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    Humanity in Jeopardy!

    FEBRUARY 21, 2011 4:22AM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: jobless recovery, musical chairs, unemployment, employment, jobs, economic singularity, technical singularity, singularity, automation, social injustice, injustice, social justice, justice, ethics, morality, adam smith, unseen hand, invisible hand, politics, jeopardy!, philosophy, technology

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    Medical Care and the Free-Market Catch-22

    AUGUST 22, 2009 4:43PM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: incentivize, incentive, privatized, privatize, private, government intervention, government regulation, government, intervention, regulation, free market, market, unseen hand, eligibility, existing condition, pre-existing condition, exclusion, exclude, universal coverage, coverage, universal care, care, single payer, public option, socialism, socialist, capitalism, capitalist, for-profit, profit, risk pooling, risk pools, pooling, pool, insurance, business, health care, health, medical care, medicine, irresolvable, conflicting, unhelpful, hypocrite, hypocrisy, overconstrained, paradoxical, paradox, conundrum, impossible bind, double bind, catch-22, politics

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    Reflections on the OS Editorial Policy

    JULY 1, 2009 9:05AM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: unseen hand, puppies, writing quality, quality, term limits, capitalism, competition, scandalous, scandal, salacious, crudeness, crude, lewdness, lewd, editorial policy, editors, leadership, recently blogged, ui, broken, echo chamber, community participation, who makes the headlines?, we make the headlines, you make the headlines, writing, meta-blog, blog, meta, philosophy, open salon

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