The first time I saw the hashtag #stopasianhate it was at the bottom of an email with a brief mention of ‘shootings in Atlanta.’ I thought, what a shame, another shooting - and this time it’s a hate crime against Asian-americans. I quickly googled ‘atlanta shooting’ and read the first couple articles that popped up. My immediate observation was that the very first article said something to the effect of ‘the suspect says race was not a motivating factor in the shooting.’ If that’s the case then ... Read more
Anthropology
Why the Caveman is the Ideal of Personal Finance
A question that arises often both in personal finance circles and casual financial discussions is the age old, “What is the safest investment I can make?” The very sight of this question, generates feelings in some with passion as strong as asking them what they think about the president. If one person says real estate is the safest investment, another will retort with, “but what if the housing market crashes?” If another person says the stock market, someone else will ask, “but what if the ... Read more
On the Human Capacity for “Us vs. Them”
It’s just another day and down the hall I can hear a bit of the usual one-sided political debate going on. The type of back and forth that consists of multiple people with similar views getting angry, or at least highly antagonistic, at hypothetical people of a certain belief system, for whom they create responses. “Can you believe the [insert politically-affiliated-group]'s actually say that? They actually think [blank] isn’t racist. But if you flip it around, if we had a [blank] that would be ... Read more
Sam
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