Josh Benner

Tag: economics

  • We can complain and know that others have it worse

    We can complain and know that others have it worse

    There’s a meme that I’ve seen on social media that criticizes complaining about the surging gas prices in lights of the sufferings of the Ukrainian people. The meme says: “Instead of complaining about gas prices going up, try feeling grateful that you aren’t sitting on a concrete floor in a train terminal, holding your cat,…

  • The most expensive medicine ever approved

    I heard a fascinating story from NPR last week. The Federal Drug Administration recently approved a new gene therapy that has a whopping $2.125 million dollar price tag. It’s the most expensive drug on the market. The gene therapy is a treatment for a rare disease called Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA). According to the NPR…

  • Why both parties are so useless when it comes to fixing the economy

    Throughout the last several weeks, I see a constant stream of news stories about the state of the economy of various European countries. The whole continent is in a crisis with over a dozen countries on the brink of having their credit ratings lowered. Cities all over the United States and across the world have…

  • Why Do You Vote How You Vote? And How Do You Know You’re Right? Why I Don’t Vote

    Photo Courtesy of Flickr Creative Commons We live in a society that values rational, linear arguments. We like to hear arguments and opposing arguments. Based on those arguments, we form objective opinions. Right? I believe it’s the other way around. I think it is that we have opinions and then we adopt arguments that coincide…