Whether someone is curious about what happened in Argentina is a great test for whether they actually care about reducing poverty. (for the record, the numbers I read are 40% and 170% respectively; still excellent.)

Much of this chart is not about education or empowerment but about delaying life because of unnecessarily long studies. My solution to raise fertility would be to shorten studies, helping people start working earlier and with less debt, enabling starting a family sooner.

In fact, everyone gets paid double, in terms of quality of life. Think about a hairdresser: same job as 200y ago, but increased QoL (more goods, more services, etc.) Similarly, it’s entirely one’s decision to work half the hours while living the life of someone of the past. But

“A chart showing how bad adopting the Euro has been for the UK”

On why we should talk about the education systems in terms of "education per year of life" rather than "years of life per education."

And anyway, most of generational sniping is an argument that the current generation is merely the second-luckiest in history, which is a rather silly complaint to make.

*All* you can do to right the wrongs of the past is to stop doing them and treat everybody fairly going forward. You can’t undo a harm to Bob by taking from Sarah to give to Gene.

“If universities deeply cared about research, they could go to DC and show that they’ve cut their administrative staff in half, got rid of all the political ones […] and demonstrate how they are using cuts to fund key research.” 💯

Non so come abbia convinto Luca Dellanna a scrivere su Finanza Cafona ma ci sono riuscito 👇🏻 (🔥) finanzacafona.it/2025/07/dellan…

As long as the deficit increases, it’s not austerity. It can’t be. It’s the opposite.