“The good news is that successful investing doesn’t require advanced math skills or complex strategies. Instead, it starts with understanding the basic building blocks of investing—known as asset classes—and how they fit together. From the relative safety of a savings account to the growth potential of stocks, each type has different potentials for risk and rewards. Understanding where these different assets stand on the investment risk ladder can give you a solid foundation for getting started in investing.”
“What I told our company was that we were just going to invest our way through the downturn,” he said. “That we weren’t going to lay off people, that we’d taken a tremendous amount of effort to get them into Apple in the first place—the last thing we were going to do is lay them off.”
Universal literacy was supposed to educate the common man to control his environment. Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of a mind, universal literacy has given him rubber stamps, rubber stamps inked with advertising slogans, with editorials, with published scientific data, with the trivialities of the tabloids and the platitudes of history, but quite innocent of original thought. Each man’s rubber stamps are the duplicates of millions of others, so that when those millions are exposed to the same stimuli, all receive identical imprints. It may seem an exaggeration to say that the American public gets most of its ideas in this wholesale fashion. The mechanism by which ideas are disseminated on a large scale is propaganda, in the broad sense of an organized effort to spread a particular belief or doctrine.
Here’s how to estimate your monthly Social Security income in retirement.
In 2024, the average Social Security benefit is $1,862 per month, while the maximum for those retiring at full retirement age is $3,822. Achieving the maximum requires earning the taxable maximum for 35 years.
“Look, I don’t really know where we should take this bus. But I know this much: If we get the right people on the bus, the right people in the right seats, and the wrong people off the bus, then we’ll figure out how to take it someplace great.”
“Erickson’s death highlights a deepening crisis for aging Americans who lack a safety net. In California, people over 55 are the fastest-growing group of unhoused individuals, with two million seniors struggling to afford housing, health care and other basic needs, with millions more nationwide. The problem is especially severe in high-cost metro areas in the West and Northeast, including Seattle, Denver and Boston, as well as in New York and Los Angeles. But housing costs outpace affordability for many seniors in areas including Dallas, Houston and Minneapolis-St. Paul.”
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Opinion: I think you could live really comfortably in Thailand on $1,800 a month.
The manifesto written by Theodore John Kaczynski, titled “Industrial Society and Its Future”, was published in 1995. It consists of 232 paragraphs outlining his critiques of modern technological society, its effects on human freedom, and his views on what could be done to address these issues.
Here’s a broad outline of the manifesto’s main topics:
1. Introduction (Paragraphs 1-6)
Kaczynski introduces his thesis: The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been disastrous for humanity.
He sets the foundation for why he believes modern technology erodes freedom and causes widespread psychological suffering.
2. The Power Process (Paragraphs 7-37)
Explains the concept of the “power process”—a framework of achieving goals and experiencing autonomy in life.
Argues that industrial society disrupts this natural process because basic needs are too easily met, leading to psychological issues.
Introduces terms like “surrogate activities” (unnecessary hobbies or pursuits) that people turn to in order to feel purpose.
3. The Problems of Modern Society (Paragraphs 38-76)
Highlights the growing control of individuals by large systems (e.g., governments, corporations).
Discusses the impact of technology on human autonomy, nature, and small communities.
Critiques the loss of personal freedom due to modern societal rules.
4. The Psychology of Leftism (Paragraphs 8-36, 83-120)
Kaczynski claims that modern “leftism” stems from feelings of inferiority, oversocialization, and a desire for control.
He argues that leftists often oppose technology in ways that still reinforce technological systems, undermining true revolution.
5. Disruption of Human Behavior (Paragraphs 121-144)
Explores how technological systems force humans to behave in unnatural ways.
Asserts that people are manipulated into conformity by bureaucratic systems and societal norms.
6. The Future of Industrial Society (Paragraphs 145-182)
Predicts two potential outcomes:
Technology continues to advance, leading to complete control over human behavior and loss of freedom.
The industrial system collapses, providing an opportunity to rebuild society on a smaller, more natural scale.
Warns that technological “solutions” to problems often create worse consequences.
7. Strategy for Revolution (Paragraphs 183-232)
Advocates for the elimination of the technological system rather than reforming it.
Rejects political reform or violence aimed at small issues; instead, he calls for a comprehensive rejection of industrial society.
Suggests focusing on spreading anti-technology ideology to prepare for a potential collapse.
Conclusion:
The manifesto concludes with a reiteration of the main point: technology is incompatible with human freedom, and radical action is necessary to dismantle the system.
The full text can be found in archives or historical repositories under its title “Industrial Society and Its Future.”
“Is society healthy, that an individual should return to it? Has not society itself helped to make the individual unhealthy? Of course, the unhealthy must be made healthy, that goes without saying; but why should the individual adjust himself to an unhealthy society? If he is healthy, he will not be a part of it. Without first questioning the health of society, what is the good of helping misfits to conform to society?
To help the individual to fit into a society which is ever at war with itself – is this what psychologists and analysts are supposed to do? Is the individual to be healed only in order to kill or be killed? If one is not killed, or driven insane, then must one only fit into the structure of hate, envy, ambition and superstition which can be very scientific?” — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Here’s how to estimate your monthly Social Security income in retirement.
In 2024, the average Social Security benefit is $1,862 per month, while the maximum for those retiring at full retirement age is $3,822. Achieving the maximum requires earning the taxable maximum for 35 years.
