Category Archives: Our Theory
Earn it
Our attention has recently been captivated with a very interesting article by Theodore Dalrymple. In it he talks about hospitals in parts of East London, and the doctors coming to help out from places such as India and the Philippines and India. It turns out they tend to find the patients in East London worse [...]
How America is like You
If you are in the United States you are probably aware that the debt ceiling has been raised and the country’s rating has (so far) maintained its high status. That’s nice, but what does it mean in real life? It might be easiest to treat the country like a person, say you or me. The [...]
Is it better to live in Old or Modern Cities?
Everyone is familiar with the dictum “This is the way we’ve always done it” or “It’s always worked this way so why change it?” or “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it” or “It’s our tradition”. When you next hear these, or any variation thereof, alarm bells should be going on in your head. Anything [...]
Licenses for Idiots
If you need to have an operation, you hope that your doctor is well trained. In fact, you demand it, and by seeing the word “Doctor” in front of his or her name, you can be assured that your doctor has received training and has been capable and intelligent enough to earn a degree from [...]
How to Find a Job
We recently came across an article in Wired Magazine by Peter Thiel (of Paypal fame and early investor in Facebook) with some very interesting conclusions. Briefly, he mentions how the best and brightest of our society tend to shoot for elite universities like Harvard, where they then proceed to interact with people more or less [...]
