Why the Age of Hyper Superficiality Makes People Desperately Unhappy
The aim of the game is to become rich; how you get there doesn’t matter Winning in society is all about having the most money. If you have the most money, you…
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 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…
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…
Why the Cancel Culture Has Become the Thing it Hates the Most The defenders of tolerance are intolerant of anyone else's views
The philosopher George Santayana once said, “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” It wasn’t so long ago that the LGBTQ+ community lived in perpetual fear. Fear…