It seems to me that we have a bit of a strange reversal of political ideology in the western world. In the past, most had to accept socialist and communist ideologies on the basis of brute force, but somehow the western world is coming to accept it voluntarily. It reminds me of something Milton Friedman said:   Continue reading Role Reversal

So, I was sent an article to look over to show that income inequality is a bad thing. It made me chuckle because it appealed to the moral wisdom of Peter Singer. I’m sure the man that believes we are morally justified in killing people because they have very low IQ’s must have some wisdom about organizing society. Let’s see what the article says: One obvious reason for redistributing resources from the rich to the poor is simply that this is a way of making the poor better off. In his TED Talk on “effective altruism,” Peter Singer advances powerful … Continue reading Inequality of Argument

Exile is a person from twitter trying to unite marxism with Biblical Christianity. He and I ran into one another on Twitter and had an exchange: Exile: The story of capitalism is the story of land theft, resource extraction, slavery, and genocide. There is no kinder, gentler capitalism. It all rests on this bedrock. The primitive accumulation necessary to kickstart capital ownership is itself violent and a theft from the commons, and only leads to more violent forms of extraction and maintenance of power to keep the underclass of laborers in line. TheSire: “The primitive accumulation necessary to kickstart capital … Continue reading Exile Theology on Marxism