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Conscious Consumerism can be improved.

It all started with a cold email to Everlane: “I am going to be frank, while I love your products, they are simply too expensive for me to afford.”

I had my heart set on buying new shirts. It had been over a year since I had updated my…

Conscious Consumerism is Nice, But It’s Time For Conscious Consumer Advocacy

The Future of Capitalism

People have been altering the climate for a long time now, and not in a good way. The worldwide growth of industry and emergence of capitalism has caused serious climate change issues in the past and continues to pose the greatest threat to humanity’s future even now. The ozone hole…

QE for the people: Today and Tomorrow?

Standing amidst millions of people on live television on the eve of the 2015 Labour Party leadership elections, front runner Jeremy Corbyn blessed the citizens of a UK with a radical new idea: Quantitative easing (QE) for the people. Proposed as an alternative…

Automation and Universal Basic Income: Why We Need It To Transition Into The Economy of The 21st Century.

Universal basic income is a social security that guarantees a certain amount of income to every citizen within a given governed population. For the…

A People’s Democracy

“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the divided Republic for which it hardly stands…

Giving Everybody a Universal Basic Income to Reduce Poverty — What Could Go Wrong?

A universal basic income (UBI) is defined as a monthly cash payment to every citizen of a nation. The amount of cash varies depending on who proposes the idea, but the general gist of it is…

Capitalism — Our best tool or greatest liability?

With the Industrial Revolution came two dominant ideas of the twenty-first century, capitalism, and climate change. Now, with the issue of climate change mounting into a global crisis, these two ideas are clashing. Just as in the days of the…

Conscious Consumerism: We need it but we need more

Neel Iyer

Many people view globalization as something that only affects us personally through the diffusion of culture; for example, McDonalds, K-pop, anime Reggae, or Bollywood; and that political or economic…

Is Populism Really Supporting Democracy? Or Does it Undermine Democracy?

In the modern world, populism is prevalent especially in the United States political realm. The ideas of populism are so simple, yet so broad because it can come in different forms and is not associated…