I’ve occasionally followed links to Newmark’s Door, and assumed the Craig Newmark there was the same guy behind Craigslist. But just now I noticed the tagline, “Things One Middle-Aged Economist Finds Interesting”, and thought to myself that Craig Newmark isn’t an economist and even if he had been at some time certainly wouldn’t present that as his identity now. Checking out wikipedia I see that The Craig Newmark has a different blog I’d never even heard of before. From now on I’ll try to remember these are two different people with the same name.
July 28, 2011
Entitled to an Opinion 
July 29, 2011 at 5:37 pm
That’s right, I can only be one person at a time. Would be a trifle confusing otherwise.
Craig
July 30, 2011 at 1:57 pm
Of course, if you could be multiple people, that would be impressive.
July 30, 2011 at 3:48 pm
Instead, I rely on quantum superposition, since cloning, too long, too messy.
July 31, 2011 at 7:58 am
The professor seems a bit more within our universe although they both signal support of veterans, about as safely majoritarian a move as one can make in America.
July 31, 2011 at 11:08 am
I made an argument here that in the current context it may be better to shame the troops.
July 31, 2011 at 11:41 am
Your argument is repugnant in these times, which doesn’t make it wrong.
I’m in good faith uncertain about the value of the US military in terms of its value with regard to the reduction of existential risk and (not quite conflatingly) economic efficiency/growth/stability.
With regards to the US military I’m more certain that whatever value it offers should be financed more proportionately by other wealthy nations, including citizenries that by most measures are wealthier than Americans.
I think part of the problem is that the smartest analysts seem to me to avoid developing expertise in military analysis, probably a lesser version of their aversion to repugnant areas such as human intelligence heritability.
I’d analogize deformations with regards to military analysis to deformations with regards to manager analysis. There are roughly two factions, admirers and haters, and a poverty of smart good faith analyzers. Are corporate managers overcompensated parasites on engineers and other workers? Are troops increasing our existential risk and depleting our resources due to a destructive social intuition to respect our social group’s warriors?
I don’t think the answers here are as easy as rah-rahs or haters would suggest, although I think the empirics suggest that Americans should redistribute more of the wealth their managers accrue and reduce military spending to fall closer to that of other median wealthy nations.