Backwards Strategy The impending financial disaster and potential societal collapse is based on a very simple idea. If the economy, or even if your individual income is growing, it is a potentially legitimate idea to borrow money. As you or the economy continues to grow, your earning or earning potential will be greater […]
Downtown Chicken Man
Three Kinds of Operations There are three types of businesses, from a purely financial standpoint. There are hard money profitable businesses. They spend money on raw materials, and turn those raw materials into higher order goods, and make a profit. Then there are businesses based on debt. These are businesses that […]
Cat Hypnosis
I Suck At Cooking I like to cook, even though I mostly suck at it. I’ll watch something on YouTube, or read somebody’s blog about some kind of recipe, and then I’ll decide to cook it a couple days later. Problem is I don’t usually remember much of this, except the taste I […]
Self Deluded Geniuses
Islands and Oceans One of my favorite science metaphor is about the relationship of what we know, to the stuff we don’t know. What we know is like the coastline of a small island. What we don’t know is the huge ocean. Which means the more we discover things that we know, […]
Cheese Empire Origins
Cheese Eater I have this friend who absolutely loves cheese. For the longest time, he would rave rant and tell anybody who would listen about this fantastic new cheese that he’d found. But then he was tangentially involved in this industrial accident, and even though he didn’t get hurt, he got a huge […]
How They’ll Control Our Brains
Got Any Coagulant? Making tofu is not a naturally intuitive process. You need to soak the soybeans for a while to get soy milk. Then you’ve got to put some kind of coagulant in to make the soy milk curdle. Fourier Knows Best https://loopvids.s3.amazonaws.com/May19Loop.mp4 Heisenberg’s principle of uncertainty is hard to wrap […]
Toothpick Industrial Complex
Nano Bot Toothpicks Recently, the toothpick companies have been secretively and experimentally increase their technology. It turns that on a subatomic surface level, the inter-enamel can create some surprisingly non linear results. This may explain why, despite routine flossing, brushing and tooth-picking, tooth decay doesn’t see to correlate to any particular variable in […]
Termite Cavities
Food Hypnosis Supermarkets, or rather their marketing departments, have long known how to covertly influence people. Sometimes based on the layout of the supermarket, or the way the food is chemically altered to become more addictive. But recently they have been experimenting with new technology that is far more dangerous. Natural Taste […]
Chasing The Devil
Bad Metaphors A nearly always incorrectly used metaphor in economics is something called, “pent up demand.” The way it’s used, is that longer somebody goes without buying things, the more things they’ll buy once they have the chance. But a more accurate way to describe this is delayed demand, rather than pent up […]
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