D: Yeah. It's got that flavor of, "what then must we do?" But at a very personal kind of level. I think that strangely, that is probably a really good mix with Substack because, Substack does seem to be about individuals trying to figure out how to... a lot of it up till now, at least the stuff that I'm seeing, has been how to become more precious as a writer but yeah,
Dan, I think the key to turning your Substack writing into a significant income flow is making it relevant to current times and events. History is interesting, and the other things you are posting are too, but how much passion and current value do they provide, except for students? HCR in "Letters from an American" deals with current political events, and I think, thus she has the large audience.
I'm reading Stigliz's new book, "The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society;" he starts out, "Freedom is a core human value." The third paragraph starts, "The Right in the United States seized on freedom several decades ago, . . . "[1] Now he's got my interest!
And Tracy, what's your connection to the Hillsdale people? You keep mentioning them; are they in your posts? I'd like to see you and Dan discuss them in detail in one of your chats.
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1. "From one of the world’s leading economists, a compelling new vision of personal and economic freedom.
We are a nation born from the conviction that people must be free. But since the middle of the last century, that idea has been co-opted. Forces on the political Right have justified exploitation by cloaking it in the rhetoric of freedom, leading to pharmaceutical companies freely overcharging for medication, a Big Tech free from oversight, politicians free to incite rebellion, corporations free to pollute, and more. How did we get here? Whose freedom are we—and should we—be thinking about?
In The Road to Freedom, Nobel prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz dissects America’s current economic system and the political ideology that created it, laying bare their twinned failure. “Free” and unfettered markets have only succeeded in delivering a series of crises: the financial crisis, the opioid crisis, and the crisis of inequality. While a small portion of the population has amassed considerable wealth, wages for most people have stagnated. Free and unfettered markets have exploited consumers, workers, and the environment alike. Such failures have fed populist movements that believe being free means abandoning any obligations citizens have to one another. As they grow in strength, these movements now pose a real threat to true economic and political freedom."
Dan, I think the key to turning your Substack writing into a significant income flow is making it relevant to current times and events. History is interesting, and the other things you are posting are too, but how much passion and current value do they provide, except for students? HCR in "Letters from an American" deals with current political events, and I think, thus she has the large audience.
I'm reading Stigliz's new book, "The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society;" he starts out, "Freedom is a core human value." The third paragraph starts, "The Right in the United States seized on freedom several decades ago, . . . "[1] Now he's got my interest!
And Tracy, what's your connection to the Hillsdale people? You keep mentioning them; are they in your posts? I'd like to see you and Dan discuss them in detail in one of your chats.
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1. "From one of the world’s leading economists, a compelling new vision of personal and economic freedom.
We are a nation born from the conviction that people must be free. But since the middle of the last century, that idea has been co-opted. Forces on the political Right have justified exploitation by cloaking it in the rhetoric of freedom, leading to pharmaceutical companies freely overcharging for medication, a Big Tech free from oversight, politicians free to incite rebellion, corporations free to pollute, and more. How did we get here? Whose freedom are we—and should we—be thinking about?
In The Road to Freedom, Nobel prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz dissects America’s current economic system and the political ideology that created it, laying bare their twinned failure. “Free” and unfettered markets have only succeeded in delivering a series of crises: the financial crisis, the opioid crisis, and the crisis of inequality. While a small portion of the population has amassed considerable wealth, wages for most people have stagnated. Free and unfettered markets have exploited consumers, workers, and the environment alike. Such failures have fed populist movements that believe being free means abandoning any obligations citizens have to one another. As they grow in strength, these movements now pose a real threat to true economic and political freedom."
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