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…
How Can a Tax System Designed for the 1% Benefit the Rest of Society? Trickle-down economics has justified lower taxes on the rich for decades
Taxing the rich less benefits everyone else, so says the argument underling trickle-down economics. The idea is that the rich use the money that would have gone to the taxman to…
Are the Poor to Blame for Their Poverty? Inequality is by design, not by choice
In 2020 global wealth reached $514 trillion, more than enough to provide a high standard of living for every person. And yet, 700 million people live in extreme poverty, earning under…
Billionaires are Just as Trapped in the Rat Race as Everyone Billionaires may be treated like gods but they are motivated by fear
The rat race. It begins with your alarm jolting you out of deep sleep. You crawl out of bed and wince as you’re blinded by lights your eyes weren’t prepared for.…