Taylor J. Christensen, M.D.
@taylorjayc
Physician and business strategist thinking big thoughts about govt, healthcare, and monetary policy. I like exhaustive, mutually exclusive categorizations.
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I made a community dedicated to crafting a constitution for Mars. It's mostly an opportunity for big-picture thinkers to collaborate so we can figure out how to (1) design an optimal government and (2) keep it that way.
I'll be taking a break from X for an indefinite amount of time. I didn't die, just my priorities have shifted, and I need to allocate my time accordingly.
I don't identify with either party, and I deliberately follow the thought leaders for both. What I'm consistently seeing on my timeline from the Dems lately is just trashing Trump. It feels like that's their whole schtick lately. I don't think it will persuade voters. Maybe…
I don't know how many of my followers are real people, but for those of you who are (or for anyone else who randomly sees this), I have a question. I want to hear what you think. Off the top of your head. What's wrong with our economy? The very root of the problems. Be specific.
Does anyone else ever wonder how China is still competing with us in spite of so many government infringements on capitalism? I suspect it's because the U.S. has been hampering its own ostensibly capitalistic economy so egregiously through over-regulation and complex pervasive…
The party that is losing seats due to gerrymandering always complains about it and says it should be illegal. But then it gerrymanders when it has the chance. Which party gerrymanders more? Grok helped me analyze seats gained specifically through gerrymandering based on which…
This is crazy. I asked Grok to do an analysis comparing the wealth of a median single-income family of four in 1970 versus 2023 (most recent year we have complete data). With all the technological progress we've made, you'd think the family in 2023 would have it better because…
How the "business cycle" (booms and busts) is caused by the Fed tampering with our money supply: 1. When the Fed makes a change (such as by lowering interest rates), it leads to more money flooding the economy. 2. Increasing the money supply in that way leads to inflation,…
I wonder what percentage of the super rich got their money from being business owners of businesses that contributed to economic growth as opposed to business owners who enacted wealth redistribution somehow, such as by leveraging the Establishment to win money through government…
In the draft constitution, I don't know if I've adequately baked into it enough checks to really strongly motivate each branch to enforce constitutional fidelity on the other two. I think the authority is properly divided, so the balance is probably good. The challenge is…
The phrase "checks and balances" is rattled off so often that I think many people today don't understand the purpose of them. Checks are meant to incentivize each branch to enforce constitutional fidelity on the other two. Balances are about distributing authority in a balanced…
If the Canadian healthcare system were a grocery store, it would look almost like this, except there would be food on most of the shelves but with long lines waiting to get the limited supply.
BREAKING: City-funded grocery store trial in Kansas City has already failed. Shelves are completely empty, food rotten, theft.
I just finished reading Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard. Incredible story, and I was pleased to see it mixed in plenty of political philosophy. He was on point with most things, but two flaws stood out in his idealized society: 1. He seems to believe that fiat money is a…
New blog post. It explains how policies that mess with prices (like what @ZohranKMamdani proposes) will ruin an economy. Thanks to @johnnywharris for the fodder. Exactly Why Government Interventions in Markets Are (Almost Always) Super Destructive clearthinkingonhealthcare.com/2025/07/19/exa…
If a democracy gets taken over by a bureaucracy (like in the U.S. and indeed in most modern democracies), it's simply because of two factors, each of which contributes to different degrees in each situation: 1. The legislature has made too many laws. 2. The leader of the…
People don't know that authoritarianism can be on a government level or a tribal level or even an individual level. We especially see a lot of tribal authoritarianism in our day. People engaging in it probably don't even realize they're being authoritarian when they restrict…
When it comes to statements about others' harmless behaviors (like going to Disneyland without kids) . . . "I don't like it" is opinion "I think you shouldn't do it" is judgment "I think we should prevent you from doing it" is authoritarianism
Interesting experience yesterday at a Freedom Festival with the kids. We met a Colonial guy who "came to the future." He told my kids about the "recently written" Declaration of Independence and why they changed "life, liberty, and property" to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of…
I think the typical structure of governments has evolved over human history like this: Tribal leaders --> military leaders --> kings --> democracies We've achieved the highest form of government. But our challenge now is to figure out how to structure democracies in a way that…
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