Oleg Komlik

BITS & BRIEFS: Mathiness // Lottery taxes the poor // Surveillance Capitalism // Banks forgot the 2008 crash

– Mathiness: the use of mathematics by economists to persuade or mislead rather than to clarify — by Paul Romer

Lottery - Selling Hope to the Hopeless– State lottery actually taxes  the poor and unemployed; 1% rise in joblessness leads to 10% jump in ticket sales

– The Logic of Surveillance Capitalism: capturing information from & about you, in order to analyze, repack & monetise it later

– How and why the banks & financiers ignored the lessons of the 2008 crisis they brought about?

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