Modern Inequality

This is a blog. I am going to post some interesting things that I find. Mostly political things.

I am probably a socialist, I think. I don't agree with Republicans or attend any Tea Parties, but I don't think I like the Democrats (corporate money, state secrecy, military expansionism). The closest party that I can identify with are the Greens.  Really though? I'm probably what this wikipedia article talks about.

I think that workers should own the companies that they work for. It's one of those ideas that makes the most sense but that no one really talks about.

I think corporations are fundamentally horrible. (I regonize the hypocrisy of this being on a Google owned site; it's nearly impossible to not be a hypocrite and have the views that I have. I am at the core, like most affluent people that think the way I do, filled with hypocrisy.)

I think that human health and happiness should be the focus, the endgame, for civilization. Instead we are continuing with this failed capitalist experiment, propping up  zombie financial institutions with public money. Corporate welfare should be illegal.

I think that most of socieities problems come from inequality. This is less of an opinion and more of a view of the facts.

I think we are entering into new terrain as a civilization and as a global society. We have done a terrible job trying to articulate exactly what we are trying to do as a species.

Really, it's about purpose. What are we here for? Consumption? Reproduction? Sustainability?

But why am I starting to write in this?

It is mostly to stop bothering my beautiful and understanding girlfriend with my apparently endless running commentary on all things political, economic and sociological. I love you LC.