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Every morning you wake up as a new person. Yesterday was Joel 12889, tomorrow I will be Joel 12890, and seventeen years ago I was Joel 7001. Each Joel is fundamentally different than the rest. Many are very very similar, especially recent models where life has not changed much, but they all still are different.

Joel 7001 is nearly unrecognizable as “me” when I think about him.… read more “We Are All The Same”

Managing twin babies is pretty challenging. I am not sure how a single mother could ever do it, or how two parents each with a job could get by unless they had a lot of outside help.

My wife Laurel has been doing a great job.

The Sackler family and Johnson & Johnson would not have spent billions bribing doctors to oversubscribe their drugs if patents were eliminated. Further, Epipens could be had for a buck instead of hundreds of dollars.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/warren-proposes-lifetime-ban-on-members-of-congress-becoming-lobbyists-2018-08-21?fbclid=IwAR1RvTTUniu5l8WK8szYHNN-aazs9FkTf0gdz_rlaPHpJlDRdedD7r7DZtY

I like the idea of banning members of Congress from becoming lobbyists. I also like the idea of banning regulators from working in industries they regulated or vice versa.

Creflo Dollar is a scumbag ripoff artist.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/27/world/americas/brazil-amazon-aid.html

Bolsonaro is putting his personal ego ahead of the good of his nation. The people of Brazil should rise up and depose him for this betrayal.

Regulatory capture is where businesspeople in an industry manage to bring their regulators under their direct control. A classic example of this is bankers in the early 2000’s who were able to get their regulators to both basically guarantee they couldn’t go bankrupt (too big to fail) and to allow the bankers to take high risk / high reward bets with other people’s money.… read more “Regulatory Capture Should Be Illegal”