The more complex the system, the more points of failure. Southwest Airlines’ meltdown is just a harbinger of things to come — By David Grace (Amazon Page — David Grace Website) — — — — A Chain Is Only As Reliable As Its Weakest Link — — — — My High-Tech Odyssey I was on the internet and clicked on a text box. I typed a few characters and nothing happened. What? Oh, crap, the battery in the wireless keyboard is dead. Well, that’s no problem. I’ll just put in a new battery.

In 2022 the average wealth of a person in the top 10% was 110 TIMES larger than the average wealth of all Americans in the bottom 50% — By David Grace (Amazon Page — David Grace Website) I’ve written several times about how the feedback effect drives unchecked systems pear-shaped and then destroys them. If Unchecked The Feedback Effect Always Turns An Economic Anarchist Society Into A Plutocracy The feedback effect always drives unbalanced systems to the extremes, never to the middle. Unless checked, the rich…medium.com

Is Need + Wealth Pricing Extortion Or Just Good Business? — — David Grace (Amazon Page — David Grace Website) Certain Points Of View Are Hard-Wired Into People’s Brains The Tree-Falling-In-The-Forest Question Different people have inherently different ways of looking at the same thing. There’s the old “tree falling in the forest” question that will be answered one way by some people and another way by other people. …

Very rich people, or those who want to pretend to be very rich, have always found ways to identify themselves to other “people like us.” — — David Grace (Amazon Page — David Grace Website) Humans communicate in many ways. Sometimes the message is explicit: “You’re fired.” But often human communications are more subtle. Indirect Messaging The boy who asked a girl to go to the movies with him on Saturday night and was told that…

Everyone has the right to know who’s publishing hate and lies about them — By David Grace (Amazon Page — David Grace Website) Having A Right Without A Corresponding Responsibility Is A Myth For every right — speech, press, religion — you have an equal measure of responsibility. The notion that you can have rights without being subject to a corresponding, equal measure of…

Secure reasonable rents by imposing an Excess Rent Tax that removes the landlord’s financial incentive to charge an excessive rent — By David Grace (Amazon Page — David Grace Website) The Free Market No Longer Drives Rents Down We have long counted on free-market competition to yield competitive rent prices based on the Cost + Overhead + Profit formula. Historically, a successful, mature business in a competitive market has earned a…

We can no longer depend on the free market to deliver low prices. New tools are needed to deliver Cost + Overhead + Profit prices — By David Grace (Amazon Page — David Grace Website) People think that the free market always means price competition which always drives prices down to a Cost + Overhead + Profit level. It’s true that for products with (1) A large additional available supply and with (2) Many independent sellers

The dramatic increase in recent years of the toxic emotions that drive susceptible, noxious human beings — By David Grace (Amazon Page — David Grace Website) I get a daily email called Pocket that contains links to articles that the editors think people might find interesting. Pocket recently send me the link to an article by Maria Popova published in The Marginalian on September 20, 2015, titled…

Might it be better for the Democrats if Trump isn’t arrested until sometime after 2024? — By David Grace (Amazon Page — David Grace Website) Let’s Be Clear About My Personal Feelings To begin with, I don’t know if the proper phrase to capture the essence of Donald Trump’s character is The King of Snakes, The King Of Liars, The King of Narcissists or The King…