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Wayward Bodhisattva🔰🈷️☸️🏳‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ekklesiagora.bsky.social · 7h

If we did a federal job guarantee and a minimum income guarantee, it would save money because the programs would cost less than the programs they would automatically replace.
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The Case for a Federal Job Guarantee and Negative Income Tax

A Path Towards a Realistic Utopia

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Wayward Bodhisattva🔰🈷️☸️🏳‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ekklesiagora.bsky.social · 9h

There's a big difference between Trump and his followers. Trump has something personal that he gains from being in power. His followers are just a bunch of ignorant, boot-licking pieces of shit that don't even benefit from the fascism in any way.

Wayward Bodhisattva🔰🈷️☸️🏳‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ekklesiagora.bsky.social · 1d

It takes the audacity and boldness of an Ayn Rand to write a scathing negative review of a book that, by her own admission, she never read.

Wayward Bodhisattva🔰🈷️☸️🏳‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ekklesiagora.bsky.social · 2d

My latest blog post, on the intersection of democratic socialism and post-scarcity utopia.
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To Democratic Socialism & Beyond

Marx & Engels

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Wayward Bodhisattva🔰🈷️☸️🏳‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ekklesiagora.bsky.social · 3d

My latest blog post, on the idea of combining Universal Basic Services (UBS) with a Federal Job Guarantee (FJG).

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Universal Basic Services and a Federal Job Guarantee (UBS-FJG)

Toward a Counter-Cyclical Framework for Economic and Social Security

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Wayward Bodhisattva🔰🈷️☸️🏳‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ekklesiagora.bsky.social · 3d

After those services and jobs are provided, the market shifts back and people in the FJG sector are able to find better paying jobs in the private sector, so the need for FJG jobs and provision of UBS goes down. It's countercyclical.

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Wayward Bodhisattva🔰🈷️☸️🏳‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ekklesiagora.bsky.social · 3d

The concept of a federal job guarantee (FJG) only makes sense to me if paired with universal basic services (UBS). When there is a downturn, unemployment goes up and, consequently, more people are in need of basic services. The FJG would then kick in and provide employment in the department of UBS.

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Wayward Bodhisattva🔰🈷️☸️🏳‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ekklesiagora.bsky.social · 4d

There's a lot of exploitation and shady shit in the porn industry, especially when it comes to specific taboo fetishes. Allowing people to get off to something that bypasses the unethical parts of the porn underworld is probably a good thing.

Wayward Bodhisattva🔰🈷️☸️🏳‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ekklesiagora.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, stfu. As long as they aren't using the likenesses of real people and selling it, who cares if people watch AI porn? Why the hell is this a problem? Also, anybody can access the AI so there's nothing keeping scientists from harnessing the power of AI to try to cure cancer.

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Wayward Bodhisattva🔰🈷️☸️🏳‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ekklesiagora.bsky.social · 4d

This book was written during a mushroom trip. Had to be.

Wayward Bodhisattva🔰🈷️☸️🏳‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ekklesiagora.bsky.social · 5d

There's still like 25 books I need to read/re-read but I fed chatGPT hundreds of pdfs and had it summarize and help me determine what is actually relevant.

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Wayward Bodhisattva🔰🈷️☸️🏳‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ekklesiagora.bsky.social · 5d

AI is so good though. People should use it.

I'm working on a second edition of my book & adding an expanded section on democratic socialism. I'm doing preliminary research with AI and it's helping me narrow down the reading list I need to tackle in order to be able to make the case I want to make.

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Wayward Bodhisattva🔰🈷️☸️🏳‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ekklesiagora.bsky.social · 5d

Also, generative AI is a good thing and could potentially be used to make the world a much better place.

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Wayward Bodhisattva🔰🈷️☸️🏳‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ekklesiagora.bsky.social · 6d

"Republicans are actively killing people that they don't like. Let me explain how this is entirely the fault of the Democrats and why you should not support Democrats and instead let Republicans continue to do bad things."

Ben McAdams Memorial Act. but on BlueSky @purrtah.bsky.social · 6d

Hilarious how mad the press is the shutdown isn’t hurting Dems so they are pivoting to shit on them anyway possible

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Wayward Bodhisattva🔰🈷️☸️🏳‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ekklesiagora.bsky.social · 6d

Libertarians and social democrats ought to be allies.
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Libertarianism and Dialectics

The intellectual lineage of libertarianism forms a continuous moral thread running from Herbert Spencer and Auberon Herbert in the…

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Wayward Bodhisattva🔰🈷️☸️🏳‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ekklesiagora.bsky.social · 7d

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Liberal-Anarchism

. . . or “The Theory of Libertarian Social Democracy” Liberalism, properly understood, is not merely a justification for free markets or negative liberty. It is, at root, a philosophy of emancipation....

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Wayward Bodhisattva🔰🈷️☸️🏳‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ekklesiagora.bsky.social · 7d

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 7d

"The colonized is indebted to the colonizer for being colonized."

David Graeber speaks about the brutality of Debt in history.

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Wayward Bodhisattva🔰🈷️☸️🏳‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ekklesiagora.bsky.social · 12d

My latest blog post, on integrating the ideas of Ayn Rand with Buddhist philosophy.
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Objectivist Buddhism?

Reconciling the ideas of Ayn Rand and Nagarjuna

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 15d

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session.

Want to know why?

Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out.

Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

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Wayward Bodhisattva🔰🈷️☸️🏳‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ekklesiagora.bsky.social · 15d

“...domain may be reserved to the commune, or to the State; rent then becomes tax; the cultivator becomes possessor;”—Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (“The Theory of Property”)

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Wayward Bodhisattva🔰🈷️☸️🏳‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ekklesiagora.bsky.social · 15d

When I buy goats, I'm gonna name them Baphomet and Goaty McGoatface or Totes McGoats.

Wayward Bodhisattva🔰🈷️☸️🏳‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ekklesiagora.bsky.social · 16d

Idk why he likes to hang out with the cats.

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Wayward Bodhisattva🔰🈷️☸️🏳‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ekklesiagora.bsky.social · 16d

Going to the moon is "staggeringly difficult," says man who opined that terraforming Mars would be "not that hard."

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Wayward Bodhisattva🔰🈷️☸️🏳‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @ekklesiagora.bsky.social · 17d

Lao-tzu was hanging out with Tegan through the window.

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