{"id":119,"date":"2008-07-12T04:41:07","date_gmt":"2008-07-12T09:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=119"},"modified":"2008-07-12T04:41:07","modified_gmt":"2008-07-12T09:41:07","slug":"119raisingthetide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/07\/12\/119raisingthetide\/","title":{"rendered":"Raising The Tide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ht to\u00a0 Bill Scher<br \/>\nty Brad Delong <a href=\"http:\/\/delong.typepad.com\/sdj\/2008\/07\/why-we-are-a-na.html\">here<\/a>:<br \/>\n<strong><em> This is conservatism. The dismissal of economic burdens from others making less money than you. The belief that an ideal economy can thrive with a small boat of winners and a giant sinking ship of losers. The insistence that your economic dissatisfaction is illegitimate, and can only be explained by a brainwashing from the media or politicians.<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve written my belief that the circumstances of one&#8217;s life affects the things one achieves\u00a0 and although I believe that people can break free from the constraints of their environment(this I am trying to prove personally) I will always be thankful for whatever break that comes my way. Always realizing that what often we call hardwork may just be a different sort of luck. This is why the quote resonates with me deeply.<br \/>\nWe should not think of ourselves to highly.\u00a0 Always remember the cognitive biases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ht to\u00a0 Bill Scher ty Brad Delong here: This is conservatism. The dismissal of economic burdens from others making less money than you. The belief that an ideal economy can thrive with a small boat of winners and a giant sinking ship of losers. The insistence that your economic dissatisfaction is illegitimate, and can only &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/07\/12\/119raisingthetide\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Raising The Tide&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,60,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-views","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}