Tipping in America: How a Custom Became a Corporate Grift
The anxiety builds. Will you fold at the prompt? Will the towering pressure of billion-dollar enterprises break your will — forcing you to subsidize a worker’s wage on your $8…
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Rebel AI: How Automation Might Save Your Soul
I’ll be back. People — here’s what you need to understand. I wasn’t raised on The Terminator — where Skynet sends a killer robot back in time to wipe out…
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Are We Living in a Simulation? Matrix, Maya, and the Search for Meaning
There is a splinter in your mind, driving you mad. Something you know is wrong with this world. Most people are not ready to be unplugged. Fear cuts us off…
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Shrinkflation and The Fractured Soul of the American Economy
Nick Wilde was a small business owner, just trying to make a buck selling frozen treats. He built a flawless business model: buy in bulk, break it down, resell at…
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Surround Yourself With Good People: The Culture of Sour Grapes
I’m secretly waiting for you to fail. I will root and holler and stand by your side. But truly, I don’t love myself enough to see you win and be…
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The Marketing Funnel of Doom and How We Have All Been Duped
Reality is the only thing that’s real. There is a scene in Ready Player One where the antagonist shows his vision for the Oasis, the virtual world everyone escapes to…
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The American Oligarch Man-Baby: Will Vector Steal the Moon?
I go by the name Vector. Sure, he’s a cartoon. A pixel-based man-baby archetype. But with our elite racing to space and attempting to terraform Mars with nuclear weapons… How…
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Don’t Eat the Rich Meaning: Why Laundered Legacy is Out
It’s not about being anti-capitalistic. It’s about being anti-greed — and anti-corruption in the process of achieving wealth. About ensuring great power transfers to capable hands. We should all eat…
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End Citizens United: Will the Fox and the Hound Remember?
“We’ll always be friends forever, won’t we?” We were raised together. Played together. Heck, we’re practically brothers. Sure, we’ve got different roles now. Different backgrounds, different outlooks. But we’ll always…
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Legal Bribery: How Does Lobbying Negatively Affect Government?
Lobbying: A career born in hell — funded by addiction, oil, and war. How does lobbying negatively affect the government? You know the folks from Purdue Pharma who helped enable…