My Fellow Compassionate Capitalists: When I was a kid I took everything my parents said to be GOSPEL! Why would they ever have any need to lie to me??? This allowed me to have a superiority complex due to the fact I would never have to find answers to questions based on my own merits. […]
Monthly Archives: September 2021
My Fellow Compassionate Capitalists: Everyone old enough remembers exactly what they were doing on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. If all of our mornings did not start out the same way…. we all ended our evening the same way. Shock and disbelief that for the first time since the Civil War…enemy combatants had […]
My Fellow Compassionate Capitalists: In Mr. Olson‘s third grade class I was one of the star students. In order to incentivize the other students to get good grades Mr. Olson introduced an economic system based on “schnickles“. As students turned in their homework and grades were handed out, we would each get schnickles. Obviously the […]
My Fellow Compassionate Capitalists: When I lived in the Philippines a lifetime ago I took part in a financial experiment that forever changed the way that I perceived people to understand money. For mathematical purposes… at the time one American dollar was the equivalent to 30 Filipino pesos. If one peso was the equivalent of […]