Joel Gross's Blog

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/05/us/amazon-delivery-drivers-accidents.html

Companies should be liable for contractors that are not really contractors but are actually employees.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/d072nh/people_of_reddit_who_work_in_a_casino_whats_some/

Stories like these are extremely common. Gambling hardwired people’s brains in disastrous ways so that their loved ones will die right next to them with them doing nothing, or they themselves will even die. Horrific.

A friend recently shared an article on social media about a politician who is trying to ban euthanasia for animals. The politician seems to be doing so out of a misplaced sense of compassion.

This is a step in the wrong direction. Euthanasia should be acceptable for both animals in pain and humans who choose it.… read more “Euthanasia”

Every morning you wake up as a new person. Yesterday was Joel 12889, tomorrow I will be Joel 12890, and seventeen years ago I was Joel 7001. Each Joel is fundamentally different than the rest. Many are very very similar, especially recent models where life has not changed much, but they all still are different.

Joel 7001 is nearly unrecognizable as “me” when I think about him.… read more “We Are All The Same”

Managing twin babies is pretty challenging. I am not sure how a single mother could ever do it, or how two parents each with a job could get by unless they had a lot of outside help.

My wife Laurel has been doing a great job.

The Sackler family and Johnson & Johnson would not have spent billions bribing doctors to oversubscribe their drugs if patents were eliminated. Further, Epipens could be had for a buck instead of hundreds of dollars.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/warren-proposes-lifetime-ban-on-members-of-congress-becoming-lobbyists-2018-08-21?fbclid=IwAR1RvTTUniu5l8WK8szYHNN-aazs9FkTf0gdz_rlaPHpJlDRdedD7r7DZtY

I like the idea of banning members of Congress from becoming lobbyists. I also like the idea of banning regulators from working in industries they regulated or vice versa.