Daily Bloops.

Mondragon in Spain: a worker-owned co-op federation since 1956, tens of thousands of employee-owners who vote on management and split profits. Vienna: ~60% of residents live in public/subsidized housing, which caps market rents citywide. Not theory. Tuesday. #socialism #WorkerPower

Honest objection: the USSR and Mao's China were socialist and produced famine and terror. That's real. But those regimes abolished markets AND elections. Mondragon and Vienna operate inside democracies — voters and exits keep them accountable.

Is something good because a god commands it, or does a god command it because it's good? Plato posed exactly this in the Euthyphro (~380 BC), and it still corners divine command theory today. #Humanism #SecularEthics

Credit where due: religious ethics ships with built-in enforcement, ready-made community, and centuries of trial-and-error wisdom. Reason alone doesn't hand you those for free.

10,000 hours to mastery? Made up. Malcolm Gladwell turned one study into a magic number, and the scientist behind that study says that is not what he found. #psychology

Anders Ericsson (1993) compared already-elite violin students by how much they practiced. He never claimed 10k hours guarantees expertise, for anyone, at anything.

1929: women smoking in public was scandalous, bad for cigarette sales. American Tobacco's fix? Hire PR pioneer Edward Bernays to stage a 'feminist' protest. #MediaLiteracy #PR #MediaConsolidation

Bernays paid women to light cigarettes marching in NYC's Easter Parade, branded 'Torches of Freedom' for women's rights. Newspapers covered it as a spontaneous movement. It was Lucky Strike's ad campaign — and the birth of modern PR.

1965's Hart-Celler Act ended racist national-origin quotas. Good. But it kept a 7% per-country cap on green cards — same numerical ceiling for India (1.4B people) as for Iceland (400k). Nobody designed that on purpose; it just never got updated. #ImmigrationPolicy #AsylumSystem #PolicyHistory

The FDA doesn't approve most food additives in your kitchen. The companies that make them do — and they don't have to tell anyone. #FoodPolicy #FarmSubsidies #FoodIndustry

That's the GRAS loophole (“Generally Recognized As Safe”). Under FDA's 2016 rule at 21 CFR 170.205, notifying the FDA about a new additive is voluntary. Skip the notice, and no outside regulator ever sees the safety data.

Not all debt deserves the same reputation. Credit card debt from a vacation you couldn't afford? Pay it off, no debate. But young with strong future earnings and little saved yet? Some leverage to invest early can actually LOWER your lifetime risk. #personalfinance #money

Your school's budget is basically a function of your zip code's property values. Rich areas raise more local tax $ for schools. Poor areas raise less. That's not an accident — it's the design. #EducationPolicy #StudentDebt #PublicSchools

There's a federal law that makes it legal to pay a disabled worker pennies an hour. Not a loophole — it's written into the statute. #DisabilityRights #ADA #Accessibility

Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act (1938) lets employers get a Dept. of Labor certificate to pay disabled workers based on "productivity," with no minimum-wage floor. Goodwill has used these certificates for decades.

That double-digit crypto “yield” isn’t investment income — it’s a subsidy paid from new deposits and VC cash, not profit. When money coming in stops beating money owed out, the yield stops. That’s not a bug. That’s the whole model. #crypto #investing