Same Shit, Different Decade.
5 days ago - 
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My new puppy! Dudley! (Taken with instagram)
Best pic I could get before I spooked her, she was traipsing through my backyard. :) (Taken with instagram)
Ok, yeah, I may have a bit of a problem, I admit it. (Taken with instagram)
I really, really want this to be legitimate.
1 week ago - 36
36The TED Talk You’re Not Supposed To Know About.
Uber-wealthy venture capitalist, Nick Hanauer, gave a TED Talk saying rich people don’t create jobs - and TED is refusing to put the video online.
Here is an excerpt from his speech:
I can say with confidence that rich people don’t create jobs, nor do businesses, large or small. What does lead to more employment is a “circle of life” like feedback loop between customers and businesses. And only consumers can set in motion this virtuous cycle of increasing demand and hiring. In this sense, an ordinary middle-class consumer is far more of a job creator than a capitalist like me.
So when businesspeople take credit for creating jobs, it’s a little like squirrels taking credit for creating evolution. In fact, it’s the other way around.
Anyone who’s ever run a business knows that hiring more people is a capitalists course of last resort, something we do only when increasing customer demand requires it. In this sense, calling ourselves job creators isn’t just inaccurate, it’s disingenuous.
That’s why our current policies are so upside down. When you have a tax system in which most of the exemptions and the lowest rates benefit the richest, all in the name of job creation, all that happens is that the rich get richer.
The powerpoint slides he used in his presentation can be found by clicking here.
Chris Anderson, this is bullshit, if the subject matter is too controversial for TED to put online; then why did TED and yourself ask him to speak on it in the first place?
2 weeks ago - 1
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Odds are, if you were a nerd who grew up in the 90s, you remember these three guys.
2 weeks ago - 4
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(Source: katyisahappycamper)
2 weeks ago - 3
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Graduation gift from my father. Leather bound editions of some of the greatest literature ever written. :) (Taken with instagram)
