"Deregulate and just let Sam Altman and his investors build whatever they want" may not be the best, most efficient, or socially optimal way to build out infrastructure

Taking part in this next week. Should be a good conversation. "Activists and the Academy: Bridging the Divide."

Earlier this week I came across a book with this dedication page (from 1938).

Meanwhile, in the suburbs, garage size has failed to keep up truck inflation

There you have it

I have been really enjoying this series.

Btw, for anyone interested in the potential (and even deeper tensions) in attempts to unite workers' movements for collective justice and antimonopolist smallholders movements for autonomy, may I suggest...

Martin Sanbu makes an obvious, but crucial, point. One that seems to have gotten lost in the current fervor for deregulation

I was taught that workers choose to be wage workers instead of entrepreneurs because of their low risk tolerance, and corresponding preference for the insurance of wage income over the risk of residual claimant status.

[SNORE]

Beyond parody

The Biden FTC/DOJ approach to mergers was to prioritize *structural* remedies: blocking them outright. Very little room for the kind of discretion that this person is expressing concern about.

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