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Budget reduction survey results

Published in December 1st, 2011
Posted by in Finance, Health, Transportation, Work
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Here are the results, in a graph, showing which budget categories, responders have the biggest problems reducing. A few days after posting the survey, I realized that the question was a bit ambiguously phrased. For example, housing costs may be hard to reduce further because they have already been significantly reduced (why athletes will lose [...]

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The independence of money

Published in December 1st, 2011
Posted by in Finance, Philosophy
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I had a minor revelation while reading through George Simmel’s The Philosophy of Money (*warning*: heavy reading). You depend on other people in order to spend money. This means, that money has no value outside a social system. In a mature consumer oriented society it is usually taken for granted that The customer is always [...]

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Are we qualitatively different?

Published in December 1st, 2011
Posted by in Philosophy
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If there is anything this country enjoys, it’s measuring things by numbers and then comparing numbers. We divide people into percentile according to net worth, credit score, GPA, GDP, IQ, etc. with the implicit assumption that it is possible to understand the entire scale simply by multiplying by a number. For instance, someone spending twice [...]

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