Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
in a better world, my friend.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
a change can be a Kaldor-Hicks improvement, then its reversal can be a Kaldor-Hicks improvement. both, then, are potentially just causes. which prevails is a matter of conflict.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
instead, one way to understand the antivax movement is as a red herring to distract from the financial inconveniences of environmental causes.
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Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
They can lose their livelihoods at the corporations and their financial stake. If they’ve broken the law while serving the corp, they are liable for that (as they should be already). But they remain humans, who should be entitled to a life of security, whether in freedom or (if convicted) in prison.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
Yes, definitely. My formulation of “everyone” includes all natural persons, definitely excludes corporations.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
what if our republic were a multilevel marketing company? 🤔
Steve Randy Waldman
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yeah, i think that’s right, particular malefactors “should”, but never would, consent to punishment. i think there are limits to the severity of punishment in a just cause. 1/
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
but mostly i am thinking in terms of broader populations, rather than particular evildoers. 2/
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
ordinary “MAGA supporters” are on the other side of a cause I support, which is just because my cause offers them a place as full and equal citizens of a republic, even if it is a robust equality they themselves dislike and would not consent to. /fin
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
The desired end state for fossil asset holders is full citizenship in a social democracy such that any business losses they endure, having taken the business risk of fossil fuel exposure, leave them less well off but full and secure citizens. It is fine they should lose money.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
This isn’t a utilitarian argument. On the contrary. Ours would be an unjust cause if, for example, all XOM shareholders were to be enslaved or executed or driven into penury.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
Demanding they accept losses commensurate with risks they sought for profit (and historically profited from!) is demanding nothing other than equal treatment. Many other investors find their investments don’t work out. Fossil fuel political and environmental risk is well telegraphed.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
The only way any kind of capitalism can be a just cause is if it is attached to robust social democracy. A capitalism whose losers are immiserated plainly fails our criterion.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
For a cause to be just, there has to be a telos, a desired end-state, that offers a decent outcome to everyone, even those perceived to be on the other side of the cause. 1/
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
"Decent" doesn't mean an outcome everyone desires or would at present consent to. If that were the case, there would be no conflict. 2/
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
But a just cause offers outcomes it can credibly argue all parties *should* consent to, all parties would be fairly served if they did consent to, even though for now they do not all consent. /fin
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
love you, grokma!
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
we so often see the first person where there is no person.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
“History is clear: countries escape debt traps through growth” @arjunjayadev.bsky.social @jwmason.bsky.social & Ahilan Kardirgamar jwmason.substack.com/p/sri-lankas...
Sri Lanka's Interest Rate Trap
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"Two button meme", with one button labeled "Price Vector" the other "Market free from state interference", captioned "Hayekians in an age of surveillance pricing"
Steve Randy Waldman
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what distinguishes Elon Musk from his peers is an incapacity to keep his work — on projects they often share — discreet.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
and vice versa!
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
they advertised authentic Vietnamese, but it was faux pho.
Steve Randy Waldman
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i refer to their rabbit soup as “little bunny faux pho”.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
going over the Susquehanna is nice! and Maryland House.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
we all survive death. if we didn’t, there’d be nothing to bury.
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Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
i admit it, i am too good for this world.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
have you ever considered, perhaps it has? 🤔