Big Mac

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Big Mac is a recurring brand in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between March 03, 2021 and March 10, 2023. The archive places it in contexts such as “Big Mac to determine how a country’s currency is doing?”; “unsubsidized Big Mac would cost $13”. It most often appears alongside Steven Pinker, Wikipedia, 9-11.

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• Category: Brands
• Mention count: 2
• Issue count: 2
• First seen: March 03, 2021
• Last seen: March 10, 2023

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Related Pages

• • Steven Pinker (2 shared issues)
• • Wikipedia (2 shared issues)
• • 9-11 (1 shared issues)
• • Alex (1 shared issues)
• • Alex Nowratesh (1 shared issues)
• • Aphantasia (1 shared issues)
• • Argentina (1 shared issues)
• • Arkansas (1 shared issues)
• • ASCII cat replicators (1 shared issues)
• • Atlas Shrugged (1 shared issues)
• • Austin Allred (1 shared issues)
• • Australia (1 shared issues)

External Links

• • http://web.archive.org/web/20221104130431/https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/1m-bet-rules
• • http://web.archive.org/web/20221129133112/https://blog.rootclaim.com/rootclaim-accepts-500000-challenge-on-covid-vaccine-safety-efficacy/
• • http://web.archive.org/web/20221224061743/https://www.skirsch.com/covid/SaarWilf.pdf
• • https://archive.ph/pY4gF#selection-663.103-683.190
• • https://twitter.com/danielgott/status/1263876107247521792
• • https://web.archive.org/web/20230104080248/https://www.rootclaim.com/
• • https://what3words.com/guitars.record.caps
• • https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/secrets-of-the-great-families
• • https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PuCqfK9DcaZDHZbAx/big-mac-subsidy
• • https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/27/business/media/heather-cox-richardson-substack-boston-college.html

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

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March 03, 2021 · Original source

27: Maybe you’ve heard of the Big Mac Index, where economists use the price of a Big Mac to determine how a country’s currency is doing? And maybe you’ve heard of Goodhart’s Law, where anything that becomes a target gets manipulated? Yeah, Argentina is accused of pressuring McDonalds to underprice Big Macs to get better terms on its debt.

Inline links: Argentina is accused of pressuring McDonalds to underprice Big Macs

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March 10, 2023 · Original source

31: The Big Mac subsidy - one of my least favorite types of argument is when people argue something is bad because “you think it costs $1, but actually without government subsidies it would cost $100, you’re literally demanding that taxpayers subsidize your evil lifestyle”. And then you ask them for proof, and either they completely made it up, or by “government subsidy” they mean “the government doesn’t force the companies that make it to address all harms caused by its consumption, including harms no other company has to address, and harms I just made up right now, and harms from the fact that it makes me sad and I price my sadness at one billion dollars”. Anyway, the people who say that an unsubsidized Big Mac would cost $13 are definitely doing all of this.

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