Hmm I didn’t know Max Weber helped draft the Weimar constitution. Case that the Weimar analogy is misguided.https://twitter.com/nfergus/status/1302628444887330816 …
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I should work out this analogy in detail (gold standard = human death standard).
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"Everyone dies, but not everyone lives."
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I think this is right, but it actually dovetails with Fergusson's argument. The German people were suffering in the interwar period far more than Americans are today & that suffering was imposed intentionally on them by France & Britain. Americans' economic suffering is the 1/
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result of malicious or incompetent actions of American economic elites. A political uprising against those elites - I mean a real one, not the faux populist Trumpian BS - based on competence & aimed at spreading prosperity to all levels of society could succeed in some of 2/
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I think it’s a, “they can’t work if they’re dead”
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Not to mention all the pharma profits that come from extending people’s lives despite quality of life being intolerable — and the societal pressure to “fight” for every last one of those tormented last days.
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