Recently Cracked.com decided to tackle the subject of MMO – massively-multiplayer online games – in an article called "5 Ways Video Games are Saving Mankind". Point #5 in the article caught my attention: "You can learn fascinating things about the economy from MMOs": You wouldn’t think you could learn a lot about society just by [...]
Here in Kansas City we recently had a snow storm come through that dropped nearly a foot of snow on us. As such, for much of today, people were taking time clearing the snow as best they can. I live in an apartment complex without assigned parking, meaning the parking space I clear out to [...]
President Obama’s latest focus on student loans is a vapid response to the unemployment issue: We should be doing everything we can to put higher education within reach for every American — because at a time when the unemployment rate for Americans with at least a college degree is about half the national average, it’s [...]
While it is uplifting to read of more and more teenagers "seeing the light" and leaving Christianity or whatever religion held their mind captive, what I’m seeing as a side-effect of this is certainly not uplifting. And the best way I can summarize this side-effect is basically to call it "trading one god for another". [...]
In the current unemployment climate, the one piece of empty rhetoric you constantly hear is "creating jobs": "Obama created jobs" "Bush’s tax cuts didn’t create any jobs" And yet when you look around, unemployment is still very high, underemployment is high, and many people are scraping the barrel to make ends meet. "Where are all [...]
First, let’s define a couple things. Pure capitalism and the free market mean that the market participants determine who of the market competitors survives. The competitors must adapt to a change in demand, try to change the demand in their favor, or die trying. Capitalism has been vulgarly called "economic Darwinism". Natural selection says virtually [...]
Recently I received an error message trying to run a capitalist application on a socialist operating system: Fatal error: Success Apparently success is an error with socialism, and a fatal error at that!