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	<title>Restoring Social Balance &#187; Natural Rights</title>
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		<title>Innovation: Indulgence or Philanthropy &#8211; Part 5</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		Any recommendations I make regarding patents should be taken as just a rough mold to work into shape.  As covered last time, before any meaningful change can be done to patents themselves we likely would have to first reverse the damage done by the Supreme Court with their pro-corporate jurisprudence over the years.  In particular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation: Indulgence or Philanthropy &#8211; Part 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		This series has revolved around the quote &#8220;innovation without protection is philanthropy.&#8221;  Does philanthropy best disseminate innovations that people want to copy, or does preventing the natural tendency of humans to copy good ideas serve as a market stimulus for innovations by appealing to &#8220;natural&#8221; greed?
Innovations happen independently of corporations and neither corporations nor government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation: Indulgence or Philanthropy &#8211; Part 3</title>
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		<comments>http://www.middleclassforum.org/http:/www.middleclassforum.org/innovation-indulgence-or-philanthropy-part-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		What started this series is a quote in a NYT article stating &#8220;Innovation without protection is philanthropy.&#8221;  If you take government out of the equation there could be no protections for innovations.  Of course, if you take government protections out of the equation corporations could not exist, unlike proprietors who could.  To determine whether government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation: Indulgence or Philanthropy &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<link>http://www.middleclassforum.org/http:/www.middleclassforum.org/innovation-indulgence-or-philanthropy-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.middleclassforum.org/http:/www.middleclassforum.org/innovation-indulgence-or-philanthropy-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		The first thing to consider in regards to whether innovation is best indulged by government or used for philanthropy would be whether anyone would even consider philanthropy.  After all, we are constantly led to belief by laissez faire economists and corporate media that markets are run on self-interest.   Corporations strive to create the impression [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation: Indulgence or Philanthropy &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<link>http://www.middleclassforum.org/http:/www.middleclassforum.org/innovation-indulgence-or-philanthropy-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.middleclassforum.org/http:/www.middleclassforum.org/innovation-indulgence-or-philanthropy-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:57:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		A recent NYT article reported on a business partnership formed around innovative technology going sour.  The story line is familiar.  A partnership of business interests is formed, partly because it makes sense, and partly to get around some tax issues.  One of the partners is a &#8220;small guy&#8221; that innovates, the other partner is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restoring Balance &#8211; Natural Rights &#8211; Leadership</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		This is the last chapter I wrote for natural rights.  There is a tie-in between this and Memorial Day which I will relate in an upcoming series.
If individuals focused on doing one thing all their lives without having a choice for alternatives they would become very effective and efficient at doing that one thing.  In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restoring Balance &#8211; Natural Rights &#8211; Flexibility</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 13:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		The next installment for my next book, Restoring Balance.  Here are the previous installments.
Curiosity spurred humans to explore new environments, leading them to migrate from Africa to all over the globe.  Yet this same curiosity of mind would not have amounted to much without the flexibility of our bodies and the natural right to choose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restoring Balance &#8211; Natural Rights &#8211; Curiosity</title>
		<link>http://www.middleclassforum.org/http:/www.middleclassforum.org/restoring-balance-natural-rights-curiosity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.middleclassforum.org/http:/www.middleclassforum.org/restoring-balance-natural-rights-curiosity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		Here is the fourth chapter of the book I&#8217;m working on, describing our natural right to our curiosity.
My happiest and most exciting times of life were when my standard of living, as measured by economists, was lowest.   This includes both my wilderness backpacking years and raising a young family while in graduate school, when my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restoring Balance &#8211; Free Will</title>
		<link>http://www.middleclassforum.org/http:/www.middleclassforum.org/restoring-balance-free-will/</link>
		<comments>http://www.middleclassforum.org/http:/www.middleclassforum.org/restoring-balance-free-will/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:52:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		After being sidetracked the past couple of weeks, here is the third chapter for the new book I am working on, about Free Will.   Here are the previous chapters.
Natural Altruism.
Natural Rights.
“Choose well the company you keep” is sound advice based on our most important natural right:  the free will to belong.  Who you are and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restoring Balance &#8211; Natural Rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		Here is the next installment for the new book I&#8217;m working on.  Feel free to comment.
PART ONE:  NATURAL RIGHTS
I have had the type of freedom that, unfortunately for western culture, few people experience.  I have backpacked over 15,000 miles on wilderness trails, always with a group of people, on journeys of up to seven months.  [...]]]></description>
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