The definition of insanity is doing the same minimum wage job repeatedly and expecting different results. The wealthiest Americans and business employers have had the upper hand for decades. They’ve reaped more and more gains from the economy in the last four decades. …

Find a job that pays you enough to live on and work fewer hours so you can do what pleases you. — I found the first perfect combination six years ago. Times might be a little different now. Yet, businesses still need writers. Perhaps even more so during this pandemic. My maths (I’m British) is rubbish (still British), but I knew I could work 24 hours at €23.50 per week and earn…

Since 2020, I wonder how many people have gone without close personal contact. — Pre-pandemic, 36.48 million people were already living alone, but at least they had friends and family they could regularly see. I once read about a woman who had a massage every few weeks just for the touch of another human. My son was the only other human who hugged me…

for one day in an emergency. — You’ll be surprised how much we use on an ordinary day. How much water, on average, do you think we use globally? Africans can and do survive on 5.28 gallons of water per day. …

German colonialists’ genocide of two African tribes started in 1904, but North America started racial cleansing much earlier. — German colonialists’ genocide of two African tribes started in 1904, but North America started racial cleansing much earlier. The biologically based racial cleansing of Nazi policy started before WW1 in Germany’s African colonies. Two populations of the colonies rose against their oppressors. The Hereros and the Nama.

It’s a case of deciding to do so. — Every time we buy something, we line the world’s top asset management firms’ vaults with our hard-earned cash. Aren’t you tired of making rich people richer? According to Isaiah McCall in BlackRock is Secretly Taking Over the World Right Now: “BlackRock, Fidelity, Vanguard and State Street are the four horsemen…