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Comment by whymauri | Hacker News Reader

Before people start flagging this because it has the scary bearded man's name attached, it's actually a really accessible introduction to fundamental economic ideas without much political musing, if any. It does this with common, everyday items (iPhone) and common every day ideas, coupled with nice graphics.

I think it fits the bill HN has for intellectual curiosity fairly well.

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Then just present the ideas as ideas about society, economics, and technology and forego the damaged title branding associated with the deaths of tens of millions and suffering of hundreds of millions more.

Why are you choosing to dilute your message by attaching it to (what a substantial chunk of the audience would see as) a repulsive logo? What would you have to gain by doing that? Puzzling...

>Then just present the ideas as ideas about society, economics, and technology and forego the damaged title branding associated with the deaths of tens of millions and suffering of hundreds of millions more.

Other people consider capitalism, western powers, imperialism, islamism, christianism, and others to taste, associated with "the deaths of tens of millions and suffering of hundreds of millions more" and yet you probably have no problem with at least one of those, if not more...

As if Marx or Marxism implies some inevitable association with Stalinism (or e.g. Christianity = the crusades, the spanish inquisition, etc.).

Do they have ads? I don’t like to get my browser history dirty.

I turned off uBlock origin and didn't get ads (it also claimed to not block any ads). It does have embedded sharing links to Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp, though. Not sure if these matter to you, but that's what I'm seeing on my end.

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