{"id":2750,"date":"2018-10-09T11:11:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T19:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?p=2750"},"modified":"2018-10-12T07:27:56","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T15:27:56","slug":"2750","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?p=2750","title":{"rendered":"The Bermuda Triangle of Wealth"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"response u-bookmark-of h-cite\">\n<header>\n<span class=\"svg-icon svg-bookmark\" aria-label=\"Bookmark\" title=\"Bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; max-height: 1rem; margin-right: 0.5rem\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 384 512\"><path d=\"M0 512V48C0 21.49 21.49 0 48 0h288c26.51 0 48 21.49 48 48v464L192 400 0 512z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conradbastable.com\/essays\/the-bermuda-triangle-of-wealth\" class=\"p-name u-url\">The Bermuda Triangle of Wealth<\/a> by <span class=\"h-card p-author\">Conrad Bastable<\/span> <em>(<span class=\"p-publication\">Conrad Bastable<\/span>)<\/em><\/header>\n<blockquote class=\"e-summary\"><p>Three points motivated me to write this \u2014 forming a Bermuda Triangle in which the average American\u2019s savings disappear without any apparent cause.<br \/>\n1.\u00a0Considerations on Cost Disease \u2014 the observation that certain costs (Education, Medical Care, Housing) have increased many times faster than in&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/section>\n<div class='e-content'>\n<blockquote><p>But it is a struggle, and one that seems to evade stats and articulation and empathy and sympathy and an escape. The only enemy is your failure to beat the median quickly enough and by enough standard deviations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<section class=\"response u-bookmark-of h-cite\">\n<header>\n<span class=\"svg-icon svg-bookmark\" aria-label=\"Bookmark\" title=\"Bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; max-height: 1rem; margin-right: 0.5rem\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 384 512\"><path d=\"M0 512V48C0 21.49 21.49 0 48 0h288c26.51 0 48 21.49 48 48v464L192 400 0 512z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conradbastable.com\/essays\/the-bermuda-triangle-of-wealth\" class=\"p-name u-url\">The Bermuda Triangle of Wealth<\/a> by <span class=\"h-card p-author\">Conrad Bastable<\/span> <em>(<span class=\"p-publication\">Conrad Bastable<\/span>)<\/em><\/header>\n<blockquote class=\"e-summary\"><p>Three points motivated me to write this \u2014 forming a Bermuda Triangle in which the average American\u2019s savings disappear without any apparent cause.<br \/>\n1.\u00a0Considerations on Cost Disease \u2014 the observation that certain costs (Education, Medical Care, Housing) have increased many times faster than in&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/section>\n<p>But it is a struggle, and one that seems to evade stats and articulation and empathy and sympathy and an escape. The only enemy is your failure to beat the median quickly enough and by enough standard deviations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-bookmarks","kind-bookmark","h-entry","hentry"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2769,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750\/revisions\/2769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}