"Forget the chatter about tight labor markets, low unemployment, and vastly improved productivity. Purchasing power for most Americans has stagnated for decades."
I think a carbon tax is the solution. There is trillions that can be raised by a carbon tax and it won't raise taxes on job creating businesses and investors - only consumers of fossil fuels. Don't like paying a carbon tax? Then use less carbon based energy.
"We need 1.7 planets to fulfill our appetite for stuff. And it's getting worse."
How even the best credit card systems can facilitate theft.
I just finished reading “Buy-ology, the truth and lies about what we buy” by Martin Lindstrom. 📚One of the most notable conclusions of the book is summed up in this sentence:
“In other words, overt, direct, visual explicit anti-smoking messages 🚭did more to encourage smoking than any deliberate campaign that Marlboro 🚬or Camel 🐫could come up with.”
"You're buying the package,
You're buying the dream,
You pay for the ads
On the television screen,
They sell you a story,
They sell you a mood,
But what they don't deliver is food."