Economists call this (essentially) first degree price discrimination: seller set prices to perfectly fit consumers' willing to pay, so the joint gains from trade ("consumer surplus" and "producer surplus") go entirely to the seller. I took it as a thought experiment when I was in grad school.

The reality is America is a huge multicultural multilingual country, not a white ethnostate, and venomous white supremacist MAGA crybabies lose it whenever that reality becomes unignorable. We should always seek to increase, not decrease, their discomfort. www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-g...

Next Superbowl halftime should include a recreation of the confederate surrender at Appomattox while Jefferson Davis flees the scene dressed as an old lady.

it’s amazing how these rich and powerful men’s core problems, their central complaint about the world, is “someone called me a mean name and it made my tummy hurt”

Instead of everyone reviewing that Melania film to talk about how bad it is, since it’s not really a movie more than it is a bribe, how about writing about some of the great films this year that people may have missed? I don’t think we need 100 of the same reviews about a non-movie.

Let me give you a thought experiment: Imagine not just a ban on qualified immunity for authority, but a reversal; a new legal framework, under which authority bears greater responsibility than civilians in matters involving force—as it should. www.the-reframe.com/absolute-imm...

"If you're not paying for the product, then you are the product." No we can commodify each other, too.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

"One party only needs 44% of the national popular vote to maintain control over the legislature" sure is a statement about the state of American democracy

AI shows ingroup bias towards AI content! If we deploy LLMs in decision-making roles (e.g., purchasing goods, selecting academic submissions) they will favor LLM agents over ordinary humans www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I know multiple people who reported their cars stolen just to have the cops accuse them of trying to commit insurance fraud so they didn't have to bother investigating. Then the victims had to fight w their insurance companies for months bc of this. See also: Mike Birbiglia's car accident story.

Multiple times yesterday, Trump attacked decisions he made himself - because he can’t remember his first term. He then told a Unabomber story as his own, when it was actually a story Jeffrey Epstein used to tell. Mainstream media remains silent on his debilitating illness.

I'm about to do it. I'm about to say "imagine if Biden did this." I don't want to but I must, because it'd be very funny. Imagine if Biden said his uncle told him how brilliant the Unabomber was a decade before he was identified. Imagine the very funny NYT push notification you'd get on your phone.

This is amazing. Yesterday Trump claimed he talked to his uncle about how brilliant the Unabomber was when the Unabomber was a student of his at MIT. The Unabomber never went to MIT, he was identified in 1996, and his uncle died in 1985.

Tapping the sign that says “NSF, NIH, and public investment into basic research are the real engines of US innovation”

This is one of those examples where, if the flood hadn’t happened and a camp director was telling you about this story it would be a perfect example of red tape, bureaucracy, the hassle of regulation etc. And yet. apnews.com/article/texa...

Senator @marshablackburn : no town halls since 2017 @senatorhagerty : no town halls.. ever What are y’all so afraid of? You must really not like your answers. @RepTimBurchett @repandyogles @RepChuck @RepDavidKustoff @DesJarlaisTN04 RepJohnRose RepHarshbarger

Happy 8th anniversary to people getting PO'd at NPR because they didn't recognize or agree with the Declaration of Independence when it was tweeted out line by line. apnews.com/general-news...

3. Corporations that publicly endorsed Trump's megabill: 3M Altria AT&T Charter Communications Chevron Cisco Comcast Delta Airlines Door Dash Great Clips Hair Cuttery T-Mobile Uber United Airlines UPS Verizon

The math on preventative health care for all is so blindingly obvious that everyone sees it except us. So we just keep paying the most money per capita for the worst outcomes and the most suffering, while for-profit health care manages its quarterly earnings.

Say what you will about Trump threatening to strip citizenship from his critics and have immigrants put into concentration camps in a swamp, but he never did anything truly power-mad like forgive student loans.

confident that if Biden were blackmailing Corporate Media into giving him $16 million in cash, Corporate Media would call him out for blackmail AND how that weakens freedom of speech, democracy, and our economy. instead, Corporate Media normalizes Trump Family corruption by treating it as business.

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

“America is deeply unprofitable” it’s a country not a B2B startup you fucking dweeb

Musk states "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy". Charles Darwin, who actually researched this stuff, showed it was empathy, specifically, that enabled humanity to flourish.

Thought I'd write something about how Elon Musk has access to every expert he could possibly need to understand stuff, and yet appears to simply believe any random chud on ExTwitter spewing utter nonsense. And why journalists should ask him about that. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/13/s...

Lutheran Social Services is one of the largest employers in South Dakota, operating senior living facilities across the state. Republicans are shutting it down Perhaps more concerning is Mike Flynn, known foreign asset, having access to this data?

Fuck you, Target, Meta, Amazon, McDonalds... Who am I leaving out?!

Companies Scaling Back or Denouncing DEI Amazon Boeing Brown-Forman Caterpillar Ford Harley-Davidson John Deere Lowe’s Molson Coors McDonald’s Meta Nissan Stanley Black & Decker Target Tractor Supply Toyota Walmart Support who supports you ✨✊

We’re in the final days before Trump takes office on behalf of the wealth class. Here’s a brief guide to preparing for what’s coming, starting to organize, scrutinizing media as oligarchical propaganda, and getting mentally and emotionally prepared. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/preparing-...