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All too often, capitalism is identified with the for-profit sector. However, one organizational form whose importance is often overlooked is nonprofits. Roughly 4% of the American economy, including most universities and hospital systems, are nonprofit.One prominent nonprofit currently at the center of a raging debate is OpenAI, the $300 billion American artificial intelligence research organization best known for developing ChatGPT. Founded in 2015 as a donation-based nonprofit with a mission to build AI for humanity, it created a complex “hybrid capped profit” governance structure in 2019. Then, after a dramatic firing and re-hiring of CEO Sam Altman in 2023 (covered on an earlier episode of Capitalisn't: “Who Controls AI?”), a new board of directors announced that achieving OpenAI's mission would require far more capital than philanthropic donations could provide and initiated a process to transition to a for-profit public benefit corporation. This process has been fraught with corporate drama, including one early OpenAI investor, Elon Musk, filing a lawsuit to stop the process and launching a $97.4 billion unsolicited bid for OpenAI's nonprofit arm.Beyond the staggering valuation numbers at stake here–not to mention OpenAI's open pursuit of profits over the public good–are complicated legal and philosophical questions. Namely, what happens when corporate leaders violate the founding purpose of a firm? To discuss, Luigi and Bethany are joined by Rose Chan Loui, the founding executive director of the Lowell Milken Center on Philanthropy and Nonprofits at UCLA Law and co-author of the paper "Board Control of a Charity's Subsidiaries: The Saga of OpenAI.” Is OpenAI a “textbook case of altruism vs. greed,” as the judge overseeing the case declared? Is AI for everyone, or only for investors? Together, they discuss how money can distort purpose and philanthropy, precedents for this case, where it might go next, and how it may shape the future of capitalism itself.Show Notes:Read extensive coverage of the Musk-OpenAI lawsuit on ProMarket, including Luigi's article from March 2024: “Why Musk Is Right About OpenAI.”Guest Disclosure (provided to The Conversation for an op-ed on the case): The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in, or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article. They have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
In this episode of the Young Dad Podcast, host Jey Young engages with Dr. Fred Moss, a psychiatrist and mental health advocate, to explore the intricate relationship between mental health, creativity, and self-expression. They delve into the stigmas surrounding men's mental health, the societal pressures that lead individuals to believe something is wrong with them, and the over-diagnosis of conditions like ADHD. Dr. Moss emphasizes the importance of personal responsibility in mental health and discusses the potential dangers of relying solely on medication as a quick fix. The conversation concludes with practical steps for improving mental well-being, including gratitude practices, meditation, and embracing creativity.TakeawaysMental health is a complex and often stigmatized topic.Stigma is largely about what others think of us.Many people feel there's something inherently wrong with them.Taking responsibility for our actions is crucial.Youth often compete over who has the most diagnoses.ADHD is frequently over-diagnosed and misunderstood.Medication can sometimes worsen the symptoms it's meant to treat.Quick fixes in mental health can lead to more problems.Practices like gratitude and meditation can significantly improve well-being.Creativity is a powerful tool for self-expression and healing.Chapters00:00 Exploring Mental Health and Creativity01:53 Breaking Down Stigmas Around Men's Mental Health05:44 Understanding the Nature of Stigma11:31 The Illusion of Something Being Wrong16:53 The Role of Medication in Mental Health22:38 The Cycle of Medication and Its Effects28:23 The Illusion of Treatment: A Metaphor for Misdiagnosis30:49 The Limitations of Psychiatric Medications33:52 The Profit Motive in Mental Health37:24 Alternative Approaches to Mental Wellness42:35 Practical Tools for Self-ImprovementCheck out the Website for Interactive Activity Guides, Resources, Full Transcripts, all things YDP- www.youngdadpod.com Clink the Link for YDP Deals (Joon, Forefathers &more)- https://linktr.ee/youngdadpod Want to be a guest on Young Dad Podcast? Send Jey Young a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.joinpodmatch.com/youngdadLastly consider a monetary donation to support the Pod, https://buymeacoffee.com/youngdadpod
In this episode of Iron Radio, hosts Coach Phil Stevens and Dr. Lonnie Lowery, delve into the evolving landscape of sports and active nutrition, touching upon the mainstreaming of sports supplements among non-athletes and the pandemic's impact. They discuss how modern marketing strategies are pushing 'active nutrition' products to everyone, not just athletes. The hosts also tackle the alarming decline of average testosterone levels over the decades and the societal and health implications of this trend. As they critique the insurance and healthcare systems for not addressing root health causes, they underscore the importance of personalized medical care and preventative measures like comprehensive blood tests. They wrap up with pressing concerns about how lifestyle, diet, and environmental factors contribute to today's health challenges.00:45 Discussion on Sports Nutrition Trends02:09 Active Nutrition and Market Insights03:56 Critique of Non-Athletes Using Sports Supplements04:46 Pandemic's Impact on Health and Fitness16:06 Testosterone Levels and Health Trends27:06 The Impact of Lifestyle and Diet on Health28:02 Environmental Factors and Athletic Performance28:43 Processed Foods and Overcoming Poor Diets29:51 Challenges in Testosterone Replacement Therapy31:16 The Profit Motive in Healthcare33:01 The Importance of Personalized Medical Care35:46 Encouraging Preventative Health Measures39:42 Navigating the Healthcare System45:58 Concluding Thoughts on Health and Wellness Donate to the show via PayPal HERE.You can also join Dr Mike's Insider Newsletter for more info on how to add muscle, improve your performance and body comp - all without destroying your health, go to www.ironradiodrmike.com Thank you!Phil, Jerrell, Mike T, and Lonnie
Charles Piller, author of “Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimers,” discusses how research into one of the world's most devastating health scourges has been held back by the egos and profit motives of some of the leading researchers, and what they have done to keep their research in the spotlight even as more science shows that it might be leading to the wrong conclusions on how to combat the problem. Lindsay Theodore of T. Rowe Price talks about new research — and a planning guide created from it, that looks at life and long-term care planning for the second half of retirement, noting that for many people the golden years are two different stages that require separate financial focus to plan for correctly. Plus Dan Kim, director of research at Saturna Capital — manager of the Sextant International fund — brings his long-term focus to finding disruptive stocks to the Market Call.
Interview recorded - 19th of November, 2024On this episode of the WTFinance podcast I had the pleasure of welcoming back Jim Rogers. Jim is a legend in the investing world, author, financial commentator and more! After attending Yale and Oxford University, Rogers co-founded the Quantum Fund, a global-investment partnership.Jim talks further about his current thoughts on the economy, what this means for the market, whether inflation will return, will Trump be good for the economy, China & Uzbekistan, De-dollarisation, current geopolitical strategy and more. I hope you enjoy!0:00 - Introduction1:17 - Current outlook for the economy?2:26 - Why could things go bad?3:24 - How have markets changed?5:25 - Inflation to return?7:17 - Trump good for the economy?10:17 - China & Uzbekistan12:30 - Resolutions to debt trajectory?14:42 - US industry onshoring?16:02 - De-dollarisation18:07 - US still the best investment?21:32 - Current geopolitical situation?24:19 - Investment strategy25:42 - One message to takeaway?Jim Rogers is an author, financial commentator and international investor.After attending Yale and Oxford University, Rogers co-founded the Quantum Fund, a global-investment partnership. During the next 10 years, the portfolio gained 4200%, while the S&P rose less than 50%. Rogers then decided to retire – at age 37. Continuing to manage his own portfolio, Rogers kept busy serving as a full professor of finance at Columbia University Graduate School of Business, and, in 1989 and 1990, as the moderator of WCBS's ‘The Dreyfus Roundtable' and FNN's ‘The Profit Motive with Jim Rogers'.From 1990-92, Jim Rogers fulfilled his lifelong dream: motorcycling 100,000 miles across six continents, a feat that landed him in the Guinness Book of World Records. As a private investor, he constantly analysed the countries through which he travelled for investment ideas. He chronicled his one-of-a-kind journey in “Investment Biker: On the Road with Jim Rogers”. Rogers also embarked on a Millennium Adventure in 1999. He travelled for 3 years on his round-the-world, Guinness World Record journey. It was his 3rd Guinness Record. Passing through 116 countries, he covered more than 245,000 kilometres, which he recounted in his book “Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip”.His book, “Hot Commodities: How Anyone Can Invest Profitably In The World's Best Market”, was published in 2004. Another of his books “A Bull in China” describes his experiences in China as well as the changes and opportunities there. His most recent book “A Gift to My Children” was a heartfelt, indispensable guide for his daughters (as well as for all adults and children) to find success and happiness. His latest memoir “Street Smarts: Adventures on the Road and in the Markets” was published in 2013.Jim Rogers -Website - https://www.jimrogers.com/WTFinance -Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wtfinancee/Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/67rpmjG92PNBW0doLyPvfniTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wtfinance/id1554934665?uo=4Twitter - https://twitter.com/AnthonyFatseas
Scoop News Group is thrilled to announce the winners of the FedScoop 50 awards for 2024! Now in their 13th year, the FedScoop 50 awards honor the most impactful leaders in the federal government who strive each day to leverage technology to transform government. Scoop News Group once again experienced record voting for the FedScoop 50 in 2024, receiving more than 1 million votes across five categories. As the Biden administration comes to a close, and the federal government prepares for a period of transition, it's an apt time to reflect on the transformation ushered in over the past year at the hands of selfless government officials and industry partners dedicated to bringing progress to our nation and the American people. The Energy Department could be a key force in counteracting the “profit motive” driving America's leading artificial intelligence companies, the agency's second-in-command said in an interview. DOE Deputy Secretary David Turk told FedScoop that top AI firms aren't motivated to pursue all the use cases most likely to benefit the public, leaving the U.S. government — which maintains a powerful network of national labs now developing artificial intelligence infrastructure of their own — to play an especially critical role. Turk's comments come as the Energy Department pushes forward with a series of AI initiatives. One key program is the Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence for Science, Security, and Technology, or FASST effort, which is meant to advance the use of powerful datasets maintained by the agency in order to develop science-forward AI models. The Daily Scoop Podcast is available every Monday-Friday afternoon. If you want to hear more of the latest from Washington, subscribe to The Daily Scoop Podcast on on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify and YouTube.
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The emerging Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement has resurrected the well-worn accusation that food and drug companies dictate US public health policy. How true is this claim? And do the leaders of the MAHA campaign have their own conflicts of interest? They sure do.
“Optimal health and being disease-free are two different ends of the spectrum. Disease-free is the bare minimum.” -Dr. Kirkbride Join us as Dr. Dan Kirkbride, a renowned osteopathic physician and health coach, guides us in redefining health beyond merely avoiding illness. He reveals the hidden stresses—such as chemical and environmental factors—that can impact your gut health and cognitive performance. Dr. Kirkbride examines the fascinating gut-brain connection and provides practical advice on tracking essential health metrics like heart rate variability. The conversation challenges the conventional focus on disease prevention, advocating for a more holistic approach to health optimization. Don't miss out on valuable tips for managing stress, enhancing gut health, and a special preview of an exclusive high-performance retreat for entrepreneurs in Bali. Episode Highlights: 00:00 - Episode trailer 03:54 - Skepticism in Health Information 05:10 - Leaky Gut and Leaky Brain 09:18 - Root Causes of Fatigue 18:04 - Understanding Bloating and Gut Health 20:19 - Critique of Modern Medical Assessments 22:36 - Defining Health Beyond Disease 24:29 - The Profit Motive in Healthcare 29:44 - The Importance of Comprehensive Blood Testing 32:12 - The Role of Diet in Health 35:32 - Interpreting Digestive Health 37:26 - The Role of Stress 41:01 - Repairing Gut Health 44:30 - Retreat Announcement and Application Process
We skip the bullet-grazing talk and hit you right where it counts with a ton more new stuff. Another unreleased El Matador & BGP lick to start the show! A bunch of random stuff that's been on the back burner as well. Thanks to UK's The Crabs, who sent us a tune! Hit us up at brothersgrimpunk@gmail.com and download our music on our Bandcamp page.466 Playlist:Punk reality...I Just Wanna Hibernate 2:25 El Matador & BGP Unreleased Single Richmond VA ???? 1:29 FRIED REALITY DISSOLVED MIND Toxic State Recs Human Disgrace 1:45 CRUCIFORM CRUCIFORM – CASSETTE Olympia gimme my steel reserve 0:38 the gobs pop off Portland Skull (bkgrd) 4:23 Carny Cumm Fat Lice Indonesia TERJERAT 0:46 BIZZPAG AngkaraMurka Poder 2:16 Crust As Fuck Records GADAÑÜ "Por lo segao" Tape (CAF035) Not Enough Sweden Fulkultur (full culture) 1:25 Slan Ägd (Owned) Seattle SIMULCAST 1:51 Puritan DEMO Las Vegas Extermination 1:59 Sakura Demo from Hell UK HARD WORK 1:17 Inflicter SPLIT W/BLOOD FEUD Bellicose Recs FL What are you laughing at, man? 0:46 RUBES Demo Popular Affliction Untitled (Due To Reasons) 0:50 NTSC PAL (Billiam) Full of Spots Galveston THIEF 0:53 BRiX! BRiX! DEMO (bkgrd) 4:52 Total Recall Recordings JORO PATH - Golden Lines UK The Aliens Are Coming 2:59 The Crabs Remastered Single Finland When The Missiles Light The Night 2:15 DISPAIR The Other Side Chile Punkis 1:12 Dishümänizär Maqueta Brazil Mérito Homicida 0:54 Sendo Fogo Sobreviver e Lutar (survive and fight) Nothing To Offer 1:13 Cheap Appeal CHEAP APPEAL - Demo Got Robbed 0:42 Negative Rage If You're A Punk, I Don't Wanna Be One Don't Care About Me 1:30 The Bristles Ban the Punk Shops Tape (1983) Punk Valley Recs VA Till You Drop 1:19 Stfubran Demons Tration Cheatin' Bitch (bkgrd) 6:48 WARCHILDREN 'S/T' EP Junko Recs Chile Unlucky 1:29 Armor Afraid of What´s to Come Denver 9 to 5 1:52 Knife Kink 2024 Promo Unlawful Assembly WI E.H.T (Eliminación Histórica Total) 3:03 DESINTEGRACIÓN VIOLENTA DESINTEGRACIÓN VIOLENTA - LA BESTIA OR Profit Motive 1:54 Prager Youth Demo 2022 Paris Fascist scum 1:43 Abolition Demo Germany I HATE HUMANS 1:33 STINKHOLE OUT OF THE GUTTER, INTO THE STINKHOLE Malibu No turkeys allowed 1:08 Don't No Don't No demo 1983 Jimmy Vapid - Born In A Bad Mood 1:48 DieHipster!records Kids In The Hall Volume 2 Tread Agua (bkgrd) 3:48 Day La $oul Three Feet... Rising Buffalo Saving Face 2:06 K-HOLE Discordant Other ways to hear BGP:Archive.org#466 on ArchiveApple PodcastsYouTube PodcastsPunk Rock Demonstration - Wednesdays 7 p.m. PSTRipper Radio - Fridays & Saturdays 7 p.m. PSTContact BGP:brothersgrimpunk@gmail.com@Punkbot138 on Instagram@BrosGrimPunk on XMore Music:Bandcamp - Follow us and download our albums: Brothers Grim Punk, Fight Music, and more!YouTube - tons of our punk playlists, from Anarchy to Zombies!
Our greatest moral imperative is to solve the problem of poverty -- and after over 75 years, we still have some distance to travel. Rajeswari Sengupta joins Amit Varma in episode 387 of The Seen and the Unseen for a deep dive into how we got here, where we went wrong, what we got right, and how we should look at the Indian economy going forward. (FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.) Also check out:1. Rajeswari Sengupta's homepage. 2. Demystifying GDP — Episode 130 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Rajeswari Sengupta). 3. Twelve Dream Reforms — Episode 138 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan, Rajeswari Sengupta & Vivek Kaul). 4. Two-and-a-Half Bengalis Have an Economics Adda -- Episode 274 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Rajeswari Sengupta and Shrayana Bhattacharya). 5. Talks & Discussions on the Indian Economy featuring Rajeswari Sengupta. 6. Rajeswari Sengulta's writings on the Indian economy. 7. Rajeswari Sengupta's writing for Ideas for India. 8. Rajeswari Sengupta's writing on the Leap Blog. 9. Rajeswari Sengupta's pieces on GDP: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 10. Rajeswari Sengupta's pieces on fiscal policy: 1, 2, 3. 11. Rajeswari Sengupta's pieces on the banking crisis: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 12. Rajeswari Sengupta's pieces on the financial sector: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. 13. Rajeswari Sengupta's pieces on Covid: 1, 2, 3, 4. 14. Getting the State out of Our Lives -- Rajeswari Sengupta's TEDx talk. 15. Why Freedom Matters -- Episode 10 of Everything is Everything. 16. The Reformers -- Episode 28 of Everything is Everything. 17. The Importance of the 1991 Reforms — Episode 237 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan and Ajay Shah). 18. The Life and Times of Montek Singh Ahluwalia — Episode 285 of The Seen and the Unseen. 19. The Forgotten Greatness of PV Narasimha Rao — Episode 283 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vinay Sitapati). 20. India's Lost Decade — Episode 116 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Puja Mehra). 21. The Life and Times of KP Krishnan -- Episode 355 of The Seen and the Unseen. 22. Lant Pritchett Is on Team Prosperity -- Episode 379 of The Seen and the Unseen. 23. Josh Felman Tries to Make Sense of the World — Episode 321 of The Seen and the Unseen. 24. Rohit Lamba Will Never Be Bezubaan -- Episode 378 of The Seen and the Unseen. 25. Yugank Goyal Is out of the Box — Episode 370 of The Seen and the Unseen. 26. The State of Our Farmers — Ep 86 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Gunvant Patil, in Hindi). 27. India's Agriculture Crisis — Ep 140 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Barun Mitra & Kumar Anand). 28. The Tragedy of Our Farm Bills — Episode 211 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ajay Shah). 29. The Art and Science of Economic Policy — Episode 154 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vijay Kelkar & Ajay Shah). 30. Two Economic Crises (2008 & 2019) — Episode 135 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Mohit Satynanand). 31. The Indian Economy in 2019 — Episode 153 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vivek Kaul). 32. Subhashish Bhadra on Our Dysfunctional State -- Episode 333 of The Seen and the Unseen. 33. The Importance of Data Journalism — Episode 196 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Rukmini S). 34. Rukmini Sees India's Multitudes — Episode 261 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Rukmini S). 35. Pramit Bhattacharya Believes in Just One Ism — Episode 256 of The Seen and the Unseen. 36. Understanding the State -- Episode 25 of Everything is Everything. 37. When Should the State Act? -- Episode 26 of Everything is Everything. 38. Public Choice Theory Explains SO MUCH -- Episode 33 of Everything is Everything. 39. Our Population Is Our Greatest Asset -- Episode 20 of Everything is Everything. 40. What's Wrong With Indian Agriculture? -- Episode 18 of Everything is Everything. 41. The Long Road to Change -- Episode 36 of Everything is Everything. 42. India Needs Decentralization -- Episode 47 of Everything is Everything. 43. Beware of These Five Fallacies! -- Episode 45 of Everything is Everything. 44. Stay Away From Luxury Beliefs -- Episode 46 of Everything is Everything. 45. Graduating to Globalisation -- Episode 48 of Everything is Everything (on I18N). 46. Ask Me ANYTHING! -- Episode 50 of Everything is Everything. 47. Four Papers That Changed the World -- Episode 41 of Everything is Everything. 48. The Populist Playbook -- Episode 42 of Everything is Everything. 49. The 1991 Project. 50. The quest for economic freedom in India — Shruti Rajagopalan. 51. What I, as a development economist, have been actively “for” — Lant Pritchett. 52. National Development Delivers: And How! And How? — Lant Pritchett. 53. Economic growth is enough and only economic growth is enough — Lant Pritchett with Addison Lewis. 54. Is India a Flailing State?: Detours on the Four Lane Highway to Modernization — Lant Pritchett. 55. Is Your Impact Evaluation Asking Questions That Matter? A Four Part Smell Test — Lant Pritchett. 56. The Perils of Partial Attribution: Let's All Play for Team Development — Lant Pritchett. 57. Some episodes of The Seen and the Unseen on the state of the economy: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 58. Accelerating India's Development — Karthik Muralidharan. 59. Unshackling India -- Ajay Chhibber and Salman Soz. 60. India Grows At Night -- Gurcharan Das. 61. India's Problem is Poverty, Not Inequality -- Amit Varma. 62. Mohit Satyanand's newsletter post on the informal sector. 63. Pratap Bhanu Mehta's column on mission mode interventions. 64. The Hedonistic Treadmill. 65. 77% low-income households saw no income increase in the past 5 yrs -- Vasudha Mukherjee. 66. Pandit's Mind — The 1951 Time magazine cover story on Jawaharlal Nehru. 67. Economic Facts and Fallacies -- Thomas Sowell. 68. An Autobiography -- Jawaharlal Nehru. 69. The Double 'Thank You' Moment -- John Stossel. 70. Profit = Philanthropy — Amit Varma. 71. India After Gandhi -- Ramachandra Guha. 72. The China Dude Is in the House -- Episode 231 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Manoj Kewalramani). 73. The Dragon and the Elephant -- Episode 181 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Hamsini Hariharan and Shibani Mehta). 74. Caste, Capitalism and Chandra Bhan Prasad — Episode 296 of The Seen and the Unseen. 75. The Collected Writings and Speeches of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar. 76. Population Is Not a Problem, but Our Greatest Strength -- Amit Varma. 77. How to assess the needs for aid? The answer: Don't ask -- William Easterly. 78. The White Man's Burden -- William Easterly. 79. The Elusive Quest for Growth -- William Easterly. 80. The Tyranny of Experts -- William Easterly. 81. Planners vs. Searchers in Foreign Aid — William Easterly. 82. Pandit's Mind — The 1951 Time magazine cover story on Jawaharlal Nehru. 83. 75 Years of India's Foreign Exchange Controls -- Bhargavi Zaveri Shah. 84. Breaking the Mould: Reimagining India's Economic Future — Raghuram Rajan and Rohit Lamba. 85. The History of the Planning Commission — Episode 306 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Nikhil Menon). 86. Adam Smith on The Man of System. 87. The Use of Knowledge in Society — Friedrich Hayek. 88. Price Controls Lead to Shortages and Harm the Poor -- Amit Varma. 89. The Great Redistribution -- Amit Varma. 90. Backstage: The Story behind India's High Growth Years -- Montek Singh Ahluwalia. 91. The Indian State Is the Greatest Enemy of the Indian Farmer -- Amit Varma piece, which contains the Sharad Joshi shair. 92. India's Massive Pensions Crisis — Episode 347 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Ajay Shah & Renuka Sane). 93. The Economic Legacies of Colonial Rule in India -- Tirthankar Roy. 94. The Semiconductor Wars — Episode 358 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Pranay Kotasthane & Abhiram Manchi). 95. BR Shenoy on Wikipedia and Indian Liberals. 96. BR Shenoy: Stature and Impact -- Peter Bauer. 97. The Foreign Exchange Crisis and India's Second Five Year Plan -- VKRV Rao. 98. India's Water Crisis — Episode 60 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vishwanath S aka Zenrainman). 99. The Delhi Smog — Episode 44 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Vivek Kaul). 100. Fixing Indian Education — Episode 185 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Karthik Muralidharan). 101. Education in India — Episode 77 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Amit Chandra). 102. The Profit Motive in Education — Episode 9 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Parth Shah). 103. Our Unlucky Children (2008) — Amit Varma. 104. Where Has All the Education Gone? — Lant Pritchett. 105. Every Act of Government Is an Act of Violence -- Amit Varma. 106. Narendra Modi takes a Great Leap Backwards -- Amit Varma on DeMon & Mao killing sparrows. 107. The Emergency: A Personal History — Coomi Kapoor. 108. Coomi Kapoor Has the Inside Track — Episode 305 of The Seen and the Unseen. 109. Seven Stories That Should Be Films -- Episode 23 of Everything in Everything, in which Amit talks about the Emergency. 110. Milton Friedman on the minimum wage. 111. The Commanding Heights -- Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw. 112. Bootleggers and Baptists: The Education of a Regulatory Economist -- Bruce Yandle. 113. Raees: An Empty Shell of a Gangster Film — Amit Varma. 114. Josh Felman on Twitter, Project Syndicate, JH Consulting and The Marginal Economist. 115. Obituaries of SV Raju by Niranjan Rajadhyaksha and Samanth Subramanian. 116. Breaking Out -- Padma Desai. 117. Breaking Through -- Isher Judge Ahluwalia. 118. India's Far From Free Markets (2005) — Amit Varma in the Wall Street Journal. 119. Naushad Forbes Wants to Fix India — Episode 282 of The Seen and the Unseen. 120. The Struggle And The Promise — Naushad Forbes. 121. Half-Lion -- Vinay Sitapati's biography of PV Narasimha Rao. 122. A Game Theory Problem: Who Will Bell The Congress Cat? — Amit Varma. 123. India Transformed -- Rakesh Mohan. 124. Highway to Success: The Impact of the Golden Quadrilateral -- Ejaz Ghani, Arti Grover Goswami and William R Kerr. 125. The Cantillon Effect. 126. The Lost Decade -- Puja Mehra. 127. Modi's Domination – What We Often Overlook — Keshava Guha. 128. XKDR Forum. 129. Beware of the Useful Idiots — Amit Varma. 130. Some of Amit Varma's pieces and episodes against Demonetisation: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 131. Episode of The Seen and the Unseen on GST: 1, 2, 3. 132. Miniature episodes of The Seen and the Unseen on PSBs, NPAs and NBFCs. 133. The Bankable Wisdom of Harsh Vardhan -- Episode 352 of The Seen and the Unseen. 134. Politics of Economic Growth in India, 1980-2005 -- Atul Kohli. 135. The Economic Consequences of the Peace -- John Maynard Keynes. 136. India's GDP Mis-estimation: Likelihood, Magnitudes, Mechanisms, and Implications -- Arvind Subramanian. 137. What a Long Strange Trip It's Been -- Episode 188 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Arvind Subramanian). 138. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen on Covid-19: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14. 139. A Venture Capitalist Looks at the World -- Episode 213 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Sajith Pai). 140. The Indus Valley Playbook — Sajith Pai. 141. India's Trade Policy Is Working Great — for Vietnam -- Andy Mukherjee. 142. A Trade Deficit With a Babysitter -- Tim Harford. 143. The City & the City — China Miéville. 144. A Decade of Credit Collapse in India -- Harsh Vardhan. 145. The Low Productivity Trap of Collateralised Lending for MSMEs -- Harsh Vardhan. 146. Economic Learnings of India for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Bihar -- Episode 345 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Mohit Satyanand and Kumar Anand). 147. They Stole a Bridge. They Stole a Pond -- Amit Varma. 148. Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister -- Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay. 149. The Right to Property — Episode 26 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Shruti Rajagopalan). 150. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen on agriculture: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 151. Some of Amit Varma's pieces on agriculture: 1, 2, 3. 152. The Crisis in Indian Agriculture — Brainstorm on Pragati. 153. Where are the Markets? — Kumar Anand. 154. Empower Women Farmers -- Mrinal Pande. 155. The Mystery of Capital — Hernando De Soto. 156. India Unbound -- Gurcharan Das. 157. In Service of the Republic — Vijay Kelkar & Ajay Shah. 158. We, The Citizens: Strengthening the Indian Republic — Khyati Pathak, Anupam Manur and Pranay Kotasthane. 159. Making Policy Fun with Khyati Pathak and Friends -- Episode 374 of The Seen and the Unseen. 160. Seeing Like a State — James C Scott. 161. Free To Choose — Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman. 162. Classical Liberalism- A Primer -- Eamonn Butler. 163. Friedrich Hayek: The ideas and influence of the libertarian economist -- Eamonn Butler. 164. Milton Friedman: A concise guide to the ideas and influence of the free-market economist -- Eamonn Butler. 165. Public Choice – A Primer -- Eamonn Butler. 166. Adam Smith – A Primer: Eamonn Butler. 167. The Clash of Economic Ideas -- Lawrence H White. 168. Just a Mercenary?: Notes from My Life and Career -- D Subbarao. 169. Who Moved My Interest Rate? -- D Subbarao. 170. Advice & Dissent: My Life in Public Service -- YV Reddy. 171. A Business History of India -- Tirthankar Roy. 172. Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath -- Ben Bernanke. 173. Whole Numbers And Half Truths -- Rukmini S. 174. Fragile by Design -- Charles Calomiris and Stephen Haber. 175. Universal Man: The Seven Lives of John Maynard Keynes -- Richard Davenport-Hines. 176. A Life in Our Times -- John Kenneth Galbraith. 177. The Age of Uncertainty -- John Kenneth Galbraith. 178. Fixing the Knowledge Society -- Episode 24 of Everything is Everything. Amit's newsletter is active again. Subscribe right away to The India Uncut Newsletter! It's free! Amit Varma and Ajay Shah have launched a new video podcast. Check out Everything is Everything on YouTube. Check out Amit's online course, The Art of Clear Writing. Episode art: ‘It's Complicated' by Simahina.
Congressman Jim Banks discusses his humble background and the importance of representing working-class Americans. He highlights the shift of working-class voters towards the Republican Party and the need for the party to prioritize their interests. He also exposes the profit motive behind the border crisis and criticizes the Democrats for benefiting politically and financially from it. The Truth with Lisa Boothe is part of the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Podcast Network - new episodes debut every Monday & Thursday.Follow Clay & Buck on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/clayandbuckSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Congressman Jim Banks discusses his humble background and the importance of representing working-class Americans. He highlights the shift of working-class voters towards the Republican Party and the need for the party to prioritize their interests. He also exposes the profit motive behind the border crisis and criticizes the Democrats for benefiting politically and financially from it. The Truth with Lisa Boothe is part of the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Podcast Network - new episodes debut every Monday & Thursday.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Today, I'm talking about the tax laws related to distinguishing between a hobby and a legitimate business when you're a creative professional. I'm also explaining the IRS's view of profit motive as the key factor and discussing how you can determine whether you have a business or hobby. Join me in this episode to get some advice and tips on how you can prove profit motive and avoid being wrongly classified as a hobby by the IRS. Also mentioned in today's episode: Why profit motive is so important 5:35 The IRS's nine-factor test for determining if a creative hobby is a business 19:35 The hobby loss rule and how it's applied 33:07 If you enjoyed this episode, please rate, review and share it! Links: IRS audit technique guide: https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p5558.pdf https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/heres-how-to-tell-the-difference-between-a-hobby-and-a-business-for-tax-purposes The Sunlight Podcast Episode 67: Your Business Already Started An Audit Nightmare Turned Artist Victory: An Interview with Susan Crile Learn more about Money Bootcamp
Dr. Hoffman continues his conversation with Tom Mueller, author of "How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine."
Investigative journalist Tom Mueller takes us on a journey through the murky waters of the American dialysis industry. His book, "How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death, and Dollars in American Medicine," serves as our map through this profit-driven labyrinth, where the health of 37 million Americans hangs in the balance. We peel back the layers of an industry that has transformed from a beacon of hope for those with kidney disease into a profit-centric behemoth, leaving patients and their delicate renal health in the wake of corporate gains. Mueller reveals dialysis as a microcosm of American medicine and poses a vital challenge: find a way to fix dialysis, and we'll have a fighting chance of fixing our country's dysfunctional healthcare system as a whole, restoring patients, not profits, as its true purpose.
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Soy Checkoff: https://www.unitedsoybean.org/More About Jim Rogers: https://www.jimrogers.com/Today's episode features Jim Rogers. I will first admit that this episode is pretty selfish. I found Jim's books, particularly “Investment Biker” “Adventure Capitalist” and “Hot Commodities” in college when I was trying to figure out where my interests were and where I might like to start my career. I already had an interest in agriculture, international travel, and investing, so they had a huge impact on me. In fact, I decided to start my career in commodities in no small part because of his writing. So, when I had the chance to interview him on his thoughts about the world generally, I jumped at it. This one might be a bit different from our normal content because Jim is looking at broader economic and geopolitical drivers from an investor perspective and not so much as a “ag person” but I think his perspective is extremely valuable. The other reason this one might be a little bit different is I couldn't help but become starstruck by him. He really had that big of an impact on me at a formative age. If you weren't a wannabe investment geek in college like I was, let me give you some biographical background. Jim Rogers, a native of Demopolis, Alabama, is an author, financial commentator and successful international investor. After attending Yale and Oxford University, Rogers co-founded the Quantum Fund, a global-investment partnership. During the next 10 years, the portfolio gained 4200%, while the S&P rose less than 50%. Rogers then decided to retire – at age 37. Continuing to manage his own portfolio, Rogers kept busy serving as a full professor of finance at Columbia University Graduate School of Business, and, in 1989 and 1990, as the moderator of WCBS's ‘The Dreyfus Roundtable' and FNN's ‘The Profit Motive with Jim Rogers'.From 1990-92, Jim Rogers fulfilled his lifelong dream: motorcycling 100,000 miles across six continents, a feat that landed him in the Guinness Book of World Records. As a private investor, he constantly analysed the countries through which he travelled for investment ideas. He chronicled his one-of-a-kind journey in “Investment Biker: On the Road with Jim Rogers”. Rogers also embarked on a Millennium Adventure in 1999. He travelled for 3 years on his round-the-world, Guinness World Record journey. It was his 3rd Guinness Record. Passing through 116 countries, he covered more than 245,000 kilometres, which he recounted in his book “Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip”. His book, “Hot Commodities: How Anyone Can Invest Profitably In The World's Best Market”, was published in 2004. Another of his books “A Bull in China” describes his experiences in China as well as the changes and opportunities there.
Chuck Joiner, Guy Serle, David Ginsburg, Ben Roethig, Eric Bolden, Kelly Guimont, Web Bixby, and Mark Fuccio finish off a conversation about computer generated images and graphics in this MacVoices Live! session. Concerns about the quality and repetitiveness of generated content are raised, as well as the importance of unique perspectives and ideas. The role of historians, librarians, and copyright issues in preserving accurate data is explored. The panel then delves into the recent changes to Zoom's terms of service and their intentions to use conversations for AI training. Confusion and concern surround the changing policy statements and the need for clearer explanations from Zoom is demanded. The episode concludes with a mention of location tracking as another example of the importance of transparency and communication in evolving technologies. (Part 2) This edition of MacVoices is supported by The MacVoices Slack. Available all Patrons of MacVoices. Sign up at Patreon.com/macvoices. Show Notes: Chapters: 0:01:52 Unique ideas and the importance of human creativity in art0:04:12 Zoom's Controversial Terms of Service Change0:06:12 Balancing Privacy and Personalized Services0:07:14 Suspicion of Profit Motive in Data Training Process0:07:58 Communications Nightmare Unveiled0:08:12 Zoom's lack of communication skill and contradictory statements0:10:56 Opt-out feature and lack of prompt for data sharing0:14:10 Concerns about Terms of Service and AI Models0:15:44 The Overreaching License in Perpetuity0:18:01 The Loophole of Service-Generated Data0:21:32 Privacy Concerns and Re-evaluating Usage of Zoom0:24:18 Implications of Data Usage in Different Industries0:27:50 Technology's Impact on Information Exchange and Privacy Concerns0:29:32 The Rise of GPUs and the Potential of Matrix Algebra in Technology0:30:28 Unforeseen Consequences of DNA Testing and Forensic DNA Chain Links: Zoom revises service terms so it could train AI on user datahttps://cybernews.com/privacy/zoom-revises-ai-service-terms/ Is Zoom Really Using Your Video Calls to Train AI?https://lifehacker.com/is-zoom-really-using-your-video-calls-to-train-ai-1850713532 Guests: Web Bixby has been in the insurance business for 40 years and has been an Apple user for longer than that.You can catch up with him on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Eric Bolden is into macOS, plants, sci-fi, food, and is a rural internet supporter. You can connect with him on Twitter, by email at embolden@mac.com, on Mastodon at @eabolden@techhub.social, and on his blog, Trending At Work. Mark Fuccio is actively involved in high tech startup companies, both as a principle at piqsure.com, or as a marketing advisor through his consulting practice Tactics Sells High Tech, Inc. Mark was a proud investor in Microsoft from the mid-1990's selling in mid 2000, and hopes one day that MSFT will be again an attractive investment. You can contact Mark through Twitter, LinkedIn, or on Mastodon. David Ginsburg is the host of the weekly podcast In Touch With iOS where he discusses all things iOS, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch, and related technologies. He is an IT professional supporting Mac, iOS and Windows users. Visit his YouTube channel at https://youtube.com/daveg65 and find and follow him on Twitter @daveg65 and on Mastodon at @daveg65@mastodon.cloud Kelly Guimont is a podcaster and friend of the Rebel Alliance. You can also hear her on The Aftershow with Mike Rose, and she still has more to say which she saves for Twitter and Mastodon. Ben Roethig has been in the Apple Ecosystem since the System 7 Days. He is the a former Associate Editor with Geek Beat, Co-Founder of The Tech Hangout and Deconstruct and currently shares his thoughts on RoethigTech. Contact him on Twitter and Mastodon. Guy Serle, best known for being one of the co-hosts of the MyMac Podcast, sincerely apologizes for anything he has done or caused to have happened while in possession of dangerous podcasting equipment. He should know better but being a blonde from Florida means he's probably incapable of understanding the damage he has wrought. Guy is also the author of the novel, The Maltese Cube. You can follow his exploits on Twitter, catch him on Mac to the Future on Facebook, at @Macparrot@mastodon.social, and find everything at VertShark.com. Support: Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon http://patreon.com/macvoices Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect: Web: http://macvoices.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner http://www.twitter.com/macvoices Mastodon: https://mastodon.cloud/@chuckjoiner Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner MacVoices Page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/ MacVoices Group on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe: Audio in iTunes Video in iTunes Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher: Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss
Chuck Joiner, Guy Serle, David Ginsburg, Ben Roethig, Eric Bolden, Kelly Guimont, Web Bixby, and Mark Fuccio finish off a conversation about computer generated images and graphics in this MacVoices Live! session. Concerns about the quality and repetitiveness of generated content are raised, as well as the importance of unique perspectives and ideas. The role of historians, librarians, and copyright issues in preserving accurate data is explored. The panel then delves into the recent changes to Zoom's terms of service and their intentions to use conversations for AI training. Confusion and concern surround the changing policy statements and the need for clearer explanations from Zoom is demanded. The episode concludes with a mention of location tracking as another example of the importance of transparency and communication in evolving technologies. (Part 2) This edition of MacVoices is supported by The MacVoices Slack. Available all Patrons of MacVoices. Sign up at Patreon.com/macvoices. Show Notes: Chapters: 0:01:52 Unique ideas and the importance of human creativity in art 0:04:12 Zoom's Controversial Terms of Service Change 0:06:12 Balancing Privacy and Personalized Services 0:07:14 Suspicion of Profit Motive in Data Training Process 0:07:58 Communications Nightmare Unveiled 0:08:12 Zoom's lack of communication skill and contradictory statements 0:10:56 Opt-out feature and lack of prompt for data sharing 0:14:10 Concerns about Terms of Service and AI Models 0:15:44 The Overreaching License in Perpetuity 0:18:01 The Loophole of Service-Generated Data 0:21:32 Privacy Concerns and Re-evaluating Usage of Zoom 0:24:18 Implications of Data Usage in Different Industries 0:27:50 Technology's Impact on Information Exchange and Privacy Concerns 0:29:32 The Rise of GPUs and the Potential of Matrix Algebra in Technology 0:30:28 Unforeseen Consequences of DNA Testing and Forensic DNA Chain Links: Zoom revises service terms so it could train AI on user data https://cybernews.com/privacy/zoom-revises-ai-service-terms/ Is Zoom Really Using Your Video Calls to Train AI? https://lifehacker.com/is-zoom-really-using-your-video-calls-to-train-ai-1850713532 Guests: Web Bixby has been in the insurance business for 40 years and has been an Apple user for longer than that.You can catch up with him on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Eric Bolden is into macOS, plants, sci-fi, food, and is a rural internet supporter. You can connect with him on Twitter, by email at embolden@mac.com, on Mastodon at @eabolden@techhub.social, and on his blog, Trending At Work. Mark Fuccio is actively involved in high tech startup companies, both as a principle at piqsure.com, or as a marketing advisor through his consulting practice Tactics Sells High Tech, Inc. Mark was a proud investor in Microsoft from the mid-1990's selling in mid 2000, and hopes one day that MSFT will be again an attractive investment. You can contact Mark through Twitter, LinkedIn, or on Mastodon. David Ginsburg is the host of the weekly podcast In Touch With iOS where he discusses all things iOS, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch, and related technologies. He is an IT professional supporting Mac, iOS and Windows users. Visit his YouTube channel at https://youtube.com/daveg65 and find and follow him on Twitter @daveg65 and on Mastodon at @daveg65@mastodon.cloud Kelly Guimont is a podcaster and friend of the Rebel Alliance. You can also hear her on The Aftershow with Mike Rose, and she still has more to say which she saves for Twitter and Mastodon. Ben Roethig has been in the Apple Ecosystem since the System 7 Days. He is the a former Associate Editor with Geek Beat, Co-Founder of The Tech Hangout and Deconstruct and currently shares his thoughts on RoethigTech. Contact him on Twitter and Mastodon. Guy Serle, best known for being one of the co-hosts of the MyMac Podcast, sincerely apologizes for anything he has done or caused to have happened while in possession of dangerous podcasting equipment. He should know better but being a blonde from Florida means he's probably incapable of understanding the damage he has wrought. Guy is also the author of the novel, The Maltese Cube. You can follow his exploits on Twitter, catch him on Mac to the Future on Facebook, at @Macparrot@mastodon.social, and find everything at VertShark.com. Support: Become a MacVoices Patron on Patreon http://patreon.com/macvoices Enjoy this episode? Make a one-time donation with PayPal Connect: Web: http://macvoices.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/chuckjoiner http://www.twitter.com/macvoices Mastodon: https://mastodon.cloud/@chuckjoiner Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/chuck.joiner MacVoices Page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/macvoices/ MacVoices Group on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/macvoice LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuckjoiner/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chuckjoiner/ Subscribe: Audio in iTunes Video in iTunes Subscribe manually via iTunes or any podcatcher: Audio: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesrss Video: http://www.macvoices.com/rss/macvoicesvideorss 00:01:51 Unique ideas and the importance of human creativity in art 00:04:12 Zoom's Controversial Terms of Service Change 00:06:12 Balancing Privacy and Personalized Services 00:07:14 Suspicion of Profit Motive in Data Training Process 00:07:57 Communications Nightmare Unveiled 00:08:11 Zoom's lack of communication skill and contradictory statements 00:10:56 Opt-out feature and lack of prompt for data sharing 00:14:10 Concerns about Terms of Service and AI Models 00:15:44 The Overreaching License in Perpetuity 00:18:00 The Loophole of Service-Generated Data 00:21:32 Privacy Concerns and Re-evaluating Usage of Zoom 00:24:18 Implications of Data Usage in Different Industries 00:27:49 Technology's Impact on Information Exchange and Privacy Concerns 00:29:31 The Rise of GPUs and the Potential of Matrix Algebra in Technology 00:30:28 Unforeseen Consequences of DNA Testing and Forensic DNA Chain
We dive into economics today with a discussion on the profit motive, government interaction with the economy and why nearly all the university professors as well as the politicians hate supply side economics.
Dr. Michael Mayer talked about the book The Profit Motive by Stephen M. Bainbridge. Ramos is the Community Engagement Director for Americans for Prosperity Montana.
Original Air Date 5-15-2015 Today we take a hard look at modern-day civilization and culture and ponder what we could do to make things better Be part of the show! Leave us a message or text at 202-999-3991 or email Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Show Notes Act 1: The Death of Culture at the Hands of the Profit Motive - @majorityfm - Air Date: 01-20-15 Act 2: Visionary Sci Fi for an Age of Acquiescence - The F Word with @GRITlaura Flanders - Air Date: 4-20-15 Act 3: .@ShawnAchor - The happy secret to better work - @TEDTalks - Air Date: 2-1-12 Act 4: A Brief History of Humankind - @DecodeDC - Air Date: 4-30-15 Act 5: Lacking liberty from slavery to feudalism to capitalism - Economic Update with @profwolff - Air Date: 2-1-15 Produced by Jay! Tomlinson Thanks for listening! Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com Check out the BotL iOS/Android App in the App Stores! Follow at Twitter.com/BestOfTheLeft Like at Facebook.com/BestOfTheLeft Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Review the show on iTunes and Stitcher!
In his second appearance on the show, Bob Costas demonstrates how to disagree in an agreeable fashion. He and Michele discuss the threats to Title IX, mistrust of the media, and why America may not be perfect — but is still pretty damned good.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In his second appearance on the show, Bob Costas demonstrates how to disagree in an agreeable fashion. He and Michele discuss the threats to Title IX, mistrust of the media, and why America may not be perfect — but is still pretty damned good.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Stephen Bainbridge, professor of law at the University of California, Los Angeles, joins the Business Scholarship Podcast to discuss his new book The Profit Motive: Defending Shareholder Value Maximization. This episode is hosted by Andrew Jennings, assistant professor at Brooklyn Law School.
David Henderson, emeritus professor of economics with the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and host Rosemarie Fike dive right into conflict aversion in school, in the home, and even discuss how the UCLA school illuminated how the profit motive helps reduce discrimination by automatically imposing a penalty on those who do. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
0:00 -- Intro.1:35 -- Start of interview.4:35 -- About his new book "The Profit Motive, Defending Shareholder Value Maximization" (2023). He wrote it to offer context for the current debate about corporate purpose and ESG. He argues that shareholder value maximization is not only required by law, but what the law ought to require.9:23 -- His take on why we should care about corporate purpose.13:54 -- The legal arguments and foundation for directors' duties to maximize shareholder value. 16:26 -- On the merits of the Business Roundtable Restatement of the Purpose of the Corporation (2019). "It can't really be justified." "The concern is that directors that are accountable to everybody, are accountable to no one."20:54 -- On public benefit corporations. "The core problem of PBCs is that it's still the shareholders that elect directors, it's still the shareholders to whom the directors owe fiduciary duties, and that becomes a particular problem when a PBC goes public [they become vulnerable to shareholder activists.]" Example: Etsy case. "Hobby Lobby strikes me as an ideal [private company] to become a PBC [because they have a small number of shareholders, all of whom share the same social/political/religious point of views, and are willing to sacrifice profits to carry out those views and support a board of directors that seeks to advance those views."]26:33 -- On the influence of EU/international views on U.S. corporations, and vice-versa (for example, influence of Delaware corporate law on international corporate law, ie. in Israel). On diversity quotas on boards.31:07 -- The take-aways from his book: "be deeply skeptical about what CEOs say in this area [ESG], and watch what they do." The phenomenon of greenwashing. The case of Marc Benioff and Salesforce.35:33 -- On the SVB collapse and the current financial crisis. "I think it's really important that directors be focused on enterprise risk management." 42:07 -- On the Credit Suisse collapse and merger with UBS. "It's been a banking industry problem child for a long time."44:56 -- On the expansion of Caremark Duties and the McDonald's case. "There are two rulings from the case that are interesting but also controversial: 1) Officers also have Caremark duties (oversight obligations), and 2) Sexual harassment claims were breaches of fiduciary duty. We are potentially opening the door to treating employment discrimination cases as breaches of fiduciary duties. So what's next is sort of the question. I think [VC Laster] has opened a real Pandora's box in terms of [where this may be going]."51:57 -- On the compliance industry. The rise of the Master of Legal Studies "M.L.S." with a focus on compliance at UCLA School of Law. "Compliance is a growth industry."53:50 -- On large asset managers passing-through voting power to beneficial owners. "I'm deeply skeptical."55:44 -- The books that have greatly influenced his life: Mere Christianity, by C.S. Lewis (1952)Insider Trading and the Stock Market, by Henry G. Manne (1966)Fundamentals of Corporation Law, by Michael Dooley (1995)56:07 -- His mentors, and what he learned from them. Michael Dooley, who taught at the University of Virginia School of Law.56:48 -- Paraphrasing Winston Churchill: "I'm prepared to settle for the very best" [the exact quote: “My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”]57:07 -- An unusual habit or an absurd thing that he loves: he's an amateur chef, and loves designing meals, matching food with wine. Tropical fish.57:46 -- The living person he most admires: Bishop Robert Barron.Stephen Bainbridge is the William D. Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law. Professor Bainbridge is a prolific scholar, whose work covers a variety of subjects, but with a strong emphasis on the law and economics of public corporations. He has written over 100 law review articles and 20 books, including seven in multiple editions.__ You can follow Stephen on social media at:Twitter: @PrawfBainbridgeBlog: https://www.professorbainbridge.com/__ You can follow Evan on social media at:Twitter: @evanepsteinLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/epsteinevan/ Substack: https://evanepstein.substack.com/__Music/Soundtrack (found via Free Music Archive): Seeing The Future by Dexter Britain is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License
It's hard to grasp just how badly humanity is handicapping itself by excluding all solutions that can't generate a profit. There's a whole vast spectrum of potential solutions to the troubles we face as a species, and we're limiting ourselves to a very small, very shitty fraction of it. By limiting solutions to ones that are profitable, we're omitting any which involve using less, consuming less, leaving resources in the ground, and leaving nature the fuck alone. We're also shrinking the incentive to cure problems rather than offer expensive, ongoing treatments. Or even a project as fundamental to our survival as getting all the pollution out of our oceans. The profit motive offers no solution because there's no way to make a surplus of money from doing so, and in fact it would be very costly. So the pollution stays in our seas, year after year. People have come up with plenty of solutions for removing pollution from the sea, but they never get rolled out at the necessary scale because there's no way to make it profitable. And people would come up with far more solutions if they knew those solutions could be implemented. Reading by Tim Foley.
Hi. Oh no! The quest for ever-growing profits has led to screwed-up priorities, corruption, and disaster in the U.S. energy industry! This is Part 3 in our series looking at how the Profit Motive creates bizarre and often grotesque incentives that push industries to do the opposite of what they should. Get your BETTER THINGS ARE NECESSARY AND POSSIBLE merch here: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/20713359-better-things-are-necessary-and-possible Check out our new compilation series, CODY COMPS here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqFkH8uXvlJbGeJKUChW4VGxCMhKQ9cJ8 Please fill out our SURVEY: https://kastmedia.com/survey/ Check out our new series SOME THIS! - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkJemc4T5NYbcqTbNmyH3uqutwcj8fHf3 Support us on our PATREON: http://patreon.com/somemorenews Check out our MERCH STORE: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/somemorenews?ref_id=9949 SUBSCRIBE to SOME MORE NEWS: https://tinyurl.com/ybfx89rh Subscribe to the Even More News and SMN audio podcasts here: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/some-more-news/id1364825229 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6ebqegozpFt9hY2WJ7TDiA?si=5keGjCe5SxejFN1XkQlZ3w&dl_branch=1 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/even-more-news Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gA4sEokJZ0ma4uA0WxK8IvnoGc0jDd-U-XZy9NCc6BE/edit We Should Start Incentivizing Better Things Get an immune-supporting FREE 1 year supply of Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase if you visit athleticgreens.com/morenews and try AG1 today. High-performance beauty and skin-care products made with clean, skin-loving ingredients. Right now, you can get 15% off your first order when you visit thrivecausemetics.com/MORENEWS. Wildgrain is the first bake-from-frozen box for artisanal bread. Plus they have amazing rolls, pastries, and even handmade pastas. Sign up at Wildgrain.com/morenews and, for a limited time, you can get $30 off the first box PLUS free croissants in every box. Prose is the healthy hair regimen with your name all over it. Take your FREE in-depth hair consultation and get 15% off your first order today! Go to Prose.com/morenews for your FREE in-depth hair consultation and 15% off.Support the show!: http://patreon.com.com/somemorenewsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hi. Oh no! The quest for ever-growing profits has led to screwed-up priorities, corruption, and disaster in the U.S. energy industry! This is Part 3 in our series looking at how the Profit Motive creates bizarre and often grotesque incentives that push industries to do the opposite of what they should. Get your BETTER THINGS ARE NECESSARY AND POSSIBLE merch here: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/20713359-better-things-are-necessary-and-possible Check out our new compilation series, CODY COMPS here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqFkH8uXvlJbGeJKUChW4VGxCMhKQ9cJ8 Please fill out our SURVEY: https://kastmedia.com/survey/ Check out our new series SOME THIS! - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkJemc4T5NYbcqTbNmyH3uqutwcj8fHf3 Support us on our PATREON: http://patreon.com/somemorenews Check out our MERCH STORE: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/somemorenews?ref_id=9949 SUBSCRIBE to SOME MORE NEWS: https://tinyurl.com/ybfx89rh Subscribe to the Even More News and SMN audio podcasts here: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/some-more-news/id1364825229 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6ebqegozpFt9hY2WJ7TDiA?si=5keGjCe5SxejFN1XkQlZ3w&dl_branch=1 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/even-more-news Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gA4sEokJZ0ma4uA0WxK8IvnoGc0jDd-U-XZy9NCc6BE/edit We Should Start Incentivizing Better Things Get an immune-supporting FREE 1 year supply of Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase if you visit athleticgreens.com/morenews and try AG1 today. High-performance beauty and skin-care products made with clean, skin-loving ingredients. Right now, you can get 15% off your first order when you visit thrivecausemetics.com/MORENEWS. Wildgrain is the first bake-from-frozen box for artisanal bread. Plus they have amazing rolls, pastries, and even handmade pastas. Sign up at Wildgrain.com/morenews and, for a limited time, you can get $30 off the first box PLUS free croissants in every box. Prose is the healthy hair regimen with your name all over it. Take your FREE in-depth hair consultation and get 15% off your first order today! Go to Prose.com/morenews for your FREE in-depth hair consultation and 15% off.Support the show!: http://patreon.com.com/somemorenewsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hi. Boy oh boy, the pursuit of profit has really screwed up healthcare in America. It screwed up a lot of other things, too, but this episode is about healthcare. This is Part 2 in our series looking at how the Profit Motive creates bizarre and often grotesque incentives that push industries to do the opposite of what they should. Get your BETTER THINGS ARE NECESSARY AND POSSIBLE merch here: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/207... Check out our new compilation series, CODY COMPS here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Please fill out our SURVEY: https://kastmedia.com/survey/ Check out our new series SOME THIS! - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Support us on our PATREON: http://patreon.com/somemorenews Check out our MERCH STORE: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/some... SUBSCRIBE to SOME MORE NEWS: https://tinyurl.com/ybfx89rh Subscribe to the Even More News and SMN audio podcasts here: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6ebqego... Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/even-mo... Get an immune-supporting FREE 1 year supply of Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase if you visit athleticgreens.com/morenews and try AG1 today. Don't mail and ship the hard way. Sign up with Stamps.com today. Sign up with promo code MORENEWS for a special offer that includes a 4-week trial, plus free postage and a digital scale. No long-term commitments or contracts. Just go to Stamps.com, click the microphone at the top of the page, and enter code MORENEWS. Secure your online data TODAY by visiting http://expressvpn.com/somenews. That's http://expressvpn.com/somenews and you can get an extra three months FREE. SOURCES: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fsa4rkMWgZTPdro1NmRcCSkvkCQ3VeQu1ImQJ1aw8Cw/edit?usp=sharing Support the show!: http://patreon.com.com/somemorenewsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hi. Boy oh boy, the pursuit of profit has really screwed up healthcare in America. It screwed up a lot of other things, too, but this episode is about healthcare. This is Part 2 in our series looking at how the Profit Motive creates bizarre and often grotesque incentives that push industries to do the opposite of what they should. Get your BETTER THINGS ARE NECESSARY AND POSSIBLE merch here: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/207... Check out our new compilation series, CODY COMPS here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Please fill out our SURVEY: https://kastmedia.com/survey/ Check out our new series SOME THIS! - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Support us on our PATREON: http://patreon.com/somemorenews Check out our MERCH STORE: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/some... SUBSCRIBE to SOME MORE NEWS: https://tinyurl.com/ybfx89rh Subscribe to the Even More News and SMN audio podcasts here: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6ebqego... Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/even-mo... Get an immune-supporting FREE 1 year supply of Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase if you visit athleticgreens.com/morenews and try AG1 today. Don't mail and ship the hard way. Sign up with Stamps.com today. Sign up with promo code MORENEWS for a special offer that includes a 4-week trial, plus free postage and a digital scale. No long-term commitments or contracts. Just go to Stamps.com, click the microphone at the top of the page, and enter code MORENEWS. Secure your online data TODAY by visiting http://expressvpn.com/somenews. That's http://expressvpn.com/somenews and you can get an extra three months FREE. SOURCES: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fsa4rkMWgZTPdro1NmRcCSkvkCQ3VeQu1ImQJ1aw8Cw/edit?usp=sharing Support the show!: http://patreon.com.com/somemorenewsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hi. In our latest episode, we look at private prisons and how the profit motive makes the Prison Industrial Complex even worse than it already is, which is very. Very even worse. This is Part 1 in our series looking at how the Profit Motive creates bizarre and often grotesque incentives that push industries to do the opposite of what they should. Get your BETTER THINGS ARE NECESSARY AND POSSIBLE merch here: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/207... Check out our new compilation series, CODY COMPS here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Please fill out our SURVEY: https://kastmedia.com/survey/ Check out our new series SOME THIS! - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Support us on our PATREON: http://patreon.com/somemorenews Check out our MERCH STORE: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/some... SUBSCRIBE to SOME MORE NEWS: https://tinyurl.com/ybfx89rh Subscribe to the Even More News and SMN audio podcasts here: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6ebqego... Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/even-mo... Get an immune-supporting FREE 1 year supply of Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase if you visit athleticgreens.com/morenews and try AG1 today. Wildgrain is the first bake-from-frozen box for artisanal bread. Plus they have amazing rolls, pastries, and even handmade pastas. Sign up at Wildgrain.com/morenews and, for a limited time, you can get $30 off the first box PLUS free croissants in every box. Boll & Branch sheets aren't just buttery, breathable and impossibly comfortable: they get softer with every wash. Get 15% off your first set of sheets when you use promo code MORENEWS at bollandbranch.com. SOURCES: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I0WU0G_vSG3s7yYo-7VubBu35Wf3UCDB1ujgWcfbk08/edit?usp=sharing Support the show!: http://patreon.com.com/somemorenewsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hi. In our latest episode, we look at private prisons and how the profit motive makes the Prison Industrial Complex even worse than it already is, which is very. Very even worse. This is Part 1 in our series looking at how the Profit Motive creates bizarre and often grotesque incentives that push industries to do the opposite of what they should. Get your BETTER THINGS ARE NECESSARY AND POSSIBLE merch here: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/207... Check out our new compilation series, CODY COMPS here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Please fill out our SURVEY: https://kastmedia.com/survey/ Check out our new series SOME THIS! - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... Support us on our PATREON: http://patreon.com/somemorenews Check out our MERCH STORE: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/some... SUBSCRIBE to SOME MORE NEWS: https://tinyurl.com/ybfx89rh Subscribe to the Even More News and SMN audio podcasts here: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6ebqego... Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/even-mo... Get an immune-supporting FREE 1 year supply of Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase if you visit athleticgreens.com/morenews and try AG1 today. Wildgrain is the first bake-from-frozen box for artisanal bread. Plus they have amazing rolls, pastries, and even handmade pastas. Sign up at Wildgrain.com/morenews and, for a limited time, you can get $30 off the first box PLUS free croissants in every box. Boll & Branch sheets aren't just buttery, breathable and impossibly comfortable: they get softer with every wash. Get 15% off your first set of sheets when you use promo code MORENEWS at bollandbranch.com. SOURCES: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I0WU0G_vSG3s7yYo-7VubBu35Wf3UCDB1ujgWcfbk08/edit?usp=sharing Support the show!: http://patreon.com.com/somemorenewsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
It's Casual Friday! Sam and Emma host Heather Digby Parton, contributing writer at Salon.com and proprietor of the blog Hullabaloo, to round up the week in news. Then, Sam and Emma are joined by Matthew Film Guy! Emma and Sam first dive into the Uvalde Police's ever-changing story, the White House's upcoming, likely-to-fail gun control package, and the GOP striking down a domestic terror bill, before watching Texas Lt. Chris Olivarez excuse Uvalde police's inaction as believing they had “contained” the shooter… inside of a childrens' classroom. Digby then joins as she and Sam reflect on two decades of covering these senselessly devastating instances of gun violence against children, from Wayne LaPierre asking the government to pry his gun from his “cold dead hands” in the wake of Columbine, to the tentative moments after Sandy Hook, where it seemed as though politicians would come around to reform, only for the NRA to disseminate all of the necessary talking points in a complete rejection of progress. This brings Emma, Sam, and Heather to a discussion on the collapse of the NRA in recent years, held up in court over embezzlement charges, yet with the Republican base more than picking up their torch and centering fundamentalist takes on gun ownership in electoral pushes. After briefly touching on the failure of Democrats in the wake of these mass shootings, reaching all the way back to their blame of Al Gore's gun control stance in 2000, Sam, Emma, and Digby return to the devastation in Uvalde as they tackle how a fully-militarized police department, as we have throughout the US, finds it reasonable to leave a mass shooter in a school filled with children due to fears for THEIR OWN (the cops') safety, as the Uvalde Police now claim they believed there to be no more living children in the classroom, despite the multiple incoming 911 calls FROM LIVING CHILDREN, clamoring from one lie to another as federal inaction from the democrats is the only repercussion that looms. Then, Matthew Film Guy joins as they discuss the central importance of art in creating the worlds we imagine for our futures, and in challenging and disrupting the status quo of our present, as Sam, Emma, and he give their takes on the importance of John Cassavetes and Mad Men, and Matthew rounds out the interview with his recommendations of Andrey Zvyagintsev's “Loveless” and John Gianvito's “Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind.” And in the Fun Half: Sam and Emma look to the GOP's stale response to mass shootings, as Kevin McCarthy pushes the “mental health” talking point, while refusing to address or help mental health, and Lauren Boebert cites 9/11 to ask “why ban guns when we didn't ban planes,” despite the countless massive (and problematic) regulations that DID arise in the wake of the terror attack. 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Paul Murphy says the Government has "done the deal" on the National Maternity Hospital, but is not convinced by its reassurances. The Solidarity-PBP TD joins the Your Politics team to discuss the coalition's shrinking majority, its "scandalous" opportunism, threats to journalists... and Otto von Bismarck.
Friday May 13, 2022 Sheldon Krimsky, Who Warned of Profit Motive in Science, Dies at 80
Beyond Knowledge: How Technology Is Driving an Age of Consciousness by William E. HalalBeyond Knowledge Lies the Triumph of Human SpiritThe Knowledge Age of the past two decades is passing today as the digital revolution and artificial intelligence replace knowledge work. Halal's study of social evolution explains how this marks the passage to a new frontier beyond knowledge that is poorly understood – an “Age of Consciousness” is here. But more pandemics, climate change, gross inequality, gridlock and other threats form a “Crisis of Maturity” that is blocking this historic transformation.This book provides a wealth of evidence and leading examples of an emerging “global consciousness” now driving the world to grow up, resolve this global crisis and develop a sustainable world order – or perish. With foresight and hard work, we could see the triumph of human spirit, once again.--- Chapter 1Introduction:The Noosphere is Here Chapter 2 Promises and Perils of the Technology Revolution:Eating Fruit from the Tree of Knowledge Chapter 3 Uniting Science and Spirit:Technologies of Consciousness Chapter 4 Democratic Enterprise:Collaboration Between Business and Society Chapter 5 New Social Contract:Centrist Politics and Government Markets Chapter 6 Virtual Education:The Uneasy Shift from Teaching to Learning Chapter 7 From Religion to Spirit:The Ultimate Technique of Consciousness Chapter 8 Managing Our Minds: Living and Working in Spirit Chapter 9 Toward a Global Consciousness:Start by Being Responsible Chapter 10 Evolution's Climax:The Flowering of Human Spirit Halal is Professor Emeritus at George Washington University, Washington, DC, with degrees from Purdue and UC Berkeley.Prof. Halal has published 7 books and hundreds of articles, consults to corporations and governments, and is a frequent speaker, once substituting for Peter Drucker. Bill also served as a major in the US Air Force, an aerospace engineer on the Apollo Program and a business manager in Silicon Valley.He received the 1977 Mitchell Prize ($10,000) for his article “Beyond the Profit-Motive,” and another article, “Through the MegaCrisis,” was awarded Outstanding Paper of 2013.Halal was cited by the Encyclopedia of the Future as one of the top 100 futurists in the world.Find out more about the book here www.BeyondKnowledge.orghttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B09C2JS8QB?ref_=pe_3052080_276849420https://www.billhalal.com/http://www.bluefunkbroadcasting.com/root/twia/halalpj.mp3
Today's show rundown: FAA grounds west coast airports for 7 mins due to potential N. Korea Ballistic missile test into the Pacific Ocean. We hear nothing of this n mainstream media. We have the least transparent government since the 30's. Things like this happen and we don't even get to hear about it or the why's or how's? According to Joe Biden, our Guest today must not be a real economist. Charlie Sauer explains some of the truths behind what is being done by our current administration to as Biden calls it – Big Beef. We are being told that Biden is taking care of things. What we really have is a symptom being addressed and not the problem. Given the current economy and our court system, big beef just makes sense. Biden plans to throw money at this problem which just hurts the competition and the people. How much money do you need in savings for you to retire comfortable? Almost 1 million was the answer in the 80's. In 2021 that number dropped to 600K. Are Americans just changing their requirements for living comfortably? IS this related to the market, or where we weren't in a high spending place? People may be spending down their savings they gained over COVID. Charles Sauer is a seasoned economic policy expert, author, President and Founder of the Market Institute. Sauer began developing his expertise in finance and tax by working for the chairman of the Finance Committee, and then going on to be a legislative analyst focused on tax, immigration, and labor issues in a governor's office. In 2007, Sauer was named the Deputy Legislative Director for the National Center for Policy Analysis, a think tank dedicated to finding free-market alternatives to government regulation. After his time at NCPA, he was President of Entrepreneurs for Growth, a Capitol Hill education program that educated Hill staff on entrepreneurship. Sauer then co-founded and served as the Executive Director for the Free Market Medical Association. In 2010, he founded the Market Institute and serves as President to date. Sauer authored the book, Profit Motive: What Drives the Things We Do and is a frequent voice appearing in outlets like the Washington Examiner, Forbes, Investor's Business Daily, and many more. Get his Book Here!!! Profit Motive https://hypnotisingbook.com/ https://worldmission.cc/donate-humanitarianoutreach/
Monday, January 3, 2022 On Point of View today, Kerby welcomes Charles Sauer who will talk about his new book, “Profit Motive.” In the final hour, Kerby welcomes Kris Emmert. Journeying from unspeakable tragedy to discovering unshakeable hope, Kris will share her new book, “Providing Promise: A Navy Widow's Journey to Hope.” Please call or […]
Can businesses afford to see employees in terms other than unit labor cost? How do you factor the Golden Rule into a profit and loss statement? Former Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly explains how unlearning business orthodoxies helped him prove that a human-centered approach can boost the bottom line.
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Associate professor of geography at the University of Toronto and senior fellow at the Fraser Institute, Pierre Desrochers, joins me this week to discuss environmentalism, free market policy alternatives, and the local food movement. We even get into fossil fuel divestment campaigns in universities. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Let's shift from a Profit Motive to a Value Motive on this Sales Influence Podcast with Victor Antonio #valuemotive
The RSB Show 9-8-21 - Biden COVID plan, More mandates coming, Workers quitting, First responders resist, Healthy life cost, Medicine profit motive
Legendary Investor Jim Rogers Reveals How To Become Wealthy Jim Rogers, born 19 Oct 1942, is the author of the bestseller, Investment Biker: Around the World with Jim Rogers. His other books include Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip, A Gift to My Children: A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing, Hot Commodities: How Anyone Can Invest Profitably in the World's Best Market, and A Bull in China: Investing Profitably in the World's Greatest Market. Jim grew up in Demopolis, Alabama, and got started in business at the age of five, selling peanuts. Winning a scholarship to Yale, Rogers was coxswain on the crew. Upon graduation, he attended Balliol College at Oxford. After a stint in the army, he began work on Wall Street. He cofounded the Quantum Fund, a global-investment partnership. During the next ten years, the portfolio gained more than 4,000 percent, while the S&P rose less than 50 percent. Rogers then decided to retire–at age thirty-seven–but he did not remain idle.Continuing to manage his own portfolio, Rogers served as a professor of finance at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and as moderator of The Dreyfus Roundtable on WCBS and The Profit Motive on FNN. At the same time, he laid the groundwork for his lifelong dream, an around-the-world motorcycle trip: more than 100,000 miles across six continents. He has contributed to Fox News, Worth, CNBC and others. Website: https://www.jimrogers.com/ Jim Rogers 2021 interview, Jim Rogers on bitcoin, investing, will the dollar collapse in 2021?, future events, markets, money, economic collapse, Ryan McCormick, Outer Limits of Inner Truth
Prof. Andrew Costa, Research Chair in Aging at McMaster University and member of Ontario's COVID19 Science Advisory Table says it's too easy to point the finger at for-profit homes. It's more complicated than that.
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Fundamental Practices in the Art of Teaching • Tool Affordances and Human Effectivities • On Classrooms as Constrained Environments • The Business of Education • Tools Can Support Motivation • Pitfalls of The Profit Motive in the Education Space • Distinguishing Between Game-Based Learning, Gamification, and Gameful Learning • A Game as a Logical System • Gaming and Performance-Based Assessments • Environmental Constraints • Simulations/Games • An Example • On Historical Empathy • On Edutainment • Structural Values of Game-Based Learning • Historical Simulations and Inglorious Bastards Stay up to date! > Be sure to sign up for our mailing list for access to our blog, podcast, and other exclusive materials s they're released. For works mentioned and suggested readings, visit decayofdiscourse.com
The consulting firm McKinsey has agreed to pay nearly $600 million for its role in advising Purdue on how to push opioids sales, even at the cost of human lives. The details of their work are gruesome and should demand self-reflection among all those who work in big business. Has the profit motive gone out of control, and do business schools have a role to play in creating this culture? Anand Giridharadas says yes to both questions. He's the author of the renowned book "Winners Take All" and the publisher of "The Ink" on Substack. He joins us in this episode to discuss McKinsey, the culture of profits at all costs, and how businesses use philanthropy to distract us from the price we all pay.
Episode Notes Welcome to season two of We Are The Champions! This week we're joined by Tili of Higgledy-Piggledy Whale Statements and Ars Arcanum fame to talk about a true hero, a paragon of the people, an actually really cool character, Viktor! Come see Tili get completely owned as the random number generator provides a champion factory-made to appeal directly to them. Follow the show on twitter at twitter.com/RuneterraTips, and send emails to the show at wearetheemail@gmail.com! Follow Tili on twitter at twitter.com/charaznablunt!
Diana and Teen join friend (and patron) David Nole, founder of AN Publishing, for a wide-ranging discussion about the urgency around creating independent non-white media. In particular, how ditching the profit-motive can open a huge array of possibilities. NOTE: We have unlocked this bonus episode to celebrate 200 episodes of EFPA. Many thanks to all our guests, listeners, and patrons. TWITTER: Diana (@discoveryduck) Teen (@mont_jiang) SUBMISSIONS & COMMENTS: editor.planamag@gmail.com EFPA Opening Theme: "Fuck Out My Face" by Ayekay (open.spotify.com/artist/16zQKaDN5XgHAhfOJHTigJ)
It's necessary for a self-employed independent creative to turn a profit. Profit motive legitimizes your freelance practice as a business. In this episode I define what profit motive is, why it's important for your success, how to know if you have a profit motive, and what the IRS looks at to determine if you're running a business or pursuing a hobby as a creative.
How does the profitmaking model affect our bodies and lives? Dr. Zieve discusses new thinking about food, economics and the profit motive. If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element
If your spouse is a male over 40 this a program that both husband and wife should listen to together. Dr. Cesar Ercole is a member of the James A Haley VA hospital staff and a surgeon specializing in Urology. In this program he discussed prostate problems, warning signs and treatment options. This highly trained and very capable physician will tell you a variety of things that you may never here talking with a physician in the for-profit medicine world. Over the years I have interviewed some of the top specialists in the field of prostate cancer and each leaned toward treating it with their discipline. Surgeons thought surgery was the best option, Radiologist of course leaned toward radiation. However, at the VA they have an array of treatments available without the profit motive to push one over the other. So, if you have prostate problems which is best for you? Listening to this broadcast will leave you better educated to make a treatment choice and it may be no treatment at all. That’s called watchful waiting and is indeed a good option for many older patients. Listening to what Dr. Ercole has to say may well save your life of that of someone you love. Don't forget when you listen to SUBSCRIBE so you will not miss any of our programs dedicated to sharing information you need as a veteran or the family of a veteran. Veterans Corner Radio is owned and produced by (c) 2020 William N Hodges
Debunking the latest lies about China; Denver cracks down on homeless amid pandemic; Without lockdown, Nicaragua firmly controlling Covid-19
In this episode of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Ian Goodrum, senior editor of China Daily, to talk about why Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's assertion that there is "enormous" evidence linking the coronavirus to the Wuhan Institute of Virology is so questionable, whether the Trump administration's renewed efforts to "rip" supply chains from China stands any chance of succeeding, and the links between bigoted comments by public figures about Chinese people, the media's drive to demonize the Chinese government, and the global rise in hate crimes against people of Asian descent.In the second segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Benjamin Dunning, co-founder of Denver Homeless Out Loud, to talk about how recent crackdowns on homeless encampments by Denver police fly in the face of CDC guidelines for preventing the spread of COVID-19, and how such raids reveal a city government more oriented towards serving big business and developers than working people. In the third segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Council on Hemispheric Affairs writer John Perry to talk about the unique challenges countries in the Global South face when attempting to implement shelter-in-place policies without gutting the informal economy, why Nicaragua's COVID-19 response has been so much more effective than its right-wing neighbors despite a lack of governmental physical distancing enforcement, and why the mainstream media and human rights industry continue to prioritize the voices of the far-right Nicaraguan opposition long after their failed 2018 coup attempt.Later in the show, Sean and Jacquie are joined by China Dickerson, Political Director for Forward Majority, to talk about what's motivating Joe Biden's new plan to "Lift Every Voice" in the Black community, whether the apparent convergence of libertarians and "left-libertarians" in expressing skepticism of the need for shelter-in-place policies ultimately lends support to "reopen" protests, and why political figures who want to stay relevant should be engaged in assisting, feeding, and otherwise keeping their neighbors alive as the state refuses to.
This week, Eamon and I wrap up our dialogue on COVID-19, specifically with an eye toward what we can do to confront this crisis. We chat about the surge of mutual aid organizing and base-building, the wave of rent strikes hitting major urban centers, and community-organizing in a time of self-quarantining. Above all else, Eamon and I talk about how we can all live our lives so fucking brilliantly that even death will tremble to take us. If this is your first time checking out Coffee with Comrades, we encourage you to check out Ep. 80: “The Virus is the Profit Motive,” the first half of our two-part series on COVID-19. We encourage you to get involved in Mutual Aid organizing in your neck-of-the-woods. Check out this round-up of mutual aid organizations all across the so-called United States. Resources: Ventilator shortages expose the cruelty of neoliberal capitalism Democrats roll over for the Trump Administration’s “stimulus package” Leaked documents expose how Amazon tried to frame warehouse strike organizer Neo-Nazis plot to bomb hospital amidst COVID-19 crisis White supremacists plan to cough on Jews if they contract COVID-19 Mutual aid activity explodes across the so-called U.S. Organize a Rent Strike with these resources from IGD and CrimethInc. and Rebel Steps Expected 32% of U.S. workforce will be out of a job Coronavirus is a labor crisis: will a general strike follow? Follow & Support: Follow Radical People on Twitter and donate to their Patreon. Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and visit our website. Coffee with Comrades is a proud affiliate of the Channel Zero Network. Coffee with Comrades is a proud part of the Rev Left Radio Federation. Our logo was designed by Sydney Landis. Support her work, buy some art. Music: Intro: “I Ain’t Got No Home in this World” by Woody Guthrie Interlude: “Mean Demeanor” Outro: “Alibi” by Hawk
I'm SHOCKED! Dr. Fauci has a personal profit motive to explain his unexplainable conduct...fighting so vehemently to block virus cures and prevention while worshipping fake models and future vaccines. It all makes sense when you factor in he is to rake in millions of blood soaked dollars as his patents and other financial insterests come to light. Dr. Ron Paul, former US Representataive from Kentucky, calls on President Trump to fire Dr. Fauci, saying he and other leftists are rising to the level of tyrants ruling over the American people without legal authority. WHO elected Fauci? Nobody...well maybe Hillary Clinton, George Soros, and Bill Gates. Real data, not that used by Fauci and his minions, show that ony 150 Americans have died as a direct result of COVID-19 as all of the others (over 16,000) had pre-existing conditions that may have been the primary causation. A study coming out from Germany shows the mortality rate due to the Plandemic is on 0.37%, five times lower than the numbers being reported. The Department of Health and Human Services issues new guidance. HHS Secretary Alex Azar: "Giving pharmacists the authorization to order and administer COVID-19 tests to their patients means easier access to testing for Americans who need it. Pharmacists play a vital role in delivering convenient access to important public health services and information. The Trump Administration is pleased to give pharmacists the chance to play a bigger role in the COVID-19 response, alongside all of America's heroic healthcare workers." Dr. Ryan Cole emphasized in his interview yesterday with Dr. Corsi that increased testing is key to winning the virus war. US AG Barr is indicating that real justice may be coming soon against the evil doers as US Attorney John Durhan is closer to issuing indictments. Tune in Monday through Friday at 11:00am EDT for another show.
This week, Eamon of the Radical People podcast joins us for the first half of a two-part series on COVID-19. We spend the first part of the discussion setting up the current state of affairs: where we’re at presently, what the bourgeois response has been, and how ecofascists and reactionaries are using this crisis to foment nativist strains of racism. But, it’s not all bleak. Eamon offers a lot of insight into the crisis of late-stage capitalism from an ecological perspective and provides an invaluable lens we can use to assess the catastrophe of COVID-19 and move forward to a more liberatory future. Be sure to check back next week for part-two of our conversation. We encourage you to get involved in Mutual Aid organizing in your neck-of-the-woods. Check out this round-up of mutual aid organizations all across the so-called United States. Resources: Ventilator shortages expose the cruelty of neoliberal capitalism Democrats roll over for the Trump Administration’s “stimulus package” Leaked documents expose how Amazon tried to frame warehouse strike organizer Neo-Nazis plot to bomb hospital amidst COVID-19 crisis White supremacists plan to cough on Jews if they contract COVID-19 Mutual aid activity explodes across the so-called U.S. Organize a Rent Strike with these resources from IGD and CrimethInc. and Rebel Steps Expected 32% of U.S. workforce will be out of a job Coronavirus is a labor crisis: will a general strike follow? Follow & Support: Follow Radical People on Twitter and donate to their Patreon. Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow us on Twitter and Instagram, and visit our website. Coffee with Comrades is a proud affiliate of the Channel Zero Network. Coffee with Comrades is a proud part of the Rev Left Radio Federation. Our logo was designed by Sydney Landis. Support her work, buy some art. Music: Intro: “I Ain’t Got No Home in this World” by Woody Guthrie Interlude: “Unfuck the World” by Prophets of Rage Outro: “Firestorm” by Earth Crisis
As we wrap up the decade, I've reflected on the two books I've gifted the most within the past ten years. (Outside of my two best-selling books) These books have been pivotal in my leadership journey - I share why in this episode of the PowerBanking Podcast. Secrets of Six-Figure Women. Amazon.com Book Summary: Quietly and steadily, the number of women making six figures or more is increasing and continues to rise at a rate faster than for men. From entrepreneurs to corporate executives, from white-collar professionals to freelancers and part-timers, women are forging careers with considerable financial success. In Secrets of Six-Figure Women, Barbara Stanny, journalist, motivational speaker, and financial educator, identifies the seven key strategies of female high-earners: A Profit Motive, Audacity, Resilience, Encouragement, Self-Awareness, Non-attachment, and Financial Know-How. Based on extensive research and hundreds of interviews, including more than 150 women whose annual earnings range from $100,000 to $7 million, Barbara Stanny turns each of the six-figure traits into a specific strategy for upping earnings. By rigorously fine-tuning them, readers can, step-by-step, climb the income ladder. The Power of Focus Book Summary from Amazon.com More than 600,000 people around the world have been captivated by the simple, practical, and profound strategies contained in the original bestseller, The Power of Focus. Now a decade later, authors Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Les Hewitt have joined forces to create a special 10th Anniversary Edition of this enduring classic. Each of these masters of business and personal development provides a crystal-clear picture of why your ability to focus is even more vital today in determining your future success. Readers will discover: The keys to prosperity in a turbulent economy A personal look at the last ten years through the experienced eyes of Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, and Les Hewitt: Insights on where to sharpen your focus, capitalizing on the new currency in business, and a Reality Check questionnaire to help you focus and follow-through How to dramatically leverage your income using relationships and technology Inspiring success stories from readers who have implemented The Power of Focus strategies What book are books have you gifted most in this decade? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/powerbanking/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/powerbanking/support
If you operate a small business, you must be able to prove to the IRS that you have a motive to earn a profit. This podcast will explain a simple and easy way to get it done. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Taxpayers who seek to claim deductions for ordinary and necessary expenses paid or incurred in carrying on a trade or business or for the production or collection of income or for the management, conservation, or maintenance of property held for the production of income must show a profit motive. Without a profit motive behind the activity, in general, a taxpayer is barred from claiming deductions for activities not engaged in for profit under Section 183(a) of the Internal Revenue Code. The big issue is whether an activity is a trade or business (or one for investment) or is rather merely a hobby. A recent Tax Court case illustrates the difference between a profit motive and a hobby.
The profit motive has led to so many innovations in higher education. So, why are we uncomfortable talking about it?
On this week’s podcast, Neal McCluskey, director of Cato's Center for Educational Freedom, joins Mike Petrilli and David Griffith to discuss the appropriate role of for-profit entities in education. On the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines the effects tracking, instructional practices, and text complexity have on students who are struggling with reading in middle school.
Thursday, November 1, 2018 On Point of View today, Kerby welcomes Buddy Pilgrim to discuss election stories and to give you his biblical perspective on the upcoming elections. His next guest is Charles Sauer who will talk about his new book, “Profit Motive.” Finally, Kerby will welcome Jeff Martin, Executive Director of Ministry Advancement. Jeff has information […]
Let's face it, most Americans do not care for politics. The average American, even if politically involved, see it more as a necessary burden that is filled with selfish bureaucrats , greedy lobbyist, and assholes who divide the country and are only in it for their special interest. This This segment we will discuss the issue of voter and political fatigue. With an array of news blasting through screens and the frequency of election after election, many people get burnt out with politics which causes them not to want to be bothered with it. But what are the effects of this and what impact will it have on the election that is coming up?
According to education scholar and activist Amit Chandra, education in India is a fraud committed on the people of this country by the state. He joins Amit Varma in episode 77 of The Seen and the Unseen to explain why. Also check out: The Profit Motive in Education: Episode 9 of The Seen and the Unseen (http://www.seenunseen.in/episodes/2017/3/13/episode-9-the-profit-motive-in-education) The Right to Screw up Education: Episode 19 of The Seen and the Unseen (https://www.thinkpragati.com/podcast/the-seen-and-the-unseen/1462/right-screw-education/) Data on School Closures (http://nisaindia.org/data-on-school-closures) Our Unlucky Children -- Amit Varma (Jan 2008)(http://indiauncut.com/iublog/article/our-unlucky-children/) Annual Status of Education (ASER) Report 2017 (http://www.asercentre.org/Keywords/p/315.html) The Aggregate Effect of School Choice -- Karthik Muralidharan & Venkatesh Sundararaman (https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/130/3/1011/1931887) A political economy of education in India: The case of UP -- Geeta Kingdon & Mohd. Muzammil (http://ceid.educ.cam.ac.uk/publications/OPI_KingdonMuzammil20081.pdf) Teacher Absence in India: A Snapshot (https://academic.oup.com/jeea/article-abstract/3/2-3/658/2281517?redirectedFrom=fulltext)
Air Date: 5/15/2015 Today we take a hard look at modern-day civilization and culture and ponder what we could do to make things better Be part of the show! Leave a message at 202-999-3991 Join the Best of the Left Social Network! Donate or become a Member to support the show! Visit: https://www.patreon.com/BestOfTheLeft Show Notes Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill 00:00:30 Ch. 2: Act 1: The Death of Culture at the Hands of the Profit Motive - @majorityfm - Air Date: 01-20-15 Ch. 3: Song 1: My Conversation - The Uniques 00:13:04 Ch. 4: Act 2: Visionary Sci Fi for an Age of Acquiescence - The F Word with @GRITlaura Flanders - Air Date: 4-20-15 Ch. 5: Song 2: Design - Fiction Company 00:15:58 Ch. 6: Act 3: .@ShawnAchor - The happy secret to better work - @TEDTalks - Air Date: 2-1-12 Ch. 7: Song 3: Everybody Loves a Happy Ending (iTunes Originals Version) - Tears for Fears 00:29:08 Ch. 8: Act 4: A Brief History of Humankind - @DecodeDC - Air Date: 4-30-15 Ch. 9: Song 4: "Going Sane" - Two Cheers 00:40:39 Ch. 10: Act 5: Lacking liberty from slavery to feudalism to capitalism - Economic Update with @profwolff - Air Date: 2-1-15
Robin is back from his annual sojourn to the Toronto International Film Festival, so it’s time to open up the Cinema Hut to alert you to the best and nerdiest of the 44 titles he saw there. From zombies to noir, he’s got your watch list for the next 12-18 months. In the Gaming Hut […]
Jawaharlal Nehru once said that profit is a 'dirty word'. He wasn't alone in his distrust of the profit motive, which is effectively banned in education in India. Amit Varma chats with education reformer Parth Shah on why this thinking is misguided, and might be responsible for the pathetic state of education in India. Follow The Seen and The Unseen: Website: www.seenunseen.in Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theseenandtheunseen/ This is an IVM Production; for more such awesome podcasts, come find us: Website: Indusvox.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ivmpodcasts Twitter: https://twitter.com/IVMPodcasts Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ivmpodcasts/
549: Delta's Profit Motive Beats Government Good Intentions Do you ever wonder why government inefficiencies never seem to get fixed? The TSA has, from its inception, been plagued with problems. From long lines and employee, malfeasance to cost overruns. Everyone hates the TSA. Even if you're sympathetic to the workers, you can't help but curse under your breath every time you're forced to stand in a 30-minute line before being stripped and scanned. Why don't these problems get solved? It has to do with incentives. What incentive does the TSA have to improve their processes and provide a better experience? The answer is zero. The TSA gets its funding from the government. They have no direct responsibility to you. If you're unhappy with your experience, you can't pick a different screening provider the next time. Nor can you withhold your money by choosing to travel by car or train. The TSA is going to get paid no matter what. The only incentive the TSA has is to make sure they always follow the make sure the line keeps moving and the laptops come out of the bags. Contrast this with the private sector who have a profit motive with everything they do. Yes, the GREEDY corporation only concerned with its own bottom line. Delta, one such company, just did what the TSA has been unable to do since its formation. It solved the wait times at the Atlanta airport. By investing its own money it signal handily cut wait times by up to 90%. How could this be? Simple, they wanted to make more money, and they were tired of spending millions to rebook unhappy passengers due to missed flights and TSA inefficiencies. The desire for profit pushes companies to be as efficient and consumer friendly as possible. A free market, consisting of competing companies, helps to drive down costs while creating a better quality product. This is something you will never see in a government run monopoly. We can learn a lot from Delta and the TSA. These lessons apply to a host of problems America now faces from education to Obamacare. JasonSupport the show.
Legendary Investor Jim Rogers visits the Outer Limits of Inner Truth once again and shares his wisdom. Born in 1942, Legendary Investor Jim Rogers had his first job at age five, picking up bottles at baseball games. Winning a scholarship to Yale, Rogers was coxswain on the crew. Upon graduation, he attended Balliol College at Oxford. After a stint in the army, he began work on Wall Street. He cofounded the Quantum Fund, a global-investment partnership. During the next ten years, the portfolio gained more than 4,000 percent, while the S&P rose less than 50 percent. Rogers then decided to retire-at age thirty-seven-but he did not remain idle.Continuing to manage his own portfolio, Rogers served as a professor of finance at the Columbia Univer-sity Graduate School of Business and as moderator of The Dreyfus Roundtable on WCBS and The Profit Motive on FNN. At the same time, he laid the groundwork for his lifelong dream, an around-the-world motorcycle trip: more than 100,000 miles across six continents. That journey became the subject of Rogers's first book, Investment Biker (1994), now available from Random House Trade Paperbacks. While laying plans for his Millennium Adventure 1999-2001, he continued as a media commentator at Worth, CNBC, et al., and as a sometime professor. Listen to the Outer Limits of Inner Truth Radio Show's first interview with Jim Rogers from 2015 that also includes a Forensic Soul Analysis
Scottish Liberty Podcast episode 9 brought to you by Antony Sammeroff and Tom Laird Two Scottish Libertarians discuss The Named Person Scheme, The European Court of Human, ECHR, Rights? Healthcare, Owen Smith, Austerity, Inequality, Profit, The Profit Motive, Zimbabwe, Mugabe, Putin and more.
This week we talk with Courtney Feider, who is a creative disruption strategist, speaker and leadership adviser with Price Associates. Courtney tells us how creativity can help companies grow, and why creativity should be supported from the top down. She shares three ways leaders can help employees be more creative and which employees should participate. Follow Courtney @courtneyfeider
Has mass incarceration become part of what is seen today as a good business model? What effect has privatization had on the rehabilitation of prisoners? Today we will discuss the profit motive as one of the forces behind the mass incarceration crisis, and, specifically, how companies that provide mental health services in the prison system are incentivized to make the problem works, not better.
Edition #922 Today we take a hard look at modern-day civilization and culture and ponder what we could do to make things better Be part of the show! Leave a message at 202-999-3991 Show Notes Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill 00:00:30 Ch. 2: Act 1: The Death of Culture at the Hands of the Profit Motive - @majorityfm - Air Date: 01-20-15 Ch. 3: Song 1: My Conversation - The Uniques 00:13:04 Ch. 4: Act 2: Visionary Sci Fi for an Age of Acquiescence - The F Word with @GRITlaura Flanders - Air Date: 4-20-15 Ch. 5: Song 2: Design - Fiction Company 00:15:58 Ch. 6: Act 3: .@ShawnAchor - The happy secret to better work - @TEDTalks - Air Date: 2-1-12 Ch. 7: Song 3: Everybody Loves a Happy Ending (iTunes Originals Version) - Tears for Fears 00:29:08 Ch. 8: Act 4: A Brief History of Humankind - @DecodeDC - Air Date: 4-30-15 Ch. 9: Song 4: "Going Sane" - Two Cheers 00:40:39 Ch. 10: Act 5: Lacking liberty from slavery to feudalism to capitalism - Economic Update with @profwolff - Air Date: 2-1-15 Ch. 11: Song 5: Revolution - Grandaddy 00:55:40 Ch. 12: Act 6: .@TheNextSystem Project- National Launch Webinar - Best of the Left Activism Voicemails 00:58:10 Ch. 14: What I took away from the Baltimore episode - Ryan from Pheonix 01:02:54 Ch. 15: Thanks for Baltimore episode - Isaiah from New York 01:03:35 Ch. 16: Nonviolence doesn't work when society is callous to suffering - Diane from Houston Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics 01:06:01 Ch. 17: Final comments on capitalism, culture and The Next System Project Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone Activism: @TheNextSystem Project: National Launch Webinar Take Action: WATCH The Next System Project National Launch Webinar moderated by Laura Flanders of GritTV Written by BOTL social media/activism director Katie Klabusich Produced by Jay! Tomlinson Thanks for listening! Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com Check out the BotL iOS/Android App in the App Stores! Follow at Twitter.com/BestOfTheLeft Like at Facebook.com/BestOfTheLeft Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Review the show on iTunes and Stitcher!
In this podcast I discuss Profit Motive: The Salary Revolution in American Government, 1780-1940 (Yale University Press, 2013) with author Nicholas R. Parrillo, professor of law at Yale University. Parrillo’s book was winner of the 2014 Law and Society Association James Willard Hurst Book Prize and the 2014 Annual Scholarship Award from the American Bar Association’s Section on Administrative Law. Per the book jacket, “in America today, a public official’s lawful income consists of a salary. But until a century ago, the law frequently provided for officials to make money on a profit-seeking basis. Prosecutors won a fee for each defendant convicted. Tax collectors received a percentage of each evasion uncovered. Naval officers took a reward for each ship sunk. Numerous other officers were likewise paid for ‘performance.’ This book is the first to document the American government’s for-profit past, to discover how profit-seeking defined officialdom’srelationship to the citizenry, and to explain how lawmakers–by ultimately banishing the profit motive in favor of the salary–transformed that relationship forever.” Parrillo’s intricate analysis adds nuance to the American story of government compensation and explains why government officials made money in ways that today would be deemed necessarily corrupt. Some of the topics we cover are: –The ways American lawmakers made the absence of a profit motive a defining feature of government –The two non-salary forms of payment for government officials that initially predominated in the US –How these two forms of payment tended to give rise to very different social relationships between officials and the people with whom they dealt –Why the flight to salaries was an admission of law’s weakness and failure Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this podcast I discuss Profit Motive: The Salary Revolution in American Government, 1780-1940 (Yale University Press, 2013) with author Nicholas R. Parrillo, professor of law at Yale University. Parrillo’s book was winner of the 2014 Law and Society Association James Willard Hurst Book Prize and the 2014 Annual Scholarship Award from the American Bar Association’s Section on Administrative Law. Per the book jacket, “in America today, a public official’s lawful income consists of a salary. But until a century ago, the law frequently provided for officials to make money on a profit-seeking basis. Prosecutors won a fee for each defendant convicted. Tax collectors received a percentage of each evasion uncovered. Naval officers took a reward for each ship sunk. Numerous other officers were likewise paid for ‘performance.’ This book is the first to document the American government’s for-profit past, to discover how profit-seeking defined officialdom’srelationship to the citizenry, and to explain how lawmakers–by ultimately banishing the profit motive in favor of the salary–transformed that relationship forever.” Parrillo’s intricate analysis adds nuance to the American story of government compensation and explains why government officials made money in ways that today would be deemed necessarily corrupt. Some of the topics we cover are: –The ways American lawmakers made the absence of a profit motive a defining feature of government –The two non-salary forms of payment for government officials that initially predominated in the US –How these two forms of payment tended to give rise to very different social relationships between officials and the people with whom they dealt –Why the flight to salaries was an admission of law’s weakness and failure Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this podcast I discuss Profit Motive: The Salary Revolution in American Government, 1780-1940 (Yale University Press, 2013) with author Nicholas R. Parrillo, professor of law at Yale University. Parrillo’s book was winner of the 2014 Law and Society Association James Willard Hurst Book Prize and the 2014 Annual Scholarship Award from the American Bar Association’s Section on Administrative Law. Per the book jacket, “in America today, a public official’s lawful income consists of a salary. But until a century ago, the law frequently provided for officials to make money on a profit-seeking basis. Prosecutors won a fee for each defendant convicted. Tax collectors received a percentage of each evasion uncovered. Naval officers took a reward for each ship sunk. Numerous other officers were likewise paid for ‘performance.’ This book is the first to document the American government’s for-profit past, to discover how profit-seeking defined officialdom’srelationship to the citizenry, and to explain how lawmakers–by ultimately banishing the profit motive in favor of the salary–transformed that relationship forever.” Parrillo’s intricate analysis adds nuance to the American story of government compensation and explains why government officials made money in ways that today would be deemed necessarily corrupt. Some of the topics we cover are: –The ways American lawmakers made the absence of a profit motive a defining feature of government –The two non-salary forms of payment for government officials that initially predominated in the US –How these two forms of payment tended to give rise to very different social relationships between officials and the people with whom they dealt –Why the flight to salaries was an admission of law’s weakness and failure Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this podcast I discuss Profit Motive: The Salary Revolution in American Government, 1780-1940 (Yale University Press, 2013) with author Nicholas R. Parrillo, professor of law at Yale University. Parrillo’s book was winner of the 2014 Law and Society Association James Willard Hurst Book Prize and the 2014 Annual Scholarship Award from the American Bar Association’s Section on Administrative Law. Per the book jacket, “in America today, a public official’s lawful income consists of a salary. But until a century ago, the law frequently provided for officials to make money on a profit-seeking basis. Prosecutors won a fee for each defendant convicted. Tax collectors received a percentage of each evasion uncovered. Naval officers took a reward for each ship sunk. Numerous other officers were likewise paid for ‘performance.’ This book is the first to document the American government’s for-profit past, to discover how profit-seeking defined officialdom’srelationship to the citizenry, and to explain how lawmakers–by ultimately banishing the profit motive in favor of the salary–transformed that relationship forever.” Parrillo’s intricate analysis adds nuance to the American story of government compensation and explains why government officials made money in ways that today would be deemed necessarily corrupt. Some of the topics we cover are: –The ways American lawmakers made the absence of a profit motive a defining feature of government –The two non-salary forms of payment for government officials that initially predominated in the US –How these two forms of payment tended to give rise to very different social relationships between officials and the people with whom they dealt –Why the flight to salaries was an admission of law’s weakness and failure Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this podcast I discuss Profit Motive: The Salary Revolution in American Government, 1780-1940 (Yale University Press, 2013) with author Nicholas R. Parrillo, professor of law at Yale University. Parrillo’s book was winner of the 2014 Law and Society Association James Willard Hurst Book Prize and the 2014 Annual Scholarship Award from the American Bar Association’s Section on Administrative Law. Per the book jacket, “in America today, a public official’s lawful income consists of a salary. But until a century ago, the law frequently provided for officials to make money on a profit-seeking basis. Prosecutors won a fee for each defendant convicted. Tax collectors received a percentage of each evasion uncovered. Naval officers took a reward for each ship sunk. Numerous other officers were likewise paid for ‘performance.’ This book is the first to document the American government’s for-profit past, to discover how profit-seeking defined officialdom’srelationship to the citizenry, and to explain how lawmakers–by ultimately banishing the profit motive in favor of the salary–transformed that relationship forever.” Parrillo’s intricate analysis adds nuance to the American story of government compensation and explains why government officials made money in ways that today would be deemed necessarily corrupt. Some of the topics we cover are: –The ways American lawmakers made the absence of a profit motive a defining feature of government –The two non-salary forms of payment for government officials that initially predominated in the US –How these two forms of payment tended to give rise to very different social relationships between officials and the people with whom they dealt –Why the flight to salaries was an admission of law’s weakness and failure Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Edition #922 Today we take a hard look at modern-day civilization and culture and ponder what we could do to make things better Be part of the show! Leave a message at 202-999-3991 Show Notes Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill 00:00:30 Ch. 2: Act 1: The Death of Culture at the Hands of the Profit Motive - @majorityfm - Air Date: 01-20-15 Ch. 3: Song 1: My Conversation - The Uniques 00:13:04 Ch. 4: Act 2: Visionary Sci Fi for an Age of Acquiescence - The F Word with @GRITlaura Flanders - Air Date: 4-20-15 Ch. 5: Song 2: Design - Fiction Company 00:15:58 Ch. 6: Act 3: .@ShawnAchor - The happy secret to better work - @TEDTalks - Air Date: 2-1-12 Ch. 7: Song 3: Everybody Loves a Happy Ending (iTunes Originals Version) - Tears for Fears 00:29:08 Ch. 8: Act 4: A Brief History of Humankind - @DecodeDC - Air Date: 4-30-15 Ch. 9: Song 4: "Going Sane" - Two Cheers 00:40:39 Ch. 10: Act 5: Lacking liberty from slavery to feudalism to capitalism - Economic Update with @profwolff - Air Date: 2-1-15 Ch. 11: Song 5: Revolution - Grandaddy 00:55:40 Ch. 12: Act 6: .@TheNextSystem Project- National Launch Webinar - Best of the Left Activism Voicemails 00:58:10 Ch. 14: What I took away from the Baltimore episode - Ryan from Pheonix 01:02:54 Ch. 15: Thanks for Baltimore episode - Isaiah from New York 01:03:35 Ch. 16: Nonviolence doesn't work when society is callous to suffering - Diane from Houston Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics 01:06:01 Ch. 17: Final comments on capitalism, culture and The Next System Project Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone Activism: @TheNextSystem Project: National Launch Webinar Take Action: WATCH The Next System Project National Launch Webinar moderated by Laura Flanders of GritTV Written by BOTL social media/activism director Katie Klabusich Produced by Jay! Tomlinson Thanks for listening! Visit us at BestOfTheLeft.com Check out the BotL iOS/Android App in the App Stores! Follow at Twitter.com/BestOfTheLeft Like at Facebook.com/BestOfTheLeft Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Review the show on iTunes and Stitcher!
No private enterprise will ever fall prey to bureaucratic methods of management if it is operated with the sole aim of making profit. From Chapter IV: "Bureaucratic Management of Private Enterprises". Narrated by Millian Quinteros.
Development of the State (800.1) 71:0.1 THE state is a useful evolution of civilization; it represents society’s net gain from the ravages and sufferings of war. Even statecraft is merely the accumulated technique for adjusting the competitive contest of force between the struggling tribes and nations. (800.2) 71:0.2 The modern state is the institution which survived in the long struggle for group power. Superior power eventually prevailed, and it produced a creature of fact — the state — together with the moral myth of the absolute obligation of the citizen to live and die for the state. But the state is not of divine genesis; it was not even produced by volitionally intelligent human action; it is purely an evolutionary institution and was wholly automatic in origin. 1. The Embryonic State (800.3) 71:1.1 The state is a territorial social regulative organization, and the strongest, most efficient, and enduring state is composed of a single nation whose people have a common language, mores, and institutions. (800.4) 71:1.2 The early states were small and were all the result of conquest. They did not originate in voluntary associations. Many were founded by conquering nomads, who would swoop down on peaceful herders or settled agriculturists to overpower and enslave them. Such states, resulting from conquest, were, perforce, stratified; classes were inevitable, and class struggles have ever been selective. (800.5) 71:1.3 The northern tribes of the American red men never attained real statehood. They never progressed beyond a loose confederation of tribes, a very primitive form of state. Their nearest approach was the Iroquois federation, but this group of six nations never quite functioned as a state and failed to survive because of the absence of certain essentials to modern national life, such as: (800.6) 71:1.4 1. Acquirement and inheritance of private property. (800.7) 71:1.5 2. Cities plus agriculture and industry. (800.8) 71:1.6 3. Helpful domestic animals. (800.9) 71:1.7 4. Practical family organization. These red men clung to the mother-family and nephew inheritance. (800.10) 71:1.8 5. Definite territory. (800.11) 71:1.9 6. A strong executive head. (800.12) 71:1.10 7. Enslavement of captives — they either adopted or massacred them. (800.13) 71:1.11 8. Decisive conquests. (800.14) 71:1.12 The red men were too democratic; they had a good government, but it failed. Eventually they would have evolved a state had they not prematurely encountered the more advanced civilization of the white man, who was pursuing the governmental methods of the Greeks and the Romans. (801.1) 71:1.13 The successful Roman state was based on: (801.2) 71:1.14 1. The father-family. (801.3) 71:1.15 2. Agriculture and the domestication of animals. (801.4) 71:1.16 3. Condensation of population — cities. (801.5) 71:1.17 4. Private property and land. (801.6) 71:1.18 5. Slavery — classes of citizenship. (801.7) 71:1.19 6. Conquest and reorganization of weak and backward peoples. (801.8) 71:1.20 7. Definite territory with roads. (801.9) 71:1.21 8. Personal and strong rulers. (801.10) 71:1.22 The great weakness in Roman civilization, and a factor in the ultimate collapse of the empire, was the supposed liberal and advanced provision for the emancipation of the boy at twenty-one and the unconditional release of the girl so that she was at liberty to marry a man of her own choosing or to go abroad in the land to become immoral. The harm to society consisted not in these reforms themselves but rather in the sudden and extensive manner of their adoption. The collapse of Rome indicates what may be expected when a state undergoes too rapid extension associated with internal degeneration. (801.11) 71:1.23 The embryonic state was made possible by the decline of the blood bond in favor of the territorial, and such tribal federations were usually firmly cemented by conquest. While a sovereignty that transcends all minor struggles and group differences is the characteristic of the true state, still, many classes and castes persist in the later state organizations as remnants of the clans and tribes of former days. The later and larger territorial states had a long and bitter struggle with these smaller consanguineous clan groups, the tribal government proving a valuable transition from family to state authority. During later times many clans grew out of trades and other industrial associations. (801.12) 71:1.24 Failure of state integration results in retrogression to prestate conditions of governmental techniques, such as the feudalism of the European Middle Ages. During these dark ages the territorial state collapsed, and there was a reversion to the small castle groups, the reappearance of the clan and tribal stages of development. Similar semistates even now exist in Asia and Africa, but not all of them are evolutionary reversions; many are the embryonic nucleuses of states of the future. 2. The Evolution of Representative Government (801.13) 71:2.1 Democracy, while an ideal, is a product of civilization, not of evolution. Go slowly! select carefully! for the dangers of democracy are: (801.14) 71:2.2 1. Glorification of mediocrity. (801.15) 71:2.3 2. Choice of base and ignorant rulers. (801.16) 71:2.4 3. Failure to recognize the basic facts of social evolution. (801.17) 71:2.5 4. Danger of universal suffrage in the hands of uneducated and indolent majorities. (801.18) 71:2.6 5. Slavery to public opinion; the majority is not always right. (802.1) 71:2.7 Public opinion, common opinion, has always delayed society; nevertheless, it is valuable, for, while retarding social evolution, it does preserve civilization. Education of public opinion is the only safe and true method of accelerating civilization; force is only a temporary expedient, and cultural growth will increasingly accelerate as bullets give way to ballots. Public opinion, the mores, is the basic and elemental energy in social evolution and state development, but to be of state value it must be nonviolent in expression. (802.2) 71:2.8 The measure of the advance of society is directly determined by the degree to which public opinion can control personal behavior and state regulation through nonviolent expression. The really civilized government had arrived when public opinion was clothed with the powers of personal franchise. Popular elections may not always decide things rightly, but they represent the right way even to do a wrong thing. Evolution does not at once produce superlative perfection but rather comparative and advancing practical adjustment. (802.3) 71:2.9 There are ten steps, or stages, to the evolution of a practical and efficient form of representative government, and these are: (802.4) 71:2.10 1. Freedom of the person. Slavery, serfdom, and all forms of human bondage must disappear. (802.5) 71:2.11 2. Freedom of the mind. Unless a free people are educated — taught to think intelligently and plan wisely — freedom usually does more harm than good. (802.6) 71:2.12 3. The reign of law. Liberty can be enjoyed only when the will and whims of human rulers are replaced by legislative enactments in accordance with accepted fundamental law. (802.7) 71:2.13 4. Freedom of speech. Representative government is unthinkable without freedom of all forms of expression for human aspirations and opinions. (802.8) 71:2.14 5. Security of property. No government can long endure if it fails to provide for the right to enjoy personal property in some form. Man craves the right to use, control, bestow, sell, lease, and bequeath his personal property. (802.9) 71:2.15 6. The right of petition. Representative government assumes the right of citizens to be heard. The privilege of petition is inherent in free citizenship. (802.10) 71:2.16 7. The right to rule. It is not enough to be heard; the power of petition must progress to the actual management of the government. (802.11) 71:2.17 8. Universal suffrage. Representative government presupposes an intelligent, efficient, and universal electorate. The character of such a government will ever be determined by the character and caliber of those who compose it. As civilization progresses, suffrage, while remaining universal for both sexes, will be effectively modified, regrouped, and otherwise differentiated. (802.12) 71:2.18 9. Control of public servants. No civil government will be serviceable and effective unless the citizenry possess and use wise techniques of guiding and controlling officeholders and public servants. (802.13) 71:2.19 10. Intelligent and trained representation. The survival of democracy is dependent on successful representative government; and that is conditioned upon the practice of electing to public offices only those individuals who are technically trained, intellectually competent, socially loyal, and morally fit. Only by such provisions can government of the people, by the people, and for the people be preserved. 3. The Ideals of Statehood (803.1) 71:3.1 The political or administrative form of a government is of little consequence provided it affords the essentials of civil progress — liberty, security, education, and social co-ordination. It is not what a state is but what it does that determines the course of social evolution. And after all, no state can transcend the moral values of its citizenry as exemplified in their chosen leaders. Ignorance and selfishness will insure the downfall of even the highest type of government. (803.2) 71:3.2 Much as it is to be regretted, national egotism has been essential to social survival. The chosen people doctrine has been a prime factor in tribal welding and nation building right on down to modern times. But no state can attain ideal levels of functioning until every form of intolerance is mastered; it is everlastingly inimical to human progress. And intolerance is best combated by the co-ordination of science, commerce, play, and religion. (803.3) 71:3.3 The ideal state functions under the impulse of three mighty and co-ordinated drives: (803.4) 71:3.4 1. Love loyalty derived from the realization of human brotherhood. (803.5) 71:3.5 2. Intelligent patriotism based on wise ideals. (803.6) 71:3.6 3. Cosmic insight interpreted in terms of planetary facts, needs, and goals. (803.7) 71:3.7 The laws of the ideal state are few in number, and they have passed out of the negativistic taboo age into the era of the positive progress of individual liberty consequent upon enhanced self-control. The exalted state not only compels its citizens to work but also entices them into profitable and uplifting utilization of the increasing leisure which results from toil liberation by the advancing machine age. Leisure must produce as well as consume. (803.8) 71:3.8 No society has progressed very far when it permits idleness or tolerates poverty. But poverty and dependence can never be eliminated if the defective and degenerate stocks are freely supported and permitted to reproduce without restraint. (803.9) 71:3.9 A moral society should aim to preserve the self-respect of its citizenry and afford every normal individual adequate opportunity for self-realization. Such a plan of social achievement would yield a cultural society of the highest order. Social evolution should be encouraged by governmental supervision which exercises a minimum of regulative control. That state is best which co-ordinates most while governing least. (803.10) 71:3.10 The ideals of statehood must be attained by evolution, by the slow growth of civic consciousness, the recognition of the obligation and privilege of social service. At first men assume the burdens of government as a duty, following the end of the administration of political spoilsmen, but later on they seek such ministry as a privilege, as the greatest honor. The status of any level of civilization is faithfully portrayed by the caliber of its citizens who volunteer to accept the responsibilities of statehood. (803.11) 71:3.11 In a real commonwealth the business of governing cities and provinces is conducted by experts and is managed just as are all other forms of economic and commercial associations of people. (803.12) 71:3.12 In advanced states, political service is esteemed as the highest devotion of the citizenry. The greatest ambition of the wisest and noblest of citizens is to gain civil recognition, to be elected or appointed to some position of governmental trust, and such governments confer their highest honors of recognition for service upon their civil and social servants. Honors are next bestowed in the order named upon philosophers, educators, scientists, industrialists, and militarists. Parents are duly rewarded by the excellency of their children, and purely religious leaders, being ambassadors of a spiritual kingdom, receive their real rewards in another world. 4. Progressive Civilization (804.1) 71:4.1 Economics, society, and government must evolve if they are to remain. Static conditions on an evolutionary world are indicative of decay; only those institutions which move forward with the evolutionary stream persist. (804.2) 71:4.2 The progressive program of an expanding civilization embraces: (804.3) 71:4.3 1. Preservation of individual liberties. (804.4) 71:4.4 2. Protection of the home. (804.5) 71:4.5 3. Promotion of economic security. (804.6) 71:4.6 4. Prevention of disease. (804.7) 71:4.7 5. Compulsory education. (804.8) 71:4.8 6. Compulsory employment. (804.9) 71:4.9 7. Profitable utilization of leisure. (804.10) 71:4.10 8. Care of the unfortunate. (804.11) 71:4.11 9. Race improvement. (804.12) 71:4.12 10. Promotion of science and art. (804.13) 71:4.13 11. Promotion of philosophy — wisdom. (804.14) 71:4.14 12. Augmentation of cosmic insight — spirituality. (804.15) 71:4.15 And this progress in the arts of civilization leads directly to the realization of the highest human and divine goals of mortal endeavor — the social achievement of the brotherhood of man and the personal status of God-consciousness, which becomes revealed in the supreme desire of every individual to do the will of the Father in heaven. (804.16) 71:4.16 The appearance of genuine brotherhood signifies that a social order has arrived in which all men delight in bearing one another’s burdens; they actually desire to practice the golden rule. But such an ideal society cannot be realized when either the weak or the wicked lie in wait to take unfair and unholy advantage of those who are chiefly actuated by devotion to the service of truth, beauty, and goodness. In such a situation only one course is practical: The “golden rulers” may establish a progressive society in which they live according to their ideals while maintaining an adequate defense against their benighted fellows who might seek either to exploit their pacific predilections or to destroy their advancing civilization. (804.17) 71:4.17 Idealism can never survive on an evolving planet if the idealists in each generation permit themselves to be exterminated by the baser orders of humanity. And here is the great test of idealism: Can an advanced society maintain that military preparedness which renders it secure from all attack by its war-loving neighbors without yielding to the temptation to employ this military strength in offensive operations against other peoples for purposes of selfish gain or national aggrandizement? National survival demands preparedness, and religious idealism alone can prevent the prostitution of preparedness into aggression. Only love, brotherhood, can prevent the strong from oppressing the weak. 5. The Evolution of Competition (805.1) 71:5.1 Competition is essential to social progress, but competition, unregulated, breeds violence. In current society, competition is slowly displacing war in that it determines the individual’s place in industry, as well as decreeing the survival of the industries themselves. (Murder and war differ in their status before the mores, murder having been outlawed since the early days of society, while war has never yet been outlawed by mankind as a whole.) (805.2) 71:5.2 The ideal state undertakes to regulate social conduct only enough to take violence out of individual competition and to prevent unfairness in personal initiative. Here is a great problem in statehood: How can you guarantee peace and quiet in industry, pay the taxes to support state power, and at the same time prevent taxation from handicapping industry and keep the state from becoming parasitical or tyrannical? (805.3) 71:5.3 Throughout the earlier ages of any world, competition is essential to progressive civilization. As the evolution of man progresses, co-operation becomes increasingly effective. In advanced civilizations co-operation is more efficient than competition. Early man is stimulated by competition. Early evolution is characterized by the survival of the biologically fit, but later civilizations are the better promoted by intelligent co-operation, understanding fraternity, and spiritual brotherhood. (805.4) 71:5.4 True, competition in industry is exceedingly wasteful and highly ineffective, but no attempt to eliminate this economic lost motion should be countenanced if such adjustments entail even the slightest abrogation of any of the basic liberties of the individual. 6. The Profit Motive (805.5) 71:6.1 Present-day profit-motivated economics is doomed unless profit motives can be augmented by service motives. Ruthless competition based on narrow-minded self-interest is ultimately destructive of even those things which it seeks to maintain. Exclusive and self-serving profit motivation is incompatible with Christian ideals — much more incompatible with the teachings of Jesus. (805.6) 71:6.2 In economics, profit motivation is to service motivation what fear is to love in religion. But the profit motive must not be suddenly destroyed or removed; it keeps many otherwise slothful mortals hard at work. It is not necessary, however, that this social energy arouser be forever selfish in its objectives. (805.7) 71:6.3 The profit motive of economic activities is altogether base and wholly unworthy of an advanced order of society; nevertheless, it is an indispensable factor throughout the earlier phases of civilization. Profit motivation must not be taken away from men until they have firmly possessed themselves of superior types of nonprofit motives for economic striving and social serving — the transcendent urges of superlative wisdom, intriguing brotherhood, and excellency of spiritual attainment. 7. Education (806.1) 71:7.1 The enduring state is founded on culture, dominated by ideals, and motivated by service. The purpose of education should be acquirement of skill, pursuit of wisdom, realization of selfhood, and attainment of spiritual values. (806.2) 71:7.2 In the ideal state, education continues throughout life, and philosophy sometime becomes the chief pursuit of its citizens. The citizens of such a commonwealth pursue wisdom as an enhancement of insight into the significance of human relations, the meanings of reality, the nobility of values, the goals of living, and the glories of cosmic destiny. (806.3) 71:7.3 Urantians should get a vision of a new and higher cultural society. Education will jump to new levels of value with the passing of the purely profit-motivated system of economics. Education has too long been localistic, militaristic, ego exalting, and success seeking; it must eventually become world-wide, idealistic, self-realizing, and cosmic grasping. (806.4) 71:7.4 Education recently passed from the control of the clergy to that of lawyers and businessmen. Eventually it must be given over to the philosophers and the scientists. Teachers must be free beings, real leaders, to the end that philosophy, the search for wisdom, may become the chief educational pursuit. (806.5) 71:7.5 Education is the business of living; it must continue throughout a lifetime so that mankind may gradually experience the ascending levels of mortal wisdom, which are: (806.6) 71:7.6 1. The knowledge of things. (806.7) 71:7.7 2. The realization of meanings. (806.8) 71:7.8 3. The appreciation of values. (806.9) 71:7.9 4. The nobility of work — duty. (806.10) 71:7.10 5. The motivation of goals — morality. (806.11) 71:7.11 6. The love of service — character. (806.12) 71:7.12 7. Cosmic insight — spiritual discernment. (806.13) 71:7.13 And then, by means of these achievements, many will ascend to the mortal ultimate of mind attainment, God-consciousness. 8. The Character of Statehood (806.14) 71:8.1 The only sacred feature of any human government is the division of statehood into the three domains of executive, legislative, and judicial functions. The universe is administered in accordance with such a plan of segregation of functions and authority. Aside from this divine concept of effective social regulation or civil government, it matters little what form of state a people may elect to have provided the citizenry is ever progressing toward the goal of augmented self-control and increased social service. The intellectual keenness, economic wisdom, social cleverness, and moral stamina of a people are all faithfully reflected in statehood. (806.15) 71:8.2 The evolution of statehood entails progress from level to level, as follows: (806.16) 71:8.3 1. The creation of a threefold government of executive, legislative, and judicial branches. (806.17) 71:8.4 2. The freedom of social, political, and religious activities. (807.1) 71:8.5 3. The abolition of all forms of slavery and human bondage. (807.2) 71:8.6 4. The ability of the citizenry to control the levying of taxes. (807.3) 71:8.7 5. The establishment of universal education — learning extended from the cradle to the grave. (807.4) 71:8.8 6. The proper adjustment between local and national governments. (807.5) 71:8.9 7. The fostering of science and the conquest of disease. (807.6) 71:8.10 8. The due recognition of sex equality and the co-ordinated functioning of men and women in the home, school, and church, with specialized service of women in industry and government. (807.7) 71:8.11 9. The elimination of toiling slavery by machine invention and the subsequent mastery of the machine age. (807.8) 71:8.12 10. The conquest of dialects — the triumph of a universal language. (807.9) 71:8.13 11. The ending of war — international adjudication of national and racial differences by continental courts of nations presided over by a supreme planetary tribunal automatically recruited from the periodically retiring heads of the continental courts. The continental courts are authoritative; the world court is advisory — moral. (807.10) 71:8.14 12. The world-wide vogue of the pursuit of wisdom — the exaltation of philosophy. The evolution of a world religion, which will presage the entrance of the planet upon the earlier phases of settlement in light and life. (807.11) 71:8.15 These are the prerequisites of progressive government and the earmarks of ideal statehood. Urantia is far from the realization of these exalted ideals, but the civilized races have made a beginning — mankind is on the march toward higher evolutionary destinies. (807.12) 71:8.16 [Sponsored by a Melchizedek of Nebadon.]
Cutting Through the Matrix with Alan Watt Podcast (.xml Format)
--{ Survival of the Fittest = Progression of Aggression: "Eugenics, Economics, The Legacy of Darwin Mixed with Marx Will Leave Us Starvin', For Their Religion's Based on Pure Survival By Evolution and Superior Arrival, David of Yore Hired Many a Psalmer Who Praised Him Up for Being a Charmer, To Justify His Most Exalted Station Over Inferior Beings, Not in Equation, Modern Elitists Self-Justify Using Eugenics, Using Grant-Guzzling Professors, Praising Heredics, Rationalizing Intellect of Each Worthy Daughter Who Births Cunning, Deceit and Slaughter" © Alan Watt }-- Dominant Minority - Sham of Democracy - Economics and Eugenics, Investments, Profit Motive, Existence to Serve Economy - Malthus - Darwinism-Marxism, Creation of Soviet Man/Superman - Unemployment to Keep Wages Low - Breeding for Different Classes of Intelligence - Rising Infertility, Sperm Count Drop - Levels of Freemasonry, Eugenical Society - Bioethics (Eugenics) - Lamarckism vs. Mendelism - Pre-Conception Genetic Screening/Abortion to Eliminate "Hereditary Illnesses" - Victims of Forced Sterilization in States of U.S.. Corporate Welfare, Tax-Free Profits - US Subsidies for Luxury Hotels - Windfarms on British Lords' Lands - Localism Bill UK - EUCFR. Nostradamus, "Predictions" and Interpretation. Forced Medical Treatment on Reservations, Inoculations, "Normal" Childhood Diseases - Lists of "Inferior" Peoples for Elimination, Those who Cannot "Adapt" - Alcoholics Anonymous, Oxford Group, Data Collection, Groupthink. (See http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com for article links.) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Feb. 8, 2011 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)
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Lecture 5 of 16 from Austrian Economics: An Introductory Course, presented at New York Polytechnic University in 1972.
The Virginia Company’s huge investment finally paid off. Although it came too late to save the company, the profits from tobacco made Jamestown a significant player in the world economy.
Jamestown was founded primarily as a commercial investment by the shareholders of The Virginia Company. But the colony simply struggled to survive for many years. Tobacco eventually proved to be the “gold” of the region - although the original Jamestown investors never did reap their own hoped-for returns.
This week we look at a case involving two doctors who receive funds from the local school to use for the education of their autistic child. The doctors attempted to claim they were running a business and attempted to deduct the net losses they incurred. The Tax Court analyzed this case under Section 183. We also go on beyond this case (whose result probably isn't surprising to most listeners) to discuss the general "hobby loss" rules under Section 183. The materials can be downloaded here. I will be in Tulsa, Oklahoma this week speaking on technology and the tax practice, so hopefully we'll get the podcast up timely this week, but it may be delayed.
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