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@Evollaqi

Oxford and Cambridge alum. Interested in philosophy, politics, and Islam.

United Kingdom
Vrijeme pridruživanja: siječanj 2012.

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  1. Prikvačeni tweet
    16. kol 2017.

    Have decided to consolidate some of my Twitter threads into one place:

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  2. prije 20 sati

    Perhaps these policies (incl state ownership and taxation needed to provide them), alongside a pluralist-liberal and pro-market state, and maybe even a degree of moderate social conservatism could serve as a "grand bargain" winning the assent of many different factions in society

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  3. prije 21 sat

    But perhaps we don't want to reform the fundamental structures, and deem the achievement of these policies within them a worthy end goal in itself.

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  4. prije 21 sat

    Though if we wanted, we could radically reform or replace those fundamental structures too. These policies could be a stepping stone to those ends that we end up not having need for, or a part but only a part of those ends.

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  5. prije 21 sat

    Universal Basic Capital, Universal Basic Income, and Universal (far more than "basic") Healthcare could radically transform society. We'd have a much freer and much more egalitarian society, without even needing to reform or replace society's most foundational structures.

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    "The sharpest distinction Warren has drawn with her ally from Vermont is her gender," writes . "In a more accurate rendering of the pair, that is only the beginning of their differences."

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    3. velj

    For week 2 in my Network Epistemology class, we looked at a classic economics model: information cascades. The basic idea of the info. cascade model is to show that even rational individuals can sometimes engage in apparently irrational collective behavior.

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    3. velj

    Genuinely, as a disabled descendent of Jewish people murdered in the Holocaust, the rhetorical invocation of the Holocaust as a way of somehow proving white and British anti-racism while erasing and denying how that genocide sits amongst and against others, makes me furious.

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    As Marx noted, “Banjuwangi, a province of Java, numbered over 80,000 inhabitants in 1750 and only 18,000 in 1811. That,” he exclaimed in bitter irony, “is peaceful commerce!”

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    Twitter don't fuck up threading challenge 2020

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    The 2004 primaries: where are they now Kerry: board of Bank of America Dean: MEK lobbyist Lieberman: Chinese telecom lobbyist Gephardt: health insurance lobbyist Clark: ethanol lobbyist Edwards: really cool guy, widely admired

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    Perhaps there was a scriptural / theological basis for these ideas?

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    NO ONE should have their sense of self worth and meaning tied to their participation in paid employment. The fact that our society has pushed this lie for generations is horrific, and causes very real harm.

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    - or that the consequences of us not being able to find such a ground aren't so severe (eg maybe there's still a way we can justify these political values absent meta-ethics)

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    To find a meta-ethical ground for this basic egalitarianism (and for other sociopolitical values we hold dear) is a cause I endeavour to contribute to. I just hope it can be done

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    I think this is a good definition: How do we establish the innate equality of moral worth in human beings, in spite of a) differences between human beings (through nature, nurture, and their choices), and b) the fact humans are more valuable than animals?

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  18. 3. velj

    And of course, the literally critically evaluating Thomas and Williams is more than still welcome. Though at the end of the day, cutting the welfare state aren't likely to be politics I'd support! But Murray seems to be taking these arguments in a pro-UBI direction instead.

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    I wonder if anyone can point me in a good direction to find the literature evaluting these claims. And I specifically do not mean the genetics stuff (which I should look into at another date), but those more akin to what he argued in, say, Losing Ground and Coming Apart.

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    Upon doing a little digging, it seems that that if one wants a social-scientifically serious defence of these claims - besides Thomas Sowell and Walter E Williams, has written at length for decades on the matter (and not only looking at African Americans)

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    to trade - and that includes trading our labour. And that may in turn entail agreeing to have our labour organised by someone else - albeit true agreement, chosen where there is no material compulsion on us to work.

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