{"id":5225,"date":"2022-04-11T15:20:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T19:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/?p=5225"},"modified":"2022-04-11T15:20:33","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T19:20:33","slug":"mcgee-on-two-men-in-a-cafe-uncfsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/2022\/04\/11\/mcgee-on-two-men-in-a-cafe-uncfsu\/","title":{"rendered":"McGee on Two Men in a Cafe @uncfsu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert W. McGee, Fayetteville State University Department of Accounting, has published <a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4064249&amp;dgcid=ejournal_htmlemail_law:society:the:legal:profession:ejournal_abstractlink\">Two Men in a Cafe: A Short Story<\/a>, at 1 International Journal of Languages and Culture 3-5 (2021). Here is the abstract.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In this short story Leon, a man of African descent, and Pete, a man of unknown ethnicity, are discussing the results of some recent presidential primaries. It appears that a man named Jim, who has won the last two primaries, might become the next president, and Elizabeth, a woman of Samoan descent, might become his vice president. The conversation turns to the views of Jim and Elizabeth on a range of political and economic issues. Leon raises the issue of how income taxes are a modern form of slavery, since they confiscate the fruits of a worker\u2019s labor, a view that was expressed by Harvard philosopher Robert Nozick in his book, Anarchy, State and Utopia, and by Frederick Douglass, a former slave.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Download the story from SSRN at the link.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=HedgehogsFoxes\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert W. McGee, Fayetteville State University Department of Accounting, has published Two Men in a Cafe: A Short Story, at 1 International Journal of Languages and Culture 3-5 (2021). Here is the abstract. &nbsp;&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[768,132],"class_list":["post-5225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-fiction","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pasVL2-1mh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5226,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5225\/revisions\/5226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}