Science for the win

Finland Gave Two Groups Identical Payments. One Experienced 33% Better Mental Health.

New research from Finland's basic income experiment proves that simply trusting people with money—not just the money itself—significantly impro...

Is Zohran Mamdani the reincarnation of Henry George? Because it feels like NYC just elected the guy who might finish the revolution George died trying to start. 🗽🔥 ⸻ A young, African-born, Muslim mayor with no machine backing. Winning in New York City, the capital of rent extraction. Talking openly about rent freezes, free transit, public essentials. Owing nothing to the real estate class. @ScottSantens @_HenryGeorge @HousingTW ⸻ This is exactly the political DNA needed for the first real Land Value Tax uprising in a century. If NYC captures even a fraction of land value for the public, the dominoes fall globally. @henrygeorgeorg @ProgressandPov @StrongTowns ⸻ You can feel it: Bitcoin as neutral reserve. UBI as safety net. LVT as fairness engine. Young voters done with scarcity politics. @LynAldenContact @Gladstein @AndrewYang ⸻ Henry George ran for NYC mayor twice. He was about to win the second time when he died. History didn’t repeat — it paused. Is Mamdani the one to un-pause it? @ZohranKMamdani @StreetsblogNYC @nycDSA

If I weren’t Canadian, I’d have the gaul to share the following observation after listening to the national anthems for game 5 of the World Series, “it’s embarrassing how not embarrassed Americans are about being embarrassingly American.”…sorry.