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Billionaire’s Basic Income

Billionaire’s Basic Income

A Universal Basic Income is an income paid to everyone without conditions, and adequate to cover basic costs of living. Its real purpose is to simplify the problems of managing a complex, technological political economy, so as to comport fairness with efficiency.

Christmas time is Here Again

Christmas time is Here Again

Many people try to have a holly-jolly old time Christmas in the modern age. Usually, that makes it very miserable for them. It is better to just use the year end as a time to pull back from the world, rest, and think about how it has gone over the last year.

Seventy

Seventy

I have lived my life on the down slope of a historic arc. I grew to adulthood when times were very good. I expect to see the bottoming out of this long arc and a new beginning.

The Lights Have Gone Out Again

The Lights Have Gone Out Again

The monuments need to be torn down. They are really monuments to Canada’s shame. All these wars were wars of empire which we should have wanted nothing to do with.

About Canadian Patriots, China, History, and the Drug Trade

About Canadian Patriots, China, History, and the Drug Trade

They are available as critics of financial capitalism. So, they can be useful when other criticisms are not so available. There are other criticisms of Financialism from an authentic left perspective, but they are not as well funded, and often heavily suppressed.

The Human Race

The Human Race

This is the way we must define humans. We can all interbreed. It has nothing to do with ability to speak or even to use tools and fire. If we start thinking that way, we know where it leads.

The Magician, the Artisan, China, The West, and the Scientific Revolution.

The Magician, the Artisan, China, The West, and the Scientific Revolution.

There is one very valuable and unique thing which western civilization has given the world. That is, the scientific revolution. This enabled the huge advance in technology and standard of living which most of the world now enjoys.