Mammon category archive
It’s All about the Benjamins 0
When I went to college, my parents were able to pay my tuition and I left college debt-free. In contrast, it was only a few years ago that I finished paying off the “parent loans” that I incurred to educate my own kids.
The cost of “higher education” and the student loan industry is a scam and a con designed to extract money from what should be a public good. But, natch, we live in a society that no longer believes in the public good. It believes only in extracting as much money as possible in as many ways as possible from as many people as possible.
Thank the Chicago School.
Chartering a Course for Disaster 0
The Houston Chronicle follows the money.
Overdrafted 0
I used to wonder how persons who use their debit cards to buy $1.39 cups of coffee (just to pick one example) kept track of their bank accounts. Then I read about the overdraft fees that banks collect and realized, they don’t.
Here’s a hint: carry cash.
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Doing It the Old Fashioned Way 0
I have learned that, as phone companies have increasingly yielded to customer pressure to become more vigilant in blocking car warranty scammers, the scammers have taken to the mails.
Yesterday, I received a letter from a company I’ve never heard of (“Endurance”) warning me that the “extended service plan” that I never purchased was about to expire . . . .
Be forewarned.
(Gramatikal error correxted.)
The Snaring Economy 0
Welcome to the carrion crow school of economics.
One more time, “ride sharing” is nothing more than gypsy cabs with an app.
Merchants of Death, Reprise 0
Bill Torpy explores how one gun manufacture promotes its portable phalluses. Here’s one little example; follow the link for more.
The ad showed a boy, maybe 4 years old, with a semiautomatic rifle in his lap, along with a Bible passage: “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
Taking the Veil 0
So much for “render unto Caesar.”
Aside:
This is a dead giveaway–it’s all (or at least mostly) about the Benjamins.
Second Amendment Frights 0
Don’t kid yourself. It’s not about Constitutional rights or self-protection.
The Shills 0
SFGate’s Drew Magary marvels as ESPN’s relentless promoting of sports betting.