“The state acted only to help those who could not help themselves. It left the adult citizen alone.”
What is forgotten is that it also left alone those that were oppressed, trapped, and powerless. The benefits were all there for those with the means, the rest are forgotten.
What happens when a horizontally wealthy person goes from $30,000 a year to $3 million?
Nothing, really.
Never looked at world like this until this week and now I see it everywhere.
The big question is, why are some people more vertical and others more horizontal?
Vélotafeurs et cyclistes n’ont pas le même risque : en 2025, l’ONISR recense 141 cyclistes tués hors agglomération, contre 93 en ville.
Source: Les vélotafeurs ne sont pas des cyclistes, et tant mieux
This confirms something that we’ve always known. Cycling on a town bike to work is not the same as getting dressed in lycra and training on a bike. They need to be treated as different.
Diversity of backgrounds and ideas. Nothing is more important on the cutting edge.
Using the historical settlement of migrants as a source of exogenous variation in local ancestry, we show that U.S. counties more exposed to knowledge from a given foreign country absorb substantially more technologies from that country and, in turn, invent significantly more U.S. technologies building on them.
The Causal Effect of Foreign Ideas on U.S. Innovation – Marginal REVOLUTION
https://kottke.org/26/11/stunning-image-of-our-satellite-choked-night-skies
70 years ago there was none. 50 years ago there were about 400 satellites. Today 20,290!!!
https://keeptrack.space/live-count/how-many-satellites-are-in-space
