Basic income, at least basic income the way I propose it, is Capitalism, through and through. Capitalism is about private property, private enterprise, private profits, and, not least of all, private decision making. Socialism, on the other hand, is about public enterprise, public profits, and, ostensibly, public decision making. To me, that’s the attractive part. …
Nancy MacLean’s book Democracy In Chains exposes the philosophical lineage of the radical libertarian ideas that have infiltrated modern American political discourse. Her work credits many of these ideas to James M. Buchanan, who is referred to frequently throughout this article. Engaging with these ideas raises questions such as “What does liberty mean?”, “Who has …
I like the idea of ‘Humans, humans everywhere.’ That’s my articulated moral north star. Many billions of us are acting this solution into society every day, even if we, from our own perspective, are just “going with the flow.” If you disagree with that premise, you can stop reading. If you think ‘Humans, humans everywhere.’ …
The more financial freedom that is actually possessed by each member of the American common class, the better our society will be. It is my belief that basic income is the next, best practical step we can take to secure that freedom for our generation and generations to come. How will we pay for it? …
Gender A person’s chromosomal composition can be measured as distinct from their physical appearance, i.e. genotype does not equal phenotype. Usually, the former acts as the dominant indicator for the latter but that’s not always true and we can articulate an attitude that positively includes the common and the corner cases. Physical appearance can in …
God, as I define God, is before the beginning of this universe. Morality, in the proto-form that will eventually apply to us humans, doesn’t begin until living cells begin. Above the level of the single cell, and not under, there is a spectrum of relationships that we tend to call moral. Therefore, morality doesn’t start …
The concept of truth can be broken down into at least two categories; objective truth and moral truth. Objectively true statements are true for all of us regardless of how any of us feel about them, e.g. “Most rocks are hard”, “The Sun is a star”, “Water is two parts Hydrogen and one part Oxygen”. …
Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a book written by Friedrich Nietzsche between 1883 and 1885. I’m not remotely qualified to write a “review” of the book that could be taken as serious literary critique, so I won’t. This article is a layman processing his thoughts, feelings, and reactions after reading the work for the first time. …
The conditions of our births are blind luck. The socioeconomic status of our parents, their capacity for loving kindness or lack thereof, the year, the trends in geopolitics and the budding advancements in technology are all incredibly impactful regarding the adults that we become and none of those phenomena or their contents are even slightly …