Previews by O.G. Rose
This is a list of short pieces I wrote focused on sociopolitical, education, and economic topics. I hope you see something in here that you find interesting!
If “the real economy” suffers tremendously but the stock market does well, the citizenship will question if the market serves the broader public instead of an elite minority.
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MAD Capitalism and Mixed Market Rationality
Today, thanks to “rational” MAD, regardless how irresponsible enterprises are, the foolishness of their risks, and their disregard of the overall economy, the American government must save those enterprises whenever they get into trouble (meaning the taxpayer is on the line) to keep the entire economy from collapsing…
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Political Packages and Ultimatums
If there are “ultimatum issues” that we under no circumstance can compromise on, and if in every election there are always ultimatum issues, then these issues will “practically” do our voting for us.
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Marx was right about the bourgeoisie and the proletariat being stuck in a material dialectic of class conflict and alienation, so why hasn’t Capitalism self-destructed as he predicted? What’s going on?
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Jobs and money are created, so it does not necessarily follow that someone takes a job or paycheck from someone else in working and gaining a raise. The rich are not necessarily rich at the expense of the poor, as the employed are not necessarily employed at the expense of the unemployed. But what if growth stagnates? What if wealth ceases to be created?
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Imagine someone will give you $10 for one hour of work. Now imagine that he will give you two hours of work if you agree to be paid $9 an hour, three hours if you agree to be paid $8 an hour, and so on up to ten hours. At ten hours, you would make the same amount as you would for one hour of work, and so, at some point, it becomes illogical to trade wages for hours. Consider the following…
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By ending the college monopoly on credentials, the hope isn’t to end college, but to help it. Competition improves businesses, helps bring down prices, and increases services; where there are monopolies, there are inefficiencies.
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Successfully, Karl Marx identified the bourgeoisie, the proletariat, and “the material dialectic,” but despite his emphasis on creativity, he failed to identify the artifex, meaning “creator class,” which is comprised of entrepreneurs, inventors, and artists. An artifexian, which is a term first introduced in this paper, is anyone who creates or recreates a means of production and/or a thing to be produced. Marx, it seems, conflated creators with the general proletariat, and consequently his material dialectic only halfway addresses the nature of socioeconomic change…
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We Make Our Votes, and Then Our Votes Make Us
Voting in America creates misimpressions we are forced to respond to, impressions which alienate us, and afterwards we are pressured to own that alienation to restore existential stability.
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For Neil Postman, what students “do” in the classroom impacts them more than what they “learn,” for though we forget much of the content that we learn, we don’t forget the methods by which that content was taught to us, along with what those methods indirectly imply are values…
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Is Social Media a Crowded Movie Theater?
Is social media inherently “a crowded movie theater” (especially if we have a large following like the President)? Additionally, if we are the President, are we considered the equivalent of a fire marshal, and so for us to shout “fire” is especially consequential?
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Why Calls for Unity Don’t Work
Until we achieve “substantive democracy,” replace “tolerance” with “humility,” accept possible vulnerability to moral monsters, and accept the impossibility of certainty, calls for unity will feel scripted…
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Austin Farrer and the Problems of Verifiable Education
Great thinkers and artists did not work to have dissertations written about them. Instead, like the poet who suddenly sees her verse, thinkers like Barth were “arrested” by a vision that they then “raced out” to articulate, likely employing the basic powers of their minds with no technique or “worn path of thought” by which to achieve what they saw…
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Are People Being Radicalized?
YouTube only causes radicalization insomuch as it enables worldviews to complete themselves internally, which can generate “radicalness.” That said, the prime culprit is not YoutTube, but the structures of worldviews themselves…
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From overall joy, which can be estimated from rates of depression, suicide, and job satisfaction, it can be estimated to what degree an economy is driven by mere credit versus productivity, as it can be estimated to what degree debt is backed by productivity versus cause inflation. This is because joy is a result of intrinsic motivation, and the more intrinsically motivated a society, the less likely productivity will decline during periods of economic stability and growth.
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Economic Hardship, Resulting Extremism, and Mob Rule
If sufficient economic hardship inevitably produces a minority of violent, extremist political powers — be they fascist or communist or what have you — and if that minority is all it takes to intimidate the majority into compliance because the majority is, at their best, protecting their dependents…
Then aren’t you left with only two solutions?
Solution 1: The society never falls into economic ruin.
Solution 2: Families decide, as entire families, to be courageous and defiant. No family member will comply with an extremist movement out of fear for their dependents.
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