Swart Donkey

For obvious reasons, Colonialism is associated with its most recent incarnation. A distant land with a superiority complex, on a mixture of...

I am far more concerned about consumption inequality, and absolute poverty , than I am about wealth or income inequality. Defining goals in...

I am a privileged South African. The nature of the connected world means the comparisons 'my bubble' make is not only to other Sou...

You save for something. Investment is different. Saving is putting money aside. Investing is putting money to work. One of the reasons we ...

When anything is reduced to a number, something is lost. Numbers are incredibly powerful communication tools, but they oversimplify. Someo...

All of us are equal (Human Rights Part 3; Part 2 - Life, Liberty, & Security ; Part 1 - Free Speech )  The Universal Declaration ...

One of the consequences of growing up in Apartheid South Africa was that I wasn't often exposed to huge ' class differences ' ....

At the heart of figuring out what we do, and how we do it, is motivation and incentives. The why. History is wonderfully complex. Britain w...

There was a story I was told when I was young when people were feeling overwhelmed with all the problems in the world . An old man is walki...

Guest Post: Tota Tsotsotso In order to be polite company, we are told to avoid politics, religion and sex. These topics get the blood boi...

Guest Post: Patrick Madden A few friends of mine have become life coaches. For people who aren't religious, there can be gaps from n...

The pursuit of equality can be a direct obstacle to the pursuit of happiness. Equality forces relative comparison. In order to impose equal...