This can't be true because my economics textbook told me they've maximised their happiness by choosing leisure over work.

RT @jdcmedlock: If you put these guys on a desert island where the only way out was to say the magic words “I’m not sure what the answer is….

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Aside from the usual paranoia this is just a description of a very boring, unexamined life. People should aim for more than the daily drudgery of working all day and eating the same old boring food and doing the same old boring things as everyone else just to be normal.

RT @HeerJeet: You can tell it's a neo-liberal genocide because they are making a separate category for pre-existing conditions.

Fairly typical of the crassness and low cunning that we’ve come to expect from this government. What a tragedy that we’re saddled with these weak people at this point in our history.

RT @ProRevSoccer: Something that’s been missed about the blocking of the Hillsborough law is that it’s intrinsically linked to the genocide….

I am also struggling to get my head around how this aspect of the US-EU trade deal will work. Surely it’s total nonsense.

RT @zarahsultana: Call Keir Starmer’s bluff and leave the sinking ship. More than 550,000 people are ready to build something better. Th….

Reminds me of concern over the rise in shadow banking or the Eurodollar market. These developments were bad for financial stability but not for monetary policy transmission. Rise of stablecoins could undermine euro area monetary policy, ECB warns via @ft.

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RT @zarahsultana: The establishment sneered, mocked and laughed at us. They’re not laughing now. We’ve hit 500,000 in just THREE days. T….

Paul’s view of history is that it’s just an endless repeat of the interwar period.

RT @jeremycorbyn: The Labour government is here to appease Reform. We are here to defeat Reform. Join us at htt….

Absolutely not. You’re kidding yourself if you think this. There is no substitute for working through the entire argument. You may learn something from summaries but you’re deluded if you think you’ll have the same command of the material as someone who’s actually read the book.

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Imagine if Farage got into government. He might try to cut welfare for the most needy. He might treat protest as an act of terrorism and curb free speech. He might kowtow to Trump. I’d hate it if we had a Prime Minister who did all these things.

It’s laughable that the rise of Reform is supposed to scare us into falling in line behind Labour when this is what Labour have done. Labour have made all critics of Israel targets of police harassment. What democracy are they protecting?.

So police will see any expression of support for Palestinians or criticism of Israel as grounds for harassment and surveillance.

Does anyone even care? The party is a sinking ship and will be nothing more than a rump before long. Who will even want the backing of the Labour Party in a few years time?. Keir Starmer suspends four rebel Labour MPs via @ft.

This is also one of the key problems with the so-called “Abundance Agenda”.