I am proud to report that the reorganization of the SMP Compendium Page on The Fourth Estate is completed. Everything has been arranged to look more like an actual Table of Contents than a long string of seemingly unrelated individual… Read More ›
Month: May 2021
Compendium: Japan’s Lost Decades and the Rise of Zombie Firms and Zombie Banks
The “Lost Decade” refers to an economic and financial crisis that affected Japan, the effects of which continue to linger since the 1990s. The Japanese economy was devastated by the bursting of the asset-price bubble that came as the consequence… Read More ›
Update (31 May 2021)
There is already enough entries in the SMP Compendium to warrant the need to reorganize it. So far, every entry that I have completed was arranged in chronological order, rather than in specific categories for simpler navigation. The limitations of… Read More ›
Compendium: ‘Death-by-Overwork’, the Work-Standard’s Version of Hyperinflation
Various historical events have been cited by historians and economists alike as providing definitive examples of Hyperinflation. Weimar Germany, Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, and Venezuela have been cited as contemporary examples in the past century alone. These examples are well-known cases where… Read More ›
Update (30 May 2021)
Unfortunately, I regret to report that my PC has yet to be installed with Windows 10. There are technical difficulties on my end which prevented me from taking care of it sooner. Even so, I am not going to let… Read More ›
Compendium: The Internet, the Y2K Bug, and the Work-Standard’s Mechanization Rate
Information technologies grew up alongside nuclear technologies in the wake of the Second World War. The most obvious example of their pervasive importance is of course the World Wide Web (WWW). The WWW is the digital medium that everyone uses… Read More ›
On the Future of the Website
While work on the Compendium is still ongoing, I have been planning ahead on what the future of the website will be. If there is something I should point out, it is the fact that the Compendium as of late… Read More ›
An Update and Preview of “What is the ‘Splinternet?'”
To begin, I must state that as of this writing, I will be updating my PC to Windows 10 sometime this week. I don’t expect the changeover to cause any serious delays since I have a backup laptop that I… Read More ›
Compendium: Project Cybersyn and Ernst Jünger’s ‘Phonophores’ and ‘Luminar’
It is generally agreed that the Internet and smartphones are ubiquitous aspects of everyday life in the early 21st century. Everyone uses the Internet to connect with others and everyone else browses on their smartphone when the opportunity arises. It… Read More ›
Compendium: A Critique of Labour Vouchers and Time-Based Currencies
The Work-Standard was never designed to be operating according to the paradigms of Labour Vouchers and Time-Based Currencies. Both pseudo-currencies were developed as products of Utopian Socialist endeavors by people like Robert Owen and Josiah Warren at the height of… Read More ›
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