Personalization, personalization, personalization. It’s the marketer’s buzzword of the moment. Marketers are convinced that more than 70% of consumers demand it, and they’ll walk if they don’t get it. What personalization means exactly is not always clear. If it means you don’t have to re-enter your credit card on your 5th purchase from a website, […]
Category: capitalism
It’s Time to Just Say No to Oil and Gas
Ah, oil. Black gold. The bewitching shimmering glow of money in every gooey black molecule. Oil in many ways is just as much the stuff of fantasy as gold is. But like gold, although it still has its allure, it’s less and less useful in real life. Oh it’s been useful for a long time […]
Waste Not, Want Not? A Call for Corporate Responsibility
There’s a set of ideas and practices known as Leave No Trace that encourage individuals leave no waste behind when they visit nature (i.e., leave no trace). The idea is for individuals to be nature’s stewards, preserving the natural world for the benefit of all, including future generations. An underlying presumption of this call to […]
Taxes and Billionaires – You’re Subsidizing the Ultra-Wealthy
Americans have trouble saving for retirement. Americans have trouble saving for retirement because Americans don’t make enough money to save. And even if Americans do manage to save some for retirement – they don’t know what they’re doing. That’s because most Americans don’t know jack about squat when it comes to money. Meanwhile……. WHY? Well-known […]
Wall Street
Wall Street – the history According to Wikipedia, in 1711, the city of New York made “a market at the foot of Wall Street the city’s first official slave market for the sale and rental of enslaved Black people and Indians.” That little factoid kind of sets the tone for the relationship between Wall Street (the financial […]
