Astral Codex Ten

Barr

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Barr

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Barr is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between December 09, 2021 and September 29, 2022. The archive places it in contexts such as ""…according to Barr, Smith, and Kulkarni (just the land).""; “Barr only made that investigation OFFICIAL to protect it prior to the ASTERISK President taking Office”. It most often appears alongside China, Federal Reserve, Matt Yglesias.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: December 09, 2021
  • Last seen: September 29, 2022

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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.

Does Georgism Work? Part 1: Is Land Really A Big Deal?
December 09, 2021 · Original source
In 2014, the "developable land" on Manhattan island alone was estimated to be worth about $1.74 trillion, according to Barr, Smith, and Kulkarni (just the land).
Inline links: Barr, Smith, and Kulkarni
This is pretty far off from Foldvary's "one-third" guess, but pretty close to Steven Cord's. Cord estimated land rent at about 24% of national income. That would be about $47 trillion using Smith's method. Given Foldvary is contradicted by his own source (Dwyer), we should probably exclude his line for now and construct a new one for Cord, as well as a "Dwyer-USA" line using 21% of America's GNI to better represent what Foldvary was getting at. If we buy that the Australian pattern might hold for the United States, our new chart looks something like this:
Inline links: at about 24% of national income
This does, in fact, check out. The Fed was apparently so embarrassed by this that they stopped reporting land value estimates in subsequent reports, which is why you now have to derive them yourself.
Universe-Hopping Through Substack
September 29, 2022 · Original source
This is wacky in some sense, but it’s not the sort of no-holds-barred, pattern-recognition-turned-up-to-max attempt to link modern events to Biblical prophecies I was hoping for. The best I could find was this article on The Prophetic Significance Of Monkeypox, which noted that the Bible describes the Horsemen of the Apocalypse as “given [authority]…to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by the wild beasts of the earth”, and that “with pestilence and by the wild beasts of the earth” sort of maybe sounds like zoonotic diseases.
Inline links: The Prophetic Significance Of Monkeypox
Barr only made that investigation OFFICIAL to protect it prior to the ASTERISK President taking Office.
In my universe, Donald Trump kind of stumbled into the White House in 2016, lost in 2020, and has spent the past two years golfing and getting involved in embarrassing scandals. In this parallel universe, Trump has everything under control, and is coasting to some kind of messianic destruction of all evil: