Good to hear that PugChief thought it worthwhile. This was some more feedback I got from that other forum (the Green Party England and Wales forum :) ):- Submitted by stone on Mon, 06/04/2015 - 07:42 Thanks for the recommendation, I've signed up now I'm puzzled though why they don't just have all of...

I signed up for this free course (starting next month) after seeing this recommendation on another forum. Has anyone else done this or have an opinion about it? Starting in May, Coursera will be running (for the third year) an online course on Money and Banking, taught by Professor Perry Mehrling of...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05nxgdd

I really enjoyed this in depth look at the gold rush and how it contributed to the history of California, the USA and the world.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05mrj7f Aimen Dean is a founder member of al-Qaeda, who changed tack in 1998 and became a spy for Britain's security and intelligence services, MI5 and MI6. Interviewed by Peter Marshall, he describes his years working in Afghanistan and London as one of the West's m...

Watters has two main explicit insights. First: People in every culture experience trauma and stress, but they find different ways of expressing and understanding their suffering—lending it meaning by embedding it in a narrative—based on the “symptom pools”? provided to them by their cultures. When ...

I just googled and saw that the "prizes rather than patents" idea is actually very well established: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prizes_as_an_alternative_to_patents The Medical Innovation Prize Fund Act S1137 and S1138[edit] The two bills proposed on May 26, 2011 by Senator Bernie Sanders...

Kbg wrote: I do like the premise of some type of momentum wrap around a PP core though where the momentum leaders get extra weighting.

There used to be people on here saying that they held both  HBPP and decision moose portfolios to try and do that.

If someone made any of you emperor how would any of you propose to fix any of this? I've wondered whether it might work better to have a system of prizes rather than patents. So if a medicine were developed, then it would warrant a prize for the company that developed it. Then it could be freely ma...

I thought this was interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prognosis_of_schizophrenia#International The World Health Organization conducted two long-term follow-up studies involving more than 2,000 people suffering from schizophrenia in different countries. These studies found patients have much b...

Sorry if this chart has already been linked, I haven't read the whole thread: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sD0f1wnZnIw/VKhIcQ7hQEI/AAAAAAAA8UI/KWFaX6wDOZ4/s1600/continuumsociallast.PNG I agree with that analysis I think. To have a prosperous happy society you need everyone to be able to make full use o...

I don't know whether it counts as "art" but people do work doing the art work for computer games. A neighbour of my parents does that and always seemed to be on a recruiting drive to get hold of more employees to do that work. He came to the UK from Spain following his wife (who I think wa...

mountaineer: I'm likely biased since I was one of the "E" in the FIRE sectors, was raised in a home that emphasized living within ones means and had a couple of "E" uncles and fantastic high school math and science teachers that encouraged me. I was taking the FIRE acronym to be ...

One thing I would say is that perhaps if a student has a chance to go to a truly top flight University, then jump on it. My other half went to Cambridge (in the UK). By the sound of it, it gave a real turbo boosted education. The expectation and standard demanded from the students seemed to be on an...

Isn't there some happy medium between not blundering into becoming debt ridden and unemployable, and yet at the same time not having your life course dictated by scurrying around seeking money? It sort of saddens me to think of an 18 year old choosing a career path based on the hope that it pays we...

In the UK we have an vast scale payday loans company called Wonga. It is sort of intriguing in its financial structure comparing it to banks etc. It is 100% equity financed. Even if ALL the loans defaulted, it wouldn't have any creditors on the hook (unless I guess you view its own staff with wages ...

I'm sure most people paid a lot do work very hard but I don't see that that fact is relevant to the point I was making. Similarly lots of people paid a lot are doing very useful stuff. But sadly, people can work extremely hard and be brilliantly clever doing stuff that is useless or even parasitic....

Isn't there some happy medium between not blundering into becoming debt ridden and unemployable, and yet at the same time not having your life course dictated by scurrying around seeking money? It sort of saddens me to think of an 18 year old choosing a career path based on the hope that it pays we...

On a slightly related note, I think it'd be interesting if college tuition rates were largely dependent on what society needed. So if we needed more Nurses in the U.S. or a particular geographic area of the school, then the tuition rate would lower to entice more people to go into nursing. Same wou...

Isn't there some happy medium between not blundering into becoming debt ridden and unemployable, and yet at the same time not having your life course dictated by scurrying around seeking money? It sort of saddens me to think of an 18 year old choosing a career path based on the hope that it pays wel...

My impression is that it is very much harder to teach yourself a tricky subject than it is to learn it at college. My personal experience is different.  In grade school I bought a sliderule and had to pick up a book on logarithms at the local library to understand it. I built a sextant from scratch...

Pointed Stick, I found that whole interfluidity post about "Trade-offs between inequality, productivity, and employment" a revelation. The world seemed to make more sense after reading it.

My impression is that it is very much harder to teach yourself a tricky subject than it is to learn it at college. My guess is that it is the critical marking that is the crucial aid. Of course anyone anywhere pretty much could get hold of all the crucial texts and read them. But ensuring that all t...

I think the crucial point about a citizens' dividend is that it is NOT means tested. It pays out to everyone regardless. Currently in the UK we have an OK safety net for the unemployed BUT they are in effect forced not to improvise employment because anything they do earn gets deducted from the mean...

dualstow wrote: ahem

Go to the Gold section of this forum and look down about 3 inches from this thread.

Or once someone responds to that, look UP or use this link:
http://gyroscopicinvesting.com/forum/go ... -on-bbc-4/

Sorry, that was goofy of me 

I think it starts much earlier. Because children of 5 to 10 are deemed incapable of any responsibility at all, it is then a big ask to get adults as teenagers. In the UK in the 1970s most children (from age 5) used to walk by themselves to and from school and to and from after-school or weekend acti...