A Town Without Poverty?: Canada’s only experiment in guaranteed income finally gets reckoning | The Dominion

A Town Without Poverty?: Canada’s only experiment in guaranteed income finally gets reckoning | The Dominion In the period that Mincome was administered, hospital visits dropped 8.5 per cent. Fewer people went to the hospital with work-related injuries and there were fewer emergency room visits from car accidents and domestic abuse. There were also far [...]

Let’s Stop Maximizing Profit And Start Maximizing Value – Business Insider

Let’s Stop Maximizing Profit And Start Maximizing Value – Business Insider The problem in the American economy right now is not that there isn’t enough investment capital. There’s plenty of it. (There’s so much of it, in fact, that some companies don’t even know what to do with it: Witness the massive cash mountains building [...]

The Cause Of Riots And The Price of Food | MIT Technology Review

The Cause Of Riots And The Price of Food | MIT Technology Review If we don’t reverse the current trend in food prices, we’ve got until August 2013 before social unrest sweeps the planet, say complexity theorists

Million-Dollar Traders Replaced With Machines Amid Cuts – Bloomberg

Switzerland’s biggest bank, fired its head of credit-default swaps index trading, David Gallers, last week, with no plan to fill the position, according to two people familiar with the matter. Instead, the bank replaced Gallers with computer algorithms that trade using mathematical models via Million-Dollar Traders Replaced With Machines Amid Cuts – Bloomberg.

On the brink of an era? – YouTube

On the brink of an era? – YouTube.

Why Young Adults Don’t Want Your House – Divergent Planning

Most young people value experiences much more than they value property. They would rather travel regularly or buy the newest iPhone and iPad every year over paying a mortgage. To them a mortgage means they are tied down and less free to make decisions. Gen Y’ers love their freedom via Why Young Adults Don’t Want [...]

Losing the Future – By Daniel Altman | Foreign Policy

Evidently, the “human potential” movement of the 1960s became transformed into the self-realization movement of the 1970s, the selfishness of the 1980s, the self-affirmation of the 1990s, and finally the self-absorption of the Internet age. Narcissistic people don’t only empathize less with others today; they also empathize less with others in the future, including their [...]

ARE YOU SEEING WHAT I’M SEEING? « The Burning Platform

ARE YOU SEEING WHAT I’M SEEING? « The Burning Platform.

Scott Adams on How to Tax the Rich – WSJ.com

Scott Adams on How to Tax the Rich – WSJ.com.

Did You Know? The Future Is Better Than You Think! – YouTube

Did You Know? The Future Is Better Than You Think! – YouTube.