# hi _Press `p c` to open speaker notes._ --- ##### [Anne Hall](https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/11/opinion/frank-bruni-higher-education-liberal-arts-and-shakespeare.html) (one of my professors) said this to me shortly after I graduated from college -- ## "I was about your age when I realized that I was not going to have enough time to do all of the things I wanted to do in life..." --- ##### [Anne Hall](https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/11/opinion/frank-bruni-higher-education-liberal-arts-and-shakespeare.html), English 396: Poetry and Political Philosophy in Ancient Greece -- #### The questions we will be asking about _The Iliad_ will persist throughout the course. What is human happiness? What is human wisdom? Wherein lies human dignity? What political arrangements address these notions of dignity, happiness, wisdom? What difficulties does the author see in human life and how does he try to meet them? --- ## Prepping for today, I got thinking about what I would be thinking about if I were your age... --- ## What are the hard / important problems? --- class: x-smaller #### Will and Ariel Durant, _The Lessons of History_ -- > The concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability, and regularly recurs in history. The rate of concentration varies (other factors being equal) with the economic freedom permitted by morals and the laws. Despotism may for a time retard the concentration; democracy, allowing the most liberty, accelerates it. The relative equality of Americans before 1776 has been overwhelmed by a thousand forms of physical, mental, and economic differentiation, so that the gap between the wealthiest and the poorest is now greater than at any time since Imperial plutocratic Rome. In progressive societies the concentration may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty. ---
--- # Principles for Radical Tax Reform and a Universal Dividend ([essay](https://kortina.nyc/essays/principles-for-radical-tax-reform-and-a-universal-dividend/)) ---
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--- ## Speech is Free, Distribution is Not // A Tax on the Purchase of Human Attention and Political Power ([essay](https://kortina.nyc/essays/speech-is-free-distribution-is-not-a-tax-on-the-purchase-of-human-attention-and-political-power/)) ---
--- # Pandemic // Tale of Two Economies ---
--- ## Virtualization, Forklifts, Microphones, Shipping Containers, Video Conferencing, Stethoscopes... ### Who wins and loses as COVID accelerates virtualization of the economy? ([essay](https://kortina.nyc/essays/virtualization-forklifts-microphones-shipping-containers-video-conferencing-stethoscopes/)) ---
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--- class: smaller ## History of the Capital AI & Market Failures in the Attention Economy > Paranoia about runaway feedback loops – in consumer capitalism, artificial intelligence, mass media, ‘Wrestlemania politics,’ etc – ultimately stems from the inscrutability of the emergent behavior of these complex systems to the individual actors and observers operating within them. ([essay](https://kortina.nyc/essays/market-failures-in-the-attention-economy/)) --- ### [INET](https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/big-money-not-political-tribalism-drives-us-elections), Big Money -- Not Political Tribalism -- Drives US Elections
--- ## I, Backpack ([essay](https://kortina.nyc/essays/i-backpack/)) ---
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??? A non-profit called Keep America Beautiful, started in the 1950s, ran public service announcement campaigns on litter prevention, waste reduction, and recycling, and did a pretty decent job of making littering morally unacceptable. It was funded, however, by companies like Philip Morris, Anheuser-Busch, PepsiCo, and Coca-Cola, and it's goal was to "confuse the public narrative regarding waste, and distract from the corporations and manufacturers creating the litter and waste" ([wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_America_Beautiful)). --- ## The Infinite Frontier as American Capitalism's Response to the Malthusian Trap ([essay](https://kortina.nyc/essays/the-infinite-frontier-as-american-capitalism-s-response-to-the-malthusian-trap/)) ---
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--- ## Advertising, IP Law, and The Invisible Hand ([essay](https://kortina.nyc/essays/advertising-ip-law-and-the-invisible-hand/)) ---
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