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WilliamLMiller<p>It’s Monday again. The headlines may shake confidence, but your foundation runs deeper. Focus on what you can build, not what others break. Steady hands and clear minds shape the future—especially in uncertain times. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MondayMotivation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MondayMotivation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ResilientByDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ResilientByDesign</span></a></p>
WilliamLMiller<p>There is a limit to what the Fed can do.<br />If the White House sacrifices the dollar’s stability for a quick fix, it won’t just cause a recession.<br />It could trigger a depression.<br />We can’t let the President kill the dollar.<br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EconomicStability" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EconomicStability</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/StrongDollar" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StrongDollar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EconomicConfidence" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EconomicConfidence</span></a></p>
WilliamLMiller<p>We must support the strength and soundness of the money, the debt, and investor confidence.<br />Inflation remains the greatest threat.<br />Undermining the dollar to chase growth could backfire—and fast.<br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Inflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Inflation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SoundMoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SoundMoney</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FiscalResponsibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FiscalResponsibility</span></a></p>
WilliamLMiller<p>Confidence is not fluff.<br />It’s the foundation of every economic decision—whether to lend, hire, invest, or buy.<br />If the Fed cuts rates and no one responds, it signals panic.<br />That’s the moment the slowdown becomes a spiral.<br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/InvestorConfidence" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>InvestorConfidence</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MonetaryPolicy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MonetaryPolicy</span></a></p>
WilliamLMiller<p>The Fed can cut interest rates to stimulate growth.<br />But if stocks, bonds, and the dollar are all selling off together, rate cuts risk making things worse.<br />In that environment, a cut might look like surrender—not support.<br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FederalReserve" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FederalReserve</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MarketRisk" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MarketRisk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/InterestRates" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>InterestRates</span></a></p>
WilliamLMiller<p>A recession is a slowdown in economic activity—fewer jobs, lower output, tighter margins.<br />But a depression is more than that.<br />It’s a collapse of confidence.<br />When people stop believing the economy will recover, even good policies stop working.<br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Recession" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Recession</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EconomicConfidence" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EconomicConfidence</span></a></p>
WilliamLMiller<p>There are still hurdles ahead, but for the most part—my part—is done.<br />This paper is the culmination of years of thought, care, and persistence. Thank you to everyone who’s encouraged me along the way.<br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UniversalWealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UniversalWealth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BehavioralEconomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BehavioralEconomics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WritingProgress" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WritingProgress</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LayScholar" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LayScholar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EconomicInnovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EconomicInnovation</span></a></p>
WilliamLMiller<p>Today, I finished all my revisions and sent it back to the editors. They’ll now package it for submission to the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics for a chance at peer review.<br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PeerReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PeerReview</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AcademicPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AcademicPublishing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UBI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ValueRealization" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ValueRealization</span></a></p>
WilliamLMiller<p>The revised title—and one I’ve adopted—is:<br />Universal Basic Income and Value Realization: Metaphysical Insights for Implementation in the United States.<br />It’s clearer, more targeted—and better suited for publication.<br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PostTaxation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PostTaxation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/InvestmentBasedUBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>InvestmentBasedUBI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FutureOfWork" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FutureOfWork</span></a></p>
WilliamLMiller<p>They gave what felt like a painful—but necessary—round of substantive edits. Among other changes, they asked me to let go of the title I’d carried for years:<br />The Implications of the Metaphysics of Economics.<br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AcademicEditing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AcademicEditing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WritingLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WritingLife</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Metaphysics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Metaphysics</span></a></p>
WilliamLMiller<p>That insight became the foundation for an economic dynamic of sound finances that crowds out poverty and taxation. Since then, I’ve spent over three years writing it out, refining it, and preparing it for peer-reviewed publication. As a layperson, I also hired an academic editing service to help polish it for submission.<br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UBI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ValueCreation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ValueCreation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AcademicJourney" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AcademicJourney</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EconomicPhilosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EconomicPhilosophy</span></a></p>
WilliamLMiller<p>More than 3 years ago, after learning we were expecting our third child, I had what I now consider my first truly original idea. With the life goal of “at least 3 kids” quietly fulfilled, something deeper surfaced—an insight about value and economics.<br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WritingProgress" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WritingProgress</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MetaphysicsOfEconomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MetaphysicsOfEconomics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EconomicPhilosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EconomicPhilosophy</span></a></p>
On This Day In History<p>Today in 1955, 70 years ago: The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a></p>
WilliamLMiller<p>History doesn’t always roar.<br />Sometimes it whispers through the lives of people who saw a problem and wouldn’t look away.</p><p>Semmelweis. Haber. Borlaug.<br />Quiet minds, loud consequences.</p><p>There must be a better way.<br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HistoryMatters" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HistoryMatters</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/QuietRevolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>QuietRevolution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UnsungHeroes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UnsungHeroes</span></a></p>
WilliamLMiller<p>Borlaug didn’t seek fame.<br />He just wanted people to eat.<br />His work saved over a billion lives.</p><p>He won the Nobel Peace Prize—but most people still don’t know his name.</p><p>He proved the pessimists wrong.<br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Borlaug" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Borlaug</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FoodSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FoodSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HopeThroughScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HopeThroughScience</span></a></p>
WilliamLMiller<p>Norman Borlaug was raised on an Iowa farm.<br />As an agronomist, he bred wheat that could survive rust, drought, and politics.</p><p>India and Pakistan didn’t starve.<br />The Green Revolution began—not with speeches, but with seeds.<br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreenRevolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GreenRevolution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HumanFlourishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HumanFlourishing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Agronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Agronomy</span></a></p>
WilliamLMiller<p>His wife, Clara Immerwahr—a chemist—opposed his wartime work and died by suicide.<br />Haber left for the front the next morning.</p><p>The weapon he developed harmed millions.<br />The process he discovered feeds billions.</p><p>Tragedy shaped him. But so did hope.<br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MoralHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MoralHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceAndWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ScienceAndWar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClaraImmerwahr" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ClaraImmerwahr</span></a></p>
WilliamLMiller<p>Fritz Haber pulled nitrogen from the air.<br />His process feeds over half the world today.<br />He believed it could end famine—and maybe even stabilize peace.</p><p>During WWI, he pioneered chemical weapons, thinking it might shorten the war.<br />He couldn’t see what history would later decide.<br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HaberBosch" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HaberBosch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ScienceHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WorldWarI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WorldWarI</span></a></p>
WilliamLMiller<p>Fired twice for saving lives, Semmelweis suffered a breakdown.<br />He died in an asylum at 47.</p><p>His idea was dismissed. His madness was real.<br />But he was right—and medicine would prove it.</p><p>He changed history because he refused to stay silent.<br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MedicalReform" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MedicalReform</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HistoryMatters" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HistoryMatters</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MentalHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MentalHealth</span></a></p>
WilliamLMiller<p>Ignaz Semmelweis was a mid-level hospital administrator.<br />He noticed women were dying after childbirth—unless doctors washed their hands.<br />He made it policy. Deaths plummeted.</p><p>His reward? Dismissal, resistance, and mockery.<br /><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SemmelweisEffect" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SemmelweisEffect</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MedicalHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MedicalHistory</span></a></p>
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