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Less is More, and all Jobs Suck

Knowledge + Experience = Wisdom Episode 128 If you listened to (or watched) KEW Episode 15 about the Rat Race, you’ll know my feelings on jobs. And consumerism. And keeping up with the Joneses. I think most human problems stem from our relationship with money. And possessions. And ownership.  Many smart people will say that this mess all started when the first (fat, white, male) humans decided they could own land. Prior to that, it…

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“Your Freedom is an Illusion” FLASHBACK! KEW Episode 13: Slavery

Freedom is a popular reason for doing a lot of things in the USA. This may be true in other countries, but I live in the US and that’s what I know. People talk about how war is a fight for freedom. Or that freedom of speech allows racism. And how they want to be free from government rule and intervention. To me, none of this stuff is really about freedom. Or, if it is,…

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Preview KEW Episode 70: The Great Resignation

Over the last few weeks we’ve been hearing a lot about people quitting their jobs and not going back to work. Some economist coined the term, ‘The Great Resignation’ to describe this more-than-usual number of people leaving the workforce. Also called the ‘Big Quit’, there are something like 5 Million more people not working than there would be without Covid. And I have been wrestling with what I see as a contradiction to all this…

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