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Dunstan Ramsay
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Dunstan Ramsay writes Omnibudsman, a personal blog at omnibudsman.substack.com about economics and data. Since 2022, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “All poverty is energy poverty”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Essays by Dunstan Ramsay on measuring well-being instead of economic productivity, GDP and poverty as a function of energy, and media echo chambers. HN commenters link them as supporting context.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Reasoning about global problems with literature reviews, data, and a first-principles approach.
Most-linked posts?
- All poverty is energy poverty2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-09-05
What Hacker News says?
I think I agree with the central premise, that labor productivity is (and is increasingly) a wacky metric. I’m not sure GDP is as wacky right now, e.g. https://omnibudsman.substack.com/p/all-poverty-is-energy-pov... I do strongly agree that we should be clear that we care about GDP because it lets us buy more quality of life (in many cases, literally more life), and if GDP diverged from providing that we should stop…
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on “We should measure well-being instead of failing to measure economic productivity”Submitted All poverty is energy poverty as a story · 309 points
HN discussionThe article section "The Point"[0] seems to have your answer. It is a giant echo chamber of very few, where the media buys in to the echo as "everyone" and reverberate outside of the chamber as the truth. [0] https://omnibudsman.substack.com/i/73890656/the-point
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