Since the elderly across the world seem hellbent on stopping trade between countries, electing dictators, and promoting a warlike stance I have a suggestion – in the next war, the elderly should be drafted first and put on the front lines first.
They are the most expendable as most are retired and don’t contribute to the world.… read more “Draft the Elderly”
I just watch this documentary that National Geographic created following a group of Green Berets in Afghanistan. The soldiers are very intelligent and motivated people who sacrificed themselves after 9/11 to join and fight for the people in our country. The American people and our elected leaders are the true idiots. We have wasted hundreds of thousands of lives in Afghanistan (both Americans and Afghans) needlessly.… read more “Afghanistan”
America’s founders originally intended us to have 30k people per House representative. Currently, we have over 750k per representative.
We could go back to 30k per representative if we had them meet online for the most part maybe? Or just use a conference center to meet.
Basic economic law should dictate much more public policy. The laws of supply and demand, gains from specialization and trade, and other economic laws should make decision-making far simpler and public policy.
Affordable housing could be had for all with laws that allow for much more high-density housing, and permitting rules are much quicker and easier to go through.… read more “Economic Laws Should Dictate More Public Policy”
The health effects of processed sugar are well known by everyone:
Processed sugar (aka CANDY) is a poison to human beings. Pretty much every function of your body gets into trouble when you eat sugar.… read more “Processed Sugar Industry, Candy & Halloween”
My personal philosophy is a compendium of ideas.
The purpose of life is reproduction. The great maturing event in a person’s life should be when they go from being a self centered child to being a mature adult through the process of having kids they put first.
The more effort you put into life, the easier and happier life gets.… read more “Joel’s Personal Philosophy”
My philosophy on business is that each company needs to take care of its stakeholders. Stakeholders include team members, customers, shareholders, and the world at large. A business must profitable and be very careful about debt and cash flow issues or it will not be able to take care of stakeholders.
The four levels of employee productivity – try to reach level 4.… read more “Joel’s Business Philosophy”
I have tracked for five years a number of behaviors on a day to day basis. These range from what I am grateful for to what I worked on, how many hours I worked, how productive I was, how happy I was, what exercise I did, how happy I was, and other factors. I recently looked back upon this data to see what I could learn.… read more “Behaviors & Habits to Improve Productivity”
My political philosophy has evolved based upon new information and my life experiences. If you see struck out lines, those are ideas that I no longer support.
I want to try to summarize my political philosophy overall in one place with links to the subjects. I have thought about this for a long time from a lot of angles.… read more “Joel’s Political Philosophy”