I was reading through GURPS Space today, trying to bone up on world building for a campaign. In the Corporate State section, Steve Jackson discusses variants on the theme, and these produced some thoughts. This concept is known to E.V.E. Online players as it is the basis of the Caldari State.

Firstly, the generally dystopian corporate state, with ( Read more... )

"We must stop thinking primarily in terms of “money” and “business”-both artificial things-and begin to think increasingly in terms of the actual resources and products on which “money” and “business” are based. In terms of these, of the human beings to whom they are to be distributed, and of the cognate human values which make the accidents of ( Read more... )

Pre distribution

"As previously mentioned, a large majority of the unemployed possess deeply seated standards which, though far from sybaritic, nevertheless indicate self-respect and well- regulated social experience-and which must be almost wholly relinquished amidst the universal discomfort and distress of today. Many accustomed to the social ( Read more... )

"Laissez-faire capitalism is dead-make no mistake about that. The only avenue of survival for plutocracy is a military & emotional fascism whereby millions of persons will be withdrawn from the industrial arena & placed on a dole or in concentration-camps with high-sounding patriotic names. That or socialism-take your choice. … All this from an ( Read more... )

“Capitalism is dying from internal as well as external causes, & its own leaders & beneficiaries are less & less able to kid themselves. I’m no economist, but from recent reading I’ve been able to form a rough picture of the dilemma-the need to restrict consumers’ goods & to pile up a needless plethora of producing equipment in order to maintain ( Read more... )

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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.
"Second, that which is intended for the common ( Read more... )

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.

There probably should be proportional voting as well ( Read more... )

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... )