You are right ubi is not a panacea, it is a floor to build upon with other policies.
This is why yang has 130+ on his website that DO actually attack inequalities and inefficiencies in our system one by one. Yang focuses on the FD because it is the easiest thing to do in a single term as president -- It doesn't require a supermajority in the house and has bipartisan appeal, making it incredibly easy to implement quickly.
And ubi does help in certain things like unionizing which DO help with inequalities, collective bargaining is one of the greatest tools available to the precariat and is something that is much easier to accomplish when you don't have to ever worry about starving to death.
You can read the book Raising The Floor by Andy Stern to learn more about it, he is the former president of one of the largest unions in the entire country the SEIU.
Pour ceux qui veulent en savoir plus sur les dangers de l'austérité pure, je recommande le livre de l'économiste politique Écossait Mark Blyth: <em>Austerity, the history of a dangerous idea</em>
Aussi, il existe des centaines de vidéos <em>Youtube sur Mark Blyth</em>.
Petite clarification sur ce que j'ai dit:
Ce que le Gouvernement Québécois (Libéral) a fait de bien c'est qu'il a économisé durant une période de richesse économique afin d'avoir un "coussin" pour la prochaine crise qui pourrait avoir lieu... Il faut faire de l'austérité (ou de la rigueur budgétaire) quand les choses vont bien afin d'avoir de l'argent à dépenser quand les choses vont mal pour supporter l'économie.
Bon point pour le Gouvernement Couillard et aussi bon point pour le Gouvernement de la CAQ qui n'a pas tout dépensé dans son premier budget.
Not just the NCR, but all of Canada. That is the conclusion in the book Maximum Canada: Why 35 Million Canadians Are Not Enough by Doug Saunders.
I thought this article was written by Doug Saunders at first glance...
>A bigger, bolder, more prosperous Canada is one that can defend its interests and advance its values – both at home and abroad.
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>But to achieve the vision of 100 million Canadians, much work needs to be done. That means maintaining immigration levels – but it also means building a country that many more people can call home.
This is one of the points discussed in Maximum Canada: Why 35 Million Canadians Are Not Enough .
>We believe that in addition to cities loosening restrictions on development, Canadian immigration policy should seek to direct newcomers to cities where new workers are badly needed.
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>Are our housing prices driving away the founder of the next Narwhal (companies best poised to become world class)? Are they keeping Canadians out of our most productive job markets, dragging down our national productivity even further?
I don't know if I agree with this point though. I think Canada is a great place to live and people will continue to come here for the opportunities that we provide here. Once here they will naturally want houses and the free market will dictate the need for them to move to smaller cities where it is more affordable. My family moved here in the 70's and I think my mom and I are the last ones living in one of the big cities. This can also be seen in migration patterns of Gerard street, the Danforth etc.
I also don't know why they had to wrap advocacy for the 100 million goal in this false "democracy is in retreat" narrative.
Wow, OP, I'm sorry. I'm glad that your wife felt comfortable telling you all of this rather than continue to suppress it.
You would probably find this book helpful. This is only the beginning.
https://www.amazon.com/Allies-Healing-Person-Sexually-Abused/dp/0060968834
A few years ago i read a book which was written to help adults with ADHD and social skills. Look into it, i wish i posted on here earlier. It helped me a bit, i should reread it. People are mentioning autism but ADHD can result in many of the same symptoms.
https://www.amazon.com/What-Does-Everybody-Else-Know/dp/1886941343
Most of my family is from rural KY and meth/heroin has riddled all of their communities.
Read a book sometime -- This is a really good one and entertaining - https://www.amazon.com/Dreamland-True-Americas-Opiate-Epidemic-ebook/dp/B00U19DTS0
It's pretty objectively bad -- https://www.healthy-ky.org/res/images/resources/KHIP-heroin-and-meth-FINAL.pdf
So, reading Dreamland, I was really struck by how multifaceted the opioid crisis is. At least the impression that I got from that book, it seemed like it really started with a perfect storm of pharmaceutical salesmanship, legislation, people not double checking the underlying research, moralization of addiction, a proliferation of unscrupulous pain clinics, and heroin starting to come in from Mexico.
With all those other factors, I'm kinda surprised to see CVS and Walgreens as being places to lay blame. And, reading the comment from kombinacja, it doesn't sound like there's a lot there that they could do differently.
That's good, exercise is the #2 best thing you can do for yourself so all props to you for that, but the #1 is diet. I recommend you reading Fat Chance from Dr Robert Lustig
It is, and that’s because the only people telling the stories are people like me who bought into the deal at 18 and became disillusioned, or the people people who bought into the war and became even more gung ho.
Generally speaking, there just aren’t any Tolkiens or Protest Music from these wars because the writers, artists, and musicians who would normally inspire anti war movements with their experiences because they never had to go in. They’ve all been outsiders looking in. Shit, most civilians would be hard pressed to identify a combat veteran that they are even friends with.
I don’t typically like Maddow (really any news “analyst” for that matter), but she does have a great book on the subject
Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power https://www.amazon.com/dp/0307460991/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_navT_a_HK48XB0R41QEYB0JTQ5M
Best of luck, this is a true sign of personal strength. Something that helped me further get away from sugar was reading about how it is processed inside our body, and no one lays it down better than Dr. Robert Lustig, I recommend beginning with Fat Chance
This is a very complex issue with no simple answer. I would recommend reading up, a very well done book for partners is Allies in Healing. https://www.amazon.com/Allies-Healing-Person-Sexually-Abused/dp/0060968834
This sounds so much like my childhood it's scary, right down to the story about the lock. Except that my parents also sent weird emails to the head of the school telling her I'd "lied" when I didn't; tried to make me repeat a grade level at the same school; forcibly drugged me on experimental meds (stimulant amphetamines) without any diagnosis and completely on a whim, ignoring my screaming, crying and begging, which was unbelievably traumatic (ages 12.5 and 16.5, respectively); unwillingly IQ-tested me through the end of high school; sent me to a neurologist where electrodes were glued to my scalp to find out what was (in my mother's words) "wrong with me"; tricked me into attending various "appointments"; and told pretty much everyone in their lives that I was a "special needs" kid (I wasn't). All of this in addition to their regular shouting and frightening tantrums.
Also some creepy / very disturbing sexual stuff from my father.
I am in my 30s and still don't speak to them.
I wish I had some advice for you. All I can say is that it does get better. Think seriously about college and your plans for getting out. You don't have to stay in touch with them as an adult, but do try to live a good life. Success is the best revenge.
To the lack of motivation in school, you might find this book relatable.
Yep, but it's more than that. The source of metabolic disease is self-reinforcing. More than just being an addicting drug, sugar acts to numb the satiating hormone and rewire the brain's response to the vagus nerve.
Highly recommend this book.
>Neurotypical people quickly learn by watching their parents at an earlier age.
My understanding is that this is correct. It's not magic, but it just comes from years (i.e. starting as a tottler, and continuing through adulthood) of subconsciously picking up the cues and rules from others they interact with.
I understand that I'm not autistic, but I have ADHD, and it appears that people in my situation can still have social skills issues. According to the book What Does Everybody Else Know That I Don't?: Social Skills Help for Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, people with ADHD can still pick up those social cues, but they often miss a portion of those lessons from being distracted..
My understanding is that ASD specifically impairs the ability to pick up those social cues and the ability to put them into practice (which is why both the learning and doing can be described as such a manual action for so many autistic people.
Allies in Healing (https://www.amazon.com/Allies-Healing-Person-Sexually-Abused/dp/0060968834) has a very similar message to what you post here. It says to help and be supportive. However, you also need to care for your needs and if you find yourself overwhelmed by the situation, it’s ok to leave your partner (because you can’t save someone if you are also in trouble). This might be a good read, even if the issues aren’t sexual abuse.
I suck at social skills. I haven't had training, but I did find this book, (which I've read like 10 pages of): https://www.amazon.com/What-Does-Everybody-Else-Know/dp/1886941343
> My point was that the debt to GDP ratio isn't so high that it couldn't go any higher, such as due to a recession.
Ignore anything before 1865. That is not the stick to measure against for historical records as the structure of the economy was wildly different. Since 1865, a period of time where the economy of the UK was starting to resemble what it does today, the only times where it has been the result of international crises.
>My point was that the debt to GDP ratio isn't so high that it couldn't go any higher, such as due to a recession.
It can go higher, sure. That isn't necessarily a good thing though and, given the constraints we've put on ourselves into, it won't be nearly as manageable without drastic restructuring.
>Austerity was a political choice, not a necessity.
What is the relevancy of this? We are not on about the policies of the United States or Weimar Republic we're on about the circumstances that lead to the GDP-Debt ratio in the UK being higher than it was now, namely the Great Depression and two world wars.
>See this book about Austerity or any lecture by Mark Blyth about austerity on YouTube. Also Google for Modern Monetary Theory while you're at it.
No, because a) it's entirely irrelevant to the discussion, b) I have other things to do and c) I am more than aware of MMT, Keynsian economics and the drawbacks of austerity already.
> Japan's net debt to GDP is still about twice ours.
And most of that is still held domestically.
I was a bright kid, but I hated school and got very little out of it. The dual emphasis on conformity and people-pleasing, coupled with relentless bullying, far outweighed the benefit to me. Have you read the John Taylor Gatto books? Dumbing Us Down is a great one to start with. Not sure if homeschooling is an option for you.
I am from Pike County and I would say Portsmouth more so than Chillicothe. At least Chillicothe gets some growth/money being close to Columbus but Portsmouth is a real bummer. It was sad when I was taking a look at this book and cover looked familiar.
Currently reading a very insightful book on this subject from the perspective of a former darling of the right; The New American Militarism by Andrew Basevich.
Viewing war as "normal" rather than aberrant is incredibly dangerous to a democracy, doubly so when you create a professional class and then declare them entirely above reproach. It insulates the citizenry too much from war's costs and impacts while also creating powerful incentives for perpetuating conflicts.
All excellent questions. Arguably people were better educated before socialized education. You might find John Taylor Gatto an interesting read.
Just to add a bit of context, having read a lot of background literature about the so-called opioid epidemic, for example Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic which is a great source, I can tell you that Dr. Kolodny is infamous for his advocacy of drastic curtailment of licit pain medication. He's not just some rando doc that Bloom is trying to discredit. I should probably have provided some context instead of just posting this link without comment, but I was afraid that I might politicize things and offend people if I inserted my opinion, so I just posted the link to the article without comment. I'm not very good at Reddit.
In Raising the Floor by Andy Stern, he estimates it would cost between $1.75 trillion and $2.5 trillion to create an income floor of $12,000 per year for all 18-to-64-year-olds and for all seniors receiving less than $1,000 a month in Social Security.
He goes on to list a "menu" (ie. not all necessarily required) of viable funding options, including
I recommend the book if you're interested in learning more about UBI https://www.amazon.com/Raising-Floor-Universal-Economy-American/dp/1610396251
Black tar heroin from mexico is something a lot of people are dying from. https://www.amazon.com/Dreamland-True-Americas-Opiate-Epidemic-ebook/dp/B00U19DTS0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1503058526&sr=8-1&keywords=dreamland A great read that explains a lot of the opioid epidemic.
Andy Stern was the authors name.
He estimates it would cost between $1.75 trillion and $2.5 trillion to create an income floor of $12,000 per year for all 18-to-64-year-olds and for all seniors receiving less than $1,000 a month in Social Security.
He goes on to list a "menu" of viable funding options, including
I highly recommend the book if you're interested in learning more about UBI https://www.amazon.com/Raising-Floor-Universal-Economy-American/dp/1610396251
Thanks just checked this out on amazon, and I'm going to order it.
I'll post the link here for it. If linking not allowed, Mods please remove it.
https://www.amazon.com/What-Does-Everybody-Else-Know/dp/1886941343
You should definitely communicate with your boyfriend about what happened to you, what's currently going on, and how you are feeling about it. I appreciate that you are taking his own struggles with quitting smoking into account, but your own feelings and comfort should not have to suffer because of that.
My therapist recommended this book for my wife to read, and it's helped her understand the broad range of feelings and issues I am dealing with. I would also recommend you and your boyfriend both read it. It'll also open a line of communication between you and him that you desperately need right now.
After reading the article, I'm not seeing where you're getting this "invisible hand" from. The title is a bit misleading so maybe that's it.
The only thing the article actually seems to state regarding Musk is that he mentioned UBI is one of the only solutions to the rise of robotic automation.
If you're interested in UBI, I just finished reading a great book called Raising the Floor by Andy Stern, former president of the Service Employees International Union.