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Capitalism/Economics

How employment actually works

Posted on June 20, 2023 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Let’s talk about this image: First, it is generally NOT true that workers at a business create value. Most workers, instead, transform existing materials ...

Capitalism/Technology

Apple’s battery woes

Posted on December 21, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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...

Capitalism/Politics/Religion

My Christmas rant…

Posted on December 19, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

(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. ...

Capitalism/Economics

Trickle-down economics, or why you have a computer or smartphone

Posted on July 9, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Many on the left do not understand how “trickle-down economics” works. The more accurate name is “supply-side” economics. Colloquially i...

Capitalism

Let businesses discriminate

Posted on June 28, 2015 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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 ...

Accounting/Capitalism/Politics

Misunderstanding profit

Posted on November 20, 2014 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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...

Capitalism/Charity/Socialism

The socialist parking lot

Posted on February 22, 2013 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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 clea...

Capitalism/Economics

Student loan smokescreen

Posted on April 22, 2012 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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...

Capitalism

Creating Jobs 101

Posted on July 30, 2011 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

In the current unemployment climate, the one piece of empty rhetoric you constantly hear is "creating jobs": "Obama created jobs" "Bush...

Capitalism/Economics/Politics/Religion/Science/Socialism

An observation

Posted on May 7, 2011 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

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...

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