liberating money for ‘the people’ from the lenders — We owe very our lives to the lending overlords. That is not polemic rhetoric. It is not hyperbole. It is, we’ll see, a fact of life in the existing economic system in its current iteration. It is also, for me, a frightening thought. I’m not suggesting evil intent on the…

There is no reason they should have it both ways. Corporations have been granted the status of personhood in the U.S. in at least two important ways. They can sue and they can participate, via monetary contributions, in the political process. Growing up, I did not have the best of…

Jesus has been the most important influence on me: more than my parents, more than any other person. In terms of an approach to life I pretty much raised myself. The way I live my life is governed by my understanding of Jesus’s message to the world. I have spent…

the democratic political process We tend of think of ‘democracy’ as ‘majority rule’, but that is the least of it. Majority rule is the final element in the democratic political process. First, every community of human beings necessarily has a political process. The political process can be defined as the…

from the advent of cities to the present What is a city? One way to characterize a city is to say that it is a geopolitical unit with a certain (relative) size of population and complexity of structure and functioning. Perhaps the most definitive trait of a city is that…

for consumers, therefore the economy The foundation of the economy is credit. Credit is the (normal*) source of all money in the existing economic system, and money is the fuel that allows the economy to function. [People have argued with that metaphor, but I don’t say money of itself ‘makes…

Can remuneration of employees be increased through the political process without violating owners’ legitimate claims to the revenues of businesses? [Anyone wanting a refutation of the ‘left’ or the ‘right’ will be disappointed, but all pertinent ideologically based desires (other than Marxists’) are fulfilled.] Anyone could make a claim that…

to eliminate poverty There have been numerous reports in the last year or so of nations studying the possibility of issuing a national crypto currency. That raises a couple of questions regarding what is/is not a cryptocurrency. For starters, to this point in time all cryptos have been issued by…

the rule for governing all interactions among human beings The concern of justice is our interactions with one another as human beings. “Interactions” means actions that involve at least one other person in any way, including having direct or indirect effects on them. Heretofore justice has been thought of as…