New post at Policy Shop. Excerpt: Although things seem quite gloomy on first glance, they are not nearly as hopeless on a second look. While it is true that pressuring capital owners to give up more of the national income has obvious limits, there are other ways to go about this. Most notably, we can… Continue reading Policy Shop: Challenge Inequality by Changing Who Owns Capital
Author: Matt Bruenig
Two kinds of anti-paternalism
According to Wikipedia, paternalism is a behavior, by a person, organization or state, which limits some person or group’s liberty or autonomy for their own good. Anti-paternalism, it then follows, is the view that we should not limit some person or group’s liberty or autonomy for their own good. In the kinds of topics I… Continue reading Two kinds of anti-paternalism
Policy Shop: Corporate Income Tax Arguments Almost Always Miss the Point
New post at policy shop. Excerpt: It is this kind of complexity that renders most siloed discussions of the value of the corporate income tax somewhat ridiculous. Talking about the value of any particular tax in a vacuum almost always generates this kind of borderline futile discussion. What ultimately matters is not the merit of… Continue reading Policy Shop: Corporate Income Tax Arguments Almost Always Miss the Point
Household labor: the least alienating of all
Household labor refers to things like cooking dinner, cleaning the floor, doing laundry, and so on. Historically, it has generated all sorts of gendered oppression. Volumes and volumes have been written on the gendered issues involved in household labor; so I wont expound further here. Instead, I want to bracket the gendered stuff and talk… Continue reading Household labor: the least alienating of all
Implementing socialism
I think that figuring out how to implement a functioning socialist system is an indispensable part of advocating for such a system for two reasons. First, it is hard to know whether you actually want a system if you can’t even understand what that system will actually look like. Additionally, the maxim that “ought implies… Continue reading Implementing socialism