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The Job Guarantee The Job Guarantee is a policy proposal that aims to provide for full employment by means of having the government hiring the unemployed as an employer of last result. It is a buffer stock program, creating a buffer of employed people, providing a protection against inflation, without using unemployment as a means of moderating ( Read more... )

In the Critique of the Gotha Program, Karl Marx wrote:

" First, the general costs of administration, not belonging to production. This part will, from the outset, be very considerably restricted in comparison with present-day society, and it diminishes in proportion as the new society develops.
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Ranked Choice Voting is popular. While not wonderful (approval and range voting is subject to less manipulation and paradoxes), such an option needs to be put in place. First Past the Post voting sucks balls, and allows plurality. I've seen approval with built in ranked run off as a decent medium.

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What I'm seeing from GOP candidates should mostly be an instant disqualifier for office and voiding of ballot presence. A direct threat to the Constitution and Republic should be a disqualifier IPSO facto.

I'm no fan of political parties as embodiments of faction qua faction already. But this sort of denialism, inability to accept one lost, and ( Read more... )

Tired tonight. Fell asleep on the couch after deciding to take a break from YouTube by trying to watch Nebula, but despite signing up when I got CuriosiyStrea..can't get in...so watched Curiosity Stream.

First watched a documentary about how the Phaistos Disk has come under suspicion of being a forgery just like the Boston Snake Goddess (Minoans ( Read more... )

Excellent discussion on how we've built an economy in medical administration. Someone objected to UHC because the coding and billing drives a lot of middle class jobs, or in denying care, or Medicaid estate recovery, and a rare growth area in our economy. Yet they can be redirected to facilitating contact with specialists and care and ensuring ( Read more... )

Of two minds on certain Trots and Trot adjacent folks Burnham was objectively right about the rise of managers as a new class. Even with the shareholder empire stroking back...CEO pay has grown faster than shareholder value and they get bonuses even when going bankrupt.

The New Class/deformed worker state/bureaucratic collectivism of the ( Read more... )

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Watching a YouTube video on Conservative Communists, there was a discussion of the nuclear family as a means of collecting property and controlling labor. This is accurate, and they discussed how the nuclear family’s decline reflects changing material conditions. The promotion of it would actually tend to increase reactionary pressures.

I recently ( Read more... )