Prospect 2018 Quotes

Bill Gates made a convincing argument for why improving human health is money well spent, and won’t lead to overpopulation, in his 2018 video “Does Saving More Lives Lead to Overpopulation?”56 The short answer is: No. If we were to stop all deaths—every single one around the globe—right now, we would add about 150,000 people to our planet each day. That would be 55 million people each year. That might sound like a lot, but it would be less than a single percentage point. At that rate, we would add a billion people to our ranks every eighteen years, which is still considerably slower than the rate at which the last few billion people have come along and easily countered by the global decline in family sizes. It’s still an increase, but it’s not the sort of exponential growth many people fret about when they first encounter the idea of slowing aging. Recall, these calculations are what we’d face if we ended all deaths right away. And although I’m very optimistic about the prospects for prolonged vitality, I’m not that optimistic. I don’t know any reputable scientist who is.

Since The Great Recession, the global financial crash of 2008-09, the debt-fuelled post-recession recovery has been the weakest in the post-war era (since the end of World War Two). Whereas total outstanding credit in the US after the Wall Street Crash grew from 160% to 260% of GDP between 1929 and 1932, the figure rose from 365% in 2008 to 540% in 2010. (And this does not include derivatives, whose nominal outstanding value is at least four times GDP).[34] A long depression and rising right-wing populism have followed, including the stunning ascendency of property tycoon and TV celebrity demagogue Donald Trump as the President of the US in 2016.[35] The British public’s vote in June 2016 to leave the EU delivered another shock of global significance. A chronic drift towards trade wars and protectionism is accelerating and in January 2018, US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis said that “great power competition, not terrorism, is now the primary focus of US national security”, putting Russia, China and – yes – Europe in the crosshairs of the world’s long-time dominant economic and military power. Adding to this age of anxiety is the accelerating automation revolution. What should be an emancipatory and utopian development only generates insecurity at the prospect of unprecedented mass unemployment. It can be no coincidence that all these crises are converging at exactly the same time. They cannot be explained away by cynical and shallow generalisations about ‘human nature’. In the course of this investigation we will see that in fact all of these crises have a common root cause: the decaying nature of capitalism and its tendency towards breakdown. Indeed, average Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rates in the world’s richest countries have fallen in every decade since the 1960s and are clearly closing in on zero. Rates of profit, manufacturing costs and commodity prices are also trending towards zero. Drawing on Henryk Grossman’s vital clarification of Karl Marx’s methodology, we shall see that capitalism is heading inexorably towards a final, insurmountable breakdown that is destined to strike much earlier than a zero rate of profit. Indeed, we shall also see that the next, imminent economic crash will result in worldwide hyperinflation. We will also show that the economic crisis is intensifying competition between nation-states, forcing them into a situation which threatens the most destructive world war to date.

One night in December 2018, the Tony-winning actress and singer TOnya Pinkins talked onstage about her experience of menopause adding: "Things are so much better than they were decades ago, but they can be bad and better at the same time." "Bad and better" is one way to think about our prospects at this stage of life too.

I had delayed telling my Pastis landlord that Robinson had pulled out. But now that a second investor had bailed and my prospects of finding another were almost zero, I saw no reason to hold back. Bobby Cayre was a typical New York landlord, and I imagined that once he knew what had happened he’d demand his pound of flesh. I was wrong. Cayre reacted with surprising sympathy and even offered to help find me an investor. Although this was good news, I felt oddly disappointed that it didn’t fit the narrative I had of him as a cutthroat landlord. However, Cayre’s behavior wasn’t entirely altruistic. He owned a vast number of buildings in the neighborhood, and a successful Pastis would be bait to attract more high-end stores to the area. All the same, I felt he genuinely liked me. And at this point the feeling was mutual. In February 2018, Cayre talked to the restaurateur Stephen Starr about becoming my partner. I’d never met Starr but knew he was a prolific Philadelphia restaurateur. Cayre introduced Starr to Sophie, and the two discussed my predicament. A good judge of people, Sophie told me she liked Starr and suggested I meet him. Without Sophie’s help during this daunting period, I’d never have built Pastis.

The effectiveness of a client’s prospective waiver of a conflict depends upon whether the conflict is consentable in the first place, and how clearly the waiver identifies the anticipated conflict. Compare Celgene Corp. v. KV Pharm. Co., Civ. No. 07-4819 (SDW), 2008 WL 2937415, 2008 BL 158060 (D.N.J. July 29, 2008) (disqualification despite advance waivers), Worldspan, L.P. v. Sabre Grp. Holdings, Inc., 5 F. Supp. 2d 1356 (N.D. Ga. 1998) (same), Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, LLP v. J-M Mfg., Inc., 425 P.3d 1 (Cal. 2018) (not enforced where law firm did not disclose existing relationship), and Cedar Rapids Bank & Trust Co. v. Mako One Corp., 919 F. 3d 529 (8th Cir. 2019) (not enough information in waiver), with Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Ins. Co. v. Campbell,

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