Obviously, SpaceX has no experience milking government money as much as they can.

Just in case anyone downthread is curious as to how health care actually works in the UK:

I leave you with two images....

Pretty much almost all of Pacific Rim.

It's come to this: the US military is now too liberal for Republicans.

Universal basic income has two distinct advantages to compared to any distribution system:

1) it is vastly more efficient (you know how few people you need to just send a check to everyone) - most economist agree the to any type of income redistribution is to make it as simple as possible. Think of the huge waste…

Along similar lines, I highly recommend Robert Reich's superb documentary Inequality For All, available on Netflix streaming.

Libertopian trolls emerge to defend capitalism in 7, 6, 5....

I have not yet read the book. I will say that Henwood is a very smart guy who has a long history of studying capital and finance (Left Business Observer, Wall Street) and whose opinion I have a lot of respect for.

Wrong. Piketty has responded to this article here:

I'm not sure this book will convince everyone... Personality research suggests that conservatives (people who tend to be high in "consciensciousness" and low in "openness" on the Five Factor model) tend not to have much of a problem with inequality, and tend to see steep and rigid dominance hierarchies as natural*.

Picketty has disputed the ft assertion. Of course, we can wait and see, but I'm guessing the academic who has his work vetted is more likely to come of this squabble looking better than the business cheerleaders at the financial times.

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There's also the fact that you are wrong.

There were quite good reasons for The Jungle to be written, but I certainly wouldn't say that these pictures represent them.

God damn, their marketing team knows what they're doing.

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