Archive - Knowledge Maximalism

The Benefits of AI and the Risk of a "White-Collar Bloodbath"

If AI is powerful enough to produce widespread abundance, does worrying about unemployment make sense at all?

Dec 27, 2025 • Saul Zimet

Capitalism Versus Extinction by Stagnation

The degrowth solution to climate change has been tested and shown to be a deadly failure.

Dec 20, 2025 • Saul Zimet

Minnesota’s Welfare Fraud Shows How Taxation Hinders Economic Growth

The common labeling of tax-funded bureaucrats as “public servants” has the truth completely backwards.

Dec 14, 2025 • Saul Zimet

Tucker Carlson Claims to Be an Individualist but Espouses Collectivism

Specificity must cut through contradiction in the ideological fight for America's future.

Dec 8, 2025 • Saul Zimet

November 2025

MAGA Adopts One of Karl Marx’s Key Misconceptions

The MAGA movement’s rhetoric about low-wage labor echoes that of the communist prophet.

Nov 30, 2025 • Saul Zimet

The Degrowth Bestseller "Slow Down" Falsely Blames Poverty on Capitalism

Poverty has been declining rapidly in recent decades, thanks in large part to the rise of economic growth.

Nov 26, 2025 • Saul Zimet

Do Human Progress Trends Justify the Status Quo?

A recent New York Times opinion piece misunderstands the implications of an improving world.

Nov 17, 2025 • Saul Zimet

Technology Versus Degrowth as Solutions to the Sixth Mass Extinction

Assuring the long-term future of Earth’s wildlife requires more economic and technological development, not less.

Nov 9, 2025 • Saul Zimet

The Myth of the Short-Sightedness of Capitalism

Free markets are often accused of incentivizing short-term profit-seeking, but really the opposite is true.

Nov 5, 2025 • Saul Zimet

October 2025

Humans Have Moral Value Because They Create Knowledge

If for no other reason.

Oct 29, 2025 • Saul Zimet

Why the Enlightenment is the Ultimate Moral Movement

And knowledge maximalism is the ultimate moral principle.

Oct 23, 2025 • Saul Zimet

Environmentalist Pronatalism Versus Paul Krugman

Is reducing "population pressure" really a good way to protect environmental resources?

Oct 12, 2025 • Saul Zimet

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