Outcome-ism

I care about social outcomes, economic outcomes, and if you can achieve net positive conditions for your society, net positive conditions for your society, then I say that is a successful system no matter what the model is, no matter what the label is. I don't believe in capitalism or communism or socialism or Marxism or or libertarianism or what have you. Any of those philosophies, any of those ideas, any of those theories. I believe in outcomeism. Believing in democracy isn't gonna help you pay your rent.

Believing democracy isn't gonna help you pay your mortgage. When you go to the grocery store, you can't pay for your food by scanning your voter ID card at the checkout counter. No. Give me a house to live in. Give me food to eat.

Give me medicine when I'm sick. Give me quality education for my children. Give me, safe streets to walk on without getting shot or getting robbed or getting assaulted. Give me a way to earn an income that doesn't humiliate me that doesn't leave me completely numb and mentally and physically drained at the end of the day to the point where I can't even interact with my own family. Give me enough financial and social latitude in the society to where I can explore my own personal interests, I can explore my own personal talents and my intellectual pursuits, let me be able to pursue those things without it damaging me economically.

And let me know that if Allah forbid, if catastrophe strikes me and my family, my society isn't gonna throw me in the gutter, but my society is gonna actually give me the support that I need just to be able to get through that hard patch. Because you and I both know that when you see those homeless people on the streets, that's your society letting you know exactly how easy it is for them to cast you aside. Just how easy it is for them to cast you aside. No matter how long you've been paying into the system, you might have been paying into the system for decades. No.

We all know what a decent civilized humane society is supposed to look like. We know what it's supposed to look like even if we've only ever seen it in our imagination. And if your model can establish and sustain a society like that without depending upon violence against others or violence against their own people and without depending upon extraction of others resources, then who am to criticize your model? Wallahi, anyone who defends a model that cannot or will not deliver a basic decent life for its citizens, well, person is a fool. And anyone who attacks a model that does deliver these things for their citizens, then you're an even bigger fool.

And most likely you're living in a system that treats you exactly like a fool. And most likely you're living in a system that does everything that it possibly can to keep you foolish. And most likely again, that's probably the main thing, if not the only thing, that your system is actually even delivering to you at all in terms of outcomes. Meaning, they're delivering you negative outcomes, negative conditions, but they're making you too dumb to see it.