Author Archives: Scott Hughes
The Most Important Thing To Me
This is my everything. I don’t believe in any gods; I don’t believe in morals or justice or souls or heaven or superstition; I don’t believe in nobility or democracy or the value of manmade laws. But I believe in them. Everything I do, I do for them. Every pushup. Every joke to a customer […]
Sacrifice
The basic idea of charity entails sacrifice. More specifically, it is the opposite of selfish. It is sacrificing some of one’s own interests for someone else’s benefit. We humans also sacrifice in non-charitable ways too. When we workout at the gym and diet, for example, we sacrifice some of our short-term interests like enjoying the […]
More Deaths than Tobacco, Car Crashes and Guns
A study from the British Medical Journal found that income inequality leads to 883,914 unnecessary deaths in the United States each year.
Poverty Infographic
Someone sent me this informative infographic earlier: What do you think?
Hundreds of Millions of Dollars in Wage Theft
A recent Huffington Post article reports that Low-Wage Workers Are Robbed More Than Banks, Gas Stations And Convenience Stores Combined. Studies reveal that most employees have some of their pay illegally withheld. Three times more money is lost due to wage theft than gas-station and convenience-store robberies. About a couple hundred million dollars of wage […]