Apple’s battery woes
Recently Apple confirmed that its iPhones slow down as the battery degrades. A lot of people have taken this to mean that Apple is trying to force people to upg...
Category: Capitalism
My Christmas rant…
(Note: I originally wrote this in 2009. Opted against updating the dates.) Over the years, I’ve stepped back and thought about what Christmas has become. ...
Trickle-down economics, or why you have a computer or smartphone
Many on the left do not understand how “trickle-down economics” works. The more accurate name is “supply-side” economics. Colloquially i...
Let businesses discriminate
Here’s an idea… given how much “social progress” is supposed to have been made over the last 50+ years, let’s do this: repeal all ...
Solicitation
As much as I advocate for free market capitalism — you know, the ability to enter into whatever transactions you want, so long you’re not… say...
Misunderstanding profit
When it comes to business reports, the concept of profit has to be one of the most misinterpreted items on a company’s balance sheet. What is it, what doe...
Student loan smokescreen
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 educatio...
Creating Jobs 101
In the current unemployment climate, the one piece of empty rhetoric you constantly hear is "creating jobs": "Obama created jobs" "Bush...
An observation
First, let’s define a couple things. Pure capitalism and the free market mean that the market participants determine who of the market competitors survive...
Self regulation
One of the primary principles of libertarianism, and also capitalism, is the idea of self regulation: people will naturally want to find a way to co-exist that ...