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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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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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….
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Ozempic Meme Nation: This Is Our Hunger Games Moment
May the odds be ever in your favor. That scene where Katniss and Peeta visit the Capitol and discover that citizens use pills to throw up when they’re full —…