NO! Giving money to someone who is uneducated is throwing money away. Universal Basic Income (UBI) is NOT the solution to poverty. Not even close. UBI is a Band-Aid on a stinking festering infected gaping oozing wound that is ignorance (lack of access to higher education) which is the cause of poverty. This is not to say we don't need UBI...it's to say we need MORE than UBI. We need education to go along with it. You most likely have seen this video floating around the internet: Sorry, but with all due respect, he's wrong. If you hand someone [...]

It's time! Time to get my shit together and DO my dreams! Sorry for the length of this post, but it's important to me and I needed to get it out. A little about quitting drinking and why it's so damn important, motivations, fears, and goals. Yeah well. While quitting drinking was great and all. Now I'm bored AF, antsy and finding all kinds of stuff to do to occupy my time. WORK mostly. I'm tired, cranky, and in a pissy mood all the time. Withdrawals are still fairly bad but not constant like they were. They come and go [...]

Being Poor is Expensive. In fact it's more expensive than being rich or even middle class. The reasons are many. it doesn't seem like this is true but it is. Some of you reading this right now understand because you're living it right now. You understand because you've been there and you live it every single day. Struggling just to get through each week, each month and each year. Even the middle class are having a hard time now and they are losing money, losing homes, and becoming poorer each day. This article focuses on why it's so expensive to be [...]