American politics is gonna be hilarious. Dumb, but hilarious. […]
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I honestly don’t know which part of this is worse…
I honestly don’t know which part of this is worse… (from http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2016/politics/election-candidate-matchmaker/) […]
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Sensationalism, Freedom of Speech and Tolerance
In this piece, I’ll try and dig into the concept of people’s opinions and how modern media does not try and challenge that, making people think they are much more tolerant than they really are.
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Poll: Preferred Society
Here are the income distributions of two societies. That is, this chart shows how large a percentage of the population (y-axis) in each society earns a certain salary (x-axis). I’ve have not put numbers on the axes to keep this independent on actual money. While it may not seem so, the area under both curves […]
On State-sponsored Art
In this post I am in no way trying to define art – whenever I write art, you’re welcome to read almost anything you want, be it music, paintings, crap in a can, soccer matches, movies or something completely else. It’s no secret, I’m not for a large state supplying everything and demanding huge taxes […]
Isn’t Socialism Really Un-solidary?
In the following I’ll use left and right to be purely economical terms. That is, the more left a party is, the more it is for economical equality: everybody should earn the same despite ability and (the more left you get) willingness to work. At the same time, the more to the right you get, the more you are for everybody should earn their own money and pay their own expenses.
Communism dictates that the state (or people) own everything and all are paid the same amount or the amount they need. Capitalism dictates that we pay nothing to the common kitty, and hence there is nothing to distribute; you basically want to get as much of the money you earn as you can. Most countries are somewhere in between nowadays. […]