The Awesome Science of Chinonomics

If you ask me to name the one thing that makes the United States the most powerful and influential country in human history...  I don't answer its military. Even though the U.S. defense budget is staggering. I don't answer its rule of law. Even though the U.S. ranks very high in the world .  I don't answer its living standards. Even though the U.S. ranks in the top 5  in economic freedom. I don't answer its cultural inclination to dominate and conquer faraway lands , nor the facility (and most importantly, the willingness ) of its citizens to move within its borders in search for a better future. Laudable as that may be.   Even if the % of movers has decreased since the 90's, close to 17MM people moved within the US in 2017 alone.  That's almost  the equivalent of the Netherlands, or Ecuador, or Senegal moving houses in 12 months  🤯 .  I would not even answer its marvelous capacity  to take in immigrants from all other the world for mor...

Another cycle around our star and we're still stuck in the same rut. Still talking about dealing with uncertainty; about counting your blessings; about stopping and smelling the roses because  life is short  and it's better to appreciate the small things when a virus can snatch your life away any second should you dare step outside. Is Omicron deadlier? More contagious? Resistant to Pfizer? To Moderna? How many mutations did you say it had? Does it evade natural immunity? But it doesn't affect your smell? Oh, the symptoms are the same as the common cold? But masks still work, right? Oh, but not cloth ones?  The noise is  maddening .  Our hyper-mediatized, over-stimulated minds can't think of nothing other than what's in our handheld screens. And at the same time, our hyper-cynical minds won't believe those very same incessant, flickering alerts, either. Somehow our collective mind has entered a sort of  Schrödinger -like, superposition state. We  ...