I am massaging the presentation to convey Semmelweis’s belief that the trip to experience Venetian art is what made him able to recognize that physician hands needed to be disinfected after handling cadavers before delivering babies to avoid killing mothers and newborns. #writersky

Remember to have a towel handy.

This means returning to the mid-19th century when a conceptual leap would stop hospitals from being death traps. At the time, one was even grateful to leave missing limbs. Too many never left at all. #history #science #ForgottenHero #Semmelweis #Lister #writing #writersky

Admittedly, I missed the point you were trying to make. I thought you were concerned about emulation since historically the president has set trends. I had not observed as much of what you have observed in this regard. We are very much in our own little bubble over here.

My children know that there is nothing to emulate from the Politician-in-chief. That is something hopefully everyone knows by now.

It actively promoted living one’s life in a kind of servitude. “We are not our own… therefore let us labor for the Lord.”
“We must exercise ourselves in continual self-denial.” #SlaveMentality

Hopefully, these absurd assertions can now be recognized as foolish justifications for poverty from a time 1536 before industrialization when most people were poor. #philosophy

He even asserted that God already provided jobs for everyone implying that it is was one’s own moral responsibility to find. “Each individual has his own kind of living assigned to him by the Lord as a sort of sentry-post so that he may not heedlessly wander throughout life.”

In this way, he intimated one can’t change one’s destiny. But one’s life may reveal it. Therefore one must produce “fruits” that suggest one is among the elect.

Thus some are the blessed elect and most are the reprobate damned. None are able to know which they are but Jean Calvin presumed that the blessed would be observable as such. “In our sanctification we perceive the election of God.”
“The calling of God is revealed in the fruits of our life.”

A translation of his phrasing (for he originally wrote in French and Latin) asserting predestination was: “By his eternal and unchangeable plan, God has determined once and for all those whom he would one day admit to salvation, and those whom he would condemn to destruction.” #JeanCalvinWrong

I think 500 years is enough temporal distance to foster #objectivity. So I think we are now ready to face the metaphysical error at the heart of Jean Calvin’s book Institutes of the Christian Religion. He firmly opposed any possibility of #FreeWill with his conception of #predestination. #history

You are absolutely correct that the focus on work is absolutely wrong. The economy is not a make-work project. Money is a tool to facilitate economic participation. Poverty is a lack of participation. Consumption is the point. Jean Calvin’s predestination based Protestant Work Ethic obscures this.

Milton Friedman was also instrumental in the ending of conscription.

Who do you think helped establish the Alaska Permanent Fund in 1976 and its Dividend in 1982? The assumption that a broad coalition cannot be built for excellent policy that is both good math and good politics slows its communication and adoption. I know it can, because it has before.

We now know that diversified investments like Exchange Traded Funds can be governed by algorithms. It is possible now to invest and pay out dividends to all citizens. Transparent algorithms make this possible. We know the math to do it. We just don’t trust it based on faulty metaphysics from 1600s.

In October of 2019, most stocks came under management by automation. We did not know if this black swan event would cause a crash. It did not. It led to the elimination of most retail stock trading fees since at that point, the data was more valuable than the fees.