new world is not struggling to be born. (RichDecibels) — 18 likes
  26. No one is talking about country age gaps like how it's impossible for Nigeria (median age 18.3 years) to meaningfully consent to a trade agreement with France (median age 41.7 years) and how creepy… (BLUNDERBUSSTED) — 18 likes
  27. Possibly every TPOT member should sell like 5% equity in their future financial success to other TPOT members (michaelcurzi) — 18 likes
  28. let’s talk math when you produce unlimited content, even if 99.99% of it is shitty, and 0.01% of it is good by accident and you can produce that for free and 0.01% of people are interested in that… (visakanv) — 18 likes
  29. It’s so weird you can charge someone’s bank account with just their routing and account number, and it just does it. No approval required! I understand the historical reasons but it’s really wild it… (eshear) — 18 likes
  30. people excited about democratizing something for everyone tend to be from the 1% of people who really love it, surrounded with the other 1% who really love it, and collectively they misunderstand… (visakanv) — 17 likes
  31. EXPLAIN HOW PRICES ARE IMPACTED BY BUILDING MORE HOUSING TO ME OR I'LL FUCKING EVICT YOU! DON'T DUMB IT DOWN INTO SOME VAGUE SHIT! EXPLAIN HOUSING PRICES TO ME RIGHT NOW OR I'LL LITERALLY FUCKING… (eshear) — 17 likes
  32. I know this is not a novel insight but the people in the least economically developed places are the most generous and relaxed fr fr (RichDecibels) — 17 likes
  33. I remember this literally every time I hear the phrase or think about the concept of revealed preference https://t.co/vcY4FtHzHC (xsphi) — 17 likes
  34. When someone complains “why does no one make things like _____” anymore, a good question to ask them is if they’ve ever tried to buy one for themselves, and if so where they looked. Surprisingly… (eshear) — 17 likes
  35. Someone should make SimCentralBanker to drive economic literacy. SimCity created a generation of urbanists, we can do it again. (eshear) — 17 likes
  36. So here's what's crazy!! If you want to get a 450 ton train go from point A to point B, safely, reliably– you need a delivery system that's not truly "secured"! the infrastructure is reliable… (visakanv) — 16 likes
  37. ok I ask this as a layperson with love and curiosity and eagerness to learn, pls no snark if crypto-web3-nft-daos-defi etc is electricity, what is the lightbulb? what is the thing I can do with it,… (visakanv) — 16 likes
  38. I've become totally radicalized about tipping. Add tips to all financial transactions. Allow businesses and institutions to tip people back. Let prisons tip prisoners for good behavior. Create total… (PrinceVogel) — 16 likes
  39. i still havent found a super elegant way of conveying this... there is disproportionate demand for coin because people don't know what they want people who know what they want, then, get fantastic… (visakanv) — 16 likes
  40. What if we paid prisons a flat rate per inmate per year, much higher than the current amount, but in exchange the prison was on the hook for any recidivism? You get paid for the 4 year sentence, but… (eshear) — 16 likes
  41. from time to time i get people assuming i was born wealthy so it seems worthwhile to reestablish some backstory. one of my grandfathers was a postman, the other was a gardener. my dad washed buses… (visakanv) — 16 likes
  42. late stage capitalism, Game B, hospicing modernity, another world is possible, the singularity, climate apocalypse, the second coming... I quit! you're telling me we're embarking on a profound… (RichDecibels) — 16 likes
  43. Gonna toot my own horn on predictions for a moment. In the mid 2000's I was reading some weird econ bloggers and realized that some of what they were talking about was civilization level important.… (RomeoStevens76) — 16 likes
  44. dad talk time i am begging you stop buying expensive new shit buy cheap new shit or good used shit there is no reason to pay $2000 for a couch or to ever buy a new car https://t.co/O1vDhjNpZK (eigenrobot) — 15 likes
  45. Anti-nuclear activism might be seen as one of the biggest mis-steps of the environmentalist movement. Nuclear is by no means perfect (expensive, there is waste, need for safety measures)… but all of… (m_ashcroft) — 15 likes
  46. Today: Wife: Have you heard about [person we know]? Me: No... Wife: If I told you he had 50 million dollars, how would you think he got it? Me (guessing): He hacked a crypto exchange? Wife: You are… (TheZvi) — 15 likes
  47. the miracle of capitalism isn't just that it coordinates the million people it takes to make something as simple as a pencil it's that most of these people are kinda lazy midwits who care about many… (myhandle) — 15 likes
  48. degrowth is a stupid plan that wouldn't even work. the only way out of this century with the human dream alive is to figure out a lot of new things and do them at scale. we will do it (DanielleFong) — 15 likes
  49. probably everyone should have a thread of the things they're always saying over and over like their philosophical brainworms (goblinodds) — 15 likes
  50. a leftist party but they understand economics who's building this (mechanical_monk) — 15 likes

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