Seeing Things
The question is not what you look at, but what you see. -- Henry David Thoreau
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
The Limits of FU Money: Some money can make you brave, but a lot of money can make you cowardly
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Seeing tech billionaires lining up to kiss Donald Trump's ring and seeing media corporations cave to pressure from a mad king unhappy ab...
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
Democratizing Capitalism Can Be A Trainwreck
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Currently, about 62 percent of Americans have money invested in individual stocks, mutual funds, or exchange-traded funds. That compares to ...
Saturday, July 5, 2025
How to measure a civilization? By regular folks or ambitious boobies?
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Henry David Thoreau is most famous for a book he wrote about building a cabin near a pond in the woods. In fact, we just celebrated the 180 ...
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
The populist president who works against the populous
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The motto of capitalism might be “Be careful what you wish for.” It is an economic system that can generate great wealth, even widespread p...
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Zealotry is unAmerican
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I was born in 1961, and in the United States in which I grew up, people were suspicious of extremes. A “zealot” was something you did not ...
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