> Catholics surely put great effort into bureaucracy and organization.
My (completely unfounded) theory is that monasteries have historically been the refuge of those with autism and their comorbidities.
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My (completely unfounded) theory is that monasteries have historically been the refuge of those with autism and their comorbidities.
Some back-of-the-napkin math puts the price tag per life saved in the 8 digit range.
2 Timothy 4 (NLT), circa 65 Anno Domini
Lots of people want to rule a nation, but no one wants to rule a nation of bones.
Who sits down and determines that 8 is the correct number? Why not 4? Or 2? Or 16 or 32?
The cost of passenger rail is high in America because America has 11% of the population (read: customer) density of Japan.
(For cities, NYC has 25% lower population density than Tokyo.)
So yes, most cows are eating grass like a wandering herd.
It's really not. Efficiency is the enemy of redundancy. Countries want food security, so they must therefore produce excess calories.
From a financial engineering perspective this is wrong.
Both equity and debt have costs of capital. Debtholders expect interest, capital holders expect RoE. The money going to debt interest is money that would previously have gone to equity, but now does not because the equity is replaced with debt.
Crucially, the costs of debt is lower than the cost of equity because of the interest tax shield. Therefore, the vet clinic now requires less revenue to maintain or even increase its return to equity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium-cooled_fast_reactor
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