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|content=Many years ago 2002-6, I would give talks about Madoff & Epstein using “Black Arts Capital LLC” as a proxy, with the tag line “We’d tell you what we’re doing, but then...”
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I guessed BM might be front-running his own business. Boy was I wrong on the specifics.
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RIP Bernie Madoff.
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|content=“In today’s regulatory environment It’s virtually impossible to violate rules. And this is something the public really doesn’t understand...It’s impossible for a violation to go undetected; certainly not for an extended period of time.” -Former NASDQ Chairman, Bernie Madoff
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|content=This is what [[Universal Institutional Betrayal|institutional betrayal]] looks like when you stare straight in its eyes: relaxed, confident, respectable, smooth, knowledgeable.
 
It’s COVID pronouncements. Or [[String Theory]]. Or [[CPI]] revisions. Or “[[Labor Shortages]]”. Or fast-track trade treaties:
 
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|content=If I had to predict what will happen, I’d guess that the system will come to the mild conclusion that it needs better conflict reporting.  And it will reclassify all of this as ‘normal’ except a few outlying cases. Then there might be a bit of scapegoating.
 
Just a guess.
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|content=35 years after [[National Science Foundation (NSF)|@nsf]] “Policy Research and Analysis” conspired w/ [[National Academy of Sciences (NAS)|NAS]] [[Government University Industry Research Round Table (GUIRR)|Government University Research Roundtable]] to sell out STEM-America.
 
I’ve been on this over 30 years. Is it finally happening? I doubt it.
 
Why? B/C it’s the *entire* STEM labor system.
 
https://www.newsweek.com/over-500-us-scientists-under-investigation-being-compromised-china-1586074
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|content=And here is a prediction. After we gut all of our advanced math and science, we are going to have a huge employer sponsored push to flood STEM markets with workers from abroad who were not subjected to “Diversity and Inclusion(tm)” re-education. Genius.
 
https://archive.is/DzF2B#selection-75.0-75.99
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|content=What the US may need most is what employers will consider a deep and crippling 50 year [[Labor Shortages|“labor shortage”]].
 
Bring on these scary [[Labor Shortages|“labor shortages”]].[[Labor Shortages|“Labor shortages”]] mean strong families. [[Labor Shortages|“Labor shortages”]] mean inclusion & diversity *organically*.
 
[[Labor Shortages|“Labor shortages”]] mean happiness.
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|content=[[Labor Shortages|There is no such thing in economics as a “labor shortage” for a large market economy with a wage mechanism]].
 
You may thus gauge your media, think tanks, economics departments, political parties, corporations etc. by whether they discuss “labor shortages”:
 
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|content=[[Kayfabrication]] of the US Senate & economics.
 
Fiat money, [[String Theory|String Thy]], [[Labor Shortages|“labor shortages”]], COVID origin, CRT, 2wks to ‘Flatten the Curve’, etc. I don’t think people take me seriously that it’s now everywhere.
 
But that is the claim: Lack of growth led to [[Kayfabe]] becoming universal.
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|content="In the early 2000s, I was involved with one of the larger professional wrestling organizations" writes @Motoconomist "In 2018, I worked in the US Senate as an Economics Fellow...The crossover between politics and professional wrestling is quite real"
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|content=For those of you new to this account, [[Labor Shortages|long term Labor Shortages don’t exist in large market economies with a wage mechanism]].
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|content=Underrated tweet.
 
[[Labor Shortages|“Labor shortages”]] are the ultimate diversity and inclusion program.
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|content=The Labor Shortage Is So Bad They Are Now Encouraging Long Haired, Freaky People To Apply.
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|content=Silents/Boomers running out of time to return wealth siphoned by jacking tuition, eliminating mandatory retirement, making student debt non-dischargeable in bankruptcy, declaring [[Labor Shortages|phony labor shortages in a mkt economy w/ a wage mechanism]], lying about NAFTA wealth transfer impact.
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|content=A post-Covid economic boom may be the last opportunity for millennials to build wealth before heading off into retirement
 
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|content=There is no such thing as a [[Labor Shortages|long term STEM labor shortage]] in the United States faced by technical employers:
 
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|content=[[Morals|Moral]]: take care of the innovators you task to make you wealthy & secure. Particularly the heterodox leaders that won’t always get along with others. Then get out of the way w the social engineering. Share the STEM benefits with your NATO allies before giving them to your rivals.
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|content=Then listen closely.
 
A) You stop giving CEO’s an ear when they whine about [[Labor Shortages|labor shortages]]. Cut off the visas.
 
B) You *spend* on STEM R&D. Sky-High Compensation w High Standards.
 
C) You purge *everything* that says “Diversity, Equity & Inclusion” anywhere close to a STEM kid.
 
https://x.com/steve10mo1966/status/1415036117187969029
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|content=D) Kick the CCP out of US labs. Make them do their own scientific research, as to do it well requires freedom. Force CCP towards freedom through science & STEM rather than letting them pick the fruits of our freedom to challenge and question orthodoxy.
 
E) Hire our own heterodox.
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|content=F) Incentivize the leadership of our most critical institutions to promote people who won’t play well with others who are captured by groupthink. Earmark money to promote those who won’t easily  get along with co-workers when their co-workers are standing in the way of progress.
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|content=More or less we have to kickstart the American dream. And to do that requires a [[True Elite|public spirited elite]].
 
We need to purge ourselves of our [[Extractive Elite|fake elite]]. We are coming to hate fake experts.
 
We need real ones who are well paid. By us. Not by some revolving door baksheesh arrangement.
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|content=But I was cheering when Blake said one income. Because raising kids is about the most important job in the world. And if we are going to get rich enough to do it we need innovators worried about their next family vacation, not how to find two adjunct positions in adjacent states.
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|content=<nowiki>*</nowiki>too
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|content=The point is who labels others crackpots. Or haven’t we noticed?
 
It’s the class who said Hilary would win easily. That we’d banished volatility before 2008. That the Wuhan Lab Leak was racism. That labor shortages exist in mkt economies. That carbs are good, while fat is bad.
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|content=@EricRWeinstein was the first talking about Epstein being an intelligence “agent” (Mossad IIRC), that was a long time ago, his brother @BretWeinstein was the first to speak about the lab leak, a long time ago, both were labelled as crackpots, now both being shown to be accurate
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|content=Those who believe Jeffery Epstein was a “disgraced financier” rather than a construct of an Intelligence Community &amp; who never ran a billion $ forex hedge fund. People who think String Theory is our leading theory of physics. Or who said NAFTA lifts all boats like a rising tide.
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|content=People who believe an octave has 12 notes, but can’t say why 12. Those who think MSNBC just kept misreporting Andrew Yang’s candidacy by accident over and over again. At some point you just have to realize that those who can’t think for themselves HAVE to call those who do names.
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|content=It’s tough getting things wrong over &amp; over again as per the above. And every time we go through the exercise the increasingly desperate normies who cling to groups/experts should become more obvious to you. If you’ve followed this account, know that this behavior will NEVER die.
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|content=The sheep among us will always be angry because their gods will always fail them until we reform our institutions. Which may or may not happen. Time will tell.
 
But have some compassion: Hug a sheep or NPC today. Tell them there is still hope and it’s not to late to become human.
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|content=Or to turn it around:
 
There is a family shortage.</br>
A home shortage.</br>
A political access shortage.</br>
A career shortage.</br>
An opportunity shortage.</br>
A fairness shortage.</br>
A logic shortage.</br>
An ethics shortage.</br>
A bargaining symmetry shortage.
 
Involved in a *compensation* shortage for STEM.
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|content=[[Labor Shortages|There is no engineer shortage.]]
 
Management and investors are gobbling the compensation needed to attrract engineers while attempting to flood markets from abroad by printing visas.
 
Interesting that this error in logic is impossible to remove. So simple, so wrong &amp; so lucrative.
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|content=The engineer shortage won’t end until coding fluency is as common as literacy and numeracy.
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|content=Standing by to hear once again how I just don’t get it from people in the @dnc more focused on carried interest tax exemptions, infinite work visas for non-existent labor shortages, and defunding the police while denying the cupidity of organized identity to replace labor unions.
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|content=In my experience @AnnCoulter is actually more genuinely left of center on our needing deep painful labor shortages that bring employers to their knees at the bargaining table rather than the Visa trough, than the fake Left we call the @DNC. Anti-war is another example of this.
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|content=Is agreeing with Ann Coulter one of the signs of the Apocalypse?
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|content=If the genuine left is about working families and the dignity of labor, then we old labor progressives have to admit the conversation on working families shifted towards the Right. Why? Because the @DNC seems uncomfortable with National interests (jingoism!) and Family above all.
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|content=I have been in rooms with @JDVance1 @bgmasters or @peterthiel where the entire focus is hours spent trying to figure out plans to help US working families make the markets work for them. I can’t get that quality of conversation on the Left. And I’m sometimes the only Democrat.
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|content=You may despise @TuckerCarlson if you are on the Left. But in private, he focuses on US working families. When we on the nominal Left now hear “US working families” we start in like we don’t know our own history.  “Why US?” “Why Working?” “Why Families?”
 
We walked off our post.
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|content=The Left abandoned the Left. The Right is in the process of taking over our best abandoned real estate. Time to wake up.
 
Anti-war. Pro-dignity of labor. Pro family. Pro-Patriotism. Anti-censorship. Anti-totalitarian. Pro-freedom. Anti-authoritarian.
 
That’s the core Real Left.
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|content=Now back to your regularly scheduled jokes about Contrarian University of North Texas…
 
Thanks for hearing me out on this periodically. I don’t know what to do to make this interesting and obvious. It’s destroying our future.
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|content=The US Academic Scam: “We need to find Americans smart enough to do Nobel level science and dumb enough not to realize that we will permanently artificially glut markets so that they will have zero leverage against whatever we, their Silent &amp; Boomer masters, want to do to them.”
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|content=Oof https://conference.nber.org/conf_papers/f159298.pdf
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|content=[[Labor Shortages|The STEM shortage has been a total myth and a scam.]] It is an employer based gutting of America’s future to serve a dying cohort of people who bizarrely have zero interest in what they leave behind as a legacy.
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|content=1/ HAVE THE BABY BOOMERS TAKEN COMPLETE CONTROL OF OUR US RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES?
 
A) What is the most prestigious US university to be headed by a member of Generation X or a Millennial?
 
B) Other than UC Berkeley, name any TOP Tier US research university *not* headed by a Boomer.
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|content=Remember this odd fact: almost every graph of changes in universities over time involving tuition, faculty, time to degree, jobs, etc tells exactly the same story. Choose any university. Any measure of one generation extracting money from its descendants by destroying its future:
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|content=Should @SamHarrisOrg &amp; I talk about the Boomers and their original &amp; bold approach to stewardship of education, research and our world class universities?
 
How about how Student Debt was reclassified in 2005 to keep kids from fleeing this experimental approach through bankruptcy?
|timestamp=8:12 PM ¡ Feb 26, 2019
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|timestamp=4:18 PM ¡ Oct 29, 2021
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|content=If I am correct there are now generations of discoveries by hundreds of STEM folks that were lost because they threatened their older masters or which bear the names of the masters with the scientist who did the original work cast out of the system. We disappeared STEM’s best.
|timestamp=4:25 PM ¡ Oct 29, 2021
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|content=So @elonmusk, bitcoiners, crypto folks, any interest? Every year we wait, what we built degrades further &amp; further into madness. Let’s create wealthy scientists who can tell us all to fuck off when we incentivize them to do the wrong thing in science &amp; rigorous education. #EndDEI
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|timestamp=4:33 PM ¡ Oct 29, 2021
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|content=<nowiki>*</nowiki>STEM
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|content=The research university system would start to collapse. And we would at last be forced to conclude that using PRC labor to try to intimidate America’s STEW force into accepting *scraps* to enrich everyone else is probably about the dumbest thing we do as a nation.
 
Close to it.
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|content=American universities and research institutes say the U.S.’s dominance in science and technology could be undermined by toughened U.S. visa requirements that are squeezing the flow of talent from China.
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/visa-restrictions-on-chinese-students-endanger-u-s-innovation-edge-universities-say-11635856001
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|content=This is a market. Let’s get this much needed pain to our universities/STEM employers. That’s how this works. Our STEM employers need pain to stop lying &amp; to stop helping our strategic rivals play us like a fiddle. How do we get them as much pain as we can, as quickly as possible?
|timestamp=5:57 PM ¡ Nov 2, 2021
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|content=[[Morals|Moral]]: Scientists are central to a modern nation on every level. Only a 3rd rate kleptocracy chisels on compensation and insulation of STEM professionals. The deliberate use by NSF of PRC labor (student and otherwise) to hold down US wages is an advanced form of academic madness.
|timestamp=5:58 PM ¡ Nov 2, 2021
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|timestamp=5:59 PM ¡ Nov 2, 2021
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|content=If you won’t listen to the above and won’t honor the traditional agreements of old, let us charge you for science. Give us the IP protection for research so we aren’t your domestic servants. You will soon learn you had the world’s best deal.
 
Is there no one at all who gets this?
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|content=For F’s sake. The federal government has totally breached its tacit understanding with our US STEM community. We’re not your domestic help. Thank god someone is stepping in. Maybe @elonmusk will build an SSC replacement. I am frustrated that these people don’t do MORE in STEM.
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|content=Sen. Bernie Sanders: "It is not acceptable that the two wealthiest people in this country, Mr. Musk and Mr. Bezos, take control of our space efforts to return to the Moon, [...]This is not something for two billionaires to be directing."
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|timestamp=4:57 PM ¡ Nov 18, 2021
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|content=How about giving America’s own scientists and engineers the massive sticky gooey portion of the pie they have built for everyone else? Instead we deny them the ability to commercialize discoveries at the same time as we breach the spirit of [[Science, The Endless Frontier (1945)|the “Endless Frontier” agreement]].
|timestamp=4:57 PM ¡ Nov 18, 2021
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|content=You’re a senator @BernieSanders. I voted for you once.
 
Even Soviets didn’t target their own scientists. How about we pay our labor rather than calling it “training” &amp; calling our workers, “workers” rather than “students”? Oddly, you aren’t even a socialist standing for workers.
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|content=I am quite honesty frustrated that Elon, Bezos and company are not using this wealth to save us…from you and your colleagues driving  our STEM pipeline off a Cliff with your legislative acts. But at least they are building. Not as well as we used to build. But they might awaken.
|timestamp=4:57 PM ¡ Nov 18, 2021
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|content=Will you? There’s a difference between being frustrated with the absurdity of this inequality and being envious. Both are natural and understandable. But many of us want better inequality. You seem to be envious. Don’t mix your envy with STEM. Fix the above legislation instead.
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|content=One reason that tech executives are so wealthy is that they lie about [[Labor Shortages|shortages]] to get government to flood their specific labor markets, and so don’t have to make their STEM workers truly wealthy. They make STEM workers weak instead.
 
I wish it weren’t true. But it is what it is.
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|content=Eric Schmidt filled the WH science office with allies -- and picked up their salaries
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/28/google-billionaire-joe-biden-science-office-00020712 via @politico
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|content=Let’s stop this “labor shortage” dead in its tracks. Let’s not print visas. It’s time to recognize workers are suffering from a *share shortage*. We need to print shares not visas and add them to compensation packages.
|content=Let’s stop this [[Labor Shortages|“labor shortage”]] dead in its tracks. Let’s not print visas. It’s time to recognize workers are suffering from a *share shortage*. We need to print shares not visas and add them to compensation packages.


Bingo! Look at that: totally fictitious  problem solved. 🙏
Bingo! Look at that: totally fictitious  problem solved. 🙏
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|content=I feel gaslit when grown-ups talk about labor shortages in market economies w wage mechanisms.
|content=I feel gaslit when grown-ups talk about [[Labor Shortages|labor shortages in market economies w wage mechanisms]].


It’s basically an admission that capitalism is meant as a TRICK where workers can’t benefit from markets.
It’s basically an admission that capitalism is meant as a TRICK where workers can’t benefit from markets.
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But the news media counts on workers being too dumb to understand the wage mechanism. So everyone in media pretends to believe in labor shortages. Like they were jackalopes.
But the news media counts on workers being too dumb to understand the wage mechanism. So everyone in media pretends to believe in labor shortages. Like they were jackalopes.


Let’s print shares &amp; not visas. https://t.co/1BamM9kNEo
Let’s print shares &amp; not visas.
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|content=I don’t think either party wants to hear what I’d have to say.
 
Immigration to America was the greatest thing that ever happened to my family. Everyone who wants to come should try. I WISH we could make that miracle happen for everyone.
 
We simply CAN’T without losing our nation.
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|content=If someone wants to fly me to the border I’m happy to go. I may be highly xenophilic, but I am more restrictionist than both parties so it is likely unnecessary.
 
I don’t believe in [[Labor Shortages|“labor shortages”]] in market economies and I don’t believe in “undocumented citizens.”
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|content=I respect your opinion a lot, but I highly recommend you visit the border, unlike our VP. This is a protest. Many towns on the border have had more people crossing than live there. How do you suggest calling attention to this?
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|content=I believe in strong borders, deporting those who come illegally, and various ugly things that don’t play well optically but are needed to have a diverse market based free society that can welcome the persecuted, family members, visitors/friends and the extraordinary individual.
|timestamp=4:52 PM ¡ Sep 16, 2022
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|content=My motto is something like: show me a person with a simple inspiring immigration message and I’ll show you the absolute misery it will create.
 
Show me a person with an ethical approach to immigration that actually works and I’ll show you optical ugliness that will be demonized.
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|content=I met this rot first in [[Quantum Gravity|“Quantum Gravity”]]
 
Then in “Neo-Classical Economics”
 
Then in [[Labor Shortages|“Scientific Manpower Theory”]]
 
To hear it in virology with MILLIONS dead? Totally mind blowing.
 
Take back science, by any means necessary. It is now a matter of survival:
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|content=Moral: China already knows what we are doing by and large. American science is built on a model: they supply highly reliable workers, we supply our asymmetric scientific advantages born of our freedom. Don’t hate the PRC and their students. The US is always giving away the store.
|content=[[Morals|Moral]]: China already knows what we are doing by and large. American science is built on a model: they supply highly reliable workers, we supply our asymmetric scientific advantages born of our freedom. Don’t hate the PRC and their students. The US is always giving away the store.
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* [[National Academy of Sciences (NAS)]]
* [[National Academy of Sciences (NAS)]]
* [[National Science Foundation (NSF)]]
* [[National Science Foundation (NSF)]]
* [[Science, The Endless Frontier (1945)]]


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