Slugs misbehave when they eat my orchids.

If that's a related quote you should say so; if that's a meta comment about my comment you should also say so.

Downvoted this: I could give you an equally pretty sounding quote about walking blindly forward or repeating teachers passwords but I am too lazy to find a link. This is the Internet; don't be cryptic, be obvious, be helpful and be clear.

How about this description:

The author Russ Roberts is a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution well known for communicating economics to non-economists. He applied in-group biases to the real world perspectives of two parties on the budget stimulus package in america. He comments on how both sides can be perceiving that the same thing both worked and didn't work.

And the most important part of sharing a link:

I am sharing this because... I think he is right and everyone should read what he has to say//I think he is wrong and here is why...

yep. someone else downvoted this. I agree in downvoting because of the lack of description or information given with the random link.

Economics, bias and fallacies.

How we could do it without space colonization?

Hedge hedge hedge! The most successful plant family on Earth is the Orchidaceae. There are around 30,000 different species! Each orchid seed pod can contain a million dust like seeds that are dispersed by the wind. A million seeds is a huge hedge.

The opposite of hedging is to put all your eggs in one basket. Right now humans have all their eggs in one basket... aka "Earth". We also allow a small group of government planners to allocate all our taxes. Coincidence? Nope.

Centralization is always a function of conceit. People think they have enough facts to block/limit hetergeneous activity. The more you appreciate fallibilism the more you appreciate decentralization.

The answer is always tax choice.

I created the world's first micropayments forum... RudeBagel. Some additional info.

Here's a promising experiment with micropayments for journalism.

"The solution" - People have been trying to get micropayments working for decades and it still doesn't seem to have had any major successes. Regardless, all micropayments would do is further incentivise the kinds of articles that are already been voted to the top and make the issues discussed here worse.

So facilitating micropayments will allow the crowd to help lift the scarcest/rarest and most valuable content to the top of the list.

50 Shades of Gray is the best novel because the most people payed for it?

"The Secret" is on of the most important personal development books because a lot of people brought it?