December 2011
10 posts
Cutting the Middle Class in Two →
Chris Espinoza on the 99 Percent:
Those who argue that a flat tax is a fair tax miss this mathematical fact. A flat tax accelerates the fall into poverty of the lower middle class by increasing fixed expenses so that a surplus is impossible, and it falls into the noise of the fixed expenses of the wealthy and simply shifts the floor, but not the steepness, of the logarithmic wealth curve. It...
View From Nowhere →
Jay Rosen:
In pro journalism, American style, the View from Nowhere is a bid for trust that advertises the viewlessness of the news producer. Frequently it places the journalist between polarized extremes, and calls that neither-nor position “impartial.” Second, it’s a means of defense against a style of criticism that is fully anticipated: charges of bias originating in partisan politics and...
Chillmark on mHealth 2011 →
But what these start-ups really need is to simply focus on addressing the age old question: ‘What’s in it for me?’ These companies need to stop the whining and do their homework defining the value proposition for not just the consumer, or just the doctor, but think more broadly of the impact their solution may have on the delivery of care, and how each stakeholder may benefit. Unfortunately, as...
