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”
Most pastors in my opinion are scammers.
I own no rental properties and have long been a tenant myself.
The main driver of high rents is simple supply and demand. If you have lots of people who need to rent apartments, and only a few apartments then prices will rise.
The solution to high rents is to build lots more apartments… Then landlords have to compete on price and the average rents will come way down.… read more “Rent Control Is Severely Misguided”
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.