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Ok, let's continue with the Problem category.

Object types in the category: Problem, Cluster, Clustering Criteria, Sorting Criteria, Sorting Arrows
Arrows in the category:
f: Problem -> Cluster
g: Cluster -> Clustering Criteria
h: Sorting Criteria -> Sorting Arrow (a0, a1, a2...), where a: A->B (sorting function operating on problems)

We also need to define a binary operator + that allows us to add (concatenate) problems.

The category allows us to analyze problems by clustering, prioritizing, and combining them.

Good capitalism, bad capitalism

Paraphrasing Leo Tolstoy, all good capitalisms at least satisfy the Pareto Improvement principle in the same way: an improvement for one individual doesn't make anyone worse off. All bad capitalisms violate the criterion in many different ways.

When a capitalist economy starts exiting a broad structural recession we are bound to have bad capitalism, because people (e.g. investors and employees) in the leading industry are much better off than people in the loosing industry.

A RAND paper on innovation in Russian Propaganda

On FB, McFaul shared a link to a RAND paper: "The Russian "Firehose of Falsehood" Propaganda Model
Why It Might Work and Options to Counter.
Ithttp://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/perspectives/PE100/PE198/RAND_PE198.pdf

A excerpt:

Distinctive Features of the Contemporary Model for Russian Propaganda
1. High-volume and multichannel
2. Rapid, continuous, and repetitive
3. Lacks commitment to objective reality
4. Lacks commitment to consistency.

Interestingly, several of these features run directly counter to the conventional wisdom on efective infuence and communication from government or defense sources, which traditionally emphasize the importance of truth, credibility, and the avoidance of contradiction.3 Despite ignoring these traditional principles, Russia seems to have enjoyed some success under its contemporary propaganda model.