Category Archives: Economy

Incentives for menial labor and why they are important in a productive society

People working in ‘dead end jobs’ understand how society really works. Jobs at retailers, grocery stores, hotels, theme parks, sanitation, restaurants, and others only offer menial labor for an absolute minimum of wages. We cannot have a ‘civilized society’ without …

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The affects of Weather on your Psyche…

I once had a friend who told me that living in Seattle was the worst idea I had ever come up with. At the time I was like, “are you kidding me?” All I could think about was the trendy …

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How Netflix redefined the Television Industry.

Established in 1997, Netflix Incorporated started as a DVD-by-mail rental service for home entertainment and by 2009 was offering a collection of 100,000 titles on their on-demand streaming website. This Los Gatos-based company is now leading the market and because …

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Tax Revenue Getting Higher in Colorado Thanks To Marijuana Sales

Colorado made headlines a month ago with the news that they would be making recreational sale of marijuana legal.  Only one month after this groundbreaking legislation, Colorado has raised more than 1.24 million dollars in tax revenue.

This information comes …

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GMO’s and What They Mean To The Consumer

It’s been one of the hottest topics in the media in recent years. The food industry  has been using Genetically Modified Organisms, or better known as GMO’s, as their main crop yield to feed to the public. For those that …

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UCF On-Campus Restaurants Fail Health Inspections

Knightly News released documents provided by the Florida Department of Health show that UCF’s Marketplace has failed two routine health inspections in the past 10 months–including one in August, with 10 total violations.
Violations include dead bugs and roaches found …

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The Trend of Profiting from Death

As I was watching one of the cable news channels, I began to see sneak peeks of advertisements scheduled to air during the Super Bowl. One in particular was a Budweiser commercial targeted at the military audience. The ad ran …

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How Today’s Technology will affect Tomorrow’s Jobs

Who does not love innovation right? Innovation, defined by the Webster’s dictionary, is defined as “an act or process of introducing new ideas, devices, or methods.” Innovation has been a common theme in the United States’ history.

For example, take …

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The power of the professor, is it too much?

Now a days professors seem to care too little about the impact of their decisions on your grades and more about whether or not you follow every little tedious guideline they instruct. It’s almost like a machine churning up grade …

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Reverse Racism, is it Reverse Psychology?

Has anybody ever heard of the term reverse racism? Probably not. It’s rarely used because the left wing liberal media doesn’t want you to think about how biased and ridiculous it sounds.

It is a term that continues to push …

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