Swart Donkey

Starting rich is a safety net. Not all safety nets are viewed the same.  A lot of Government safety nets come at the cost of respect. They a...

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 ...

We do not all have the same skills and knowledge. We do not all have the same barriers to entry. We have different opportunities. We have di...

Pushing paper is a core part of finding your way in the modern jungle. My friend Karabo wrote a guest post for my blog a few years ago where...

“ Poverty is not a lack of character. It is a lack of cash ,” points out Rutger Bregman. Two fundamental principles in stilling the waves of...

“Rewilding is about letting nature take care of itself, enabling natural processes to shape land and sea, repair damaged ecosystems and rest...

The median (half have less) disposable income for UK households (2.4 people) is £29,400. After reading William MacAskill and Peter Singer ...

I was a bit of a wet as a kid. At the tail end of Apartheid, we still had Corporal Punishment (which ended with the birth of Democracy). Th...

People without money aren’t infants. They don’t need decisions made for them. They need money. Money is the fundamental unit of decision m...

The theory behind GiveDirectly.org is that people are best placed to make their own decisions. As Rutger Bregman puts it, “Poverty isn’t a...

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

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

One way to finance an idea is to convince people it is important, and then get those people to fund it. Raise and spend. Another way is to ...

Money doesn’t create value. It releases it. One of the reasons I am a Universal Basic Income activist is that people trapped in Financial ...

Money is a coordination tool. A step forward from Barter, where you need a reciprocal ask/offer and offer/ask to match. It is not the last...

Trev: You don't have to commit a crime to enjoy the right to remain silent. Two urges I am working hard on are my "Righteous Indi...

I have never been in a proper physical fight. Some facing up, and posturing, but never in a full flung war. So I am not sure how I would re...

We have limited capacity. Limited time. Limited attention. Limited energy. The power of this is that we will make different mistakes. Mista...

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...

Some questions are too hard to answer. Not answering is also not good enough. But we have to do something, because not doing something, is ...