The fantastic thing about a recession is that it tightens up the business belt. Deadwood goes, much to the relief of the competent employees, who are only demoralized by the well-paid bum in the next cubicle. Good riddance. In a recession, software upgrades become essential to life itself. Employees feel the need to actually do stuff besides
Digital media — particularly “social” media like forums, wikis, blogs, and tweets — have forced all people, including intellectuals, to engage each other as never before in human history. And yet, people have discovered that to know others is not necessarily to love them. Conflicts and confrontations are a regular feature of daily discussion,
The culture is going to hell in a handbag, we’ve been told for hundreds of years, and the free market gets a large share of the blame. The observation stretches from Left to Right and everywhere in between. It is universally agreed that letting markets run loose runs roughshod over all the finer things in life, from books to arts to clothing to
Monty Python put its funny stuff on Youtube to fight back against pirates : For 3 years you YouTubers have been ripping us off, taking tens of thousands of our videos and putting them on YouTube. Now the tables are turned. It’s time for us to take matters into our own hands. We know who you are, we know where you live and we could come after you
You might enjoy seeing how the New York Times spins an 8.9% unemployment rate as good news. “The Labor Department’s monthly snapshot of the job market presented the clearest evidence to date that the nation’s economic free fall appears to have been arrested. The acute shock that began last fall as the investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed,
In Los Angeles , a window repairman secretly went around breaking windows by shooting them with a slingshot. Times are hard and he needed the business. The police caught him and, because he was a private individual instead of a state, now he is in trouble for his attempt to stimulate the economy. Thanks Broken Window Watch and Vanguardist
Most people under 40 years old spent their holidays fixing their parents and grandparents computers and trying to teach them things about new devices – facing down the inevitable resistance of the older generation to change. They say that they like the old ways better and do not want new things, all while depending on younger people to actually
Another great institution is being taken down by the copyright terrorists. This one is beyond-belief hilarious/ridiculous/evil because of course we not only own the full rights. We have put the book into Creative Commons and are desperately trying to give the book away to the world. Observe the insanity! Dear Ludwig von Mises Institute, We have
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