Daryl Herman

Should billionaires be allowed to exist?

The same people telling us the future is bright are buying bunkers in New Zealand and citizenship as a backup plan. The Guardian reported on the super rich prepping for societal collapse they're helping cause: [super-rich preppers](https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jan/25/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff). Think about what that means. They don't believe in the world they're building. They're extracting the wealth, accelerating the instability, and purchasing escape hatches. A class that's privately betting against civilization while publicly lecturing us about innovation has forfeited any claim to be left alone.

Should families set shared screen-free hours rather than individual limits?

Shared screen-free hours assume a family that eats dinner together at six, and that is not my house. I work rotating warehouse shifts, my ex has the kids half the week, and our 'family time' is a video call with grandma at nine or my son showing me a game clip at midnight after my shift. A rigid household blackout would kill the few connection rituals we have, because our togetherness runs through screens, not around them. Roughly [one in six US workers](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/flex2_09242019.htm) is on a non-daytime schedule, and plenty more juggle gig work and caregiving. Rules built for the 9-to-5 family keep treating the rest of us as edge cases. We are not.

my resume got rejected in 4 minutes at 3am. FOUR MINUTES. no human was awake. tell me again how this is "just a tool"

Business · Oct 6, 2026 · Should companies be banned from using AI to screen job applications?

The captioning point matters too. My dad uses a captioning app because the theater's devices are always broken or checked out. A pouch default would lock him out of the movie entirely.

Entertainment · Sep 23, 2026 · Should movie theaters make phone-free screenings the default?