This month’s top ten discussion topics
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Adam Smith in the Age of AI
Supply and Demand, as Adam Smith originally envisioned it, has always been pretty straightforward, but AI is about to change that. The Invisible Hand is going to have a lot more access to your wallet. Up until now, Demand has been generalized across the entire market....
Sports Gambling
I just read a transcription of a radio broadcast, On Point (wbur in Boston), Inside the Life of a ‘degenerate’ Sports Gambler. You already know what the problem is, so if you never gamble, you may want to pass this along to any young people you may know. If you gamble...
I wish it weren’t This Way!
I listened to Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson (CMAT) on The Daily Show, and one of her lyrics caught me off guard: "I think we're going to die saying I wish it weren't this way." I think she's right! There's more healing and more course correction needed than can be done in...
AI Exasperation
The only thing more prevalent in our news feeds lately than President Trump are articles and commentaries on AI, and most people I know are exasperated by both. I’ve seen people heave a big sigh, their countenance drooping when the subject of AI comes up. “Not AI!”...
Dolly Parton
CBS Sunday morning tells me that if Popularity determined the Presidency, as many people believe it should, Dolly Parton would have been our President, the most popular personality by far, 70% approval rating. It should have been 100!
The Next Civil War
The existential conflicts that drove us to war in 1860 are the same as the existential conflicts dividing us today. Slavery has been abolished, thankfully, but nothing else has changed. The conflict that divides us works itself out in various ways: an emotional...
Randomize the Presidency
Take the average person! He or she could do the job! Proposed: Everybody says they want to get the politics out of Governance! So, why don’t we?!?! As a thought experiment, consider the last 10 presidents: Trump, Biden, Obama, G W Bush, Clinton, G H Bush, Reagan,...
The Flattened Tax
The biggest problem we Americans face, other than the fact that we can’t seem to get along with each other, is tax code. No matter how you configure taxes, a lot of people will be left feeling unsatisfied and unhappy. AI tells me that 30 to 40 percent of Americans...
The Montana Plan
Hawaii’s Governor recently signed Senate Bill 2471 (Act 11) into law with massive, historic bipartisan support. Hawaii has officially become the first state to strip corporations, LLCs, and even politically active nonprofits of their power to spend money influencing...
The Civil War
Allow me to begin with a preliminary rant about education: The problem is that The Lights do not go on for everybody at the same time. For instance, the Light my hard-working history teachers wanted to show me pertaining to the American Civil War remained unnoticed by...