According to your basic economic viewpoint, capitalism is amoral. It’s simply a system that gives maximum benefit for minimal cost.In reality, we know that’s not the case. Capitalism […]
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USAian corporate culture: Inefficiency in toto
I have difficulty at my workplace; like so many others, they attempt to harness 100% of their worker’s attention 100% of the time for 8.5 hours a day. […]
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Originally written to a poli-sci professor
[Yes, I defended Marx in an intro poli-sci classroom. I think there’s some good insights in here, but again, I don’t think I’ll have the time to develop […]
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Bottom-Up Solutions
You may have noticed that practically every ISP is rolling out their own (branded) anti-virus solution. The same goes with spyware and even anti-spam measures. Even with all […]
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Social Hierarchy is probably embedded in economics
The social and economic hierarchy we keep seeing everywhere is probably going to persist. We’re going to keep seeing it because of this: rank is biological. My wife […]
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Housing prices and local government burdens
When the bubble bursts, and housing values go down (much like they did in the UK and Australia), then property tax values are going to go down – […]