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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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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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…
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Presidents and Pushers: The War on Drugs and How the U.S. Became Top Boy
Pablo Escobar’s character in Narcos said it best: “Lies are necessary, when the truth is too difficult to believe.” And maybe, for the last century, connecting these dots was too…
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Citizens United: A Bane-Style Takeover of American Democracy
There’s a scene in The Dark Knight Rises. Bane has overrun Gotham. The rich are panicking. The streets are in chaos. Crane, somehow the judge, hands out sentences like candy….