by Ken JP Stuczynski | Oct 2, 2014 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law, Technology & Futurism
I’ve always been a [[John Ritter]] fan. That’s why I wanted to rewatch “Americathon”, a movie I vaguely remembered from my childhood. Was it a bad movie? Well, there’s probably a reason I could only find it on VHS all these years …...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Sep 30, 2014 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
This TED Talk demonstrates a working plan for people to invest in social programs with a return if it saves the public (government) money. It’s called a “social impact bond” and actually gives a return if it works, and if not, the taxpayers...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Sep 25, 2014 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law
In a laboratory-condition economy, subsistence wages do not exist. This is not because it is immoral, but because it is not possible. This principle is called the “[[Iron Law of Wages]]”, where workers who are not given enough to survive … well...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Sep 2, 2014 | Business & Economics, Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
This TED Talk is one of urgent distinctions, namely that the attitude of Free Markets has a place in economics but not civic life. From corporatism to law to education, inequality is more and more based on net financial worth than standing as a human being and...
by Barry Fagin | Sep 1, 2014 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
{Originally published in the Colorado Springs Gazette as “Not one taxpayer dime for downtown stadium” on June 6, 2013} Not one taxpayer dime for a stadium downtown. Not one dime! I love baseball, always have. Heck, I pulled off an unassisted triple play in...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Aug 26, 2014 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
This TED Talk speaks of a cause of terrorism that is rarely brought to the table (compared to our assumptions). This courting of the young isn’t into a “culture of death” but one of promise in a world of few opportunities and no social system of...