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Tag Archives: Economics
Rus Archer Ep.33
Rus Archer returns to Horizon at End Times and we talk about economics and existence as economic humans. Having recently returned from an extensive period of travel, he, like many, face the state of music and being a musician with a different attitude. Perhaps the constant striving of becoming is unnecessary to live a creative …
Everybody Deserves Gentrification
Housing isn’t any kind of crisis right now, it’s wealth disparity Your house, your tent in the city, your apartment in the sky, your manor and estate on the hill, your cottage and farm in the country — or whatever place you call home — is treated like a commodity, a raw material for the new digital …
On Being in Economics
Featured Image by Jax Ko A Philosophical Foundation for the Critique of Capitalism Everything in the world that is bought and sold using currency can be defined by its market in the economy. Every aspect of life is commodified for the marketplace, from drinking water to wiping our ass. How we sleep, what we eat, …
The Cognitive Dissonance of Midterms 2014
Midterms 2014 point to America’s cognitive dissonance. We statistically hate congress more than Obama, yet the congress that has been selected leads right back to the policies that we voted against this year. In three states, voters simultaneously unseated democratic senators and pushed forward democrat labor policy: a minimum wage raise. Arkansas, Alaska, and South …
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Douglas Mallette | Episode 7
Douglas Mallette is an Aerospace Engineer that has applied his knowledge toward solving real economic issues through sustainable agriculture as Founder of Cybernated Farm Systems. We discuss some basic details of the systems while going more deeply in to the economic and social conditions currently stunting the growth of real progress in America and the …
Democracy > Capitalism > Internet < Hope
You will never hear me utter the phrase, “I couldn’t agree more,” because nothing is entirely agreeable. The title to this book seems disagreeable for many, especially at first. Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy, does not read as some absurdly unsupported rant. Indeed, nothing can be more agreeable than the …
Willy Wonka: A Millennial’s Guide to Economics
The classic 1971 musical-film, Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory is a period piece set in London during the Great Depression. Wait; usually a Depression is set in America. Come to think of it, there are computers and television in the film—those are post-war fancies. One of my favorite scenes involves a technician with a …
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