"My main defence of cash will be simple and intuitive. As unsexy and analogue as cash is, it is resilient. It is easy to use. It requires little fancy infrastructure. It is not subject to arbitrary algorithmic glitches from incompetent programmers. And, yes, it leaves no data trail that will be used to project the … Continue reading In Praise of Cash
Month: March 2017
The Lonely Middle Aged Man
"Vivek Murthy, the surgeon general of the United States, has said many times in recent years that the most prevalent health issue in the country is not cancer or heart disease or obesity. It is isolation...Beginning in the 1980s, Schwartz says, study after study started showing that those who were more socially isolated were much … Continue reading The Lonely Middle Aged Man
