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 have spent my entire life building systems to motivate people. Multiple successful businesses in extraordinarily competitive industries have shown that I understand what makes people tick. What follows is policy approaches I would recommend:
A strong constitution, even stronger than the current US constitution, would limit what government can do, so even if a bad government took power, it could not harm the country.… read more “Joel’s Political Philosophy”
Insurance companies are often used as the punching bag for healthcare costs. In reality, insurance companies are just a payment method for the true cost – enormously expensive doctors. Insurance companies are portrayed as having crazy profits, but in reality the insurance company Cigna has a profit margin of 6%.
The American Medical Association realized a century ago that medical care demand is inelastic… Basically if you need medical care, you will pay any price to get it.… read more “Remove Limits on New Doctors”