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Why can’t I invest in poor children?
Nicholas Kristof reports on one of the reasons many poor people stay poor: It’s that if the poorest families spent as much money educating their children as they do on wine, cigarettes and prostitutes,...
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This is a question I repeatedly find myself asking especially in evaluating the desirability of Hanson’s Malthusian upload scenario, or increasing the number of wild animals. Here’s one piece of...
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