The Fire Next Time
A meme from the "Sanders or Bust" camp after the primary.by Gaius Publius I want to keep this short because it's really simple (emphasis mine throughout).Stuff like this...
A meme from the "Sanders or Bust" camp after the primary.by Gaius Publius I want to keep this short because it's really simple (emphasis mine throughout).Stuff like this...
Last year, just after the general election, writing for Bloomberg, Dave Merrill and Yvette Romero explained how millennials haven't been able to crack Congress. "In 2016, millennials surpassed baby boomers as the nation's largest living generation," they wrote. "Yet for all that voting power, millennials are still woefully under-represented in Washington.
A young boy who lost his leg in the Saudi war in Yemen war uses a prosthetic limb at a government-run rehabilitation center in Sanaa, Yemen, March 5, 2016. (AP Photo)
You’re going along, living your life, buried under blankets in your winter nest, until suddenly you realize: summer is coming. Like, next week. After strategic internet research for inspiration, your mental state switches from chestnuts roasting on an open fire to marshmallows toasting in the embers under the stars (and then catching on fire). You are ready to prepare for summer.
Young inventors and entrepreneurs are using the open-source model to transform health care from the ground-up.
Just as it was important for the Communist world to be continuously exposed to capitalist countries that got economics right, it is instructive for the capitalist world to be exposed to at least one country that gets its economics wrong, such as Venezuela.
Without the freedom to spend the fruits of our labor wherever we so choose, we cannot consider ourselves truly free. If millennials choose to buy avocado toast instead of a home, this is not only completely acceptable, it is exactly what makes the free market so wonderful; no one has to buy something unless they want to.
As the freedom of commercial contract came under attack, the employment contract grew widely in use. In an employment contract, one party agrees to sell his or her time to an employer to perform tasks at the employer’s bidding – a relationship still known to this day as that of “master and servant.”