Busy writing about economics, and/or rewatching Challengers
Apr 15 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
It's pretty funny that the success sequence is "don't get married or have kids until you have a job and an education" but then the exact same people who push it get FURIOUS about it resulting in *girls* not becoming breederslaves at 19 and instead getting an education and a job
Like a major cultural change is that being a parent is something you have to *plan* for, and that certain conditions have to be in place for that plan (job, degree, housing). And like you can quibble about how that works out, but at least in the short-term it means fewer kids
Oct 30, 2024 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
It's insane how the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum in Boston just had the largest art heist ever (600 million!) in 1990 and nobody knows anything about it and has zero leads and the heist was just two guys in fake mustaches showing up as cops and "arresting" the only two guards
And like the museum had very weak security, which everyone knew, and the guards barely made above minimum wage, but the FBI thinks it wasn't them because they were literally "too incompetent" to pull it off
Mar 25, 2023 • 19 tweets • 9 min read
Celebrities at the Vanity Fair Oscars Afterparty as Economics textbooks: a thread
Starting with Hunter Schafer as Microeconomic Essentials by Jay Prag
Austin Butler and Kaia Gerber as Economics by McConell, Brue, ane Flynn
Austin Butler and Kaia Gerber as Economics by McConell, Brue, ane Flynn 
