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America Has Hit “Peak Jobs”

http://tcrn.ch/11Z89XW

The revolution will not be hand-stitched

http://bit.ly/1gR453t

A basic income of about $10,000 per US citizen would work mathematically

http://bit.ly/1ckVIYr

Etsy’s Industrial Revolution

http://nyti.ms/17Qif2b

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Young and Educated in Europe, but Desperate for Jobs

http://nyti.ms/1bAXiqO

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Switzerland’s Proposal to Pay People for Being Alive

http://nyti.ms/1iZXnVG

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How to Fix 30 Years of Redistribution: Tax the Rich

http://bit.ly/Zy8IkU

I have to confess, I've never understood people who claim that a flat income tax is somehow fairer than a strongly progressive one. I mean, I could understand it if only very wealthy people said that, or people with frankly terrible math skills, but regular people?

When I was a baby, and visited Belgium, my mother was confronted with her father's similar notion of fairness one day at lunch. There were four adults and two children at lunch, so he made 12 sausages and gave two to each of us, never mind that that meant the baby and the toddler had the same size portion as my hulking uncle who could easily inhale six all on his own! Of course, anybody who has ever dealt with children (except, of course, my grandfather) can tell you why that's not actually a fair way to divide the food, and it's not a fair way to divide taxes either.