Showing posts with label commercial morality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label commercial morality. Show all posts
Monday, May 12, 2025

Official Innumeracy

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Cutting tariffs by 115% means that everything gets a 15% subsidy, perhaps by a reduction in declared value. Secretary of the Treasury Scott ...
Sunday, October 23, 2022

Value and Worth

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“What’s it worth?” Bill Bradford ( Wikipedia here )  asked me. That was about 1976 in his store, Liberty Coins, on Abbott Road in East Lansi...
Sunday, September 12, 2021

The Mercury Dime

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When I first was given the opportunity to choose my own username on a mainframe computer (actually, a DEC VAX super-mini) in 1989, I asked f...
Tuesday, February 2, 2021

The Audacity of Entrepreneurship

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"What comes out of a team or a committee is the most daring idea that the least daring man can accept." John Arnold. "Space, ...
Wednesday, February 12, 2020

A Good Place with Inadequate Philosophy

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We enjoyed  The Good Place . We watched it on disc and look forward to the release of Season 4. The show’s chatty dialogs on moral philosop...
Monday, March 26, 2018

Plato and Aristotle; Gates and Jobs

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A picture is worth a thousand words . Previously on Necessary Facts Joy Hakim's "Aristotle Leads the Way"   Sc...
Monday, January 16, 2017

What is “Legal Tender”?

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Once again, this time on the Galt’s Gulch Online message board, my conservative comrades displayed a disappointing though predictable ignor...
Monday, August 31, 2015

Why a Level Playing Field?

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Why does the government have a responsibility to make the playing field level?   Let us at least be on the same playing field. S...
Friday, June 19, 2015

The Ferengi Rules of Commerce

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Intended as humor or parody, this little book offers a megagram of useful – if contradictory – advice. Before the invention of the Fe...