Linkdump 23-11-2017

[gominokouhai]

• Tetris / Korobeiniki - Fast Ragtime Piano Cover | YouTube 
  I know you're going to dig this.
  (tags: music video coldwardinosaur silly )
• Daft Punk's 'Get Lucky' in every classical genre | YouTube 
  He's up all night to get sonata
  (tags: music silly video theBenefitsOfAClassicalEducation )
• Disturbed - The Sound Of Silence | YouTube 
  In case you've not heard this yet. This rocks.
  (tags: music video coolstuff )
• Wealth, Illth, and Net Welfare « Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy 
  "The fact that we have to stretch English usage to find words like illth and bads with which to name the negative consequences of production that should be subtracted from the positive consequences, is indicative of our having ignored the realities for which these words are the necessary names."
  (tags: economics ecology words etymology handwringingLeftyGuardianistasFTW )

Comments

[scotm]

"The ideal economic or GDP hero is a chain-smoking terminal cancer patient going through an expensive divorce whose car is totalled in a 20-car pileup, while munching on fast-take-out-food and chatting on a cell phone. All add to GDP growth. The GDP villain is non-smoking, eats home-cooked wholesome meals and cycles to work." - Mark Anielski

Typically, we tend to call unquantifiable illth and bads in economic terms as "externalities". Events and actions which occur as an indirect consequence of a contract or transaction.

[gominokouhai]

I pushed that out to the linkdump weeks ago. I have no idea why it chooses to show up now. This was supposed to be a magical marvellous music-themed linkdump, but I suppose some variety is nice too.