On the map
Tap a claim on the ring to put it at the centre.
← Wealth can lead to isolation.
17 connected korrents · 18 moments from 1 Jun 2022 to 28 Sept 2026.
At the centre
Wealth can lead to isolation.
Last stated 28 Sept 2026 · 4 days ago
Holds Pieter Levels
Read this korrent →
-
Similar wording
Expensive housing causes homelessness by shrinking the spare room friends and family can offer, not by pricing people out of apartments they were going to rent.
Last stated 29 Jan 2025 · 2 years ago
Holds
Salim Furth
-
Similar wording
Contentment with what one has does not require great wealth — some billionaires lack it while many ordinary people never lose it.
Last stated 28 Aug 2026 · a month ago
Holds
Ryan Holiday
-
Similar wording
Increasing regulatory burden on businesses leads to decreased wealth for everyone.
Last stated 26 Sept 2026 · 6 days ago
Holds
Pieter Levels
-
Similar wording
Wealth is what you have divided by what you want, so the reliable way to become wealthier is to want less.
Last stated 27 Sept 2024 · 2 years ago
Holds
Derek Sivers
-
Similar wording
Raise the number all you like, but never raise the lifestyle with it — you can make a lot of money and still be broke.
Last stated 3 Jun 2026 · 4 months ago
Holds
Kelsey Hightower
-
Similar wording
Total freedom does not make you happy; constraints do.
Last stated 20 Aug 2024 · 2 years ago
Holds
David Heinemeier Hansson
Pieter Levels
-
Similar wording
Lowering regulatory burden on businesses leads to increased wealth for everyone.
Last stated 26 Sept 2026 · 6 days ago
Holds
Pieter Levels
-
Similar wording
Whoever fails to satiate in capital rationally saves more, and therefore ends up holding most of the wealth in the long run.
Last stated 4 Jun 2026 · 4 months ago
Holds
Phil Trammell
-
Same subject: public debt
A central bank can eliminate a self-fulfilling ('sunspot') debt crisis simply by credibly committing to buy as many bonds as needed at the low interest rate.
Last stated 1 Jun 2022 · 4 years ago
Holds
Olivier Blanchard
-
Same subject: public debt
Cutting off trade with tariffs would force a huge interest-rate spike and probably a debt crisis, because the budget deficit would have to be financed at home.
Last stated 14 Apr 2025 · a year ago
Holds
John H. Cochrane
-
Same subject: public debt
During post-2008 fiscal consolidation, the costs of high public debt were overestimated and fiscal multipliers were underestimated, understating the output costs of austerity.
Last stated 1 Jun 2022 · 4 years ago
Holds
Olivier Blanchard
-
Same subject: America
A century of fire suppression policy in the American West has dangerously overloaded forests with fuel and made megafires more likely.
Last stated 22 Aug 2026 · a month ago
Holds
Jennifer Pahlka
-
Same subject: America
A Chinese crewed landing on the Moon before America returns would be a defeat for the free world.
Last stated 18 Aug 2026 · a month ago
Holds
Casey Handmer
Eric Berger
-
Same subject: America
A city's first rail line comes in at a reasonable cost and every line after it does not, because the follow-up outgrows the in-house team that oversaw the pilot.
Last stated 7 Dec 2024 · 2 years ago
Holds
Alon Levy
-
Same subject: censorship
A person's internet presence is largely controlled by large organizations subject to the decisions of their executives.
Last stated 13 Sept 2026 · 3 weeks ago
Holds
Preshit Deorukhkar
-
Same subject: censorship
A platform's failure to moderate or to cooperate belongs in a civil proceeding against the company before it becomes a criminal case against its founder.
Last stated 26 Aug 2024 · 2 years ago
Holds
Mike Masnick
-
Same subject: censorship
America's power is recovering from an authoritarian grip on free speech
Last stated 7 Jan 2025 · 2 years ago
Holds
David Heinemeier Hansson