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Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

#ai #apocalypse #asbestos #economics

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Buy Once Software

#economics #model #purchase #software | Discover a directory of one-time purchase software. Find perpetual license alternatives to subscription-based models across productivity, design, business, and developer tools.

8 months ago | View Shared by victor
Building LLMs is probably not going be a brilliant business

#ai #business #business_model #capitalism #economics #llm | <blockquote>The Netscapes of AI</blockquote>

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Breaking Down OnlyFans’ Stunning Economics — MatthewBall.co

#economics #onlyfans #toread #via:popular

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Engineer’s guide to convincing your Product Manager to prioritize technical debt

#bestpractices #economics #management #programming #tech_debt

1 year ago | View Shared by victor
No one buys books

#antitrust #book #books #business #economics #publishing | Everything we learned about the publishing industry from Penguin vs. DOJ.

1 year ago | View Shared by victor
The end of landlords: the surprisingly simple solution to the UK housing crisis

#economics #housing #policy #renting #uk

1 year ago | View Shared by victor
Tech doesn’t make our lives easier. It makes them faster

#culture #economics #progress #speed #technology | Breaking through the illusion of convenience that's used to sell us automation

2 years ago | View Shared by victor
Airlines Are Just Banks Now - The Atlantic

#airlines #economics

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Land Ownership Makes No Sense

#economics #history #ideas | The earth is a shared inheritance, and profiting off a common resource is just wrong.

2 years ago | View Shared by victor
How digital nomads have reshaped cities around the world

#cities #economics #tech #work

2 years ago | View Shared by victor
Maybe Treating Housing as an Investment was a Colossal, Society-Shattering Mistake

#articles #class #economics #housing #money | <blockquote>Thoughts on science, economics, politics, relationships. Not an expert.</blockquote>

2 years ago | View Shared by victor
The Dangers of Elite Projection

#cities #decisionmaking #economics #infrastructure #politics #psychology | (Leer en español aquí.) Elite projection is the belief, among relatively fortunate and influential people, that what those people find convenient or attractive is good for the society as a whole. Once you learn to recognize this simple mistake, you see it everywhere. It is perhaps the single most comprehensive barrier to prosperous, just, and […]

2 years ago | View Shared by victor
Markets in power

#economics #electricity #energy | How physics and infrastructure combine to generate (ba dum bum) the power market.

3 years ago | View Shared by victor
We don’t have a hundred biases, we have the wrong model

#economics #politics #psychology | Behavioral economics has identified dozens of cognitive biases that stop us from acting 'rationally'. But instead of building up a messier and messier picture of human behavior, we need a new model.

3 years ago | View Shared by victor
Debit cards as financial infrastructure

#economics #finance #money #payments #toread | <blockquote>Debit cards are a core piece of financial infrastructure and drive much of the innovation happening in fintech.</blockquote>

3 years ago | View Shared by victor
Human Attention has become a Marxist commodity — Matthew Eric Bassett, Ph.D.

#attention #economics #ethics #failure #interesting #philosophy #social_media

3 years ago | View Shared by victor
Yanis Varoufakis on Crypto & the Left, and Techno-Feudalism

#blockchain #cryptocurrency #economics #money | <blockquote>Was that a good or a bad thing? Of course, it was good for a young person in Shenzhen who managed to earn $60k a year designing digital hats on his PC – instead of destroying his body in a sweatshop. The question, however, is: Could all workers in Shenzhen (and beyond) be rescued from sweatshops by migrating to a metaverse? The answer is: Not before we have robots working for all of us so that we can reproduce the material conditions of our lives. As long as we do not have these mech...

3 years ago | View Shared by victor
The Case Against Crypto

#crypto #economics #economy #money | <blockquote>History repeats itself first as tragedy and then as farce. The wild economic oscillations of yesterday’s gold standard is today’s dog meme mania. Human nature is remarkably invariant through the ages and if we don’t learn the lessons of history then we’re doomed to repeat the mistakes of past generations. This time around If we’re very lucky then crypto assets simply end in a market crash and a series of progressive New Deal-like reforms to our financial system. If we’re unlucky then...

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"Does Induced Demand Apply to Bike Lanes?" and Other Questions

#cycling #economics #transportation #urban_planning

4 years ago | View Shared by victor
blog dot cloud and tree dot com - Where Did the Other Dollar Go, Jeff?

#accounting #amazon #analysis #corporations #economics #math #politics

4 years ago | View Shared by victor
Just Be Rich 🤷‍♂️

#critique #economics #inequality #startups

4 years ago | View Shared by victor
Extreme poverty isn’t natural, it’s created — Jason Hickel

#bias #economics #empirical_data #history #poverty #sources | <blockquote>New research questions the dominant narrative about long-term poverty trends.</blockquote>

4 years ago | View Shared by victor
Brexit stems from a civil war in capitalism – we are all just collateral damage | Brexit | The Guardian

#brexit #capitalism #democracy #economics #politics | <blockquote>To one sort of capitalist, the insecurity and chaos that Brexit will bring is horrifying. To the other, it is highly profitable</blockquote>

5 years ago | View Shared by victor
Optimizing things in the USSR · Chris Said

#data_science #economics #optimisation

5 years ago | View Shared by victor
The economics of vending machines

#articles #business #economics #vending | <blockquote>[…] Ibanez’s YouTube channel, which chronicles his life as a vendor, boasts 362k subscribers and now earns more than his machines. </blockquote>

5 years ago | View Shared by victor
Goodhart’s Law and Why Measurement is Hard

#analytics #data #economics #management #measurement #metrics

5 years ago | View Shared by victor
Goodhart's law - Wikipedia

#bias #economics #metrics #statistics

5 years ago | View Shared by victor
The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free ❧ Current Affairs

#economics #journalism #media #newspapers #opinion | <blockquote><p>The political economy of bullshit.</p></blockquote>

5 years ago | View Shared by victor
Why your government isn't acting on the Corona/COVID-19 threat

#economics #healthcare #strategy

5 years ago | View Shared by victor

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