<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" > <channel> <title>Economy – Dangerous Intersection</title> <atom:link href="https://dangerousintersection.org/category/economy/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>https://dangerousintersection.org</link> <description>Human Animals at the Crossroads of Science, Religion, Media and Culture</description> <lastBuildDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2025 17:55:37 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en-US</language> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <site xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2851851</site> <item> <title>About Focusing on One’s Priorities</title> <link>https://dangerousintersection.org/2025/01/27/about-focusing-on-ones-priorities/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=about-focusing-on-ones-priorities&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=about-focusing-on-ones-priorities</link> <comments>https://dangerousintersection.org/2025/01/27/about-focusing-on-ones-priorities/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Erich Vieth]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2025 17:55:37 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Self Improvement]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Quality of Life]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Simple living]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://dangerousintersection.org/?p=41536</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>“Beware the barrenness of a busy life.”<br /> Socrates</p> <p>As a gift to myself this year, I’ve been doubling-down on my need to spent my waning hours my intentionally. Waning? I’m 68, so I’ve already lived most of my life. That said, I’m in good physical shape and I’m passionate about my work as a civil rights attorney (especially First Amendment). Every day I treasure opportunities to engage with friends and family, especially the love of my life, Beverly, who I met one year ago today. I am a serious musician and an exhibiting artist. I’m lucky in more ways than I can count.</p> <p>But numbers don’t lie. Last year I made an intrepid assumption that I’ll live about 20 more years. Simple math reveals that this is only 240 more months. Last month went quickly. In fact, the better I am at living a mindful, principled and socially engaged life, the more quickly the months flash by. My endgame: If I’m really fortunate, I’ll be able to look back at my 20 year Plan and consider that it was a life well-lived, which will make it much easier to deal with my inevitable decay and death. But how do I keep on track, giving my cravings to attend to more things than I can possibly absorb?</p> <p>This year I committed to unsubscribing from emails lists that seemed like good ideas at the time. There are also many commercial emails that keep popping in, unsolicited. In the past few weeks, I …</p>]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>https://dangerousintersection.org/2025/01/27/about-focusing-on-ones-priorities/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">41536</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Thomas Sowell Quotes</title> <link>https://dangerousintersection.org/2024/07/29/thomas-sowell-quotes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=thomas-sowell-quotes&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=thomas-sowell-quotes</link> <comments>https://dangerousintersection.org/2024/07/29/thomas-sowell-quotes/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Erich Vieth]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2024 18:10:27 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA["Race" and Racism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[DEI]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Free Market]]></category> <category><![CDATA[income disparity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Woke Issues]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://dangerousintersection.org/?p=40259</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Excellent collection of quotes by economist Thomas Sowell:</p> <p><a href="https://x.com/Mastering_life_/status/1817542784640860421" target="_blank"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-40260 " src="http://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-29-at-1.03.29-PM-864x1024.png" alt="Screenshot 2024 07 29 at 1.03.29 PM" width="604" height="715" title="Thomas Sowell Quotes 1" srcset="https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-29-at-1.03.29-PM-864x1024.png 864w, https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-29-at-1.03.29-PM-253x300.png 253w, https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-29-at-1.03.29-PM-768x911.png 768w, https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Screenshot-2024-07-29-at-1.03.29-PM.png 1012w" sizes="(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px"/></a></p> <p>Here are a few of my favorites:</p> <p>“Intellect is not wisdom”</p> <p>“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth.<br /> When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”</p> <p>“The truth is often not complicated.<br /> What gets complex is evading the truth.”</p> <p>“The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is. He confuses it with feeling”</p> <p>“The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one’s own behavior.”</p> <p>“When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.”</p> <p>“There’s now a world in which the success of others is a grievance, rather than an example”</p> <p>“Since this is an era of ‘fairness’ & ‘social justice… what is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has worked for?”</p> <p>“One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again.”…</p>]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>https://dangerousintersection.org/2024/07/29/thomas-sowell-quotes/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">40259</post-id> </item> <item> <title>RFK, Jr. Comments on Davos</title> <link>https://dangerousintersection.org/2024/04/25/rfk-jr-comments-on-davos/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rfk-jr-comments-on-davos&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rfk-jr-comments-on-davos</link> <comments>https://dangerousintersection.org/2024/04/25/rfk-jr-comments-on-davos/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Erich Vieth]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 05:42:14 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[income disparity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Monopolies-Antitrust Issues]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://dangerousintersection.org/?p=39795</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>GLENN BECK: “Where do you stand on the WEF, the World Economic Forum?”</p> <p>ROBERT KENNEDY JR: “It is like we shouldn’t be paying any attention. <a href="https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1783314378466402612" target="_blank" rel="noopener">It’s a billionaire’s boys club that’s arranging the world to shift wealth upward</a> and to clamp down totalitarian controls on everybody else. And now, they got the capacity to do it. They got all these countries running around doing what they tell them to do. It’s astonishing to me that these people go to Davos in their private jets, and they’re able to tell these world leaders how to govern us in ways that eradicate our constitutional and civil rights and constantly shifting wealth upward.”</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1783314378466402612" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter wp-image-39796" src="http://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-25-at-12.40.12 AM.png" alt="Screenshot 2024 04 25 at 12.40.12 AM" width="415" height="642" title="RFK, Jr. Comments on Davos 2" srcset="https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-25-at-12.40.12 AM.png 510w, https://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-25-at-12.40.12 AM-194x300.png 194w" sizes="(max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px"/></a>…</p>]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>https://dangerousintersection.org/2024/04/25/rfk-jr-comments-on-davos/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">39795</post-id> </item> <item> <title>Our Incredible Shrinking Attention Span</title> <link>https://dangerousintersection.org/2024/04/22/our-incredible-shrinking-attention-span/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=our-incredible-shrinking-attention-span&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=our-incredible-shrinking-attention-span</link> <comments>https://dangerousintersection.org/2024/04/22/our-incredible-shrinking-attention-span/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Erich Vieth]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2024 17:03:47 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Psychology Cognition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[American Culture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Quality of Life]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Self Improvement]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Simple living]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sustainable Living]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://dangerousintersection.org/?p=39758</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Gloria Mark is a professor of informatics at the University of California, Irvine. She has documented an overall shrinking of the attention span of Americans. This is not a good thing for various reasons, including switching costs. Here is an excerpt <a href="https://www.apa.org/news/podcasts/speaking-of-psychology/attention-spans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">from her interview by Kim Mills</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Mills: . . . How much have our attention spans shrunk?</p> <p>Mark: So we started measuring this back in 2004, and at the time the measures that we used were stopwatches because that was the most precise thing we had at the time. We would shadow people with stopwatches for every single activity they did. We would record the start time and the stop time. So you’re on a screen where you’re working in a Word doc, as soon as you get to that screen, we clicked start time, soon as they turned away and checked email, we clicked stop time for the Word document, start time for the email. But fortunately, sophisticated computer logging methods were developed, and so of course we switched to those. So back in 2004, we found the average attention span on any screen to be two and a half minutes on average. Throughout the years it became shorter. So around 2012 we found it to be 75 seconds.</p> <p>This is with logging techniques. This is an average. And then in the last five, six years, we found it to average about 47 seconds, and others have replicated this result within a few seconds. So it seems </p></blockquote>…]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>https://dangerousintersection.org/2024/04/22/our-incredible-shrinking-attention-span/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">39758</post-id> </item> <item> <title>The Number One Rule When Dealing with Any Organization</title> <link>https://dangerousintersection.org/2024/04/19/the-number-one-rule-when-dealing-with-any-organization/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-number-one-rule-when-dealing-with-any-organization&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-number-one-rule-when-dealing-with-any-organization</link> <comments>https://dangerousintersection.org/2024/04/19/the-number-one-rule-when-dealing-with-any-organization/#respond</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Erich Vieth]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2024 00:49:13 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[hypocrisy]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://dangerousintersection.org/?p=39742</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>We have schools that don’t teach, public health organizations that don’t protect our health, news reporters who are not curious and a Department of “Defense,” an aggressive perpetrator of violence around the world, the world’s biggest bully and propaganda machine. What do each of these institutions have in common? They often fail to do the work they claim to do. Economist Thomas Sowell’s advice:</p> <blockquote><p>When examining institutions, it is critically important “to distinguish between:</p> <p>(1) examining issues and institutions in terms of their process characteristics versus</p> <p>(2) examining them in terms of their proclaimed goals or ideals….</p></blockquote> <p><em>Knowledge and Decisions</em>, Preface to 1996 Edition.…</p>]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>https://dangerousintersection.org/2024/04/19/the-number-one-rule-when-dealing-with-any-organization/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> <post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">39742</post-id> </item> </channel> </rss>