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If you’re planning on buying anything, buy it now. Currently 10% of world trade is bottlenecked at the Suez canal. West Coast ports of the United States are also operating at a fraction of their capacity due to covid restrictions.

We are about to see more shortages and big price increases.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-03-24/bitcoin-btc-has-an-electricity-and-chip-consumption-problem

Hopeful parents in Washington State are required to jump through many expensive hoops by law. Parents have to pay for a psychological screening and take off work for it, do extensive medical tests and take off work for them, and pay enormous fees for other related services.

Parents who do not need IVF services are not required to do any of this.… read more “Washington State IVF Laws Are a Scam”

Patents destroy innovation. Patents are little government monopolies on human knowledge that prevent free market competition. Usually patents are awarded for those that least deserve them and for time periods far beyond anything sensible. Allow competition to get more innovation.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-17/china-s-combat-drones-push-could-spark-a-global-arms-race

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/15/world/europe/aleksei-navalny-prison-instagram.html

https://seths.blog/2021/03/nfts-are-a-dangerous-trap/

https://residentcontrarian.substack.com/p/on-the-experience-of-being-poor-ish