The Based Life

Chapter 5: Property and Power section 5.13 The textbook gives an example with West Bengal in which the distribution of the crop used to be distributed 50% for the farmers who worked on the land of the landowners and the other 50% for the landowners, a system that had been in place since the 18th century (basically feudalism). The problem was that the peasants lived in miserable conditions, understandable, so what the government did was pass a law where the farmers got 75% of the crop and could not get evicted by the landowners,  Operation Barga , the textbook claims that this was the reason total output shot up 28% in the region which is something I am not going to dispute. The textbook claims this was a great achievement and increased the amount of  output  the farmers received as well as  income ,  even the World Bank endorsed this policy for economic development .  Now you may be asking, why are you mad? do you hate poor people? and the answer, to the la...

Determinism is the view that human action, derived from thought, is determined by the laws of nature. Libertarianism is the view that free will is incompatible with determinism but don't worry determinism is false so everything is cool. Now to me it seems as if the entire debate is really about answering the question:  are my thoughts,  assuming the cogito ergo sum is true, that I am my thoughts, and my thoughts are me,  determined by the laws of causality . If determinism holds true, if we take the Universe at the beginning of time when the Universe we live in was merely the size of a dot on a piece of paper, we could theoretically use the Laws of Nature (LoN) to work out, even though its very complicated, what I am going to decide tomorrow to eat for lunch.  If this turns out to be true then Inwagens proof that Determinism and Free Will are incompatible holds true. If determinism holds true the Universe at Time 0 and Place 0 entails, and can only entail, the result...