While I don’t think that productivity and efficiency is the answer to life, nor should it be your only focus … there are still a ton of benefits from Getting Stuff Done. A ton.
Tag: consequences
The Problem Definition Fallacy
Any problem solution algorithm must go through a problem definition stage, but all problem definitions do not lead to an appropriate solution. You cannot solve, but by random luck, a problem that you do not understand. And that blind-hog solution will probably not survive downstream consequences for long.
Stopping the Flow
An old TV ad cautioned us, “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.” Yet we persist in trying fictions to stem the tide. The news is full of ships wrecked on those hazards to navigation. Let’s pass a piece of legislation outlawing fictions, and the first fiction will be flaunted while the ink is still wet.
Climate Change
The malady of the modern day is to have the wrong argument about a pertinent question. A complication of that malady is the spreading of the wrong information about the premises.
Enough Problems without Government
The threat posed by belief in government is greater in some areas but seems unavoidable everywhere, and that’s insane. Getting away from government is part of the reason the frontier has been historically popular, and without a frontier or other state-free spaces, there’s a ticking time bomb that can’t be defused. Society will eventually pay a price it can’t afford.
Causes and Consequences
Again, I will remind myself and the reader that Ockham’s Razor, while championing simplicity, is actually a call for the optimum. My understanding of Friar William’s admonition is that the simplest explanation which fits all the facts is the most likely to be true. There is implied in this that the explanation also must be complex enough to fit all the facts.
A Critique and a Defense of Mythologizing the Past
Was Abraham Lincoln really a moral leader who saved the United States and ended slavery? Did George Washington really save the Continental Army and win the American revolution? Was Thomas Jefferson really a forward-thinking liberalizer?
Identity and Social Constructs
I pity most people who get lost in identity. These are people pigeonholing themselves. These are people who can’t accept themselves. These are people who can’t negotiate who they are and how they feel with society and so they abandon themselves and opt to become an artificial construct.
Trade War, War on Trade, and War for Trade
There is no such thing as a “trade war”, since trade is by definition a peaceful, mutually beneficial activity. However, there is such a thing as the war on trade – that is, the war on the entrepreneurial ethos, cheap and high-quality goods, and peaceful international relations.
We Can’t Survive at $X/Hour
If an $X per hour wage is the minimum wage, you are right. Most can’t survive at that level. You must move up or you will move down (into the gray labor market or the black labor market). As Thomas Sowell says, the real minimum wage is $0.