The State vs. “the Public”
The State has to safeguard the balance of power of many existing publics. Continue Reading
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Kitchen logic 3: A need is not a value
Individual is the sole agent on the market of life. Continue Reading
Blockchain exchange of values
We can be sure right now that blockchain technology will significantly impact the way we live. But that doesn’t mean it will change everything. My goal for this post is to show that some changes commonly attributed to the blockchain… Continue Reading
How a pencil refutes centralized circular economy?
The famous Milton Friedman pencil case concerning the circular economy and integrated reporting is a topic of this post. Milton Friedman’s “pencil case” can be found in his book Free to Choose. A shorter but sufficiently explanatory version can be… Continue Reading
An integrated model for societal exchange
There are two triggers for this post: The first comes from the straw man argument against capitalism as a system that assumes humans are homo economicus. This post will show that homo economicus and its rationality can be embedded in… Continue Reading
S-violation as individualization
Individualization and symmetry breaking connected to understand systems better. Continue Reading
Robots cannot de-toil humans
Prophecy of Ayn Rand comes more and more true. Leading industrialists of our era are more and more openly pleading for a future in which an individual would be subordinated to collective. Elon Musk with his prediction about universal basic… Continue Reading
Who decides about truth?
When it comes to the question of truth, it is by default most fruitful to use a statement of some creationist and then follow reactions of atheists. A post on a blog Ultimate Atheism Collection is a good example. The statement of… Continue Reading
Three cardinal misjudgements related to COVID
Misjudgement nr.1 The so-called second wave of COVID disease as a consequence of SARS-COV 19 virus activity is unanimously understood as a crisis. And indeed it is a crisis for our lives are seriously abridged almost all around the world.… Continue Reading
George, they do not know what they are talking about! 1984
I have written quite some posts about Donald Trump. I wrote this one a month after his inauguration in 2017. And it is rewritten almost four years later when results of 2020 elections are known while consequences are more than… Continue Reading