Let’s Go All In On Inequality

I used to be a communist that believed everyone should be equal, or was that a Christian that believed all men are created equal. Whatever, perhaps it is time to put foolish dreams aside.

Who is anyone to say that others are not inherently worth more than them, perhaps because they work harder, are smarter, or are born into the right families. Perhaps inequality is the preferred state of humanity.

Others may indeed be worthy of earning twice or thrice as much as you or having twice or thrice the wealth. Indeed even as excessive a level of inequality as five times may be justified. But I am going to propose ten times because that is an order of magnitude and beyond reason and a level that any higher would be incomprehensible to rational people.

So let us build a society where the highest income earner earns ten times the lowest earner and the richest person is ten times wealthier than the poorest. Let’s do it. Let’s go all in on inequality.

Daylight Saving Time Is Stupid

So will this be the year we stop having to change our clocks twice a year. We have a month to make the decision.

If I understand it we change our clocks twice a year so our working hours (and hours awake) align better with when the sun is out. This of course changes our sleeping hours.

Of course the big problem with that is that not everyone has the same working hours. Traditionally office workers worked 9-5 and factory workers 8-4 and construction workers might start even earlier and there are people working 12 hours shifts and numerous other variations, not to mention shift work, etc., so it is impossible to align our working hours with when the sun is out.

What we do now is change our clocks and our sleeping hours by a large one hour twice a year which is documented to cause health and other problems.

If we kept the same time year round the difference between our working hours and hours of sunlight would change a tiny amount 365 times a year.

This is clearly the healthier and more sensible alternative yet somehow almost every jurisdiction lacks the political will to do this.