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Capitalism: Where You Own Your Labor
It’s no surprise to anybody here that computer types tend toward the left. We build systems in our heads and then make those systems real, and they never work quite right, but they are Quite Good and improve our lives anyway.
Should you find yourself in possession of a magic wand that gave you perfect pastrami sandwiches, would you want to find out if it can do corned beef? What if nobody ever sat you down and explained that your magic wand had a specialty and while all deli looks interchangeable, it really isn’t?
Helping students to understand the outcomes of their assumptions.
Donald Trump was the most free-market-oriented president we’ve had since Ronald Reagan, and the economy showed it. Probably because of his rhetoric, many people don’t know about the Donald’s free-market proclivities. The people that don’t know about it seem to fall into two major categories:
Wine is an art in France. And a business. Considering its dual nature, perhaps there was no one better to revolutionize both aspects of the French wine industry than a Rothschild. One from a family that has been entwined for centuries in Europe’s money and its art, as patrons and creators.
It’s a rather strange claim of the American far left that their interests are opposed to that of corporate America, because there’s virtually no evidence to support it. Quite the contrary: During the wave of Black Lives Matter rioting that took place during the early summer of 2020, American corporations marched in lockstep. Not only did they use social media to swear fealty to this political movement, but they also made massive internal changes in conformity with BLM propaganda.
