pstonge (44)in #economics • 8 years agoHave Humans Really "Used all the Resources for the Year?"And this is why more journalists should learn basic economics: Motherboard weighs in with "Humans have used all the earth's resources for the year." The article is worried…pstonge (44)in #marketing • 8 years agoYes, marketers sell us shit we don't need. Deal with it.A lefty friend was upset about advertisers who "sell us shit we don't need." To use a technical marketing term, demand "agitation." This has, of course, been a common left-wing…pstonge (44)in #robots • 8 years agoWill the Robots take all the Jobs?The job-threatening rise of the machines is an economically illiterate meme that refuses to die. We’re actually probably in the early stages of it, a bull-market in luddism, if…pstonge (44)in #sci-fi • 8 years agoWill Economics End Innovation?Is innovation slowing? Will it stop? A new paper by one Jonathan Huebner in the journal “Technological Forecasting & Social Change” argues that innovation is slowing, indeed that…pstonge (44)in #intro • 8 years agoHi, I'm Peter St OngeI'm an Austrian School economist, teach at a business school in Taiwan, and blog at profitsofchaos.com. I used to be a hedge fund manager and worked in corporate sales and…