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  • A Ban on Social Media; not just for the children anymore.

    What, all of it? The issue of banning social media is gaining traction, always framed as a way to prevent harm to our children. Most popular social media does irreparable harm to society; harm to our children is merely the easiest to detect and understand. Some forms of social media must be banned entirely. Which…

  • Applying Mahinism to your Questions

    In here I will examine topics that don’t appear in the book, per the questions asked about how a given market system can work using Mahinist principles. These examples USE Mahinism, so everyone has a UBI, nobody HAS to do any specific job, and the society is paying for the work. Ownership alone does not…

  • The NZ Economic Cycle (a Bipolar Disorder)

    The New Zealand cycle of austerity and prison-building.

  • Replacing Wellington’s Pipes – who pays?

    How our prehistoric methods of funding local government fail to deal with human nature and the laws of thermodynamics to give us failing infrastructure and insanely rising rates.

  • Submission RE Fast-Track Approvals in New Zealand

    I strongly oppose this bill. I strongly oppose the manner in which Ministers who regard environmentalists as the audible portion of the roadway have arrogated to themselves the right to bulldoze every objection to what they personally regard as “necessary” roads and business activities. Local plans that prohibit environmentally damaging activities can be wholly ignored,…

  • The Great Filter

    The “great filter” is the notion that the reason we do not already detect any sign of the development of a similar society, more advanced than our own, among the stars is that there is some sort of trap that causes self-aware intelligent societies to self-destruct. The intelligent society fails in some fundamental way and…

  • Atlas exposed

    What Ayn Rand misses Making Money Real is confronting for followers of Ayn Rand. Yet there is less of a difference between Rand’s philosophy and Mahinism than I imagined. Importantly, I find that humans ordinarily survive as groups of cooperating individuals; that we are dependent on group survival, and as a result the society is…

  • It’s a UBI! It’s a Guaranteed Job! Is there a difference?

    In a recent online discussion people who support MMT were somewhat upset because I called for MMT and a UBI. That is what I call it in my book, so that is what I call it. Apparently, there are neoliberals busily redefining the language to suit their prejudices out there, and they’ve turned UBI into…

  • The Seagull Syndrome

    Who can forget the Seagulls of Finding Nemo? They aren’t evil, but their behavior is execrable. Their motivations are precisely those that our economics professionals ascribe to us in every particular of human society. They have no government and obey no rules. This is the ideal society of neoliberalism, the end game it works to…

  • Congratulations to the NZ National Media

    “shaping public opinion and selectively extinguishing public memory” – the NZ media changed the government that represents us. But who REALLY leads us?