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24 Jan How to Change a Beloved Character the RIGHT WAY #shorts

Posted at 18:29h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

With an abundance of movie and TV remakes, frequent character changes go with it. Most of them are terrible, but they don’t have to!How do you change aspects of a character well? It’s actually a simple process.The upcoming remake of “Cyrano” could show us how...

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24 Jan The Struggle to Get Him to School

Posted at 18:28h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

How access to school transportation drives inequality------------------Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/ReasonTV?sub_confirmation=1Like us on Facebook: https://ift.tt/1OFng0MFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/reasonReason is the planet's leading source of news, politics, and culture from a libertarian perspective. Go to reason.com for a point of view you won't get...

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21 Jan Can DAOs Revive Civil Society?

Posted at 04:24h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Thanks to blockchain and smart contract technology, Americans can again cheaply create organizations to serve themselves and others without the need of any government direction, regulation, or funding. America’s future will be bright, socially, economically, and politically if its government does not interfere with the...

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21 Jan Stop Trying to Turn Economics into a Branch of Psychology

Posted at 04:20h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Recently, a relatively new economics called behavioral economics (BE) has started to gain popularity. Its practitioners, such as Daniel Kahneman, Vernon Smith, and Richard Thaler, were awarded Nobel Prizes for their contribution in the field of BE. The BE framework emerged because of dissatisfaction with the...

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17 Jan A Marvelous, Humanitarian Substance

Posted at 20:13h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Suppose that a Thomas Edison of our era invents a substance that causes each of us to overlook all but the most serious of other people’s defects. This substance – let’s call it “X” – when used by an ugly person cloaks that person’s unattractive...

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17 Jan Spending an Hour with Dr. King

Posted at 20:10h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

If you could travel back in time and spend an hour with ten people of your choosing, who would you choose and why? What would you want to talk to him or her about? This is a fascinating thought experiment I recommend you present to your...

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17 Jan Don’t Look Up is a Joke #shorts

Posted at 20:09h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Don't Look Up was condescending and often unintentionally funny, ultimately making a mockery of a lot of people who clearly weren't the intended targets of scorn for writers David Sirota and Adam McKay. Far from being a good satire of about global warming -- which,...

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17 Jan JP Sears on the Unraveling Covid Narrative

Posted at 20:08h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

(Don Boudreaux) TweetIn his latest video, JP Sears humorously exposes the Covidocracy’s hypocrisy, deceptions, fear-mongering, arrogance, and lies. (HT Dan Klein) Read the Full Article here: >Cafe HayekCafe Hayek...

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16 Jan Buy Things Not Experiences!

Posted at 22:18h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

A nice, well-reasoned piece from Harold Lee pushing back on the idea that we should buy experiences not goods: While I appreciate the Stoic-style appraisal of what really brings happiness, economically, this analysis seems precisely backward. It amounts to saying that in an age of industrialization...

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13 Jan Some Covid Links

Posted at 03:34h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

(Don Boudreaux) TweetThomas Fazi and Toby Green, writing at UnHerd, argue that the Great Barrington Declaration has been vindicated. Three slices: Has the Left finally woken up to the devastating costs of implementing lockdowns? In its first edition of 2022, the Observer carried a surprisingly balanced...

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