Eric Busboom

Month: September, 2009

Cheaper Recyclables Collections

Interested in doing a science project, Max and I went to the alley to collect a 2 liter plastic bottle from the recyclables bin. I had put the bottle in the bin the day before but could not find it that day. I also noticed the beer and wine bottles were missing, but the paper [...]

The Evil of Denying Claims

A common argument against the current state of American health care is that the evil insurance companies make their obscene profits by denying claims. I don’t intend to tackle the question of the moral right of companies to make profits, or to defend the current state of American health care, but I do want [...]

Daily Mail Sucked In By Science Hoax

There is always someone who will believe an incredible science or technology story, especially when the technology could save the planet, or is invented by a teen-ager, or comes from the third world. When the story has all three elements, the suckers get in line.
Today, the Daily Mail reports that an Indian teen-ager has created [...]

More Capitalism!

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The Received Wisdoms Of Venture Capitalists

The substrate  of the start up business plan is that the nascent business will reach $50 million revenues per year after 5 years. Venture Capitalists seem to expect that every pitch will have a revenue graph with a hockey-stick shaped revenue line that shows the business at $50M in 5 years. Naturally, this means that [...]

Hating The Creators

In his Labor Day article in Salon.com,  Michael Lind satirizes free-market conservatives, who he claims believe that Laborers destroy wealth. In building that thesis, he presents a range of logical fallacies that are interesting to analyze.
Mr. Lind doesn’t daly. His opening sentence lays out his theme:
Today is Labor Day, when we celebrate the wealth destroyers – [...]