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
Author: Matt Bruenig
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
Policy Shop: New Evidence of How Declining Union Power Has Hurt Worker Wages
New post at policy shop. Excerpt: A compelling new study out in the American Sociological Review pins the cause quite convincingly on the erosion of union power in the face of computerization. Tali Kristal, the author of the study, looks beyond the overall declining share of labor income and into specific sectors of the economy… Continue reading Policy Shop: New Evidence of How Declining Union Power Has Hurt Worker Wages