Why No One In the Free World is Really All That Free
Freedom of the capitalist variety is a little overrated Take away someone’s freedom and you suck the air out of their lungs — you blind their eyes, cut out their tongues, block their…
Why Homelessness is Solvable, but Governments Don’t Want to Solve It
The homeless serve an important social purpose There’s a common perception that the homeless are to blame for their situation. They haven’t worked hard enough; they have the wrong attitude; they’re failures.…
Why Every Job Lost to Automation Brings Us One Step Closer to a Universal Basic Income
Automation has always been something to fear, but it should be something to celebrate During the nineteenth century, the Luddites, a radical group of textile workers, did all they could to…
Why You Should be More Like Mr Pink and Stop Tipping Waiting Staff
Tipping is nothing more than a subsidy that allows restaurants to pay low wages “I don’t tip because society says I have to.” So starts the “I don’t tip” scene of Quentin…
Putin’s Fatal Mistake? He f*cked With White European Christians Underlying the support for Ukraine lies wicked double standards
Putin has always been a willing advocate of brutal violence. It was that willingness that got him into power in the first place. Putin's successful invasion of Chechnya in 1999 did…
Why Do People Believe Corporations Have Their Best Interests At Heart? Governments, meanwhile, are considered your worst enemy
Apple, Google, Telsa; they’re cool, innovative, forward-thinking, technologically savvy, most important of all; they’re trustworthy. Governments, meanwhile, are archaic, bureaucratic, and distrustful, everything those forward-thinking corporations aren’t. This view is strange…