Citizens Prerogative

Episode discussion topics

• Coming off the heals of two republics we want to paint the picture of what an egalitarian future may look like.
• How does self-rule translate into the economy? How do we leave behind the concrete plantation that was built by the owners of the system?
• Competition is good and centralization is problematic without proper checks and balances in place. We use adversarial (one side versus another) setups to do things like finding the truth through a court case or like supply and demand in economics or the checks and balances among our co-equal branches of government.
• Automation is coming for all repeatable tasks and will eliminate related jobs. This includes many roles from middle management to delivery drivers.
• The ability to be free is granted to all through the ability to participate in the economy in the way that they choose.
  • Imagine if healthcare and schooling were rights, not expenses or debt, since a healthy republic needs citizens who understand how to work it.
  • Imagine having the right to equal pay for equal work for egalitarian sake.
  • Imagine the astounding possibilities if all our brains were free to create at will rather than only a selected few.

• Calls to Action:
  • Arm yourself against the fear that is driven by false notions of socialism or communism or any ism because those are just ideas, not systems that we can implement.
  • China and Russia are more capitalist or even fascist in their current implementations of governance and economy.
  • The one Marxist thing they retain is central planning committees that are deeply seated in politics.
  • The U.S. uses a set of distributed economic planning committees consisting of public and private institutions, the Federal Government, and the boards of companies across industries.

Your hosts: Michael V. Piscitelli and Raymond Wong Jr.

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• We tend to take for granted the fact that we have weekends, a "fourty-hour" work week, and abolished child labor so they can attend schools instead. These are a set of conditions that have been hard fought for and won by historical labor and progressive movements in the United States.
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