Income inequality is wrong. The gross global product divided by the number of living humans is around $6,000/year. Everyone should get around $6,000/year.
The best work you can do with your efforts or your money are clean water and childhood vaccinations. Until everyone has clean water and vaccinations, other efforts or money towards public health or the alleviation of suffering are ineffectual and bogus.
The highest purpose of humanity is to spread complexity, life, as far as possible. The momentary pleasure or suffering of a generation is nothing compared to getting ourselves and our ecosystem off this planet and out into the wider universe.
Gender differences are a historical artifact that can be overcome by education and shifts in culture. In a modern scientific society capable of providing safe and reliable birth control, abortions, labor and delivery, infant nutrition, and adoption matching, as well as IVF, sperm donation, egg donation, and surrogate pregnancy, sex differences are a choice, and one we can decide not to make.
Guns have no place in civilization. A gun should never be used in anger or malice, and short of abolishing anger and malice, guns should not be available. Repeal the second amendment. Regulate and limit the production of weapons. The technology of making a gun is complex enough, for at least another generation of industrial developments, to be limited to corporations and other technically able organizations, and limiting those organizations' production limits the availability of guns. Buy and destroy guns currently in private possession. Regulate gun ownership more strictly than any other type of ownership: more than cars, planes, houses, chemicals, welding equipment, etc. First restrict them from civilians, then from law enforcement as well.
Invite a homeless person to sleep in your guest bedroom.
Dress children androgynously. In the absence of gender-neutral pronouns, randomly use gendered pronouns, on a day-by-day basis. Introduce your child to others as one gender or the other and try to see him/her through others' eyes, as yours are inevitably marred by knowing the physiological sex of your kid.
Tax estates completely, using the money for wealth transfers and government-funded creations of long-reaching, intergenerational importance, like education or infrastructure. Generational wealth shifts should be from generation to generation, not individual to individual. Children of wealthy families have more than enough advantages already as a result of their upbringing in wealth.
A good life doesn't need to include economic production. The best things in life can't be had for money.
A good life necessarily includes economic production. The best things in life can't be had without money.
Did you hang onto any of these? Number two sounds pretty interesting.
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