https://www.quora.com/What-is-prison-like-in-Japan/answer/Ray-Butler-22
Taxing income prevents creative entrepreneurs from rapidly stockpiling enough wealth to change the world.
If we taxed wealth instead of income, people who inherited or no longer contributed to building new things would see their stockpiles rapidly eaten away. This would prevent rich kids from staying rich unless they actually built new and better things for society.… read more “Taxes Are The Problem, Not Capitalism”
To avoid the voting fraud where millions of fake or dead voters vote, all voting records should be public.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
To avoid tax fraud where people earning hundreds of millions of dollars pay zero taxes, all tax records should be public.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
This will allow our smart people to improve our system, rather than force them to try to game it.
I recently was cold emailed by a search fund to buy my business.
What is a search fund? Basically, a person who wants to be an “entrepreneur” raises a lot of money in a fund so that they can buy and then run a company.
The intent is that the buyer would do something to improve the value of the company then resell it later.… read more “Search Funds Are A Terrible Investment”
I believe that there is a purposeful propaganda war being directed against Google and Facebook.
I am not sure who is behind it, but the Russians and Chinese both would have strong interest in doing so.
Right now, there is a huge controversy over the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court Justice. This is a enormously important political issues as it will shape Supreme Court decisions for decades.
I am a social liberal and a fiscal conservative… which in today’s political environment means I am very opposed to both parties in some ways and very supportive of certain policies.… read more “Kavanaugh Confirmation”
I firmly believe in free market capitalism,but I also believe in accountability for companies.
Companies that commit certain types of crimes should receive the death penalty and be broken up and sold piecemeal to ethical companies. Shareholders should lose everything. Executives and managers should get hard prison time.
For example, a company Theranos should be shut down, all executives and board members sent to prison, and shareholders take a total bath on their investment.… read more “Corporate Execution”
In my opinion, golf club official fittings are mostly a waste of money. I think that they are a way to push expensive clubs on golfers that they don’t really need.
I am a fairly new golfer and have tried a few fittings. Here is the results:
Larry Page has been out of the public eye and hasn’t bothered defending Google in Congress. My guess is he has built true general AI and no longer cares about mortal human matters.