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politics

Quantifying the US Cabinet's Representativeness

Recently, I was reading this New York Times article about the current US cabinet being the least diverse regarding its members' race and gender since a long time. Out of 24 members, there

  • Klaus Trainer
    Klaus Trainer
4 min read
economics

Capitalism

Capitalism doesn't incorporate any notion of social responsibility. But people use it to foster a system of social irresponsibility. So why do humans, who are inherently social beings, end up with a capitalist

  • Klaus Trainer
    Klaus Trainer
1 min read
economics

Bullshit Jobs

That article on the phenomenon of bullshit jobs accurately describes the dynamics of our current economic system: The ruling class has figured out that a happy and productive population with free time on

  • Klaus Trainer
    Klaus Trainer
1 min read
politics

Political Implications of Data Collection

A German nazi-party requests the number of Jews living in a particular city, and a breakdown of those numbers by district. And this very data does actually exist, as it has been collected

  • Klaus Trainer
    Klaus Trainer
1 min read
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