The Roommate Problem or Part One Of A Review Of The Darwin Economy

It’s taken awhile, but I’ve finally finished reading it and suffice it to say that reading The Darwin Economy has been an enlightening experience.  It took so much time because it was a challenging book that required quite a bit of counter-intuitive(that is to say counter to normal human intuition)reasoning.  Much like other books I’ve read about the severe disconnect between the everyday human experience and an actual rational human existence, it required me to step outside of myself and try to consider things more objectively than normal.  Consider the Roommate Problem.

Robert Frank presents the problem very clearly and his conclusions appear true, but it took me some deep thought to actual resolve the problem in a way that I could understand it.  That is to say that my personal resolution of the Roommate Problem didn’t require advanced degrees in Economics, it just needed me to formulate a simple statement of the conclusion of the problem itself.  That would be this:

People who enjoy a benefit should pay a premium.  People who have to suffer a penalty should pay a discount.

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A Day At The Venice Meet or No Drum Circle No Hippies Is This Venice?

I don't get much email so I'm on the Thrillist. It's an email list with a bunch of usually bad suggestions of things to do or buy in Los Angeles. But this week they had a couple of interesting suggestions. There's the trampoline place that opened in Gardena/Torrance. My niece would get a kick out of that. And then there's The Venice Meet.

I didn't think much about it at first. It looked like another Farmer's Market/Tourist Trap like the kind they have in Eagle Rock or Montrose, but The Venice Meet said it was about the handmade crafts and such. I thought that might be cool to check out, so I considered it. Later on in the week I found out that they were going to have live music too, and that was enough to drag me out of my house at eight in the morning and hop on two buses to Venice.