Showing posts with label industrial economy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label industrial economy. Show all posts
10 August 2020

Understanding the Republican and Democratic Party Divide Today as a Divide Between an Industrial and Information Economy

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The last time I was on Google's campus, I was training 7 project managers. At one point it came out that 6 of the 7 had gone to Saturday...

How Compound Interest Made the Industrial Economy Obsolete

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We don't have good intuition for compound interest over time. Imagine that two families each started with $100 in 1900. One family enjoy...
31 July 2020

Kent State and a Half-Century Conflict Between Two Economies and Two Kinds of Labor: Factory Workers and Knowledge Workers

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On May 4, 1970, the National Guard opened fire on student protesters at Kent State, killing 4 and wounding 9. On one side of campus were gua...
25 August 2019

It's Time to Stop Pretending That Both Sides are Equal: Trump's Parade is Leading Backwards on Progress

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From about 1830 to about 1900, the Democratic party was all madness and defense of the agricultural economy and the Republicans were the pro...
24 August 2019

Contrasting the Districts that Supported and Opposed Trump: It Comes Down to a Divide Between Industrial vs. Information Economies

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Nerd that I am, I collected some data on the 15 congressional districts where Trump won the largest percentage of votes and the 15 districts...
27 May 2019

Predicting the 2020 Election: How the Popular Vote is Driven by the Ratio of Knowledge Workers to Factory Workers

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In 1972, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) set quotas for women, minorities and students. Curiously, the party that had championed la...
15 May 2019

The Real Economic Debate (is not about socialism or capitalism)

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The big debate isn’t about whether we should have a socialist or capitalist economy.  Depending on how you define those terms, socialism a...
28 May 2018

Trump as Trickster

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Lewis Hyde's  Trickster Makes This World   is a brilliant look at how trickster gods from cultures on every continent seem to be a const...