My current opinion is that verbal ability in a population and low vs high context is disproportionately influential on rates of development – and until we have better understanding of the genome I can’t but say “It sure looks like the causal axis”.
We get what we measure. When we start over in economics by measuring the full suite of capital instead of how fast we burn it down, then economics will be a science rather than an excuse by which to substitute consumption for morality in the production of policy. 😉
I lost one of my best friends in high school to cocaine. In college I lost a lot of friends to cocaine, and I lost my best friend to pot, acid and alcohol. He’s been dead for years. In my early career people were dropping like flies from cocaine. My family has been vulnerable to alcohol. I’ve lost very talented six-figure staff to opiates or alcohol. I’m pretty oblivious so I assume it was more prevalent than I thought. I’ve lost my best talent to the stress of divorce, and more from debt.
Consumer modernity is not bad for the reasons marx anticipated. It’s bad because under stress, we eventually stop being able to substitute consumption isolation, stress, and signaling.
photos_and_videos/TimelinePhotos_43196237263/30411630_10156271341012264_2515596679235764224_n_10156271341007264.jpg Ken JaloonATTENTION! ATTENTION! CURT IS VIOLATING HIS NO MEME POLICY. WARNING!Apr 07, 2018 7:29pmCurt DoolittlelolApr 07, 2018 7:36pmSteven J. WoronMeme alert!!Apr 07, 2018 8:08pmEric BumpusNot sure this is a meme. It is a picture with a fact. No wit, no gamesmanship, no meta anything.Apr 07, 2018 8:22pmEric BumpusIt’s a Me…Apr 07, 2018 8:23pmMaxim V FilimonovОбнаружен мем! (и кое-у-кого тут выше возгорание в кормовом отсеке)Apr 07, 2018 9:01pmCurt Doolittlelolz….. правила требуют исключенийApr 07, 2018 9:16pmWilliam L. BengeDad is supposed be our Capcom to the adult world, that grounding familiar voice with direct access to our mind and heart, offering us his ever-present assurance, camaraderie and help for facing up to and navigating through the dangers and hazards inherent with our youthful self.
His love and faith and hope forge what feels to be a bridge connecting our immature developing mind to the more refined wise man we are destined in his mind to become.Apr 08, 2018 2:52amGreg HamiltonQuotingApr 08, 2018 4:00pmYuriy SemenikhinMay be we should also call control on fathers who just abandon their children as well?Apr 08, 2018 6:49pmRahul B AwaleAnd since father do not existsApr 09, 2018 3:13amYuriy SemenikhinI guess it’s a virgin birth then… We have a whole bunch of miracle kids :-DApr 09, 2018 4:11am