I couldn't make it to the end of the "Badness 0 Knuth's version" paper because of the keming. Is it on purpose? I can't tell, it was too distracting to keep reading. Ironic.
In UX, the right way to think about your users is not that they are dumb, but that they are very smart but very busy, and don't have time for your app's bullshit. It puts you in the right frame of mind when designing interfaces. It's not about dealing with dunces, but about being efficient with peoples time and attention.
> any foreigner who lent Evergrande money thinking this wasn't a huge risk is a moron.
Or they are very smart while investing your money. Check your country's pension fund, see who manages it and what they invest in. Or better yet, don't.
It's just that it wouldn't work because any group defecting and having more children would inherit the earth and you'd be back to square one, only now not even in control.
It's the same mistake as every other decel "solution".
It's so obvious, and so unbelievable that proponents don't think of it that one has to wonder, who pushes this? Qui bono?
The non-austere "Free stuff for you! Vote for me!" political strategy has worked pretty well while technology improvements has made stuff faster than politicians can give it away. But it's a precondition. If technology ever stops improving at this rate, we're going to have a hard time, and no amount of words will change that fact.
To be for free stuff and at the same time be for degrowth, decel, limit resource use, etc.... seems naive to say the least.
Do you also worry that rogue employees or literally anybody with the keys to the office of a printer could have been changing the texts of laws as printed in official publications and books for the past few hundred years?
Or is there a source of funds in the Isle of Man that is not applicable to the rest of the world? Like, if it was applied to the rest of the world the funds would stop going to the Isle of Man?
Is there also something not present in the Isle of Man that elsewhere is a sink for money?
Something you would have to stop incentivising in other places if you want to have them "rolling in money", but that many people can't bring themselves to do?
Did you care about Chesterton when the previous set of fence-smashers went around smashing (much older) fences?