What’s Wrong With Education
What’s wrong with education? It’s a system drawn up by old people. Not that there’s anything wrong with being old, but keep in mind that they grew up in a world without the instant, global media we have today or the incredibly fast machines that can easily do a billion operations a second. They expect us to have to memorize a bunch of facts and perform calculations in our heads. Everyone needs to understand that some concepts are no longer valuable in today’s world. Read the rest of this entry »
Why higher taxes on the wealthy doesn’t hurt
There’s a big deal going on now about having people and families making over $250,000 a year pay their fair share of taxes. Warren Buffett (one of the richest people in the world) wrote a now-famous op-ed asking our leaders to “stop coddling the rich.” He pointed out his secretary pays a higher tax rate than him. The Republicans, of course, will say that taxing the rich will somehow cause rich people not to create jobs. Funny how they don’t seem to be creating jobs either way? But that’s not what I’m here to talk about. Read the rest of this entry »
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