Category: "Work"
Good Intentions, Disastrous Outcomes.
So I've been thinking and reading and reading and thinking, and letting myself get disgusted and inspired, and hopeful. And there are a lot of thoughts, and I don't know if I'll get to all of them, or if they'll come out in a way that they make a difference, but out they come.
Libertarianism
I spent some time recently with an article called 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice. The 75 things fell roughly into four categories: criminal system reform, "see something, say something," learn/expand your horizons, and make it right.
So this article is a specific view of the how to make it right, starting with how we've made it wrong: it seems to me if we'd been a little more libertarian in our outlook, we might never have built so much of the system that has such an unduly negative effect on the black man.
A Common Enterprise
So here's the thing about labor. We should celebrate those who work hard to give us the life we've got. It doesn't take a lot of imagination, or a long course in history to see that imbalances in power can lead to a pretty gruelling life for those who would be employed.
And working people fought hard and they fought justly for what should have been their natural right to organize and negotiate for fair conditions and wages.
That said, they would not have had anything to fight for if it hadn't been for the visionaries who worked hard to organize labor into productive enterprises.
