The only problem with the last laugh is that the winner has to laugh alone.
— Nassim Taleb
Small business owners who bolster the lives of their (lucky) employees know this already, but it’s about time everybody else starts acknowledging this politically neutral truth.
Krugman, in a postscript to his resent blog post:
They’ve seized on dubious arguments, touted obviously weak evidence as definitive, looked for excuses either not to act themselves or for their friends not to act. And invariably the thrust of these bad arguments is to comfort the comfortable and give them license to afflict the afflicted.
Sad state of affairs, no matter which side of the isle you’re on.
“There’s a difference between a developer who does not respond at all, one who is busy enough that they cannot respond within 10 minutes, and another who does not give you the response you want to hear.”
Absolutely incredible seeing how it’s done.