Indiana Moderate
@IndianaModerate
Moderate libertarian, Teacher (MS Science, HS Biology, HS CTE Health Occupations), Mom. Gen X-er.
Look at that. Moderate libertarian. Who would have expected that?
At the most basic level, you have to do the amount of work that produces value that corresponds to the value of the work of others you intend to consume. This is, in a sense, the fairest and most reasonable thing easily imaginable
is it just me or is there something really wrong with spending 8 to 9 hours at work, only to come home and have just 4 hours of personal time, and that already includes prepping for the next day? this doesn’t feel like really living
Try this: "Like any thoughtful group of educators, we must pay careful attention to what students say and do in order to ensure we're serving them to the best of our ability. But at the end of the day it's the adults who are in charge and accountable."
“Student voice must inform decision making” A quote from our new superintendent.
Concern over wealth inequality is not proof of oppression. It is proof of resentment. It does not mean the rich have stolen. It means the observer cannot stand that others have achieved more. Inequality, by itself, tells you nothing about justice. It tells you nothing about how…
Politicians who claim that we should dramatically raise taxes on billionaires should first demonstrate that they can efficiently allocate the tax revenue they already have and only then call for more
Posts are my outlet to get what's in my head out. I don't care who likes or sees it 😂 Also, mental illness. 😂
“But colonization explains Africa’s poverty today!” Singapore was colonized by Britain until 1965. Today they’re significantly wealthier than their former colonizer.
Eye-opening chart. Singapore has one of the highest economic freedom scores in the world, economic freedom leads do prosperity. The UK followed different path, left policies make everyone just poorer. It’s really that simple.
Socialists societies does not tolerate groups of people practicing freedom. Capitalists societies comfortably allow people to choose voluntary socialism.
Right-wingers mythologize 1950; left-wingers mythologize 20,000 BC
Market ideology rewrites the past, imagining ancient humans as proto-entrepreneurs hoarding gains. Yet in ancestral societies, surplus wasn’t private, it was shared. Hoarding was taboo because survival depended on each other. Capitalism insults its own roots.
There are honest, intelligent people who strongly disagree with you.
Congress spends $2 trillion more than its revenues, the Fed then buys this debt. Congress then pays the Fed interest. The Fed then pays interest to big banks to keep cash reserves. This is how govt makes the rich richer. But it gets worse. According economist Judy…
Elon Musk Leaves Job Of Making Government More Efficient For Much Easier Job Of Sending Humans To Mars buff.ly/faLsGrt
I give a 5-pt extra credit end-of-course survey. One question asks if the workload was too little, appropriate, or too much for a high school course. I had 1 student (of 124) who said too much. He has a 9% & is trying to get to 70% before Friday. Maybe I'm not the problem!
Libertarianism is for a moral and intelligent people. I do wish there were a way for people within these camps to "opt out" and leave the masses to their own undoing.
Yes. You can't sell me on high density until the people you're squishing me up against are people I'm willing to be squished up against.
Take life seriously enough to be successful, but not so seriously that you become miserable.
One of the core lessons from world history: Socialism doesn't eliminate greed—it redirects it from market competition to political competition. The latter is far more destructive.
The problem with socialism is that the wealth it seeks to redistribute can only be generated by a free market economy.
It doesn’t matter if the policy is about taxation, immigration, or green regulations. If the policy isn’t working, the response of a leftwing government is always the same. “Keep doing it - only bigger, harder, and even more expensive!”