Jeremy Bernier
Written by Jeremy Bernier who left the NYC rat race to travel the world, work remotely, and make the world a better place.
Andrew Yang
24 February, 2019Andrew Yang is hands-down the most impressive presidential candidate I’ve ever seen, and probably the only political candidate I’ve ever…
The Objectives Society Should Strive For - Freedom and Technological Advancement
03 December, 2018The media fixates on GDP and unemployment rate. When GDP is high and unemployment is low, the economy is considered to be doing well.Of…
Simple Living (Stop Feeding the Beast)
02 December, 2018Here are the material possessions that I need to live a life that I’m content with:ShelterFoodLaptop with internet connectionCell phone with…
Capitalism Naturally Trends Towards Increasing Wealth Concentration
01 December, 2018The natural trend of capitalism is towards ever-increasing wealth concentration and oligopoly/monopoly. This is an inherent characteristic…
Does Society Owe You Anything?
30 October, 2018“Society doesn’t owe you anything.” This phrase is often said by people on the right-wing, usually to argue against redistribution of wealth…
What is Living?
30 October, 2018Today I swam in a waterfall, drove through the countryside, and climbed up this mountain to just chill. Yesterday I went to a canyon and…
Neofeudalism and the Parasite Economy (summarizing Michael Hudson)
11 June, 2018There are two types of income: earned and unearned, aka economic rent.Economic Rent = Price — Instrinsic Cost ValueEconomic rent is the…
Our Economy is like a Big Game of Monopoly
10 June, 2018Our economy is like a big game of Monopoly, except all the properties are already owned by other people (unless you’re lucky enough to…
Why I Left NYC
15 February, 2018When I first interned in NYC my junior summer I fell in love with the city and vowed to move there after college.After graduation I went…
Why we need a Basic Income
30 January, 2018“The future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed” -William Gibson“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people…
We Need Liquid Democracy
31 December, 2017It’s time to modernize our political system and bring it into the 21st century, because what we have now clearly isn’t working. Most people…
How Japan and Korea Design Cities for People instead of Cars [Video]
31 December, 2017I think we can learn a lot from Japan and Korea on how to design livable, walkable cities that don’t require you to drive a vehicle to go…
South Korea's Dystopian Nightmare
02 August, 2017South Korea is one of the most technologically advanced and culturally influential countries in the world, but behind the curtain is an…
The Arms Race to the Bottom
19 March, 2017The biggest tragedy of our times is that most of us have to spend the majority of our lives doing things we don’t want to do, with…
Excess Management Is Costing the U.S. $3 Trillion Per Year
11 November, 2016https://hbr.org/2016/09/excess-management-is-costing-the-us-3-trillion-per-yearBackground DataThere were 23.8 million managers, first-line…
9-5 Office jobs are inefficient. Employees would be more productive if granted more freedom
10 March, 2016Forcing employees to be in an office from 9-5 is incredibly inefficient for both employees and employers, and results in an extraordinary…
School is a Crime Against Humanity
26 March, 2015If you agree with me that school is a giant waste of time, then it follows that school is one of the biggest crimes against humanity if you…
Student loans are a 10–50% tax on children of the lower/middle class
26 March, 2015We don’t complain about primary or secondary education being free, yet somehow the topic of whether higher education should be made…
Lectures Suck
10 February, 2015Today at work the whole office had to sit down in an auditorium and listen to an outside consultant lecture us on the “Agile methodology…
Why Remote Work is the Future
04 November, 2014Dilbert ComicRemote work is becoming more and more mainstream as companies are realizing that chaining their employees to a desk in front of…