You’d be hard-pressed to find a tech CEO who doesn’t like UBI. Elon Musk tweeted, “Universal HIGH INCOME via checks issued by the Federal government is the best way to deal with unemployment caused by AI.” (He also claimed, “There will be no poverty in the future,
I wrote this almost 6 years ago, after Biden’s November 2020 victory: And that brings me to the question that is the title of this essay: who would want this job? Republicans break the government over the course of four or eight years, making nonpartisan jobs into partisan ones,
I’ve been trying to read more serious books recently. One that I picked up, on J.W. Mason’s recommendation, is “The Cost of Living in America: A Political History of Economic Statistics, 1880-2000” by Thomas A. Stapleford. The book chronicles the history of price indexes, primarily the
reason.com is a somewhat funny magazine because the standards for writing for it seem almost nonexistent. Reason recently had a summer intern, Sophia Mandt, who is a second-year undergraduate student at Hillsdale College, a Christian school in Michigan which is famous for, among other things, trying to de-
Bryan Johnson, for those of you who don’t know, is the longevity erection billionaire guy. Okay, that probably didn’t make much sense. Let me elaborate: Bryan Johnson is a billionaire (tech, naturally) who wants to live forever — or at least not die anytime soon — and measures his progress
You probably haven’t heard of Ramp. It doesn’t make an app, an LLM, or a social media platform. Instead, it sells software that helps businesses manage their expenses. Sounds boring, right? Nevertheless, Ramp is valued at over $20 billion, and is, as of this writing, the 25th most
Here’s my most conservative belief: if you want something good in life, you have to work for it. Of course, no one really wants to work hard. It would be much easier if we did nothing, or at least as little as possible, and still prospered. The easiest way