UserWiki:Ninjack-Aus

Political Compass Test
Center Left Economics: -3.38

Very Libertarian: -7.28



Sapply Values
Center Left Economics: -2

Reasonably Libertarian: -5.68

Extremely Progressive: 8.25



Markets & Labour
Any functional market is ran for and by the people, every single person in the world is a consumer. The consumption of goods and services for consumers is the sole reason to produce them.

Definitions
Goods and services are produced by an individuals labour, aided by an enterprise and the enterprises capital like a piece of machinery used for manufacturing a good or the land the manufacturing takes place, which can either be neccesary or merely assistive.

A laborer may be their own enterprise in the form of the self-employed, and enterprise isn't just a capitalist term. Many forms of socialist enterprises exist be they co-ops, state ran or mutuals. An enterprise is a catch all term for entities designed to produce goods and services.

Markets in the world use what is for all intents and purposes a barter system of valuified labour (money), to be exchanged for the mutual trade of the production / consumption of a good or service for an individual to consume.

The value of labour is directly equal to the goods and services produced this means that the value of money and how much a person can recieve for their production of a good or service is equal to the supplied demand / how much paid for the good or service.

Welfare
The "invisible hand of the free market" is a flawed, resource inefficent and unethical system which inevitably prioritizes the wealth of monopoly enterprises and the ultra-wealthy - however it provides the goods and services we need succesfully and consistently and should be maintained.

Social Democrats and other welfarist / ethical capitalists seek to establish government intervention in the negative situations caused by the free market, like poverty, unemployment, homelessness and social inequality among many others.

This government intervention is done through directly subsidising / paying the inable an extremely limited wage or supplement to an existing income alongside manipulating with policies like minimum wage, rent controls and maternal leave.

Another common, but non-routine way is to directly subsidise enterprise or set up government funded jobs despite the lack of sufficent demand to justify enterprise for a certain good or service in an area. The government intervenes in the perceived root of the high amount of poverty and unemployment - the employing enterprises.

The laborers creating the goods and services are paid less for their labour as their goods and services produced by their labour are worth less due to not sufficent demand for supply, lowering prices.

Thusly, make work devalues a laborers wage and worth and means they can purchase less with the same effort and have a lower quality of life.

Govermental Income
First off, I support raising taxes on the rich and large enterprises through any kind of tax policy (I'd also support enviromental taxes, but thats in the enviroment heading later). There has been little to no proof that raising taxes on the wealthy cause any decrease in economic activity or living standars... with a few caveats.


 * Capital flight / Brain drain

Civic Rights
I consider myself a progressive and believe all individuals are intrinsically equal regardless of ethnicity, sex or any other attributes.

LGBT rights should be enshrinend in constitution or law with legal same-sex marriage, same-sex adoption, sex transition and anti-discrimination laws. However these anti-discrimination laws should be somewhat limited as to prevent counter discrimination and there shouldn't be a diversity quota at all.

Abortion
Many countries and federal territories in the world cap abortion at less than a half-dozen of weeks if not outright banning it. However most progressive abortion legislation caps at 20 weeks, which is ideal, but I wouldn't object to raising it further.

The main reason for preventing abortion is due to cultural morality, which isn't a reason to force women to give up their body autonomy and personal liberty for a year of pregnancy and most likely their career and personal life during the later stages.

There is less than a 0.05 percent chance of major complications from surgical abortion in the first and second trimester (~20 weeks), meaning it is an eleventh as deadly as conception and any regards to safety are invalid, atleast until the latest stages of pregnancy.