Stephen Hicks

From seven years ago. Households vary in size, so take that into account when interpreting. Also: Median income for Jamaican-American households was about $58K. For Nigerian-American households, it was about $65K. Here’s another data-aggregating page.

Background: Here’s a good summary of the Magness/Makovi paper on the influence of politics on Marx’s reputation. Aside from the cheap-shot responses by many of those outraged by the paper, there’s an intriguing philosophical inversion at work among the Outraged. Marx himself argued that the world develops with “iron necessity” in a strict causal priority:

A friend sent this t-shirt today. A man is listening to a television advertisement: How much would you pay for the secrets of the Universe? Do not answer yet, you also get this stainless steel pot!! Now how much would you pay? Such a tough pair of questions. I love it.

John Stuart Mill: “To do as one would be done by, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.” Stephen Hicks: “Unless one is a masochist.” (Image by Roland Topor, 1960.) Related: John Stuart Mill’s great work on liberty of thought and expression: