Swart Donkey

My first salary felt amazing. After years of being a student, suddenly there was real money in my account. It was more than my mother earned...

Clear and present dangers stop you from building capital. By definition, there isn’t “extra” if there isn’t enough.  One of the challenges f...

I lived in the UK for 12 years. When I arrived, I admit I was skeptical about the idea of poverty there. The UK is a rich country. There is ...

South Africa is the most unequal economy in the world. It is also not an outlier. How can those statements both be true? We keep our inequal...

The world is getting progressively (but bumpily) less racist, sexist, homophobic , and classist. We are breaking down barriers, but we still...

Wealth is created in boxes. The key challenge once you understand a problem, is understanding the box. The box is so important, that sometim...

Most people I know plan their finances in a bubble. Bryan Caplan points out that “normal people say what other people do, but do what other ...

South Africa is the world’s most unequal country. It is also only as unequal as the world. This is only possible because the primary tool ...

You can’t build an Engine without a source. I picked a source from the menu. But not everyone has the same menu. I got a two-year work-tra...

Consumption Inequality bothers me more than Income or Wealth Inequality. Scarcity is a reality. This highlights Conspicuous Consumption in...

The size of Engine you require depends on the lifestyle you are wanting to finance. In 1930, Keynes predicted (because of improvements in ...

Hans Rosling divided the world up into 4 income levels which he argued were more useful than the traditional Developed-Developing perspect...

A Universal Basic Income is a periodic payment delivered to all on an individual basis without means test or work requirement. Without Cap...

A good rule of thumb for if Capitalism is working is whether the same thing gets cheaper . If it doesn't, something is broken. Capital...

If you need something now, it doesn't matter if you know a place where you can get it cheap. It matters where you can get it now. It ma...

Conspicuous Consumption is a stupidity tax. Conspicuous Consumption is the lavish spending of money for the express purpose of demonstratin...

When I stopped working for money in 2014 , I had to dramatically cut my expenses. The reality is working is expensive. In the line of work ...

We spend a lot of time trying to earn our place in the room. The idea of meritocracy is that inequality is acceptable because some peopl...

When we think of inequality, we often mean difference in income. Normally within a particularly Nation State, ignoring the rest of the worl...

1801 Map of the World - Mercator Projection Economics is the study of scarcity. In a world with limited resources, how do we maximise...