Wharton's Second Epistemological Law

(Reason) / (Freedom) = 1

As Ayn Rand wrote: Reason and Freedom are corollaries.  My contribution is putting this law into a philosophical equation.

Paul Wharton

Objectivist Capitalist Medicine Promoter

Inductive Observation?

Gravity and Inertia are the keys to Inductive Observation.

Paul Wharton

Father of Metachemics

The Rights to Sell and Try

Pharmaceutical and Biotech companies have the Right to Sell any product they invent.  And, those who pay their privately, and freely, negotiated price have the Right to Try the products they buy.

As things stand now, government coerces price extortions, and demands years and years of testing before they will permit a medical customer to "Buy and Try" a medical product.

Having read about 25 books on medical history, politics, economics, and philosophy--as well as being an active Capitalist Medicine blogger for many years, I consider myself very knowledgeable on the subject.

Imagine that you have just developed an incurable disease.  In the legal economic landscape, there are no marketed cures.  You scour the Internet for information on the condition and only come across two leads.  The first is a drug that slowed the progress of the illness by an average of 5 years, but caused a fatality in 1% of patients who took it.  Due to the statistically, mortal effect, the government denied approval last year, and the Big Pharma company that had invented it abandoned its marketing plan.

So, there is a chemical substance in existence that a Big Business benevolently had complete intentions of putting on the private sector market, which may well expand nearly all customers' lifespans by close to 10%, but because 1% of voluntary customers may die, you are sentenced to certainly die.

Sound illogical?  If one is destined to certainly die soon, why not try a good gamble that could let one hang on there quite a bit longer?

The same argument applies to your other medical information lead.  This is a brand-new molecule that has just been discovered.  It has only been tested once, (and, in mice), but the results were amazing!

So, why don't you buy that?  The problem is that Government Health Care is demanding that the Biotech company that owns the molecule, for those medical purposes, be required to do 15 years of testing before it will be politically allowed to sell you that medicine that could likely save your life.

Government Health Care in the United States is so divisive.  Many of the problems have their root in a system of "medicine at no cost to a customer".  The following are some results of this politico-economic philosophy being applied:

(1)  If one gets too sick or old, health care will be forced upon you.

(2)  Health care is often at no economic cost to the victim.

(3)  Because Government will be forcing health care upon individuals, the Government will feel guilty if medicines it "approves" harms or kills anyone--so it bans those medicines from everyone.

(4)  Since better medicine costs more money, Government will strive to force the lowest quality medicines upon individuals.

(5)  Since the lowest quality and/or costing medicine has the most and worst side effects, this must be forced upon individuals with or without their consent.

In the fight for Freedom and Justice in this area of the economy, the choice is between:

Capitalist Medicine or Government Health Care

One can't have both.

Paul Wharton

Objectivist Capitalist Medicine Promoter

Anti-Merit Laws

As I wrote in my previous blog, immigrant legality based on merit should extend to those illegals who demonstrate an admirable work ethic.  I proposed that the qualification for that could be fulfilled if an immigrant consistently works 80 hours per week or more.

Unfortunately, the current state of U.S. work law makes the 80 hours per week unattainable for many immigrants.  In this blog I analyze two of these "Anti-Merit Laws" and propose their repeal.

I'll start with "overtime".  Overtime law requires an employer to pay employees extra if the worker puts in more than 40 hours of labor per week.  No employer wants to pay extra for the same quality of work--so, if the laborer has already reached 40 hours per week, the employer will want to look around for new employees to bring into his company.

From the point of view of the employee, any attempt by someone who wants to work at 80 hours per week in the same job will find incredible friction from the employer which will result in an inability to achieve very many more work hours above 40.

Some will argue that the employee can simply work two "full-time" jobs; but these people don't understand how hard that is.  Not only does a worker need to find two 40 hour per week jobs with compatible hours; one has to have time to commute, eat meals, change uniforms, and sleep enough to keep going.

The next Anti-Merit Law is the "minimum wage".  Trump seems to hold the economic fallacy of believing that there are only so many low wage jobs--as if more jobs could not be created if low-income workers simply decided to work more.  Trump may be right in the current system because of the "minimum wage".  Imagine for a moment that the government were to change its law and declare that the minimum wage is $1,000 per hour.  Companies would completely automatize their businesses with only a couple highly paid engineers on call to provide the stores with human labor.  That shows what a minimum wage does, which is reduce the number of jobs.

On the flip side, look what abolishing the minimum wage would do.  In a state of laissez-faire, economic freedom, all levels of economic value can find or create work.  Whether that is a child who was orphaned working in a factory for $1.00 per hour, an immigrant who does not speak English mowing lawns for $2.00 per hour, or a 90-year-old woman manually putting together mailers on a desk for $.50 per hour.

As good as an idea is--such as my work ethic for legal immigrant status policy--if America is going to adopt it, the country needs the freedom to make those kind of work hours possible.

Paul Wharton

Objectivist Capitalist Medicine Promoter

A Work Ethic is Merit Too

Trump's new proposal for an immigration policy emphasizes "merit" as one of the big qualifications that illegal immigrants can demonstrate in order to stay in The United States.

This is a sigh of relief for all of the talented workers in such places as Silicon Valley.  However, I think that the "merit" virtue should explicitly apply to those illegals who, though perhaps not so educated, show a huge work ethic.

My proposal is that the educational and work-related part of the merit applications be fulfilled if the illegal immigrant is currently working 80 hours per week or more.

Not only does that kind of work ethic show an admirable virtue; but it fits into the immigration system with practicality.  Since there are so many welfare programs that cater to illegal immigrants, cutting them all off poses no problem, since the immigrant workaholics can get by on their own.

Paul Wharton

Objectivist Capitalist Medicine Promoter

Distance Change Range

Distance Change is the linear, absolute value difference between where one point was and where it is

point is one light's gravitational center

Whereas:

Mass value is a natural number

And,

Time Change value is a positive number

I had to develop a new set of mathematical range to try to identify the possible Distance Change value numbers.  I call these "Conceptual Numbers".

My purpose in writing this blog is to announce that my previous definition of the array of Conceptual Numbers is flawed.

I wrote:

Conceptual Numbers are those numbers between zero and the positive, distance diameter of The Universe

Not only is the word "positive" unnecessary because of the "absolute value" function in the Distance Change definition, but, the "diameter" connotation is flawed, as well--as that would only be accurate if The Universe was a Sphere

All matter is light
Place is where light is
Space is where light could be
The Universe is all light and space

Classical physicists showed that orbiting bodies move in an ellipse.  This would lead one to infer that The Universe is the shape of a three dimensional ellipse, (i.e. an egg-like shaped spacial limitation).

Look back at the definition of Distance Change at the beginning of this blog.

Considering a one light unit's linear cross-section going from one universal edge, through the interior of The Universe, to the one light unit's farthest possible universal edge on the other side of The Universe, The Distance Change Range is not always the same linear distance in comparing one light unit to another one light unit.

Thus, Conceptional Numbers are not necessarily the same in range from one light unit to a different one light unit.

Paul Wharton
Father of Metachemics

Illinois State Hypocrisy

Two days ago, I received a request for back taxes from the Illinois Department of Revenue.  The state claims that since I make a lot of money, (currently more than $40,000 per year), I owe a lot of money.

My tax payments to Illinois government have not been consistent over all of my working years--though I can say that over the last 6 years they have adhered to Illinois tax code nearly flawlessly.

I am guilty of not paying all of the requested taxes to this state; however, consider what Illinois government has put me through:

It began around 1996 when I was forced into Elgin State Mental Hospital.  In the hospitalizations, there, I was injected with mind-altering drugs that had terrible side effects because I was ruled "gravely disabled".  In all the mental hospitalizations I endured, the reason for forcing me in was never "a harm to others", nor was it ever explicitly "a harm to oneself".  I have never actively attempted suicide--the only thoughts of that being a result of being unsatisfied that mental hospitalizations and/or nasty, mind-altering drugs are forever my "lot in life".

To give you an example of the level of physical and chemical force that was typically inflicted against me, the first time I was locked up by the State of Illinois, I was injected with a mind-altering drug twice a day for about 30 days.  I wouldn't swallow the pills on Principle because I believed my Mind was competent to think and belonged to me to decide how to self-regulate my Life.

I could go on for ten pages about the: tortures, persecutions, and vices that were forced upon me by Illinois government.  But, to conclude this blog, I want to integrate a few outstanding issues:

My grandfather and parents passed on to me enough money to pay for college.  Due to the repetitive, involuntary, mental health excursions, I was never able to get a degree and ended up saving a lot as a result.  In 1993, I began to study Objectivism on my own.  To this day, picking books solely from the official Ayn Rand bookstores, I have read 139 Objectivist endorsed books.  (That pretty much equates to a Ph.D. in Objectivism).  I didn't work for a long time, but eventually got into a Domino's delivery job.

So, tell me, how is someone who passively kicks back and reads books all the time "gravely disabled"?  Was I "gravely disabled" because I didn't have a job (and lived off of an educational inheritance)?

If I told you about my inheritance when your goons came to get me, would you have taken my inheritance like the Illinois Department of Revenue is trying to do to my tips and wages?

I was locked up because you said I can't provide for my basic needs.  If I am separated from my inheritance, how am I able to go to a store to buy food?  And even if you didn't know about my inheritance, how can someone who is in a locked "unit" get a job?

So now, when I have started working in a lucrative, tip-paying job, Illinois government goes back to all those years with incomplete tax returns that were often inaccurate because government was busy torturing me.

I fought the American Mental Health System for 11 years.  The hallmark and foundation of every ward is mind-altering drugs.  I think I am accurate in saying that I was not going to be left alone by that system unless I put my mind on one or more of those drugs.  It just so happened that I found a combination of two drugs, late in my persecution, the side-effects of which I could live with.  Both of those drugs were expensive--Zyprexa was extraordinarily so (they are now open to generic competition).  Back then, I paid full price for Zyprexa out of my Domino's income for 5 years.  I can remember the price starting at about $600 / month, and later reaching about $1,000 / month before the generics stepped in.

Since I would not have wasted $600 - $1,000 / month if Illinois State had not implicitly forced me to, it is unfair that the Illinois Department of Revenue go back and take my unreported tips.

I mentioned towards the beginning of this blog that I made the last 6 tax filings "nearly flawlessly".  Almost no one in the pizza delivery industry reports all their tips.  In all the years I have been in that line of work, I have heard of only one person other than me who did it.  When I started, I did my taxes according to the W-2 numbers that reported some tips, but not nearly the full amount.  About 7 years ago the Domino's owner came up to me and asked if I wanted to start keeping track of my own tips, or if I wanted him to keep doing it--as he did with almost all of the other employees.  I thought I would enjoy the self-control more so volunteered to assume responsibility.  Other than the logistical problem with change accountability because it is too hard to keep track of, I started reporting all of my cash tips after the first full year of my personal record keeping.

After all the injustice forced upon me, mostly by the State of Illinois, an argument could be made that I deserve reparations from the Illinois government.  However, I am not going to go there.  The only reparations I want are: to be left alone by the Illinois Mental Health System and the Illinois Department of Revenue.

I am protesting the "back tax claim" letter I received two days ago.  It is not fair that the State of Illinois targets: the one guy they have tortured the most, the one honest guy who has decided to fund them the most tips in his line of work, and the one guy with something to loot.

Paul Wharton

Objectivist Capitalist Medicine Promoter

A Democrat Winning Strategy?

As Trump continues to support a partial government shutdown in the face of the opposition to what he wants to fund The Wall, there seems to be an odd, perceived strategy being exercised by many Democrat politicians.  It goes something like this:

If the Democrat Congressional members can vote against The Wall, it will be perceived as a failed campaign promise in 2020 when Trump runs again for office.

Does this seem at all strange to you?

When Trump ran for President in 2016, I don't remember seeing him promise to decide how Pelosi, Schumer, and the other Democrats are going to vote.  Is Trump expected to have some blackmail or persuasion to override Democrats dead set on thwarting his agenda?

A Democrat Congressional member only has oneself to council on how one will vote.  Americans need to recognize this.

Paul Wharton
Objectivist Capitalist Medicine Promoter