Being the Bridge
I remember when I used to be an armed security guard in New Mexico. I was tasked with working an event in New Mexico in Santa Fe. At the time I was a pretty gung-ho Libertarian and I remember meeting up with this guy who was a self avowed socialist. When one considers the spectrum, it seemed like we would be on the path to an argument. Instead we talked. I forget all of the details of the conversation but the end product had us share our idealized economic worlds. I envisioned a little town trading with one another so that everyone could prosper. He envisioned a little town helping one another so that everyone could prosper. In our idealized worlds our economic plans worked out, so that everyone flourished. I think about that conversation a lot. How two opposing economic views ended up with a very similar product in the end. A while ago it boggled my mind. "How?" I would ask myself. Well fast forward to where I am now looking at the economic reality that is our current s...