Economy

As a pathologically ambitious college junior a few months into my first real internship, a generous, well-regarded full-time employee on my team pulled me aside after my #grindset and I handed in an assignment early. You’re doing a great job, she whispered, but I’m going to let you in on something: Don’t work so fast. […]

When we first moved to California, our next-door neighbors—a very kind Gen X couple—knocked on our door and invited us over for dinner. In the following weeks, they’d pop over to check in, periodically lending a tool or an extra set of hands. One day while I was stuck in traffic coming back from San […]

I rarely go physically grocery shopping anymore, opting instead for the convenience of delivery orders of roughly five days’ worth of meal-making materials at a time. But this past Saturday, I decided to take the entire day off (¡escándalo!)—so why not take the time to drive across town and peruse the produce in person?  Before […]

The other day, I saw this chart floating around Twitter: This was rage-bait, and baby, I was hooked, lined, and sunk.  It was accompanied by the claim that Jeff Bezos paid a 23% effective tax rate* on $4 billion in reported income between 2014 and 2018.  Having just forked over multiple six figures in taxes […]