🏴{ [ RJ Miller ] }🏴

So I notice that #DefundThePolice is being hotly debated in some parts of twitter. I want to suggest something related: #DemonopolizeThePolice How that would work: tinyurl.com/marketlaw And here's an Illustrated summary (by @mormo_music): youtube.com/watch?v=jTYkdEU_…

When people say we live in "unfettered" free market capitalism: No, not even close. youtube.com/watch?v=p5-5a6Q5…

Straw man: "Libertarians hate poor people!" Weak man: "Helping the poor through taxes is theft!" Steel man: If you want a greater share of any spending to get to poor people who need it, charity is the way to go. More government spending hasn't reduced poverty.

We need you to understand the difference between earnings and wages, and that pay discrimination by gender is already illegal. youtube.com/watch?v=EwogDPh-…

But then again, I think he needed some sleep anyway. 😉 teapaw.org/search?f=tweets&vertic… It was fun while the conversation lasted I guess

2. Social Security means you're paying for people that are currently retired, and hoping that future generations will be able to pay enough taxes to do the same for you. Even if that weren't a Ponzi scheme, you're still getting robbed compared to what you could've done instead:

1. Watching this tonight and will add more tweets to this thread later: youtube.com/watch?v=C97P2A2E… Social Security takes a lot more from the people it supposedly helps than what it eventually gives back (if you compared it with index funds). It's not even a true savings program.

Happy 4th of July! I'll stay off Twitter like I usually do, and begin draft material for a book I was supposed to finish a while ago. Just going to build from the notes I've spent years gathering, and should be done in a year. That's comes out to a page per day ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

On climate change, let's all at least agree that policies should be evaluated based on what the their outcomes would be: youtube.com/watch?v=5QyXdute…

16. This is the ultimate documentary on the Backpage case, and why the charges against the owners of that site are baseless: youtube.com/watch?v=DPchvgMs… Prohibitions on sex work have negative ramifications for online freedom in general.