Author: Joel Gross

http://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/www/barnum/moneygetting/moneygetting_chap13.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/34866829/life-before-antibiotics-and-maybe-life-after-an-antibiotic-apocalypse

I saw an article on ESPN about Michigan State basketball coach who yells at kids who bring him in well over $4m a year.

The NCAA is basically just a monopoly- kids are not allowed to go to the NBA without participating for a year and risking injury which would ruin their potential earnings for life.… read more “NCAA Coach Tom Izzo Abuses Kids While Making $4m Off Them”

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47639228

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gall_(author)#Gall.27s_law

It is foolish in the extreme that cars don’t have their own version of a black box. This could be as simple as a dash cam and the engine / airbags computer. Recordings from each could be stored in a thumb drive hidden under a seat. Police and insurance companies would have the right to read these.

A corporation with the rights of a human being may not make sense.

I think it might be better to eliminate the concept of limited liability as it leads to bad behaviors like externalizing costs.

If America is based on a philosophy of ideas and rights, shouldn’t we allow similarly minded people to join us? Perhaps allow other countries to hold votes to become states?

Apparently Democrats have promised to make healthcare affordable. However, their ideas are limited to single payer or shoring up the Affordable Care Act… Neither of which solves the root cause of insanely high drug and hospital and doctor prices.

The only way to truly make healthcare affordable is to either eliminate patents or reduce their effective period to three years with no renewals, and to eliminate licensing requirements for doctors and nurses, and to remove other regulations in healthcare designed to suppress competition.… read more “How To Make Healthcare Affordable”