Kevin Bae

Non-Social in a Socially Networked World

  • Idiotic WSJ article on minimum wage ignores supply in deference to demand

    The article linked by this post is utter nonsense. They infer that people can’t afford housing because the minimum wage is too low. They report nothing about the lack of housing being built and government policies in most large cities preventing developers from increasing the supply. The biggest expense for most Americans—housing—is unaffordable for people…

  • COVID-19 may eliminate another 300,000 in the U.S.

    The United States barely keeps pace with the population replacement rate already. Europe and Asia have been behind the replacement curves for decades already. The population replacement rate, the fertility rate needed to maintain a society’s population size, is 2.1 children per woman. Countries with fertilities rates below this number may experience an overall older…

  • Pentagon restricted National Guard from responding on January 6th

    Here’s a tidbit you might not see on the nightly news. Apparently Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller sent a letter to National Guard Commanding Gen. William Walker on January 5, 2021 that required him to seek approval before deploying troops to the capitol. The question is why? Walker on Wednesday told lawmakers about a Jan.…

  • President Biden releasing COVID-19 infected illegal aliens into the U.S.

    Is President Biden trying to kill us all? Is illegal immigration a super spreader event? #sarcasm Here’s something that can’t be attributed to President Trump in any way. As we all know he hated “migrants”, “immigrants”, and especially illegal aliens. He wasn’t allowing them in the country at all, according to the news, let alone…

  • Is Amazon racist?

    At the beginning of Black History Month Amazon pulled a documentary about a prominent black man in America. They have given no explanation for doing what they did. Other documentaries about prominent people are still up on the site ready to stream. But not this one even though it was more popular. The documentary began…

  • What trick does Google have up its sleeve?

    The headline reads, “Google to Stop Selling Ads Based on Your Specific Web Browsing”. Do you believe that? I don’t. I believe that they have reached such ad space dominance that they’ve found a way to crush competitors. Their only concern is squeezing more dollars from connecting users to advertisers. The only reason for them…