Navel Gazing

Final Thought: rain, rain come again

The strangest thing about this May long weekend? Is that it didn’t snow. This is the second year in a row that it hasn’t snowed May...

Final Thought: can we stop the burning down?

(We’re stepping away from the future of finance to return to our regularly scheduled commentary on other random stuff; we’ll keep touching on a...

Final Thought: the triumph and tragedy of the commons

Last issue, I talked about the idea of moving away from private ownership for some things, reducing cost, reducing environmental impact and reducing the...

Final Thought: tell me what you want, what you really really want

In my basement, amidst the mess that is my tool room, sits a yellow drill. It is, in the words of Cory Doctorow, the minimum...

Final Thought: looking out for number one

Last issue, I mentioned that the CEO of Amazon makes 6474 times the amount of the average Amazon worker. In the last couple weeks, Amazon...

Final Thought: Neoliberalism

Remember Reaganomics? That was the term for a series of economic policies that Ronald Reagan instituted.  These included tax cuts, decreased social spending, increased military...

Final Thought: The triumph of money

In 1992, political scientist Francis Fukuyama wrote a book called The End of History and the Last Man. In it, he said that society had...

Final Thought: Fictional Currency

Back in China, so the story goes, people used to use iron coins as a form of currency.  But iron? Wasn’t worth an awful lot....

Final Thought: Rendered redundant

Last edition, I let ChatGPT write the editorial for me, and, if you recall, it wasn’t that impressive. The attempts at humour weren’t funny,...

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