Frequently asked questions
What Is Citizenship?
How to engage Employment?
Eco Luddism "Small Is Beautiful": Stop automation and adopt voluntary simplicity.
Protectionism, luddism, public employment: attempt to protect existing jobs, and create new ones.
If the government avoids meddling (unemployment, insurance, minimum wages, etc) all workers will find new jobs, even if at lower wages.
How to think about Globalization?
Economic globalization must be accompanied by political globalization: globalization is good as long as it is accompanied by workers rights and protections, environmental laws, and global democratic governance of capital flows.
Eco Luddite: Globalization should be stopped and we should return to self-reliance and political sovereignty. Religious Global Bans on enhancement tech but no other global governance.
Globalization is good as long as it is accompanied by workers rights and protections, environmental laws, and global democratic governance of capital flows.
Economic globalization is good: Global governance, worker protections, and environmental laws are all unnecessary.
How to support the Ecology?
Deep Ecology: Humanity should radically restrict itself. Religious Dominion Theology: Man has stewardship over Nature.
Left Ecology: technologies developed by patriarchal, capitalist systems need to be banned and those system changed.
Free Markets: the market can solve all ecological problems.
How to engage Reproductive Rights?
Procreative Liberty Trumped by Religious Rights: Reproductive rights trumped by religious prohibitions or the need for radical population reduction.
Limited Procreative Liberty: Reproductive rights, but not extended to germinal choice and reproductive technology.
Procreative Liberty: Trust parents to act in children's best interests, and let them buy germinal choice in the market.
How to engage Technological Enhancement?
Tech bans Necessary to Protect Equality: Equality can be guaranteed by banning enhancement technologies.
Bans on technologies as Part of Larger Egalitarian Program: Democracies should work toward social equality and ban enhancement technologies.
Market Access and Legal Equality is Enough: If legal equality is guaranteed and enhancement technological are available in the market, social equality is irrelevant and government should do nothing to create a more equal society.
Individual Liberty vs Restrictions
Yuck Factor: overrides individual liberty.
Yuck Factor: overrides individual liberty in germinal choice and biotech, but not in sexuality or abortion
WE AGREE Individual Liberty overrides "yuck factor".
Humanism vs Religious Rights
Humanism: Human beings are free to determine their own future, guided by prudent reason. There are no obvious natural or divine limits on human aspiration.
Deep Ecology / Hubris Taboo: Humanity should be restricted by divine or ecological taboos.
Opposition to Patriarchal or Imperialist Humanism
WE AGREE Human beings are free to determine their own future, guided by prudent reason. There are no obvious natural or divine limits on human aspiration.
How to consider Technological Risks?
Relinquishment: Risks are so enormous and unknowable, and regulatory institutions so flawed, that human enhancement should be banned.
Relinquishment: Risks are so enormous and unknowable, and regulatory institutions so flawed, that human enhancement should be banned.
Resignation: technology is uncontrollable, government intervention always has bad unforeseen consequences, and risks are manageable without government.
Goals
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End abject poverty by giving people the money
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Balance the American balance sheet
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Eliminate the biases that come with automating jobs and hire cheaper employees after
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Ownership stake in the economy's growth
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Freedom of movement
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incentivize more transactions in the economy
Guiding Principles
#ValueToThePeople
#DignityFirst
#EquityOverEverything
#Inclusionism
#WeOweUs