I lost interest here

We believe in Milton Friedman’s observation that human wants and needs are infinite.

We believe markets also increase societal well being by generating work in which people can productively engage. We believe a Universal Basic Income would turn people into zoo animals to be farmed by the state. Man was not meant to be farmed; man was meant to be useful, to be productive, to be proud.

We believe technological change, far from reducing the need for human work, increases it, by broadening the scope of what humans can productively do.

We believe that since human wants and needs are infinite, economic demand is infinite, and job growth can continue forever

If human wants and needs are infinite, why do they turn off when our basic needs are met?

This reads like a “I am so smart” post.

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Yes. Everyone who walks in the door, even to use the bathroom. “The bathroom is an important library resource” she says. Everytime a person connects to wifi it gets noted regardless if you’re in the building or not. If you pick up a book and put it down it gets counted as used/not checked out. She says some libraries track who borrows a pen. Librarians really like logging information.

A good way to help your library is the next time you’re there check out a bunch of books even if you don’t read them. You can even just but them in the return bin on the way out. All this data makes its way back to the politicians who decide on the budget and higher library use and circulation helps them maintain their funding. And they don’t really care if it’s just the same guy, 100 library visits looks good for the library.

They count those. My wife is a librarian and they track all sorts of metrics. Circulation of books is a big one but they count visitors too.

I think you might be confusing a doorman with a bellhop.

Paint the town brown 🤘

The race is a good one.

Welcome to post-truth.

I just crank my hog.

What a world.

You put underpants on the seat.

Thats the bullshitiest cookie/pay wall I’ve ever seen.

A dickhead.

It’s happening to governments too, but they call it austerity.

You could rescind it and forgive yourself?

Sometimes a calculator is a clock.

Aha. I see the angle they’re going for. “we need more energy to compete against the baddies undercut the working class”

Because they need to know who to target ads for gutter cleaning systems and fat man t-shirts.

You mean 29 31/32 cm

This is apples and oranges.