Stephen Yearwood
1 min readJun 10, 2020

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I do think it goes deeper than that. I take 'the system' in "systemic" to be society. A society begun with three hundred years of race-based slavery followed by a hundred years of former slaves and their descendants being regularly terrorized and intentionally denied any opportunities whatsoever cannot pass a law allowing those oppressed people to vote and pretend racism has been 'cured'.

I think what is happening now needs to become re-thinking what justice is. I have become convinced that the ethic of justice must be mutual respect (of a basic kind--taking one another into account). That ethic follows from a belief in equality: "Equality Is All We Need" (here in Medium). [Links are apparently not possible in this new Response platform.]

Mutual respect already informs the theory of democracy. A society governed by mutual respect would maximize the liberty that co-existing people can share simultaneously, as a practical matter.

Mutual respect can be applied to the economy via a "democratically distributed income," with astonishing results for society--including eliminating unemployment and poverty: "For Crying Out Loud, ACCEPT That A SOLUTION Actually EXISTS" (a "3 min read"--including options for further reading--also here in Medium).

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Stephen Yearwood
Stephen Yearwood

Written by Stephen Yearwood

M.A. in political economy (money/distributive justice) "Please don't confront me with my failures/ I'm aware of them" from "These Days," as sung by Gregg Allman

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