As a way of stimulating conversation around how much is enough… …how about a Lotto where you choose the size of the first division prize. This already exists in Australia, where at the Lotto outlets… Read More »Choose Your Own Lotto
Stock buybacks are a major problem in themselves. While once upon a time they did serve a function – using excess cash to buy your own shares when the market has them below what they… Read More »Stock Buybacks and Execs
With depopulation and degrowth looking inevitable a few decades from now, how can an individual corporation plan for it, and prosper? Here’s a hypothetical: smart phones become so good (and have actual longevity) that people… Read More »Scaling Down
Some business-types lend themselves to a new model for the customer-management-workers matrix. For example, security companies, the sort who hire out bouncers to nightclubs. The business model is simplistic, it is labor-intensive, and the customers… Read More »Super-Unions and Customer Collectives
Aside from the obvious – a pint of beer costs a poor person a greater percentage of their income than a rich person – maybe inequality is causing a visit to the pub to become… Read More »Beer and Inequality
We all understand addictions, and extreme wealth could be seen as such. But it is much more than that – addictions tend to primarily harm the addict, while the extreme rich steal from the poor… Read More »When Wealth Feeds Upon Itself
It is not an accident that supermarkets are, more and more so, adding their own products to the shelves. It works out more profitable for them (directly as a product, and indirectly as leverage against… Read More »A Law to Stymie Amazon
Note permit, not tax. But essentially the same thing. One big cause of inequality is from property ownership versus renting. Especially where people or businesses own multiple properties. They gain from increased property prices that… Read More »Non-resident Property Permits
It is happening all around the world… tourist locations are struggling to have enough accomodation for their local residents, particularly low-paid workers. It will work itself out in the long-term, because tourism needs workers, and… Read More »Short-term rentals and Inequality
In Australia, property owners receive two distinct tax advantages: Negative Gearing: If your rental property runs at a loss, that loss can be used as a tax deduction against other income. Effectively that means that… Read More »Negative Gearing: Tax Cut for the Rich