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Sun Nov 24, 2024 —
Prices Don’t Go Down
With a new U.S. President looming on the horizon and the policies he’ll bring along, people are hoping for economic improvements, for some reason. Unfortunately, the harsh reality of modern economics suggests that prices must always go up.
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Mon Aug 12, 2024 —
How Does the System Make You Feel?
A quick essay that’s a long time coming on how the economic system of our world makes me feel. In a word: demoralized.
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Wed Oct 26, 2022 —
Irrational Economics
Why did I pay $12 for a water bottle at a festival? Why did you buy Tylenol over the generic brand of acetaminophen? Did you know it’s really easy to cause liver damage with acetaminophen? In this post, I laugh at the bad economic decisions we make as humans every day.
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Fri Aug 12, 2022 —
The Economics of Sustainability
A brief (by university standards) essay that ties together history, economics, philosophy, ethics, nutrition, and environmentalism to analyze the prosperity resulting from capitalism and industrialization in contrast to our hopes for a sustainable society.