Photo by ChatGPT We tell ourselves a reassuring story about technological change. Machines, software, and robots might eliminate some jobs, but they create far more than they destroy. Productivity rises,…
I’m reading The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies and the Fate of Liberty by Acemoglu and Robinson now. This is an interesting time to be reading about the risks democracies and…
Tucson Arizona by iStock The Social Security Administration has been reminding me that I’ve come to the time of life when I have to make some decisions about retirement. Making…
How economic arrogance destroyed the Working Class, the Middle Class and the American Dream. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash I find myself at a loss when someone casually shares…
Shortly after posting Shocking Social Decay In My Neighborhood a few weeks ago I received a lengthy and thoughtful message from a reader. He said he was a lifetime Democrat,…
The under-40 generation deserves our sympathy and compassion. Random chance and bad fortune have repeatedly decimated their careers, standard of living, and futures. Just as it looks like they are…
When I was in high school in the 1970’s I spent a lot of time in the swamps and forests of Western Oregon. My dad had land in Tillamook County,…
On a dark and moonless Arizona night in 1983 I was driving back to Tucson on Highway 79 after a weekend of skydiving in Coolidge. It was a longish drive…
Lately I’ve been thinking about the Progressive Era in the United States — that time between roughly 1890 and 1920, which saw so many reforms to industry and politics. Upton Sinclair wrote…
Question Authority I’ve always been distrustful of authorities. It’s a common trait of people who were exposed to abuse, neglect or manipulation by parents or teachers. When authority figures satisfy…