Like everyone else I know in the tribe of working journalists, I think being sceptical is a useful, if not indispensable tool of the trade, and tend to dispute being a cynic. But I’m beginning to think both journalists and news consumers have reason and need to embrace the two philosophies.… Read the rest
It must be really annoying to be so rich that bleeding hearts are always banging on about how you could single-handedly solve world poverty or whatever. So, here’s a suggestion to ease the pain for the world’s leading multi-billionaires: try cashing in on the wisdom of Benjamin Franklin: “It is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man, if he will make a business of it.”… Read the rest
Normally, stories about corporate greed prompt me, and I suspect many other readers, to merely shrug and mumble: “So what else is new?”
But a report on CEOs getting 29 percent pay hikes in the time of Covid brought to mind a piece of sage advice I was offered many years ago, in the warehouse area of old Montreal where Leonard Cohen’s haunting “Suzanne” is set.… Read the rest