Thank you for your most thoughtful articles. These are not gibberish or repetition of talking points. I am sick of that and the dumbing down of our society! We actually let geckos and ducks and a distorted “general”?? tell us what insurance we need to buy! Think about this! Executives paying big bucks for ads actually choose this because they know we will suck up almost any bull they throw at us and now we accept the same level of crud from many of our “leaders”. Some of this is our own fault. We accept it. We excuse and defend it, somtimes violently. I have not commented on points you have made but I respect the thoughtfulness. Agree or not, you present these very well. Thank you Joan!
This is a fantastic post. IMO, America needs to rethink if we want to consider money a person's property. Instead, I think it'd benefit us to realize that it's a fiat currency designed to help the distribution of goods. Stripping it of its "property" status would really help us institute fair tax policy to avoid the problems you articulated here.
Thanks so much for your kind words and additional comment. I’m trying to figure out how your suggestion would work because it is an intriguing idea. Did you elaborate on that issue in a Substack post? If so, feel free to paste a link or two here -thanks!
I don't, but that's certainly something I might cover in the future!
Apologies for being confusing. I'm not so much making a policy suggestion, rather I think we should start to think about money as less of "property" and more of a public means of distributing goods. It's more of a "mindset" than an actual policy change.
Thank you for your most thoughtful articles. These are not gibberish or repetition of talking points. I am sick of that and the dumbing down of our society! We actually let geckos and ducks and a distorted “general”?? tell us what insurance we need to buy! Think about this! Executives paying big bucks for ads actually choose this because they know we will suck up almost any bull they throw at us and now we accept the same level of crud from many of our “leaders”. Some of this is our own fault. We accept it. We excuse and defend it, somtimes violently. I have not commented on points you have made but I respect the thoughtfulness. Agree or not, you present these very well. Thank you Joan!
Thanks so much, Rick. I appreciate YOUR thoughtful comments. Feel free to comment on the substantive points when you have time.
This is a fantastic post. IMO, America needs to rethink if we want to consider money a person's property. Instead, I think it'd benefit us to realize that it's a fiat currency designed to help the distribution of goods. Stripping it of its "property" status would really help us institute fair tax policy to avoid the problems you articulated here.
Well done Joan!
Thanks so much for your kind words and additional comment. I’m trying to figure out how your suggestion would work because it is an intriguing idea. Did you elaborate on that issue in a Substack post? If so, feel free to paste a link or two here -thanks!
I don't, but that's certainly something I might cover in the future!
Apologies for being confusing. I'm not so much making a policy suggestion, rather I think we should start to think about money as less of "property" and more of a public means of distributing goods. It's more of a "mindset" than an actual policy change.
Thanks—not really confusing, but more an interesting idea to explore!