Pinned

For Those Who Read Me Seriously

A few clarifications theoretically — Capitalism is a social system. That means a system in which members have an obligation to other members. The obligations may be complex or simple, but a member has to fulfill the obligation to be a member in good standing. A “society” is Everybody. Everybody in the society is included…

Economics

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Published in The Haven

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Seeing Marketers: as Geniuses

Marketers Understand Authenticity, So Well — Keywords: primitive, authentic, stupid Why are people so stupid? Well, they are; or, the majority of them. In Europe the contest was about who could show a little intelligence. The country that could would jump out ahead of all other dummies: Europe, east, south, west, and north. As it turns out England won this…

Humor

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Time to Regulate?

Not yet! We aren’t dead! And I love profits! So there!! — One outcome, of capitalism, comes when we see that it renders effects untraceable back to causes. We cannot see that line of causality, because all we do see is a product that has a name (e.g. “gasoline”). Yes, the modern economic system does create complexity. Life gets more complex but…

Profit

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1 day ago

TRANS

TRANS — False All Over A TRANS person talks about “ the circumstances under which we need or want that experience” and I notice the two verbs “need” and “want.” It’s optional, a matter of style. Done as an art form, not as a compulsion. I think this is the difference. And…

Transgender

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They Like the Poor Dumb

How do the rich stay in power in this country? — One idea, which I have held for some period of time, is that the rich want the others to be stupid. This is secret. It is not something they can reveal, so they jealously guard their secret. This is a free, capitalistic society, so how can one group prevent others…

Rich

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2 days ago

The Great Adam Smith

The Great Marx-Smith debate — Let’s look at a quote. It is from the text, “An Inquiry into the causes of the Wealth of Nations,” by the aforesaid, prof Smith. This great increase in the quantity of work, which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are capable of performing…

Adam Smith

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2 days ago

Monsters in the Kremlin

this week, in the Ukrainian war zone — It’s a war in which messages are passed back and forth. In the Internet Age, there are plenty ways — plenty of ways in which others can hear what you are thinking. There is so much information going back and forth that you can listen in and know you are…

Ukraine

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Art Poetry

-oetry on Medium —

Poetry

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Art Poetry

-oetry on Medium

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On the Street where I Live

Neither here nor there. — My street is every street. I wander all of the streets. No street, in any liberal city, is foreign to me. It has to be a big city. The little places have too many of these rancid suspicious types. They don’t like vagrants, whereas liberals like them. And why? Cuz…

Street

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MEMOIR

On the Street where I Live

Neither here nor there.

My street is every street.

I wander all of the streets. No street, in any liberal city, is foreign to me.

It has to be a big city. The little places have too many of these rancid suspicious types. They don’t like vagrants, whereas liberals like them.

And why? Cuz…

4 days ago

My ‘Medium’ Journey

!— — — M— — — —Yay — hey, wait: is “journey” still trending? Doh . . . . Here is the story of me and Medium.com. I don’t feel like writing a regular Medium.com essay/story today so what better time than to do a good “how to write” piece? At first I wanted to interact with the…

Writing

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