tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75324070834891903872024-03-18T21:33:36.336-07:00Erik the Exasperated A man should always hold something in reserve, a surprise to spring when things get tight.
Christy MathewsonErichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07612955837563842096noreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532407083489190387.post-71959506137785453282016-01-13T14:07:00.004-08:002016-01-13T14:07:42.603-08:00Reynolds’ Law<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, tahoma, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.16px; line-height: 19.456px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-top: 0.7em; padding: 0px;">
I haven’t been blogging much lately, because I haven’t had many thoughts that haven’t been better expressed elsewhere. But I have to draw attention to a remark of <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/106691/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(153, 102, 51); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #265e15; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Glenn Reynolds</a>, which seems to me to express an important and little-noticed point:</div>
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The government decides to try to increase the middle class by subsidizing things that middle class people have: If middle-class people go to college and own homes, then surely if more people go to college and own homes, we’ll have more middle-class people. But homeownership and college aren’t causes of middle-class status, they’re markers for possessing the kinds of traits — self-discipline, the ability to defer gratification, etc. — that let you enter, and stay, in the middle class. Subsidizing the markers doesn’t produce the traits; if anything, it undermines them.</div>
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I dub this <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Reynolds’ Law</strong>: “Subsidizing the markers of status doesn’t produce the character traits that result in that status; it undermines them.” It’s easy to see why. If people don’t need to defer gratification, work hard, etc., in order to achieve the status they desire, they’ll be less inclined to do those things. The greater the government subsidy, the greater the effect, and the more net harm produced.</div>
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Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07612955837563842096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532407083489190387.post-91022829117466578922014-10-13T13:34:00.000-07:002014-10-13T13:34:42.848-07:00The Global Warming Statistical Meltdown<div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: 'Chronicle SSm', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 28px; margin-bottom: 18px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
Continuing to rely on climate-model warming projections based on high, model-derived values of climate sensitivity skews the cost-benefit analyses and estimates of the social cost of carbon. This can bias policy decisions. The implications of the lower values of climate sensitivity in our paper, as well as similar other recent studies, is that human-caused warming near the end of the 21st century should be less than the 2-degrees-Celsius “danger” level for all but the IPCC’s most extreme emission scenario.</div>
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This slower rate of warming—relative to climate model projections—means there is less urgency to phase out greenhouse gas emissions now, and more time to find ways to decarbonize the economy affordably. It also allows us the flexibility to revise our policies as further information becomes available.</div>
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http://online.wsj.com/articles/judith-curry-the-global-warming-statistical-meltdown-1412901060Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07612955837563842096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532407083489190387.post-45876532218166904502014-10-13T13:32:00.000-07:002014-10-13T13:32:48.364-07:00Climate Science is not Settled<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15.1999998092651px; line-height: 21px;">Any serious discussion of the changing climate must begin by acknowledging not only the scientific certainties but also the uncertainties, especially in projecting the future. Recognizing those limits, rather than ignoring them, will lead to a more sober and ultimately more productive discussion of climate change and climate policies. To do otherwise is a great disservice to climate science itself.</span><br />
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http://online.wsj.com/articles/climate-science-is-not-settled-1411143565Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07612955837563842096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532407083489190387.post-7491698658620146322014-10-13T13:30:00.003-07:002014-10-13T13:30:38.981-07:00The Global-Warming Debate: Matt Ridley Responds<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 8px; margin-right: 8px; padding: 0px;">
As for the hockey stick, Mr. Plait repeats long-discredited defenses of the graph, including the suggestion that other selections of data have confirmed it. Surely he knows (if only because it is in my article) that these confirmations rely on including Tiljander’s lake sediments or bristlecone pines, but that if you leave these now-debunked data sets out, then the effect vanishes. Please<a href="http://climateaudit.org/2011/12/13/ar5-and-mikes-pnas-trick/" style="color: #093d72; outline: none;"> read Climate Audit</a> to verify this. Here’s a quote:</div>
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“As CA readers are aware, the ‘big news’ of Mann et al 2008 was its claim to have got a Hockey Stick without Graybill’s bristlecone chronologies (camouflaged as a ‘no-dendro’ reconstruction). CA readers are aware that this claim depended on their use of contaminated modern portion of the Tiljander sediments and that the original claims for a ‘validated’ no-dendro reconstruction prior to 1500 fell apart, even though no retraction or corrigendum to the original Mann et al (PNAS 2008) has been issued.As we learned (from an inline comment by Gavin Schmidt in July 2010), Mann et al have conceded that these claims fell apart, but did so using a “trick” (TM- climate science.) Instead of acknowledging the false assertions at the journal in which the assertions were made (PNAS), they acknowledged the failure of the no-Tiljander no-bristlecone reconstructions deep in the Supplementary Information of a different paper (Mann et al, Science 2009) – a trick for which the term ‘Mike’s PNAS trick’ is surely appropriate (though the term ‘Mike’s Science trick’ also merits consideration.)”</div>
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Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07612955837563842096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532407083489190387.post-4285348370315623022014-10-10T14:01:00.000-07:002014-10-10T14:01:03.383-07:00Abortion<span style="background-color: white; font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px;">In a recent </span><a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/160058/majority-americans-support-roe-wade-decision.aspx" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #ea370b; font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Gallup poll</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px;">, 80 percent of Americans believe abortions in the third trimester should be illegal. In a </span><a href="http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/toplines_abortion_0627282013.pdf" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #ea370b; font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Huffington Post-funded poll</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px;">, respondents favored a federal ban on abortion after 20 weeks by a margin of 59 to 30 percent. In </span><a href="http://www.quinnipiac.edu/news-and-events/quinnipiac-university-poll/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=1931" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #ea370b; font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Quinnipiac University Poll</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: cambria, georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px;">, 55 percent supported a ban restricting abortions on viable unborn children – with women, whose views we should respect, supporting the ban by a 60-25 margin.</span><br />
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This is exactly what we’ve been talking about: “climate change” is being used as a means to push far left Progressive (nice fascist) Big Government policies. Control of economies, control of people, restrictions on business, restrictions on private investment, government doing it all, taxing people out the ying yang, government owning businesses (particularly infrastructure and energy, which gives Government control over your life). Look back at that quote from Klein again</div>
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<em>“When climate change deniers claim that global warming is a plot to redistribute wealth, it’s not (only) because they are paranoid. It’s also because they are paying attention.”</em></div>
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We are paying attention. To bad the average brain dead Liberal isn’t. They might see the reality, and understand that they will not be immune to the fascist tendencies of their Warmist leaders.</div>
Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07612955837563842096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532407083489190387.post-76975558645275420652014-08-18T13:30:00.000-07:002014-08-18T13:30:12.221-07:00HRC - Lord helps us avoid her as President via ASHQ<h3 style="font-family: Georgia, 'Century Gothic', tahoma, verdana; margin-bottom: 0px;">
Legendarily Entitled Politician Has Rock-Star Demands In Speaking Engagement Contracts</h3>
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* a private jet to ferry her hither and yon</div>
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* the "presidential suite" at a local hotel of her choosing</div>
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* the guarantee that nothing she says will be recorded by any means, video or audio, and that the only record of her appearance will be a stenographer's transcription</div>
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I think the reason for that last one is that she doesn't want video of her speeches getting out and thereby ruining the Money Farm that is her public speaking business.</div>
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Because I don't think any of her speeches are new. I think she's giving these people basically the same canned speech, with a couple of paragraphs about some timely event. But mostly, just the same damn speech every time, at $225,000 per.</div>
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So what are these people actually paying for if they're just getting her canned campaign speech?</div>
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Seems to me they're not getting a speech -- they're getting an access. And, of course, they're getting a legal means of donating cash money to Hillary directly.</div>
Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07612955837563842096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532407083489190387.post-47484507385254723712014-08-06T03:37:00.003-07:002014-08-06T03:37:55.656-07:00Three questions from Thomas Sowell<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07612955837563842096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532407083489190387.post-58786011029709543482014-06-24T05:08:00.001-07:002014-06-24T05:08:10.654-07:00QOTD - Murray Rothbard<a href="http://www.aei-ideas.org/2013/05/quotation-of-the-day-murray-rothbard-on-economic-ignorance/" style="background-color: white; color: #cc0000; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 14px;">The American Enterprise Institue</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 14px;"> has this infamous quote from economist Murray Rothbard:</span><br />
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<b>“It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.”</b></blockquote>
Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07612955837563842096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532407083489190387.post-76053086970417761602014-06-16T06:38:00.000-07:002014-06-16T06:38:25.978-07:00Education<span style="background-color: #fff0e0; color: #660000;">The objects of ... primary education [which] determine its character and limits [are]: To give to every citizen the information he needs for the transaction of his own business; to enable him to calculate for himself, and to express and preserve his ideas, his contracts and accounts in writing; to improve, by reading, his morals and faculties; to understand his duties to his neighbors and country, and to discharge with competence the functions confided to him by either; to know his rights; to exercise with order and justice those he retains, to choose with discretion the fiduciary of those he delegates; and to notice their conduct with diligence, with candor and judgment; and in general, to observe with intelligence and faithfulness all the social relations under which he shall be placed. </span><br style="background-color: #fff0e0; color: #660000;" /><span style="background-color: #fff0e0; color: #660000;">--Thomas Jefferson: Report for University of Virginia, 1818.</span>Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07612955837563842096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532407083489190387.post-37999206680940078032014-04-23T03:05:00.001-07:002014-04-23T03:05:55.526-07:00Qotd - Warren Meyer"<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23.799999237060547px;">Universities are, if anything, institutions based on ideas and thought. So it has always been amazing to me that university diversity programs focus not on having a diversity of ideas, but on have a diversity of skin pigment and reproductive plumbing. In fact, if anything, most universities seem to be aspiring towards creating an intellectual monoculture. Diversity of opinion, of politics, and of general outlook among prospective students are not even decision-making variables in any educational institution I know of. And within the faculty, many institutions seem intent on purging from their ranks any single voice that diverges from the majoritarian view.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23.799999237060547px;"> "</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23.799999237060547px;">Or </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23.799999237060547px;">as blogger Kate Werk likes to say, what's the opposite of diversity? University. </span>Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07612955837563842096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532407083489190387.post-60892411731770558552014-03-15T04:34:00.001-07:002014-03-15T04:34:36.015-07:00Red Privilege<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/">RED PRIVILEGE</a></span><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; text-align: justify;" /><br />
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Red-baiting was one of the more fantastic inventions of the left. Suddenly pointing out that someone was a member of a mass murdering ideology bent on world conquest… was worse than actually being a member of that ideology.<br /><br />Red-baiting was tacky, hateful and everything that enlightened people didn’t want to be. It was perfectly all-right for a Communist to say he was one. It was alright for an admiring fellow traveler to say it. But not for anyone who thought that mass enslavement and murder under the red flag were bad things.<br /><br />Red-baiting gave the Marxists and Communists immunity from criticism. Questioning their politics had become worse than their actual politics.</blockquote>
Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07612955837563842096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532407083489190387.post-65497104478024366582014-02-24T08:43:00.002-08:002014-02-24T08:43:40.398-08:00Uncle Miltie<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22.5px;"> “People have a great misconception in this way, they think the way you solve things is by electing the right people,” Friedman once </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac9j15eig_w" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.25s; background-color: white; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22.5px; transition: color 0.25s;">said</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 22.5px;">. “It’s nice to elect the right people, but that isn’t the way you solve things. The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right things.”</span><br />
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<i>I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science. I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.</i></div>
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<i>Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world.</i></div>
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Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07612955837563842096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532407083489190387.post-30992375836246931502014-02-12T10:55:00.001-08:002014-02-12T10:55:34.625-08:00helping the poor<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304104504579375242193854118?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304104504579375242193854118.html">As James Sherk of the Heritage Foundation reported last year, Census data from 2011 and 2012 show that "two thirds of individuals living below the poverty line did not work, and less than one in 10 worked full-time year-round. Families are poor not because they have low wages but because they do not have full-time jobs."</a></span>Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07612955837563842096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532407083489190387.post-64526840315461713462014-02-10T09:18:00.002-08:002014-02-10T09:18:41.049-08:00QOTD - Victor David Hansen<a href="http://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/immigration-morality-tale/?singlepage=true">"<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">one of the strangest things about illegal immigration is that a nation that is monitored, taped, videoed, and bugged, that is struggling now with the AP, IRS, and NSA scandals whose common theme is excessive government intrusions in our private lives, knows absolutely nothing about those who arrive illegally into the U.S."</span></a>Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07612955837563842096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532407083489190387.post-13759797021024319252014-02-03T10:33:00.000-08:002014-02-03T10:33:25.706-08:00QOTD George Will<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-f-will-a-race-to-watch-in-the-hudson-river-valley/2014/01/31/dbd51b20-89d6-11e3-916e-e01534b1e132_story.html">Progressives, being situational ethicists regarding the phenomenon of money in politics, are selectively indignant about the rich throwing around the weight of their wallets. </a></span>Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07612955837563842096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532407083489190387.post-43152282664969747092014-02-02T06:19:00.000-08:002014-02-02T06:19:45.227-08:00My jaw dropped when I read the MoDo sentence<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Seven years after the feminists tried to bring down a Supreme Court nominee for sexual harassment — <b>but really for his conservative stances</b> — they went into contortions to defend Clinton. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: georgia, times new roman, times, serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/02/opinion/sunday/dowd-the-gospel-according-to-paul.html?ref=opinion</span></span>Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07612955837563842096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532407083489190387.post-33170875010814061242014-01-18T09:18:00.003-08:002014-01-18T09:18:27.525-08:00Even David Brooks gets it<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">That’s because raises in the minimum wage are not targeted at the right people. Only 11 percent of the workers affected by such an increase come from poor households. Nearly two-thirds of such workers are the second or third earners living in households at twice the poverty line or above.</span><br />
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h/t neveryetmelted<br />Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07612955837563842096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532407083489190387.post-50721690216839305662014-01-05T08:01:00.001-08:002014-01-05T08:01:34.794-08:00QOTD in the NY Times by Greg Mankiw<span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/05/business/help-the-working-poor-but-share-the-burden.html?smid=pl-share&_r=0">Mr. Obama is like a physician who prescribes a medicine based on a few studies that find no side effects while ignoring others that report debilitating effects.</a></span>Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07612955837563842096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532407083489190387.post-88258865951019042732013-12-01T06:44:00.003-08:002013-12-01T06:44:43.764-08:00QOTD - Jay Nordlinger in NR<div id="article_text" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 26.609375px;">
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Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07612955837563842096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532407083489190387.post-22331684491780977872013-11-30T14:55:00.006-08:002013-11-30T14:56:44.337-08:00QOTD - Greg Mankiw<h4>
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<a href="http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-popes-rhetoric.html">http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-popes-rhetoric.html</a>Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07612955837563842096noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7532407083489190387.post-31986369194873353142013-11-18T17:52:00.001-08:002013-11-18T17:52:25.719-08:00That Henry Ford story you heard was bunk<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px;">The reason for the pay rise was not as some of our contemporaries seem to think it was. It was nothing at all to do with creating a workforce that could afford to buy the products. It was to cut the turnover and training time of the labour force: for, yes, in certain circumstances, raising wages can reduce total labour costs.</span><br />
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Green-energy initiatives must focus on innovations, making new generations of technology work better and cost less. This will eventually power the world in a cleaner and cheaper way than fossil fuels. That effort isn't aided by the perpetuation of myths.</div>
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