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....The reason was simple:

artappraiser — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 06:31:30 +0000

....The reason was simple: farmers had no incentive to move from being self-employed to being hired labor. And who would prefer to switch from being one’s own boss and dependent perhaps only on the elements to become a hired hand, working six days a week all year round, in “satanic mills”?

The issue is noted by Francis Fukuyama (among others) in “Political Order and Political Decay”. He explains slow industrial development in Greece (and he could have readily added Serbia and Bulgaria) by political clientelism which in his views stemmed from premature democratization, that is, before programmatic and not clientelistic political parties could be formed. But he fails to see the economic origin of the problem: lack of incentive to move to cities....

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The plight of late industrializers https://t.co/bD4OBszDzy
— Branko Milanovic (@BrankoMilan) January 18, 2023

the 'win the lotto'

artappraiser — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 00:47:59 +0000

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the 'win the lotto' generation admiring feats of others

This has to be a record for going from $0 to $100m ARR pic.twitter.com/WHQmebCfrd
— Trung Phan (@TrungTPhan) January 17, 2023

Ok never mind, Bhad Babie beat that pic.twitter.com/8HtD78AKDD
— Trung Phan (@TrungTPhan) January 17, 2023

It took Slack 3 years (and Shopify 8 years) to do what Iggy and Bhad did in less than 24 hours

https://t.co/KOBq3uiOZv pic.twitter.com/OH4pjCkE0j
— Trung Phan (@TrungTPhan) January 17, 2023

Jim Cramer missed a huge opportunity. Should've started an Only FAANGs page.
— Joseph Fahmy (@jfahmy) January 17, 2023

NOT to late!
— Trung Phan (@TrungTPhan) January 17, 2023

how’s that 9-5 office job, anon?
— Andrew Soro - (@soro) January 17, 2023

lol unreal. and here i am tweeting 5x a day to 5 followers hoping to earn 1% of that...
— Connor @ ClubRain.co (@clubrainOG) January 17, 2023

I don't know. This seems like a pretty small timeframe to be extrapolating out to $100m AAR?
— Jake Hower (@JakeHower) January 17, 2023

That’s… the joke
— Kev’s Burner (@KevSportsBurner) January 18, 2023

the thread continues....

Wondering when we get back to

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 07:58:19 +0000

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Wondering when we get back to multiple trophy & more everyday labor wives, which seemed to take care of the ebbs and floes of married life.

Solves the abortion issue as well - always a free set of hands to raise another kid

Let me hear you say

artappraiser — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 02:26:14 +0000

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Let me hear you say

I don't wanna go to workhttps://t.co/56cQXK2Nl1
— Daddy Stingray (@DaddyStingray) January 16, 2023

It used to be that you needed

artappraiser — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 05:19:41 +0000

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It used to be that you needed a partner to survive, either for the money or for the unpaid labor, so you had to put up with Spouse X's various flaws.

These days we're rich and it's much more viable to be single — though this is probably bad for kids. https://t.co/W8zR3UhT3G
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) January 8, 2023

New @nberpubs: "Where Are the

artappraiser — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 04:51:09 +0000

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New @nberpubs: "Where Are the Workers? From Great Resignation to Quiet Quitting" https://t.co/ZgC9UFfjob
"Workers' hours reduction can explain why the labor market is even tighter than what is expected at the current levels of unemployment and labor force participation." pic.twitter.com/pNXgkWhFaf
— Scott Lincicome (@scottlincicome) January 9, 2023