Maybe it’s my cheap seat or my general exhaustion, but the whole staged spectacle is beyond tiresome; I’ve had my fill.
Technology can’t fix what’s broken, because what’s broken is our entire system..The ultimate heresy in today’s world isn’t religious or political: it’s refusing to believe that technology can not only solve all our problems, it will do so painlessly an…
The price we’re paying to keep our heads above water steepens while the pay-off is dropping off a cliff.A good friend related a story that goes directly to the heart of what’s broken in our way of life. My friend went to a reunion in Silicon Valle…
Once we understand this mechanism, we understand that labor can never get ahead.
The Fed’s nearly free money for financiers policies in support of the Super-Rich do not exist in a vacuum–the disastrous consequences are already baked in.What’s holding up the U.S. stock market? The facile answer is the Federal Reserve…
As the exodus gathers momentum, all the reasons people clung so rabidly to urban meccas decay.If there is any trend that’s viewed as permanent, it’s the enduring attraction of coastal urban meccas: despite the insane rents and housing costs, that’…
When dogmas lose their grip on believers, they collapse in spectacular fashion.Karma covers a lot of ground, but it boils down to consequences: consequences not just from your actions but from your convictions, schemes, obsessions, and yes, d…
Like so many other things that were once affordable, owning pets is increasingly pricey.One of the few joys still available to the average household is a pet. At least this is what I thought until I read 5 money-saving tips people hate, which…
Technology, like natural selection, has no goal.When it comes to the impact of automation (robots, AI, etc.) on jobs, there are two schools of thought: one holds that technology has always created more and better jobs than it destroys, and this wi…
A corrupt Orthodoxy devoid of new ideas, an Orthodoxy devoted to maintaining the wealth, status and power of insiders regardless of cost, is a brittle, fragile, unstable system.When the ruling Elites sense their control of the populace is waning, they …
