17 Jan, 2025
Op 15 januari 2025 waarschuwde de vertrekkende Amerikaanse president zijn landgenoten voor de "machtsconcentratie bij ultrarijken" (VRT), en "een tech-industrieel complex" (Trouw). Zijn woorden houden mij al langere tijd bezig: is deze verwachting een dystopische perceptie, of een realiteit?? "Ik wil het land waarschuwen voor enkele zaken die mij grote zorgen...
16 Jan, 2025
In my 2023 blog, I wrote that Margaret Atwood’s 1985 futuristic dystopian novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, will become reality. First in China, and then in USA. The 2024 SCMP article (below) arrived much earlier than I expected. The reason is quite simple: a collapsing society due to China’s disastrous one-child policy over a 35 year period (ie, 1979 to 2015). China’s...
20 Dec, 2024
“The boiling frog is an apologue describing a frog being slowly boiled alive. The premise is that if a frog is put suddenly into boiling water, it will jump out, but if the frog is put in tepid water which is then brought to a boil slowly, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death. The story is often used as a metaphor for the inability or...
12 Dec, 2024
Intro LO: A recent Axios article on the U.S. rank in global healthy life expectancy caught my attention. The American healthcare system is a conundrum as it’s the best and the most expensive, while American life expectancy is only declining. The recent killing of an American healthcare CEO shows another, dark, industry feature because it’s “excellent” in denying...
9 Dec, 2024
Intro LO: In my view, the premise of this article (ie, winning versus losing) is wrong. Mainstream media have not (yet) lost. Actually, it might well be (much) worse: mainstream media are (slowly) becoming irrelevant. The reason for that (alleged) irrelevance is about facts versus opinions. Mainstream media have migrated towards opinions - rather than facts -...
3 Dec, 2024
Many articles claim that Trump's proposed surge in import tariffs (eg, Canada & Mexico, BRICS nations) will cause a surge in inflation. In and of itself, that (primary) argument is true. However, such articles often ignore its secondary impact, on demand & supply. Rising inflation will only be relevant for goods & services that we need. Items that we...
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