💬 Play the markets
“I [suspect] that we are throwing more and more of our resources, including the cream of our youth, into financial activities remote from the production of goods and services, into activities that generate high private rewards disproportionate to their social productivity. I suspect that the immense power of the computer is being harnessed to this ‘paper economy’, not to do the same transactions more economically but to balloon the quantity and variety of financial exchanges.”
James Tobin, July 1984
📹 The Mystery at the Bottom of Physics
exurb1a is definitely one of the better channels on YouTube.
💬 21st century illiteracy
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Alvin Toffler
🧠 TIL about AM/FM
AM/FM: Engineer’s term distinguishing the inevitable clunky real-world faultiness of “Actual Machines” from the power-fantasy techno-dreams of “Fucking Magic.”
http://mag.cm/am-fm
I learned about this wonderful term from DoNotEat01’s latest video which discusses the unrealistic promises of Elon Musk’s Hyperloop.
If you have even an ounce of interest in the subject of how humans design the cities we live in, I strongly recommend watching DoNotEat01’s video series titled “Power, Politics, & Planning” which uses the computer game Cities: Skylines to demonstrate real-world city planning history and conundrums.
🧠 TIL about US military spending
Did you know that the United States spends more on its military than nearly all of the other nations on Earth combined?
Additionally, did you know that the 2017 $80 billion annual increase in military spending would be enough to make public college and university tuition completely free for every American who wanted to attend?
💬 Hanlon’s Razor
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Robert J. Hanlon