I hope my readers had good years in 2017 and will have better ones in 2018.
It’s going to be an interesting year. Trump is fairly clearly in the throes of dementia. We need to avoid a major conflict with either North Korea or Iran. And we can expect, barring large, unexpected events, that the Republicans will lose control of the House and possibly the Senate at the end of the year.
All the best to all people who act with good will in this new year.
I hope you’re all having a good Christmas. I do little on Christmas, but did spend Christmas Eve with a good friend.
But posting will resume soon. I have a number of topics I wish to write on. In the meantime, feel free to use this as an open thread.
We raised a little over 10k, meeting all stretch goals. I’ll start work on an e-booklet which will include core essays, discussions, and a few additional essays. Many of these will be published as posts first.
Thanks to everyone who gave. It all helped.
Non-“special” fundraising, without particular appeals, continues through the year, and helps me understand the demand for my writing, so if you want to give, please do. (It helps feed me, in other words.)
The results of the work I do, like this article, are free, but food isn’t, so if you value my work, please DONATE or SUBSCRIBE.
The $1,000 matching funds for donations of $100 or more, up to $1,000 is now finished, and we are $9,245. The final stretch goal was $10k, for an essay on how to evaluate risks from upcoming events, and the 2017 fundraiser will end this week.
Thank you so much to everyone who gave.
If you’d still like to give and can, the link is below. As before, if food, rent, or medicine is an issue, please don’t give.
Note: bitcoin, litecoin, and ethereum wallets are listed at the bottom of the donation page.
As of today, we’re at $7,035 (taking subscriptions as triple.) That puts us at:
A collection of 14 older posts with commentary, an introduction, and a conclusion.
In general, how much I raise also tells me how much my work is valued and how much I should do (I understand that many people value it and can’t afford to give, nonetheless, I must pay rent, etc…).
Last year’s fundraiser raised about 9K.
I’m going to bring this fundraiser to an end next week. If you like my writing, and can afford to give without hardship, please do. Don’t give, please, if food, rent, or medicine are an issue for you.
And thank you, very much, to all who have already given.
Note: bitcoin, litecoin, and ethereum wallets are listed at the bottom of the donation page.
Update: A generous donor has offered to match all donations of $100 or more, up to $1,000 total. I’ll give this its own post on Monday, but the offer is valid now.
This year’s fundraiser has raised $5,995. Call it 6K.
In general, I’ll write more the more I raise, it tells me how much I should prioritize writing, since I must eat and so on.
But this year it’s also about putting together a collection of the old, good, fundamental articles (which is why I’ve featured some of them over the last two weeks), with prefaces (why I wrote them) and closing remarks (how they hold up, how they relate to other articles.)
Six thousand puts us at the first threshold.
Goal thresholds are as follows:
If you value my writing and can give without hardship, I hope you will. If, on the other hand, rent, food or medical expenses are pressing you, please don’t give.
It’s been lovely writing for you all these years, and there’s still important articles to write, along with the occasional commentary on current affairs.
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I am raising funds for 2017. The more I raise, the more I’ll write.
There is one goal this year, in stages.
For some time, I’ve felt that it’s a problem that fundamental articles I’ve written, over many years, aren’t available for reference. Even long term readers may not remember them well, or be able to find them, and new readers have no easy, good place to start to understand a world view that is foreign to most.
A lot of pieces I write are just responses to the moment, but many of them are attempts to explain fundamental issues about which people are confused. Why beliefs matter, why ideology is important, how the unemployment rate is used to crush wages, how the international trade and finance system is intended to keep radical governments from succeeding, what money actually does, what money measures, and so on.
So, the goal this year is to put together a collection of such articles, with commentary on each piece: Why it was written, what is meant to be learned from it, what else to read. I will do one every three weeks or so and at the end put them into one document, available to all, and linked to prominently on the front page.
Goal thresholds are as follows:
As always, please don’t give if your personal situation is precarious with respect to food, housing, or medical care.
Note: bitcoin, litecoin, and ethereum wallets are listed at the bottom of the donation page.
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