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Shouldn’t something have changed in eighty years?
This is a nightmare, which will pass away with the morning. For the resources of nature and men’s devices are just as fertile and productive as they were. The rate of our progress towards solving the material problems of life … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Public Policy
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Our Political Economy: still pretending that fair is foul and foul is fair
For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods … Continue reading
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Did you borrow a lot of dough to go to Law School, Junior?
In an ironic, but sensible turnabout, outsourcing firms which have radically restructured the pricing of legal services in America are now on-shoring jobs. Young lawyers have been working at $20.00 per hour legal temp jobs for document reviews that used … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Public Policy
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Eliminationist Rhetoric has no place in a democratic society: Germany learned the hard way
Germany, which knows what happens when political parties employ eliminationist rhetoric, has this article in its constitution: Article 18 (Forfeiture of basic rights). Whoever abuses the freedom of expression, in particular the freedom of the press (paragraph (1) of Article … Continue reading
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Why the economy is not run more…intelligently
I’ve been walking around with this wonderful quote from J.M. Keynes echoing in my head. (From The General Theory Of Employment, Interest And Money, 1935) The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they … Continue reading
Posted in How Things Work, Public Policy
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Social Media arms race: How Republicans are winning on Twitter
Studies have shown Republicans have taken to Twitter more vigorously than Democrats — in part because of their minority status following the unpopular Bush administration. “The 2008 election was a huge wake-up call to Republicans across the country. The approach … Continue reading
Posted in How Things Work, Public Policy, Social Media
Tagged Politics, Social Media, Society
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Want High Speed Internet Now? Wired West Kickoff
This morning I rode up to Cummington to attend the kickoff meeting of Wired West, a group working to build “a universal, open-access, fiber-to-the-home network that is financially self-sustaining and municipally-owned” in Western Massachusetts. Universal broadband is as obviously necessary … Continue reading
Posted in Community Service, Public Policy
Tagged Broadband, Communications, Franklin County, Shelburne Falls, Western Massachusetts, Wired West
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Older People Should Have Broadband Internet Access
I’ve been working on a project to expand availability of broadband in our community. We live in the rural town of Shelburne, Massachusetts. Much of the town has access to broadband only by satellite. It’s a terrible situation. I’ve been … Continue reading
Posted in Public Policy
Tagged Broadband, Cloud Computing, Internet, Oligopoly, Public Policy
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