Author: Joel Gross

I spend more time on my smartphone with every day that passes. It is a struggle to resist this strong addiction. I have blocked a number of news websites at the router level to help reduce habitual checks. I have deleted apps and things that I visited too much. I closed my Facebook account.  Yet new addicting things keep coming up.… read more “Smartphones: A Harsh Addiction & Powerful Tool”

Never get in a fight you can’t win. Never get in a fight to defend your “honor’ or ego or someone else’s. Never get in a fight you can avoid. The only situations in life I think I have ever been in a fight I couldn’t avoid was when I was in high school or younger and was forced to be next to the person I was fighting… this is a dangerous time.… read more “Fights”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/16/opinion/patents-reform-drug-prices.html

The New York Times recognizes the severe corruption and abuses that the US patent system inflicts. They say that the US patent system actually inhibits real inventions, allows patent trolls to rob real inventors, and has been corrupted to enrich lawyers. Their solution is to reform it….

But the real problem is the fundamental concept that an idea should be owned by a person or corporation.… read more “Reform the Patent System says NYTimes, I Say Abolish the Patent System”

Shareholders should always come before management and board interests. If shareholders want to sell to someone the management or board dislike, that is their choice.

American foreign policy has tried to work with dictators over the last half century. This is morally repugnant and foolish. Dictators view democracies as impossible to understand and control (new leaders and parties in power every few years). Dictators prefer other dictators as once they have an alliance, they can rely on the other dictator for the rest of their lives.… read more “Dictators and Democracies are Natural Enemies”

Many states and the federal government are trying to pass laws mandating the switch from gas to electric cars.

The government wants to take away your right to make decisions. It might sound nice to have electric cars, but the market makes better decisions than the government does.

Massive pollution is generated manufacturing new electric vehicles whereas gas cars are actually far less polluting than they once were.… read more “Environmentalist Laws Are Shortsighted and Foolish”

Right to Repair is super important to all human civilization! People and kids tinkering with engines and computers are how they learn about it and eventually invent new things. It also would cut the massive waste and pollution of human society by 90%. It is absolutely vital that extremely strong right to repair laws get passed.