Category: Wealth Inequality

MUSK $50 BILLION BONUS & PLUTOCRACY

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[Analysis and Opinion.] Elon Musk has demanded that Tesla pay him a bonus of $50 billion. Here’s a link to a story about it: https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2024/06/05/tesla-shareholders-vote-on-elon-musks-50-billion-pay-package-next-week-heres-whats-at-stake/ We’ve previously expressed our view that one of the biggest dangers facing the United States is the risk of oligopoly.   See https://reasonandbalance.com/worlds-biggest-problems-ai-and-more/.   It would have been more correct to say Read More …

World’s Biggest Problems: AI Plus Some Tunes

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[MUSIC, ENTERTAINMENT and OPINION.] [Note:  The purpose of this blog is to enlighten and educate the reader about music and other current and important issues. The article about the “World’s Biggest Problems” is in the form of an editorial in the middle or break portion of the fictional radio broadcast below.  Please see the very Read More …

America in Danger

AMERICA IN DANGER

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[ANALYSIS and OPINION.] A politically polarized and divided America is a weak America. A weak America is a less influential actor in international affairs and makes the world a more dangerous place. It also makes everyday life here at home less certain, prone to social disharmony, less business-friendly and thus a far less pleasant place Read More …

Civil Rights Protest Effectiveness

Musings of a Fifty-Year Graduate

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[ANALYSIS and OPINION.]   As I write this, it is the 50th Anniversary of my high school graduation.  I won’t get into how Watergate compares to January 6th and/or how the Vietnam War compares to Ukraine etc.  Suffice it to say these are extremely precarious, and even dangerous, times both in terms of international relations Read More …

On Campus College Sports

SHOULD STUDENT LOANS BE FORGIVEN ?

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[ANALYSIS and OPINION.]   Student debt, particularly federally guaranteed student debt, is a big problem.  According to studentloanhero.com there is $1.75 trillion in federally guaranteed student debt out there.  And, over 11 percent of those loans are more than 90 days in arrears.  That amount of student debt, if it were all forgiven, would amount, Read More …

FREEDOM DIES POLITICIANS FIDDLE

LIBERTY DIES:  POLITICIANS FIDDLE

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[ANALYSIS AND OPINION] For the last eight months, we, (whom we shall sometimes also refer to simply as “SS”, which is a sister website of reasonandbalance.com),  have dealt with two global giants that control, by far, the lion’s share of all internet browsing.  Not only that but because they allow companies to advertise on their Read More …