Serious inspiration can come from folding clothes and computer games. This is often overlooked in creative endeavours; very little is actually new, it’s all re-imaginings or applying old […]
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Pre Post-Scarcity Blues
We live at the end of an age, the end of a time of almost post-scarcity. Those of us who have grown up in this time have an ahistorical view, one where scarcity barely matters.
That is, those of us in the middle class and up in the global North and West.
economics / rant / sociology
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The dawning of a new age…
Many of my co-workers (within my department) commute. Only I live within the actual city limits of my workplace. I live about four miles away. The one other […]
economics / rant
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Housing, Transportation, and the future
As I argued back in 2005, the housing market is going kerpuffle. No surprise there. But what’s *next*? I have had a couple of quick predictions that are […]