Stephen Yearwood
1 min readSep 22, 2022

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What we need is something worth fighting for. I think justice fits the bill. Why not dedicate yourself to advocating for a better understanding of justice?

Applied to the economy, via a "democratically distributed income," it would eliminate unemployment and poverty and provide the means to eliminate taxes/public debt. It can be thought of as a kind of permanent 'quantitative easing' for 'the people'.

It would also increase sustainability, by eliminating the political imperative to maximize output in order to maximize employment, total income, and the collection of taxes at current rates. There would be no unemployment or poverty at any level of total output.

All of that would be accomplished without imposing any cost on employers, without having to redistribute anything, without imposing any limit on income/wealth, and without requiring people to act any particular way.

Is it socialism? No.

Is it libertarianism? No.

It is actual justice applied to the existing economic system.

If nothing else, it is something worth taking into the the next phase of human existence.

[Linked articles are here in Medium, but not behind the paywall.]

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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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