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Beer Foam

Beer Foam

By allencraftsllc

Beer Foam uses a beer-glass metaphor to question trickle-down economics, arguing that prosperity concentrated at the top may look impressive but often fails to reach the workers, families, retirees, and small businesses expected to wait for it.
04.28.26 12:33 PM - Comment(s)
Follow the Money

Follow the Money

By allencraftsllc

A reflection on credibility, bias, and incentive. This essay argues that universities, media outlets, corporations, and nonprofits all operate within systems of reward and pressure. In an age of algorithms and AI, discernment still begins with the same old rule: think.
04.16.26 11:29 AM - Comment(s)
Full Disclosure: AI Is a Tool of Economic Choice

Full Disclosure: AI Is a Tool of Economic Choice

By allencraftsllc

AI does not eliminate creativity; it changes where some of the creative labor lives. For independent creators working within real budgets, AI can be less a purity test than a practical tool that makes books, visuals, and other projects economically possible at all.
04.12.26 12:50 PM - Comment(s)
Privacy for the People, Transparency for the Government

Privacy for the People, Transparency for the Government

By allencraftsllc

Government power should be transparent by default; private citizens should not. This essay argues that liberty depends on keeping those roles straight: openness should run upward toward institutions that exercise public power, while privacy should protect the people.
04.12.26 11:34 AM - Comment(s)
Why the Best Leaders May Never Run

Why the Best Leaders May Never Run

By allencraftsllc

A recurring democratic tension is that those most eager to seek power are not always best suited to hold it. This essay explores how modern politics often rewards ambition, certainty, and visibility before wisdom, restraint, judgment, and genuine fitness to govern.
04.12.26 07:35 AM - Comment(s)