marginalium noun

the notes one makes in the margins.

A short note on

more lawless than you realise

April 10, 2025

source: www.laphamsquarterly.org

by Dorian Minors

I did brain science at Cambridge. Now I'm a behaviour science professor. Read my shit.

It’s more lawless out there than you realise:

I have been told that the section on insurance in the tax code is so complex that fewer people understand it than understand Einstein’s theory of relativity.” He replied that he wouldn’t doubt if that were true. So I followed up and asked, “How can it be enforced?” His answer was that it largely wasn’t.

Worth a read, just practically, but also the scale is stunning. It won’t surprise you, but it’ll shock you.

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