Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is known for having rabid evangelists who won’t shut up about why our current understanding of money and finance is backwards. I am one of those people. And the source of that energy is simple: we all think MMT is a revolution, and if the powers…

There are economic “truths” in Washington DC that really steam my clams. Exhibit A? Using the deficit as an excuse to not save ourselves from existential threats like climate change. But that’s not the point of this post. …

It produces more protein than cattle. The UN calls it “probably the fastest growing food-producing sector.” It’s the most sustainable source of meat we got. And you’d be hard pressed to find it in the US. I speak of aquaculture, or the practice of farming fish. If there is a…

Three trends define the history of packaged salad in the United States: convenience, shelf life, and safety. As enthusiastic packaged salad historians, we thought we’d share our cliff notes on how these trends have changed over time, and offer a glimpse of how these trends play in the future. The…

Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) completely changed my mind about how the US government can dramatically increase equality and the overall wealth of Americans. To every “socialist” policy out there, it answers the “how will you pay for it?” question. What’s more, MMT’s answer is rooted in monetary operations — an…

I just don’t get what’s up with these Trump tariffs, and I say that as someone who has the first proposed tariff to help our manufacturing industry — Alexander Hamilton’s Report on the Subject of Manufacturers — tattooed on my leg. I need zero convincing that modern capitalism is competition…

The current restructuring of US taxation doesn’t help businesses compete nor promote employment. And while plans championed by Democrats wouldn’t have been such a giant fucking windfall for the wealthy, I don’t see how any of their plans would have significantly improved either of those two needs either. …

Part two in our “Lean manufacturing for indoor agriculture” series — In our previous blog post, we made the case that aquaponics enables better capacity management for indoor agriculture than hydroponics. The basis of our argument is that aquaponics is a “just-in-time” manufacturing system — multiple SKUs with different nutrient requirements can be produced in the same aquaponic system simultaneously without…

Most “future of employment” discussions are about robots replacing people due to technology. As the prevailing logic goes, the robots are coming whether we like it or not, employment will suffer, and the only question is how we’re gonna deal with it. What I think gets overlooked is that government…