Business
Maybe We’re Thinking About This All Wrong?
Taxes are a form of social control. They are a proxy measurement for how much of each year you are working as a slave. A slave is a slave in the mind first.
Is Modern Medicine a Sham?
Some may say it’s luck. Others may say it’s divine intervention. Still others will say it’s so obvious, the writing is on the wall. And so I ask, do you think that modern-day medicine is a sham?
The UN Plastics Treaty Collapses
Plastics have been a crucial factor in enabling people at every economic level to afford high-quality manufactured goods. They are essential to societal abundance. The ideal solution is to keep plastic in our economies, but to do a great job at managing recycling and waste.
The Biggest Building Consent Reform in Decades
Chris Penk says the building sector has the potential to be an economic powerhouse, yet productivity has stalled since 1985 despite major advances in building methods and technology.
New Designer DNA by the Wellcome Trust
We don’t need to experiment on, or alter our genomes: we need to stop inducing epigenetic changes that are making us all ‘dis-eased’.
On Spotting the Niche
A new female-friendly filter delivers a case study in how market competition inspires firms to provide better, more responsive service.
In Plain Sight
This shouldn’t have shattered anyone’s innocence because it is information we should have had a clear hold on in the first place.
China’s Stolen Mineral Wealth and the Cost
China’s ability to hold the world hostage to its compromised minerals industry may be the chief hindrance to justice for the Uyghurs and their fellows.
The NBN Overbuild and Labor’s Determined Monopoly
They’re fighting a rigged game where government sets the rules, funds the competition, and defines success through political rather than economic metrics.
The Moral Cost of Transplants
The medical profession is not a manufacturing line. Our job is not to optimize supply chains – it is to protect life and, when necessary, honor death.
Old Fart Plays Hardball, Loses
Old bastard in his early 90s gets offered 2.5m for basically some land where he’s got an old clapped-out house on a clapped-out street. Says no and decides to hold out for more money.