A collection of 47 posts
Taking advantage of the post-pandemic era may start with securing national health but will depend over time on creating better conditions for adaptive grassroots businesses.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (war, famine, pestilence, and death) have not completely disappeared—that would be a miracle, not progress. But the world is incomparably richer than it was just two centuries ago.
With the threat of plant closures hanging over negotiations like the sword of Damocles, union priorities have shifted from bargaining for wage increases to bargaining for job and pension security.
The core city will retain its appeal, but to stay safe, “social distancing” will likely curtail the once boisterous streetscape with its capacity for casual contacts, unique shops, and restaurants.
Material benefits can always be translated into political power because the political world has always been interwoven with the cultural world.
Republicans balk at the idea of UBI because it seems like an extreme version of your standard government handout. But it isn’t.
Isn’t this a debate worth having without an avalanche of bad faith and scornful remarks about how we “can’t even trust Bill Gates to put his desire for a better world above his self-preservational plute drive”?
The drive against bourgeois aspirations underpins an emerging neo-feudal system in which people remain renters for life.
It is hard to emphasize how chillingly inept this remark is, especially for someone with a degree in economics.
Rand and her largely philosophical economic views have been consigned to history as an interesting relic of sorts—a compelling, well-articulated fantasy that has no basis in reality.
Amazon would still have paid tax revenue, and, more likely than not, other tech startups would have followed, growing the taxable population even further.
History suggests another explanation, which has been left unexamined that radicalized union leadership is part, perhaps the primary part, of the problem.
Research indicated that improved technological entertainment options, primarily video games, are responsible for between 20 and 33 percent of reduced work hours.
Focusing on immigration policy through the lens of political allegiance is both dangerous and often ahistorical.
His campaign focuses on solving the problem of job losses to automation—an issue many politicians seem happy to ignore.