Efficient transfer of goods & services
Ttl;dr?! At it’s root, the value of money is it allows us to efficiently transfer or...
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Category: Economic Inequality
IV. At wealth’s end …
Note: Somewhere in the interwebs of drafting and publishing posts, I smashed an existing post with...
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Dollars to Distance
tl;dr!? If $1 bought 1 inch, literally how much distance you could buy with increasing orders of...
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Can we finally agree that trickle down doesn’t?
tl;dr?! Billionaires are a natural outcome of a system built to grow billionaires. Poverty is a...
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🎶… if I had a billion dollars … if I had a billion dollars … 🎶
Tl;dr?! Apparently it’s all the rage to run for President of the United States if you have a...
Read MoreIII. A sundry assortment out at wealth’s end …
Seth Godin is one of my favorite thinkers. Today in his blog (published impressively and relentlessly daily), he made the observation that “monopoly is the opposite of capitalism.” Monopoly. The goal of the game of...
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(At wealth’s end …)/II
Math: (At wealth’s end … ) / II = 2 Rich Bezos Well, although I blogged about Jeff...
Read MoreAt wealth’s end …
Monday morning over coffee and I am waving goodbye to Jeff Bezos who has walked so far out on the pier of net worth that he is crossing his own ocean and did I mention I’m all in for mixed metaphor? Jeff Bezos net worth...
Read MoreA sundry assortment of whoa woe!
This last week the sundry assortment has been full of news that gives me pause to wonder in whoa. And woe in wonder. Shaking my head. The very same day I was preparing to make the case that Senator Al Franken would make a great...
Read MoreSCRABBLE and Economic Inequality
SCRABBLE can be a harsh word game. You can end up with a rack of all vowels, no consonants; a rack of all consonants, no vowels; a rack with what I call dead-end letters — ‘C’ and ‘V’ — they don’t pair with other letters to make...
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