In last few months especially, there has been a big media push in favor of creating a new diaper welfare program. The push seems to have its origins in 2010, when the Huggies diapers brand commissioned a study showing the need for diapers among the poor. In that same year, Huggies founded the National Diaper… Continue reading On Diaper Stamps
The NY Primary Punditry Shows How Yet Again Nobody Cares About Process
The story is supposed to be that Republicans like to suppress the vote and Democrats don’t. I’ve long suspected this story to be false. The real story is that basically everyone likes to suppress the votes of people they don’t like and abhors suppressing the votes of people they do like. This is not to… Continue reading The NY Primary Punditry Shows How Yet Again Nobody Cares About Process
Class and the Discourse
When it comes to accessing the mainstream media discourse, academic discourse, or any similar prominent discourse that reflects on justice and politics, poor people face a double-bind that ensures their voices are permanently erased. If you grow up poor and you remain poor, your access to any of these discussions is basically nonexistent. If you… Continue reading Class and the Discourse
Ferdinand Lassalle on the Wages of Abstinence
In his 1864 book “Capital and Labor,” Ferdinand Lassalle wrote on the description of capital income as “wages of abstinence,” i.e. payment for abstaining from consumption. What he had to say is one of the funniest things ever written on the topic: The profit of capital is the ‘wage of abstinence.’ Happy, even priceless expression!… Continue reading Ferdinand Lassalle on the Wages of Abstinence
Real Life Capitalism Whack-A-Mole
A couple of years ago, I introduced the concept of Capitalism Whack-A-Mole. Capitalism Whack-A-Mole is an argumentative habit of libertarians where they shift between various mutually incompatible philosophical frameworks in order to deal with successful critiques of capitalism. I taped a TV segment today with the Ayn Rand Institute’s Don Watkins about his book “Equal… Continue reading Real Life Capitalism Whack-A-Mole