It turns out that someone has created a cartoon called "Captain Capitalism". I guess someone has beat me to popularizing the name. Oh well.

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My course in Justice at MIT has made me realize that people do not vote for what is most just, but instead vote for what is most advantageous to them. Therefore, all economic policies should be made so that they are at least minorly advantageous to the largest possible number of voters. (This is also why voting matters. It doesn't matter if a ( Read more... )

What is the optimal amount of work? Is it forty hours a week? Is it when you make $1 million a week? Or, is it when you do one important thing a week? (However one defines important ( Read more... )

Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust, Cambridge to Cambridge. From whence I left I shall return. My adventures in Massachusetts ended on August 25th, 2001, and they shall begin again precisely one year later, on August 25th, 2002. I wonder how I will be different when I return, and how Cambridge will be different. Will the homeless man I helped still be ( Read more... )

1. Engineering is easy to spell ( Read more... )

In olden days, an education meant learning to perform a specific task. The ironmonger's boy was apprenticed to an ironmonger so that he could learn his trade. His education was practical, and had specific goals ( Read more... )

A lack of birth determined social classes is fundamental to American society. America was founded on the principle that the simplest farmer could potentially become the President, or the richest man in the nation. Unlike other nations, America does not have honorific, inhereted titles passed along among its families. We have no knights, no barons, ( Read more... )

This is a bit off topic, but I think that I am going to change the name of my book. It was originally titled "The " [insert my first name, middle initial, and last name] "Story". Now, I think that I have a better title; "Accelerated Learning". I, and those around me, are being accelerated more than any generation prior. Accelerated in both body and ( Read more... )

The Media has changed. Possibly for the better. Now that there is real news being reported, specifically about American actions overseas, less attention is being given to interpersonal fluff related to celebrities. Jennifer Lopez just got married. Former President Clinton just got disbarred by the Supreme Court. No one really cares. America has ( Read more... )

America needs you- well, actually, America needs your money. If Americans halt their consumerism in fear of war, we will be stricken with a depression. Already, airlines and vacation locations are having trouble remaining solvent. 100,000 airline employees have been laid-off. Disney may soon be purchased by another company. The disasters afflicting ( Read more... )