"Technology never leads to mass unemployment the reason is what technology represents is an increase in
productivity in economic terms, technology is a way to do more with less when you do more with less you increase
societal wealth, as you increase societal wealth you increase consumer demand you increase consumer spending power
you literally create new demand, ability for people to be able to pay and afford things, new industries, new
fields, new activities get created that end up soaking up all the labour”
My evidence based beliefs on housing in Ireland are shockingly slim. I have beliefs in beliefs like:
:housing:
Developers are cronies
Height restrictions are stupid
Ireland is growing and cheap money is available to ‘grow’… or something
”Many major Western banks, including Credit Suisse, have made winning business from China’s ever-growing ranks for the
ultra-wealthy a central part of their strategies.”
:China:
Pinkers book on Rationality
”We achieve rationality by implementing rules for the community that make us collectively more rational than any
of us are individually. People make up for one another’s biases by being able to criticize them”