by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 22, 2016 | Economics
Technocrats with latent statist tendencies have been peddling a new narrative regarding jobs creation in America: that automation and technology are systemically replacing human labor, and that this trend will cause substantial unemployment problems as technology...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 21, 2016 | Politics
Every day, it seems, brings us a fresh story about politicians trying to further erode our rights. Those rights that the Constitution, the “supreme law of the land,” the document that created this nation, the scrap of paper that sits at the top of a pile...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 19, 2016 | Health
Obamacare is in a death spiral. This was predicted, years back during its conception and inception, by many. It is, today, despite the unassailable reality, being ignored by many. Those who warned against its enactment (myself included) also predicted that, when it...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 18, 2016 | Culture, Economics, Politics
A recent “bottom story of the day” illustrated a fundamental inefficiency of large organizations and, by extension why government spending is so difficult to manage. The story, about how the US Department of Agriculture is going to hold a...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 17, 2016 | Election, Politics
Rare is the human being who never experiences schadenfreude, i.e. the pleasure derived by someone from another person’s misfortune. I’ve been on both ends of it at various times in my life, and have even been subjected to a sort of pre-schadenfreude by...
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