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// FAQs for this video:
What's your other channel?:
   / @specagain  

What medicine are you on?:
I'm on Bupropion (Wellbutrin), although my dentist says it's a pretty common side effect of most antidepressants and stimulants (including both Adderall and Ritalin). Sore jaw in the morning was my first warning symptom, but I didn't take it as seriously as I should have. Please don't make my mistake.

Do you have a mouth guard to keep your teeth from grinding while you sleep?:
I recently got fitted for one by my dentist, but it doesn't seem to have had time to make a difference yet. I'm hopeful, though.

// Further reading for this video:
Information on Soviet "Plan Fraud" that proves that perverse incentives are not limited to Capitalist systems:

Description of "Plan Fraud" in the former USSR/СССР:
www.in-formality.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pripiski…

"Forging Success: Soviet Managers and Accounting Fraud, 1943 to 1962" by Mark Harrison:
warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/mharrison/pu…

Breakdown of Soviet Criminal cases, many of which involved plan fraud:
scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcont…

// Also, just to vent:
I find the phrase "End-stage capitalism" to be hilarious. If you really think that we're anywhere close to how bad capitalism is capable of getting before it collapses under its own weight, I have a bridge I'd be happy to sell you. I was exposed to Mandel's "Late Capitalism" in the early 90s when I was in college (at which point it was already more than 20 years old and had already been overcome by events) and found it naive even then. His assertions on the limits of monopoly growth ("the monopoly profit can only rise high above the average profit if the monopolized sector still dominates only a fairly small sphere of production") completely fall down in the face of the zero-marginal-cost virtual goods. The idea that anyone would still be taking it seriously in the face of the proven scope and duration of the current consolidation of the tech and media sectors, I find to be incognizance of the highest order. But hey - you do you.