Slope of Hope Blog Posts

Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.

Shifting Values

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This is a fascinating diagram. Almost thirty years ago, the most valuable company on Earth (at a mere $93 billion!) was them maker of light bulbs and cheap dishwashers, General Electric. Now, as you know, the biggest company (and it’s TWENTY-EIGHT TIMES BIGGER) is Apple, whose business model is to simultaneously virtue-signal while getting people to throw away their loaded-with-toxic iPhones every year for a new one, even though there’s nothing wrong with the old one in the first place.