Hi Everyone,
It has been a busy week for me on Hive. I have posted 5 times since my previous Actifit Report and Update. It is rare for me to post this many times in a week. I posted a three-part series about the social unrest in the UK and two results posts for the challenge series.
These five posts got my @spectrumecons account up to 1,000 posts. This feels like a huge milestone. It has taken me just over 7 years to post this many times. I have consistently posted two or three posts a week. With the exception of the Actifit Report, these have been long posts.
A big thanks to my loyal followers who have kept me motivated over the years and a big thanks to Hive and its various platforms for giving me a voice when others would prefer to bury me in their algorithms.
My Content
I posted the results to the ‘Complements and Substitutes’ and the ‘Buying and Selling Game’ challenges. Participation was up for both challenges, 11 and 12 participants respectively.
The ‘Complements and Substitutes’ challenge required participants to price pies, cakes, and coffee. The question provided inverse demand functions for the three to help participants price them. Most participants priced them a little low. One participant priced close to the optimum price to win comfortably.
The ‘Buying and Selling Game’ challenge is my oldest challenge. Most participants are very familiar with it. It involves choosing where to buy and sell goods. Buying prices are given, but selling prices are not. Instead, a range of prices are provided for each destination. The winner chose to diversify with different goods. However, it was just one very profitable selection that won the challenge.
I managed to complete a three-part series in just over a week. I published them over 2 days. This was an important series to publish now while events were fresh in my mind. There are very few places on the internet I could post such an analysis without facing censorship. Censorship has been pushed into overdrive. Most believe that X is the only place free speech is protected. It certainly plays by different rules than the rest, but their algorithms still manipulate what is given exposure. This false impression of freedom of speech makes it quite dangerous.
The series was about the social unrest in the UK. In Part 1, I discuss how events of the past decade has led to the tensions UK is facing now. The post discusses Brexit, Covid-19, Ukraine War, and Hamas-Israel War.
In Part 2, I discuss different perspectives and why there are grievances on each side. I consider those opposed to mass immigration, the immigrants, and the woke.
In Part 3, I discuss racism, the far right, actions taken by the Government, and my conclusions for the full series. Racism is more complex than it appears. There is little evidence of any significant far right presence in the UK. The police, justice system, and the Government’s approach are multitiered. There is an obvious two-tier aspect to this. It is obvious because they want people to see it. They want to create conflict between various groups in society. It provides them a reason to be more authoritarian. However, they run the risk that society will turn on them. I imagine that they have plans to manage this risk.
My conclusion is that things will get worse before they get better. How bad, is still unknown. You may still have a chance to rebuild society once it has all fallen apart. We will have to pull together at some point to make this happen.
What’s Next?
In the next week I will post the results of the final two challenges, and announce the overall winner. It should be posted before next month. After that, I will be back to writing the book. I have fallen behind with the story. I expect to have it finished before Christmas. Lots to do.
That wraps up this Actifit Report and Update. I hope everyone has a great week followed by an awesome weekend. Get out and about if you can. Summer is almost over.
This report was published via Actifit app (Android | iOS). Check out the original version here on actifit.io
I can not wait for the next challenge game to start. I am really quite optimistic