OFC Meeting 22

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11 Feb 2020:

"Free-for-All" Discussion

Feel free to add your thoughts here!

You might want to revisit our previous "free-for-alls" to harvest some ideas.

AGENDA ITEMS

• Doug Bzowy suggests a discussion of pensions in Canada and other social benefits such as guaranteed income. He summarizes, "Brief review of pensions in Canada morphing into assets held by pension funds and internationally by sovereignty funds and private equity funds and the transition of these funds investments away from hydrocarbons to alternate energy. Potential to restructure economies given the capital held by the above."
• If others are interested, Jess can bring some plots of income distributions and an explanation for why it follows a Boltzmann distribution except at the low and high ends. Or you can just go look at these guys' PowerPoint presentation.
• If you want "certified accurate" data on the USA, check out the [https:/usafacts.org/ USA Facts] website.
• The Current Events discussion group that has been meeting monthly in the Nanaimo Library is disbanding   :-(   Please join me in welcoming any members of that group to join OFC!
• This raises a recurring question: do we wish to maintain our loose mandate to focus on The Future (a few decades down the road) and be merely tolerant of the inevitable inclusion of lessons from past and present, or should we explicitly adopt a more activist interest in The Present while maintaining a perpetual awareness of what sort of Future this might lead to? Food for discussion.
• Here's a cool game that teaches THE EVOLUTION OF TRUST using Game Theory.
• Here are some data from the Canadian Carbon Pricing legislation, comparing the greenhouse effectiveness per molecule of different gases: