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Author Archives: R. Salisbury

Why Exchange Necessarily Results in Consumerism and Superfluity

3 June, 2015by R. Salisbury Leave a comment

Many anarchists and libertarians today insist that [free[d]] markets are not at all problematic in society, it’s just capitalism that is the problem.  This includes David Graeber, speaking from a […]

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Natural Economic Theory

Libertarian Municipalism and Transferics

23 May, 2015by R. Salisbury Leave a comment

Libertarian municipalism is an evolution of Murray Bookchin’s left-libertarian theory, a social theory which is not only the end, but also the means to achieve it.  While the basic idea […]

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Natural Economic Theory, VIAAC Theory, Visions of the future

Questioning the Laws of Economics

19 May, 2015by R. Salisbury Leave a comment

Scarcity is the fundamental economic problem of having seemingly unlimited human wants in a world of limited resources. The principle of scarcity (not to be confused with the state of […]

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Natural Economic Theory

Should the minimum wage be raised to $15/hr?

24 April, 2015by R. Salisbury 1 Comment

The net is abuzz with talk over the US minimum wage again–this time, the discussion is whether or not the federal minimum wage should be set to $15/hr.  The “Fight […]

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Criticism of others, Progress: A Fair Treatment

Transhumanism and the Broken Promise of Cosmic Communism

29 March, 2015by R. Salisbury 16 Comments

In The Utopia of Rules, David Graeber described much of the cultural phenomena that happened in the 70s and following decades as the result of a broken promise of a […]

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Progress: A Fair Treatment, Visions of the future

The Ethics of Profit in the Real World

17 March, 2015by R. Salisbury Leave a comment

A typical defense of capitalism is that profit is always nearly, or according to some unfortunate Koch-heads, perfectly, aligned with ethics, or is otherwise in some way naturally beneficent.  The […]

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Dialectic, Natural Economic Theory, Progress: A Fair Treatment

Post-Scarcity Anarchism: A Collaborative Periodical

17 March, 2015by R. Salisbury Leave a comment

You may be interested in a new, hopefully recurring, publication, creatively titled “Post-Scarcity Anarchism”.  I edited, wrote an article and two features for this volume, and I think it turned […]

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Visions of the future

GMOs and Technological Change

7 March, 2015by R. Salisbury Leave a comment

Genetically-modified organisms have been the buzz again lately on my Facebook feed, so I’ve been thinking more about the subject and its implications: Obviously, there is lots of scientific support […]

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Dialectic

“Value” is as skewed as ever in the Information Age

5 March, 2015by R. Salisbury Leave a comment

With Snapchat now being valued up to $19 billion, equal to the total wealth of Ethiopia, the way we define “value” in contemporary society seems increasingly nonsensical.  Our conflation of […]

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Natural Economic Theory

A More Aggressive Look At the Overhead of Private Property

13 February, 2015by R. Salisbury Leave a comment

Rediscovering IBISWorld’s Industry Research Reports, I went through and redid my analysis on the overhead of private property in the United States; I have generalized the scope somewhat to be […]

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Examples, Mathematical, Progress: A Fair Treatment

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