Should we have a Universal Basic Income?
28 Nov 2016 Leave a comment
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I posted on this issue last year when Kim Hill (Radio NZ) interviewed Paul Mason – author of Post Capitalism (now out in paperback). Mason makes the point that we are going to live through a long transition from capitalism – the state and the market to post capitalism which is the state, the market and the shared collaborative economy. With technology taking a lot of the jobs in traditional industries in the UK he states that further development in this sector is not the way of creating new jobs. He talks about delinking work from wages by just paying people to actually exist – rather than tax to exist.
Liam Dann (NZ Herald) wrote a piece about Amin Toufani’s presentation at SingualrityU summit in Christchurch where he talked about people in the labour force having to learn, unlearn, and learn again – unlearning should be core competency. However as there maybe many…
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Beauty in the Eye Of The Abuser: Morocco Television Shows Women How To Cover Up Bruises From Domestic Violence
28 Nov 2016 Leave a comment
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The beating of women in Islamic countries remains a serious concern, particularly after Islamic clerics advised men how to beat their spouses in Islamically correct ways (here and here and here). With the rise of Islamic parties in Morocco, women are particularly concerned. This concern was magnified recently with the airing of a state television program on how women can use makeup to cover bruises left by domestic violence.
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Bomb damage or rent control?
28 Nov 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of regulation, Public Choice
Communist Cuba’s violent suppression of dissenters under Fidel Castro
28 Nov 2016 Leave a comment
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Communism in action: Cuban government arrests dissenter after a beating
My mother was watching CNN on Saturday, and she called to tell me that Sanjay Gupta was talking about the great healthcare in Cuba. Now, I know that CNN hires a lot of Marxists like Gupta and Zakaria, but many people may not realize how far left they are, and how that bias affects what they say on air. Let’s see what Cuba is really like using some evidence for a change.
The Daily Signal has the numbers on Cuba’s treatment of dissidents from a respected source:
As for the dissidents, the Obama administration has abandoned them. Many have told me they feel betrayed by our president, and by extension, by the United States. Guillermo Fariñas, especially, has a reason to feel betrayed, as Obama promised him personally at a meeting in 2013 that he would take no step toward re-establishing relations with…
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Thoughts prompted by Cuba
28 Nov 2016 Leave a comment
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Fidel Castro is dead. Sadly, the same can’t be said for the brutal regime that has controlled Cuba for 57 years now – the regime that suppresses speech, religion, and the exercise of democratic freedoms that we take for granted; the regime that executed thousands of its political opponents and which, to this day, imprisons many of those brave enough to stand against it; the regime that suppresses free economic activity; the regime that actively tries to stop its own people leaving. There have been plenty of awful Latin American regimes in the last 100 years or so, but fortunately most of the worst have now passed into history. But not the Cuban regime. I won’t rejoice in anyone’s death, but consider what type of man this was: Fidel Castro had enthused about the idea of a nuclear attack on the United States, and had to be put in his place
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How Accurate Is Blackadder Goes Forth? I OUT OF THE TRENCHES
28 Nov 2016 Leave a comment
in defence economics, television Tags: Black Adder, World War I
Uncommon Knowledge with Justice Antonin Scalia
28 Nov 2016 Leave a comment
in law and economics Tags: Justice Scalia
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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