{"id":2315,"date":"2025-01-03T11:58:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T11:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weknow0.co.uk\/?p=2315"},"modified":"2025-01-03T11:58:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T11:58:41","slug":"happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weknow0.co.uk\/?p=2315","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Happy new year to everyone who reads this blog! I am planning for there to be quite a lot more activity here in 2025, moving from an average of one article a month to at least weekly. There should be more cartoons too &#8211; Pinhead and Spikes even made it to our Christmas cake this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/weknow0.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Pinhead-cake-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/weknow0.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Pinhead-cake-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/weknow0.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Pinhead-cake-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/weknow0.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Pinhead-cake-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/weknow0.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Pinhead-cake-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/weknow0.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Pinhead-cake-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/weknow0.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Pinhead-cake-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is a lot I want to write about this year. Expect some or all of the following themes in the next few months (in no particular order):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Some examples using Steve Keen&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/118940671\"><em>Ravel<\/em> software<\/a> to demonstrate how Government debt is not the constraint they think it is.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Extending Naomi Alderman&#8217;s argument in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/harpercollins.co.uk\/products\/the-future-naomi-alderman?variant=41289344876622\">The Future<\/a><\/em> that we could get rid of the Tech Bros and not miss them, effectively upending Ayn Rand&#8217;s ideas in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/atlas-shrugged_202102\">Atlas Shrugged<\/a><\/em>. They are not key workers.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Keynes&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/adamtooze.substack.com\/p\/chartbook-342-are-we-all-dead-in?r=2as5hn&amp;triedRedirect=true\">argument<\/a> that, with the future so uncertain, we should not sacrifice people in the present to our models of it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Spiegelhalter on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/books\/458199\/the-art-of-uncertainty-by-spiegelhalter-david\/9780241658628\">four types of luck<\/a>, which cuts away at the meritocracy argument for distributing wealth.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How the professions have become a way of solidifying and enabling the massively uneven distribution we see. Have they outgrown their usefulness in their current form, just like the guilds did?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How the choice for providing public goods appears to boil down to public ownership or private monopoly &#8211; with accompanying <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/books\/451795\/technofeudalism-by-varoufakis-yanis\/9781529926095\">Technofeudalism<\/a><\/em> replacing capitalism. Why are we so much more relaxed about private monopolies than we were 100 years ago, when it accelerates inequalities so much?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The relationship between worldbuilding in science fiction and people living in their own models in the policy making world. Great example of this just this morning in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/b325af8f-1864-448e-9b3e-bd1a18333a08\">the FT<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So plenty to do. If this sounds interesting to you, please stick with the blog, which will not be going to Substack and will not be charging a subscription. If it sounds really interesting to you, tell a friend! Will be in touch again soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy new year to everyone who reads this blog! I am planning for there to be quite a lot more activity here in 2025, moving from an average of one article a month to at least weekly. There should be more cartoons too &#8211; Pinhead and Spikes even made it to our Christmas cake this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,21,14,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartoons","category-economics","category-professions","category-risk","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weknow0.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weknow0.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weknow0.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weknow0.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weknow0.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/weknow0.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2318,"href":"https:\/\/weknow0.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2315\/revisions\/2318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weknow0.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weknow0.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weknow0.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}