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" ... Every aficionado knows that sports are worth playing and watching as a simulacrum of life. Contriving various games with sets of rules, and leagues of competitors, we're meant to enjoy the beauty of athletic prowess, to be awed by bodies that can do things ours can't, to experience the suspense of live competition, the thrills of victory, and the lows of defeat—and to learn from the spectacle, all without the consequences of actual battle. ... "
" ... India rolls out its General Goods and Services Tax tomorrow and all the predictions are that it will be of significant benefit to economic growth in the sub-continent. The reason being that, for the first time, the Indian economy will at last be some at least simulacrum of one national economy rather than a series of state bound ones. The benefits of this being something we've known since Adam Smith and David Ricardo--trade makes you richer and the how much richer is defined by the area over which you can freely trade. The interesting thing here is that this is entirely contrary to the sort of economics that Mahatma Ganhi proposed, a nation of small scale and local production and consumption. That proposal being very like the current fad for "buy local" among the sillier types in the west these days and really, only a proposal to make us all distinctly poorer. ... "
" ... The crypto world has taken another large step towards becoming a simulacrum of the existing financial system without any of its (admittedly inadequate) safeguards. This is supposed to be progress? ... "
" ... There's other ways of designing programs to do much the same thing of course. But the point is simple. If employers will not hire the long term unemployed then we need to get the long term unemployed into some form of work, somewhere, so that they become more attractive to employers. And that's not something that we can do by playing around with benefits slashed to the point of destitution, nor by playing around with training schemes or boosting aggregate demand. It's something we can only do by getting those long term unemployed into some simulacrum of paid work. ... "
" ... Why mint? US farmers had been growing and distilling mint oil since colonial times, largely for therapeutic and pharmaceutical uses. Toothpastes, introduced as new kinds of hygienic products, were an extension of this market. And then there’s the unique sensation mint provides. Peppermint oil contains menthol. Menthol smells “minty,” but its effect is more than just aromatic. It also triggers sense receptors in your mouth and on your skin that respond to cold temperatures, producing a chilling, slightly numbing sensation, a chemical simulacrum of coolness. ... "