It's easy to see how this shift in social consciousness became the basis of capitalism. If self-interest is a good thing, and personal wealth is a self-interested goal, then widespread personal wealth is a good thing. And if individual welfare leads to overall social welfare, than individual...
Wealth is distributed fairly because of A) the low supply of people willing to do this kind of work, and B) the high demand for people society needs in order to function. That's why firefighters and teachers make so much money. Wait, no it's not. That's not how it works at all....
...those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business...
No matter who is in charge, wether they are at the center or in distributed mini centres; if there is a national high tech control grid made of monolithic databases that watch your every move, catalogue your children and violate your privacy, then THAT system and the people who have access...
Just as theideaof property is a social arrangement, propertyrightsare political calculations. Owning something is a form of power. And the laws that govern property shape the way that power is accrued and distributed. In the case of Roman law and the dominion of the family & household, the...
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Another narrative might go like this: Actually, the historical progression was natural and inevitable. Shorter hours, cleaner and safer factories, and the end of child labor are luxuries that could only happen after an increase in per-capita wealth. These things go through a kind of Kuznets cur...
The way in which being feminine or masculine, a woman or a man, becomes an internalized part of the way we think about ourselves is our gender identity. You might think of gender identity as a way of describing how gender becomes internal—something that becomes an integral part of who we...
Many people today would say America is a capitalist country. You seem less sure. I specifically use the term central planning because I don’t want to get caught up in terms like socialism and communism and democratic socialism. It doesn’t matter. It’s a handful of people who are making...
For a couple of years, the world environment has become “uncontrollable” as the notion of “VUCA” and “deglobalization” is gaining popularity as a term to cover various dimensions. The role of developed countries in the global economy has gradually declined, especially after the financial ...