The Economics of Parenting - Part 1

It occurs to me that families operate uniquely in an otherwise-capitalist economy. Where scarce resources tend to be rationed by pricing for the sake of producing efficient outcomes, parents' cohabitation with their children features not only extensive charitable donation, but communal living. Household capital, though ultimately diffused at the parents' discretion, is used indiscriminately by all residents of the home. Likewise, goods are consumed at will, without price.

Unanswered Questions

So, there's been a lot on my mind lately. It strikes me as a healthy practice to reevaluate my beliefs as regularly as possible- in all aspects of life- to seek out inconsistencies and get the most out of my head.

The first thing that seems readily apparent to me is that beliefs should held for logical, non-arbitrary reasons. Whether logic is a subset of truth or truth a subset of logic, it seems only by logic that one can establish truth. The whole of what is is quite obviously unknown (and inherently unknowable), but the whole of what we know is is what we can logically reason is.

[VIDEO] Natural Rights: A Libertarian Critique

Music: "Lateralus" by Tool

We are Not the Government

The president made a largely overlooked statement today that I'd like to shed light on.

"You hear some of these folks: ‘I need a gun to protect myself from the government. We can’t do background checks because the government’s going to come take my guns away.’ The government’s us. These officials are elected by you"

Pay attention to one particular sentence, if you will: "The government's us." And the reason he gives? Because we elect the officials. 

Can we not conclude, by his reasoning, that in the case of all democracies "the people are the government?"