Noah Kim

on the atlas — 7

• US Senate backs repeal of NLRB 'joint employer' rule, teeing up Biden veto | Reuters1 savers
• barrons.com1 savers
• Erik Torenberg | Substack1 savers
• BYD to Stick to Europe Growth Plans Despite Subsidies Probe - Bloomberg1 savers
• 7 Steps to Help You Make Your Matplotlib Bar Charts Beautiful | by Andy McDonald | Towards Data Science1 savers
• Untitled document - Google Docs1 savers
• Curius / Onboarding2621 savers

highlights — 6

• And luxury beliefs are far more costly and dangerous than credit card debt — beliefs like polyamory is better. Marriage is sexist. Family is oppressive. Religion is bad. Fitness is fascist. Having kids is bad for the planet. Hard work isn’t needed to be successful. Success itself is an illness. Rationality, punctuality, and urgency are white supremacist values.

  Erik Torenberg | Substack

• Pareto called this the aristocracy of lions vs the aristocracy of foxes. Lions are proud, forceful aristocrats who explicitly own their position as leaders. Foxes, however, are humble servants who will forever deny that they’re in charge. While lions want to run the world, foxes want to save the world.

  Erik Torenberg | Substack

• The tragedy of luxury beliefs is that, since they're free, and since the non-elites aspire to eliteness, the beliefs themselves trickle down to the masses who can’t “afford” them.

  Erik Torenberg | Substack

• And yet, Harvard is willing to critique an entity like Amazon, which by comparison employs millions more people (compared to Harvard’s 1,000 people), and serves billions of people.

  Erik Torenberg | Substack

• This is the ultimate luxury belief: wanting average for everyone else while wanting the best for ourselves.

  Erik Torenberg | Substack

• We recently discussed Rob Henderson’s Luxury Beliefs, the idea being that if people buy expensive luxury goods to showcase how well-off they are, people also hold “expensive” beliefs for the same reason.

  Erik Torenberg | Substack