Covid Measures
In December 2019, the first official Covid cases came into the public eye. Shortly afterwards on the very first day of Chinese New Year 2020, the biggest Chinese holiday, China declared a lockdown of Wuhan city and by extension the…
The Empire Of Elon Musk
Elon Musk, currently the richest man on Earth who also has a cult-like following. Different from his peers, people’s perception of him is that of a saviour rather than an obscenely rich man fleecing off the wallets of the common…
Tenacity
In 2003, Aron Lee Ralston became famous for cutting off part of his right arm after it got stuck in an accident when canyoneering alone through the Bluejohn Canyon. He had a choice that time – to die with an…
Moon Jae-in
I came back to writing faster than I had expected. Not because I have resolved everything, but because I had more or less calmed down and am now attempting to get my life back to normal. I probably will not…
The Dirt Underneath The Glory
Shit happened in life. This is my last article before I temporarily stop writing. I have much to sort out and much to worry about. Although I do not have the capacity to continue writing now, it is my intention…
Legalising Drugs
In the late 18th century, the East India Company of the United Kingdom sold opium to China. This resulted in 2 opium wars and a corrupted empire on the brink of collapse, with the result of China being compelled to…
The iPhone
I wrote this article 12 years ago on 15 October 2010 as a very young adult, for the very young adults. Back then my readers were of the same age as me. Today I am re-publishing it here not because…
Lying Flat And Evolution
In 1859, Charles Darwin published a book called ‘On the Origin of Species’. It detailed the Theory of Evolution, of which natural selection is core of the theory. In short, all organisms evolve and fit into the environment in which…
Why I Believe In Meta
In 1971, the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) went operational and served the needs of the US military in the area of communications and file transfer. It was the first intranet system on which the internet was based on. The…
The Free Market
The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit. – Milton Friedman In basic economics, students learn about Keynesian theory and monetary theory, which are theories of John Maynard…
Hong Kong – The Next Safe Haven
The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them. – Vladimir Ilyich Lenin On 5 October 2022, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that Russian assets confiscated abroad should be used to rebuild Ukraine, in which…
The Flow Of Money II
The Fed mentioned that they will clamp down on inflation by raising interest rates. Inflation originally caused by them mass printing money. From an original dovish tone, the Fed had turned increasingly hawkish. In this year alone they have raised…