Swart Donkey

Meritocracy came in as a response to hereditary wealth. Hereditary entitlement. You had a position or role in your caste or class, and that ...

20-year-old Trev also had long hair. Grown during a two-year stint in the UK on a work-travel visa, in between school and university. It was...

Karma Yoga is one of the four paths to stilling the waves of the mind. Karma means action. The other three are Bhakti (love/devotion), Raja ...

Some of our waves of money anxiety are memories. Both of our own experiences and those of the bubble we are born into and raised in. These t...

Bob Dylan sings about fat men and thin men looking for dignity. Searching high, searching low. Have you seen dignity? It is one of my bigges...

Meritocracy isn’t supposed to be a defence of privilege. It is the idea that capital and power get allocated on the basis of talent, effort,...

In a knowledge economy, the key asset is the people. There is no real intellectual property (IP), because people aren’t allowed to be proper...

Ironically, wealth also limits your career choices if your community believe they are self-made. As the Eagle’s Nest gets higher from the g...

If you understand Compound Interest, then you understand Privilege. The same “merit” applied to more Capital will result in a bigger rewar...

You may not realise it, but you have a problem. I can solve that problem. There is no one else who can. Manufactured inadequacy. Projected...