Godfuckingdamn ( Read more... )

Somehow or other, probably at Monochrom's urging and Bryony Gomez-Palacio's writing, it occurred to me that in the American school system we are groomed basically from elementary school onward that we will someday have a career, meaning get a job, and we had best learn the rituals of that starting roughly in sixth grade ( Read more... )

As of this morning, the piddling seed of investment I had made for retirement (hah) has evaporated by 40%, says the annual letter I got in the mail ( Read more... )

Because it's burning a hole in my head, on reading solarbird's last post, augmented further by the rows of sale signs going down Fifth Avenue, every store trying to one-up its neighbors:

An economy built on projections built on fears built on nearsighted terrors at the spectre of less than constant positive revenue is not an economy.Can we make every MBA ( Read more... )