“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
Category Social Justice
It’s an indispensable lubricant in social life. And truthfulness is its twin sister.
Capitalism actually comes in two very different flavors, commonly known as “shareholder capitalism” and “stakeholder capitalism.” The basic idea behind stakeholder capitalism is that everyone who has an interest, or stake in a business firm should have a say in its governance and behavior and receive a fair share of the benefits.
Evolutionary biology views the underlying purpose of a human society to provide for the basic needs of its members, and of the society as a whole. It provides an alternative set of account books for assessing the performance of an economy, including especially the outcomes for the collective survival enterprise.
How well does Donald Trump measure up to Confucius’s teachings? And how well do we? The answer to both questions is “none of the above.”
The basic problem with libertarianism is that it is grounded in an idealized, hypothetical “state of nature” that never in fact existed.
There is no cure, but it can be arrested and controlled.
There are both “good freedoms” and “bad freedoms.” Indeed, in many instances freedom may be viewed as either good or bad, depending on which side you’re on. From an evolutionary and biological perspective, the “First Freedom” is a universal “basic needs guarantee.”
Donald Trump’s Presidency involves a zero-sum game with enormous stakes.
Harmonious societies of all types are governed by an implicit “social contract” – a set of shared social benefits and reciprocal obligations among the various interests and constituencies in a society.