Politics: Latest articles
The latest articles for this subsite.
- Pyramid belief schemes
- We have heard about financial pyramid schemes where they only work while everyone believes in them, collapsing otherwise. However, a lot of what we take for granted has exactly the same fragile basis.
- Elections
- Elections provide an opportunity for citizens to decide who will represent them. To prevent manipulation and undue influence by influential people and groups, elections need to be carefully regulated.
- The stock market
- The stock market is the official way that people provide finance for companies in return for a share of the profits. Speculation destabilises this process.
- Saving capitalism
- Money allows organic social mobility, but when too much focus is placed on it, people suffer and the monetary systems become dysfunctional.
- History
- History is conventionally seen as the record of the deeds of great and influential people. They might be the triggers but they didn't make history.
- YouTube – a creative wasteland
- YouTube is very popular, but it seems to be filled with much dubious content.
- Support Israel = call to violence
- We have seen what Israel is doing in Gaza and the West Bank, and it is more of the same violence that has occurred to the Palestinians since before its founding.
- Fake inflation solutions
- The typical measure taken to alleviate inflation is to increase bank borrowing rates to curb the business activity that would tend to riskier investments, but is that really working?
- The violence is already normalised!
- Many people are fretting over the public response to the assassination of the UnitedHealthcare CEO, and what it means for civil society.
- Rogue AI just might be our liberation
- While tech bros and governments call for a slowdown in AI development by projecting that it could kill us all, is that just a smokescreen?