Rights, Obligations, Parasites, and Democracy

2022/07/15 · by infinite8horizon | in democracy, Longform, media, Politics, propaganda, society | tagged #auspol, cheating, democracy, game-theory, lying, media, mutual-obligation, oligarchs, parasites, propaganda, right-wing, Rights, selfishness, social contract, society, zero-sum | 2 Comments

How the Right’s relentless, selfish focus on “rights” is destroying our democracy from the inside.

$3.57 a day? Don’t Spend It All At Once!

2021/02/23 · by infinite8horizon | in Commentary, Longform, Not funny at all alas, Politics, society | tagged coalition, conservative, covid, cpi, cruelty, jobkeeper, jobseeker, Morrisson, mutual-obligation, newstart, poverty-line, social contract, social welfare, unemployment, vacancies | 2 Comments

$3.57 a day? Don’t Spend It All At Once! Or, buy a weekday copy of The Australian for $3.50 to find out how much of a dole bludger you are. Morrison’s cruel, unnecessary drop in benefits.

Explaining Morrison’s Momentary Munificence

2020/06/08 · by infinite8horizon | in Commentary, covid, Longform, Musing, Not funny at all alas, Politics, society | tagged centrelink, coalition, conservative, covid, covid-19, economy, jobkeeper, jobseeker, morals, Morrisson, mutual-obligation, neoconservative, newstart, poverty, poverty-line, poverty-trap, robodebt, social contract, society, stock-market, unemployment | 2 Comments

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. J. K. Galbraith There are many questions raised by the headline graph, but to begin with I want to focus on just one: the unemployment benefit. Here’s the question: […]