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Not to mention a potential increase in needle-sharing and the spread of blood-borne diseases in an already vulnerable population.

You're not alone! I'm working through the end of August, but then I go hiking.

So that's why Winnipeg smells like it does in the summer...🤢

Neither an academic nor an intellectual, but I usually start with "what genre?" and try to narrow it down from there.

To my mind, equality needs to be built from the ground up, not the top down.

Technocracy is not democracy. It's a model where technocrats lead and everyone else follows.

Rigid social categorization. Little if no movement between the leader class and the masses.

whether they approach it on the basis of "from each according to their abilities and to each according to their needs" or by creating a populace in which everyone has a roughly consistent level of ability and need, which means the extermination of outliers.

Well, in any situation where equality and what equality means is defined by a small group of people holding themselves external to the larger mass of society, the egalitarian society they build will be predicated on

And, sorry, Musk's grandfather not dad. This is his mother's family.

An interesting follow-up article.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Consider the time period though and what popular scientific thought would have led to in terms of a "model" society. Eugenics, for example being a cutting edge movement.

Keep in mind, Musk's dad left Canada because apartheid Sputh Africa was more in keeping with his ideals.

Would probably depend on the bylaws of the party but it would still mean having one PM. That's constitutional level change.