Robert Reich's Final Essay On The Common Good

"Truth is the most basic of common goods. As the late senator and professor Daniel Patrick Moynihan once said, everyone is entitled to their own opinions but not their own facts.

"When we accept lies as facts, or illogic as logic, we lose the shared reality necessary to tackle our common problems. We become powerless."

Truth as a common good

"Effective Altruism": Is It Against The "Common Good"?

"Effective altruism is an end-run around the common good — a perversion of the civic virtue that the common good requires.

"Bankman-Fried’s rise and fall — and the disconnect between his ends and the means — raises two questions at the heart of our quest to understand what has happened to the common good: What is the role and meaning of civic virtue? And is it possible to be virtuous if our goals are virtuous but the means we choose to achieve them harm others?"

Click on the link below for an essay on how to best "- - -  promote the general welfare:"

Samuel Bankman-Fried and the Perversion of Civic Virtue

Taxing The Rich 101

There's a great deal of smoke screening by the Republicans regarding the effects of taxing the rich more than they are now. Robert Reich, former US Secretary of Labor under President Clinton, is one of the top experts on economics and government policy. Click on the link below for an 8-minute video presenting the truth about taxing the rich:

The 12 Biggest Myths About Taxing The Rich

The Truth About "Taxing The Rich"

 Robert Reich, economics professor, former Secretary of Labor under Bill Clinton, and with experience under both Republican and Democratic administrations, is my go-to guy on economics. The video linked to below clarifies the wide gap between progressives and conservatives regarding economic truth:

12 Myths About Taxing the Rich