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Do You Have Enough To Be Happy?

The chances are good the answer is yes. So why are so many people grouchy about "the rich"?

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To Combat Climate Change We Must Enlist the Rich

Without the one-percenters, no meaningful change will occur. Our approach to convincing them has been terribly misguided

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18,000 Reasons Why the Swiss Are Still Awesome

We spend 13 Swiss francs per inhabitant per year to ensure we won’t run out of coffee … and other essentials for life

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Switzerland Spanks the U.S. in Everyday Sustainability

Is it because Swiss citizens care more, their politics still work, or something else?

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What Happens To All The Obsolete Technology?

Market opportunities abound for the savvy collector

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Financial Lessons for Us Average Folk in the Hunter Biden Indictment

Studying Hunter's eye-opening spending to glean some valuable lessons for average earners

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The Foregone Conclusion of the COP28 Cop-Out

Anyone who's worked on a team knows full well the reason governments are doomed to fail. Might us citizens also have the solution?

Customer Service: Closing Down MY Account

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Re-Imagining the CUSTOMER in Customer Service (by Stephen Faciszewski)

Greetings friends! Klugne readers are smart. This is most apparent when you can see them in action yourself. Today's illuminating Guest Post comes from my friend Stephen, who takes us on a journey to understanding and improving an aspect of life dear to us all: Customer Service. Read

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Unions Are Doing Humanity a Tremendous Service

At the same time, unions are inadvertently creating the conditions for their disappearance

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A Solution to Income Inequality That Would Genuinely Work

And would not destroy economies or social cohesion in the process

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What if We All Showed Up for a Climate Disaster That Didn’t Happen?

We’re in the process of committing possibly the greatest waste of resources in human history

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What Climate Alarmists Get Wrong About the Science

Solving hard problems in the real world involves more than climate science