Showing posts with label income inequality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label income inequality. Show all posts
Friday, May 21, 2021

Spam for breakfast, nothing for lunch

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This morning I checked my email and found a message from Jeff Bezos. How exciting! Here it is: Hi, My name is Jeff Bezos an American technol...
Thursday, April 08, 2021

Cut them down to size

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USA wealth curve 2016 When shrubbery gets overgrown it must be pruned. Same goes for big corporations sprouting monopolistic tendrils. But i...
Sunday, January 31, 2021

Hopes of glitz and glory

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The The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner Fiction, 448 pages Whatever your politics, numbers don’t lie. Too m...
Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Help, I'm a cop

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Burmese Days George Orwell Fiction, 291 pages  "It's a drag being a cop" ~ Frank Zappa, "Help, I'm a rock" Geo...
Monday, August 24, 2020

Wrong name. Right problem.

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  Systemic Racism is not a good name for it. It’s not a formal system and there is no formal name. And yet it’s there, flowing through our c...
Wednesday, June 03, 2020

We

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We are men. We know pain, Which we freely acknowledge, Yet we don’t complain. It isn’t the pain that aggrieves. It’s the un...
Tuesday, July 04, 2017

Is there an artful approach to artificial intelligence?

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During the week concluding 2017’s first half, three New York Times stories addressed the potential social dangers of Artificial Intellig...
Sunday, December 02, 2012

After Dancing Long and Well, It’s Time to Pay the Piper

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It’s absurd to maintain tax cuts for the wealthy when the country faces massive debt and many of its citizens are unemployed. By now, most...