• Thebestposter [she/her,they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Steven Levitt had ONE interesting take about Sumo wrestling and has spent his entire life going "Hey remember when I had that one funny idea, how about paying me an insane amount of money to justify fascism using economic buzzwords?"
    Dubner is even worse because he's coasting on Levitt's one good idea, to the point where he's keeping freakonomics going years after Levitt has moved on and years after it totally abandoned even the pretext of economics.