David🎆

They told me eight years in the county pen, Or eight years in the army killing evil men Oh, Uncle Sam, I wanna go home

In Lying for Money, his book on fraud, Dan Davies points out that wealthier societies sometimes have a higher level of fraud than those with less. He points to the examples of Canada (more wealthy, more fraud) and Greece (less wealthy, less fraud). The basic reason for this is that fraud, in Davies's telling, is an equilibrium quantity. If you know the people around you are untrustworthy, you simply *engage in fewer transactions*, and transact only with people you know really well (family, etc.). Your economic and also social world gets smaller and smaller. The level of fraud is lower, but you would be better off if there were more fraud *insofar as* it would be because there was more trust, which is the omitted variable causing both fraud and wealth. The level of petty theft is actually also an equilibrium quantity, one for which businesses can plan and adapt. But because it's an equilibrium, if you increase theft, then they will decrease trust. They will put products behind plastic; they will close some stores altogether. The basic insight is this: It's not just that it's wrong to steal, even when a business can absorb it. It's that when you steal, you change the business's calculations, and it opts to absorb less risk. Taking advantage of the system, in other words, makes *everyone* poorer. It's not leftist or rightist—it's just anti-social.

solid pick for the pats

@spinneretmj That’s crazy, that makes it even cooler

@Arctichawk_ most of it is completely random LOL

YAYYY IT FINALLY HAPPENED! my han and leia miis are finally together <3

Laying in bed wide awake with an existential crisis all night just because the bruins lost game 3

@norriebaelish What’s even the point, the bruins just lost

tanning season startssssss NOW ☀️

Don’t know if ive been as close as breaking my tv watching that dumb fuck empty nether

@FireWaIkWithJoe Awesome man, glad to hear it; been a crazy season for you guys and a good series so far

@Arctichawk_ ive been watching just not this game

LETS GO BRUINS LOCK UP THIS PERIOD

@FireWaIkWithJoe For real though, there’s probably not a better time to get into the team They’re like the youngest team in the league who went from very worst to very best over just the course of this season. Even if they’re probably not going all the way this year, future is looking bright

@FireWaIkWithJoe Your ass should be watching your birthplace first play off series since like Ronald Reagan was alive and chirping me about it instead of seeing the Knicks put up the biggest stinker of all time

@Arctichawk_ yall ass 😹😹😹😹

I’m really gonna do it this time

When will someone start asking these type of folks directly why one of their primary goals always seems to be taking agency away from Donald Trump and shielding him from any responsibility

However stupid you think the people running the country are, they're stupider. The guy running border patrol last year thinks that 1 in 3 people in the country is an illegal immigrant. A total hallucination based on literally nothing.

@Damac1214 Arguably extremely comforting but ai written slop post, it gotta have buzzwords

Isn’t this explicitly not scary

Even shitty stadium food aside, nothing is more annoying then ordering something with the name of a very specific food/dish and irregardless of the quality getting something that barely even resembles the food you were supposedly getting

Soldier arrested for doing the exact same thing the commander in chief, his family and staff do every single day. Welcome to America.

@grlonprivate 😭😭😭 Thankfully didn’t even show up in my notifs, this websites so cooked