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Tag: Nudge

Nudging State, Noble Lies

In the world of Nudge, everyone is an ad man, and the government is just the biggest, baddest ad man of them all.
Ben Hunt August 4, 2021
29 Comments

A Truth That’s Told With Bad Intent

A truth that’s told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent. - William Blake Our narratives of COVID-19 are all lies. They are lies of a…
Ben Hunt May 14, 2020
37 Comments

First the People

This is not a chronicle of errors and mistakes made during COVID-19. This is the story about the inevitable, simultaneous failure of each of the ins…
Rusty Guinn April 14, 2020
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The Long Now, Pt. 3 – Wink

I believe that we are on the cusp of the Long Now becoming irreversible. Or at least irreversible without a cataclysmic Fall. Why? Because they have …
Ben Hunt October 17, 2019
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Even When I Lie

There are three reasons a person becomes a liar: he believes that he must, he believes that he may, or he believes it serves a Greater Truth.
Rusty Guinn November 28, 2018
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Wall Street’s Merry Pranks: Things that Matter #4

The libertarian paternalism of a nudge culture in finance has created an industry of investors who care about fees but have forgotten about taxes, tra…
Rusty Guinn December 12, 2017
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Pecking Order

The pecking order is a social system designed to preserve economic inequality: inequality of food for chickens, inequality of wealth for humans. We ar…
Ben Hunt November 29, 2017
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Clever Hans

Part 7 of Ben's Notes from the Field series reminds us that you don’t break a wild horse by crushing its spirit. You nudge it into willingly surrend…
Ben Hunt October 26, 2017
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