The deficit in a nutshell between 02:00 and 02:55…
I very much admire Ha-Joon Chang’s thinking and first two books, Kicking Away the Ladder and Bad Samaritans, but he does not go far enough. He is still a traditional economist and strictly operates within the limits and terms of that profession. If you want radical economics, you have to turn to the Italians. They seem to be able to get down to the ground of the matter (always that echo of Meister Eckhart); and this ground (grund) makes it clear that deficits do not even exist. Why? Because the problem at the heart of advanced capitalist economies is one of overproduction. Have this in mind when anyone speaks about the poor. The poor are not poor in a natural sense; they are poor only in a cultural sense. By culture, I mean this: To be poor is to be deprived of something not by nature but by other humans. (Ha-Joon Chang reads tomorrow at Town Hall.)
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So we’re just supposed to guess that he’s speaking at Town Hall tomorrow at 7:30pm?
@1 I’m pretty sure Charles was going to just have a beer with him afterwards.
Cheaper.
I don’t need the acknowledgment, I just find it interesting, Charles, that whenever a Stranger staffer updates a post with something from the comments, they will either acknowledge that fact in the post or the comments themselves, except for you.
Something about how specific attribution is meaningless & obsolete on the collaborative symbiotic cyborg astral plane conscious hivemind construction that is the internet, perchance?
outercow, when someone catches a typo, am i supposed to give them credit too?
I’m just yanking yer chain, dude. You’re the one that gets to make the rules, but you do seem to be the sole outlier in The Stranger staff in this regard (even when it comes to correcting lowly spelling errors), so far that I’ve noticed. Ya filthy non-conformist.