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Tag Archives: pandemic
JIT Downfolly
A couple of decades ago a series of positive advertisements were featured on television networks and many cable outlets, almost wherever paid video could find a niche. The most memorable of them began with an image from the inside of … Continue reading
Posted in Economy
Tagged container, display, distribution, employee, JIT, just in time, labor, logistics, management, outsourcing, pandemic, retail, supply chain, warehousing
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Just Say No?
As I write this the United States is in what appears to be the beginning of the third major surge of the Covid-19 pandemic, or maybe the fourth or fifth depending on how you define such things, with the number … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Sociocultural
Tagged Coronavirus, Covid, flu, individual, mask, pandemic, society, vaccine
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Freedom Two
Discussions about freedom in the 21st century tends to be about individual liberty, the type of freedom enshrined in the Bill of Rights to the Constitution. People have the right to speak freely, to protest, to openly practice their religion, … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Sociocultural
Tagged Bill of Rights, collectivism, constitution, democracy, freedom, government, individualism, pandemic, progress, revolution
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Individual Myth
For decades now we as a society have been following the social preferences of what Lynn Parramore, in an October 26, 2019 episode of Evonomics, called homo economicus, the supposedly rational human for whom the highest and best path for … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Sociocultural
Tagged budget, community, economics, government, individualism, libertarian, pandemic, safety net, taxes, welfare
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Monumental Virus
In Oakland, California, where I spent the first eighteen years of my life, I was aware of several major landmarks. All of these are within a mile of the downtown and city hall, and but one of them I visited … Continue reading
Posted in Sociocultural
Tagged 1918, 2020, civic auditorium, Coronavirus, Covid, influenza, masks, Oakland, pandemic, Spanish flu
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COVID Commerce
The economy is global. That is nothing new. European colonial leaders rarely recognized it in public statements, but for most of the past two centuries their national prosperity was dependent on countries thousands of miles away, dependent on the cheap … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Politics
Tagged commerce, Coronavirus, COVID-19, economy, globalization, JIT, outsourcing, pandemic, recession
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