The magic ritual of lockdown would have fit right in among the Pueblo Indians
Plains Indians Pledge Week was lit:
Coase was right: the initial allocation of resources is irrelevant if transaction costs are small enough to allow unimpeded trade. If necessary, in dog meat:
The ability to claim any meat you see sounds like a Magic The Gathering power:
Sword swallowing and sawing people in half: not just for western circuses!
Interesting than the modern magic show remembers or converges upon shamanic ritual:
Look, I found this coin in your ear!
Apparently also an ancient prestidigitation for secret society induction:
Abraham being called on to kill his son was hardly unique among religions. Many cultures have converged on such killing as an initiation ritual:
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And especially provocative given how much of cooperation (or morality, if you want to call it that) requires thinking through iterative prisoners' dilemmas (see author's comments about "recursion")
Every time POTUS wants to start a war, he should have to get all the governors together in a drafty castle and grovel until one of them steps forward and starts a slow clap
1\ BofA was started by Italian immigrants, who figured out that by *discriminating* between Northern and Southern Italians (whom US lenders couldn't tell apart), they could lend to the good Northern credits
2\ Thus, the one-time biggest bank in the world succeeded because they figured out how to make finer and finer distinctions between individuals, which had a "disparate impact" on Southern Italians
But the alternative was no loans for any Italian immigrants. It was a win!
3\ Thanks to the Civil Rights Acts, "disparate impacts" are now illegal. E.g. a company asking about criminal history will incur the ire of the EEOC, because of the disparate impact on blacks
So a rational company just pulls out of black areas, leaving deserving blacks worse off