I am forty years old now, and you know forty years is a whole lifetime; you know it is extreme old age. To live longer than forty years is bad manners, is vulgar, immoral. Who does live beyond forty? Answer that, sincerely and honestly I will tell you who do: fools and worthless fellows.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground
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The Tax Man Cometh: Uh-oh He's French...
In the 1960s, Nobel laureate economist Simon Kuznets conducted rigorous empirical analyses to conclude that capitalism inevitability decreases inequality. The elegant bell-shaped Kuznets' curve shows inequality at first rising with capitalism and then falling as countries reach advanced stages of development. More than fifty years on, in post-2008-recession America, 42-year-old French economist Thomas Piketty has become talk of the town for using Kuznets' methods – and turning his conclusion on its head.
Sexism in the Gaming Industry
This past weekend, I had the privilege of attending the Penny Arcade Expo in Boston, more popularly known as PAX East, a gaming convention that offers a place for gamers to meet, try the newest gaming technologies, and attend panels (usually held by game developers/journalists and the like) about the future of the industry.