Spanish soccer pro quits sports in criticism of capitalism

[DGuller]

I have food insecurity.

Siege has a point.  Siege gets enough food, but not nearly enough variety.  He hasn't eaten pork, shrimp, or lobster in a long while.

[The Brain]

I have food insecurity.

Eight spices? Some of these must be doubles. O-re-gan-o? What the hell?

[crazy canuck]

Human beings have existed with behavior modernity for about 100,000-50,000 thousand years.  The great bulk of this time period saw static economic and technological growth.

You're wrong.  But I can not spend the time to find the proof that you're wrong this afternoon - it's a sunny Friday afternoon.

Barrister,

I recently read "Why the West Rules--for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future" by Ian Morris.  One of the premises is that both the East and West (writ large, with centers of gravity shifting over time) several times reached a certain amount of development and then crashed; only in around the 1800s were the previous limits broken.

Hey that is a great book.  I think Jacob would enjoy it.

[Razgovory]

   Ooh.  The Kiss of Death.

[Jacob]

Hey that is a great book.  I think Jacob would enjoy it.

I'll wait until Ed Anger recommends it.

[Ed Anger]

Hey that is a great book.  I think Jacob would enjoy it.

I'll wait until Ed Anger recommends it.

It sounds dreadfully boring.

[jimmy olsen]

He can give me his money if he doesn't want it.

[Razgovory]

He can give me his money if he doesn't want it.

I have shit I can give you.  I'm not using the word "Shit"  as a place holder.  I'm talking about real human feces.  Mine.  You can have it.  I will mail it to you.

[Ed Anger]

Tim has feces insecurity.

[Razgovory]

Tim has feces insecurity.

I intend to solve this.

[Ed Anger]

Tim has feces insecurity.

I intend to solve this.

You are a good man, sir.

[Sheilbh]

Economic growth has slowly and fairly consistently increased over all of human history.  There have been periods (even lengthy periods) where it has declined, and regions where it has declined even dramatically, but taken over all of human history it's been a fairly steady increase over the last 4-5000 years or so.

Really?  My understanding was that constant economic growth relatively recent, from the 18th century or so.  Aside from that you've got declines and increases for centuries but always to a mean.

[Neil]

Really? I find that hard to believe.

I have views on people, and on cultures.  I worry not a whit about "race".

That's pretty foolish of you, given that you live in a place where Indians are so prone to criminality.  Those sorts of views are unsafe.

[Valmy]

Why does he have to quit sports?  He can just play for amatuer leagues as a Socialist Hero of the Peoples and stuff.

[The Minsky Moment]

The population did rise for a while in the Middle Ages, due to environmental factors.  When those factors reversed, the population declined rather dramatically.

Population rose in medieval Europe in significant part to improvements in agricultural techniques and technology.  It declined temporarily due to catastrophic disease, then quickly revived to even greater levels.  All long before the industrial revolution.