Yeah, I mean that's fair. They don't really get much sympathy from me, though, when it's them having caused that trouble in the first place.

If you rob me, you're not a good person for giving me back some of what you took.

(Yes, yes, I understand individuals and incentives and wider structure etc.)

Don't know enough about the sociology here, and what generational virtues came before boomers. Sounds plausible

where's the "negative" option?!

not enough

Selective ignorance is not an abdication of responsibility it is an act of strategic self-defense. It is the recognition that your cognitive load is finite and that filling it with an endless stream of urgent but irrelevant stimuli only erodes clarity of thought.

Very beautifully put!

Impressive . I'd like to move there

Very believable. Dude probs can't stay away

Did you get your 40h a week, like all true Bitcoiners?

understandable. I can relate to that part of the trade!

I BEAT YA.

also: por qué no los dos?!

In that sense it may be the purest form of the luxury flex today precisely because it cannot be bought in an instant. It must be sustained year after year which is why it remains unattainable for most and aspirational for many.

man, that hurts. Makes perfect sense, though

oh man, what am I thinking about?!

amazing! Best of luck, let us know how it goes

tit-for-tat is a deliberate trade with someone else, no? Often in a venal sort of "I scratch your back, you scratch mine" way. How can that be the same as the naming convention trends freetx mentioned...?

that's not a tit-for-tat dynamics... rather a +1-lagging domino, or cat chasing its own tail sort of thing.

that's literally what the Harford article is about :)

appro

it's discussed in the piece.

Usually, because make new stuff is cheaper than repairing, it stops making sense. Yes-yes, environmentalism, and yesyes, don't waste for no reason... but like, why bother?