Oddbean new post about login | logout @58db300d Polytricksters trick-me-down economics is like fish food for rentiers. The fish get fat, and all you get at the bottom of the tank is shit.
@49b604ac That reminds me of a fairly in-your-face metaphor I used to use in the late 1990s an early 2000s, when I was hanging out with anarcho-punks a lot. Imagine a beehive-shaped building, where the urinals on one floor are connected to the showers on the floor below. The Yes Men took this metaphor to the next level in one of their famous WTO-impersonation pranks: https://theyesmen.org/project/hamburger/behindthecurtain