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05/27/2026

While it might seem presumptuous to summarize “Magnifica Humanitas,” a 42,000+ word encyclical, in a brief blog posting, we’re going to do just that, at least for the small portion of the document that piqued our interest — and concern. We were, of course, not expecting to see anything revolutionary and we didn’t. It’s what we didn’t see that raised questions, three items in particular: 1) the “Act of Social Justice” as defined by Pope Pius XI and analyzed by Father William Ferree, S.M., Ph.D. as the means of restructuring the social order, 2) the importance of private property to empower people to carry out acts of social justice, and 3) the principles of economic justice and financial techniques developed by Louis O. Kelso as a means by which people without private property in capital can become owners without redistributing existing wealth or redefining private property. Instead, what we saw was language which, if taken out of context and twisted, could justify undermining the natural law and admit redistribution and redefinition of inalienable rights to life, liberty, and private property:

We have been saying for years that many people get fundamental principles wrong. This is understandable given the state of education today...

05/13/2026

In an age obsessed with “job creation,” Greaney slices through the fog with a razor’s edge: work has no dignity—persons do.** His essay exposes how modern economics quietly trains us to measure human worth by productivity charts and payroll lines, confusing the paycheck with the person. By the time he contrasts the Auschwitz guard with the starving underground resistor, the illusion shatters. This is not a debate about labor policy; it’s a confrontation with the very meaning of human dignity. Greaney invites readers to step beyond the wage‑system trance and recover the older, richer truth: that the human person is the measure of all economies, not their raw material.

05/09/2026

"For a long time now we haven't been taught enough economics in our schools and sometimes I am amazed at all of you, I don't know how you have held out against what has been a consistent program of indoctrination, particularly through our educational system, and how you have avoided the economic illiteracy that is widespread. The result has been, however, that self-seeking demagogues have been able to take advantage of this--not of you but of those others. Investors, workers and consumers have been divided to the point that we have forgotten we are all vital components of something called free enterprise, totally dependent upon each other. If the public's lack of understanding is not soon corrected the public may soon do great and irreparable harm to itself by demanding more interference than we already have of government."

~ [Then] Gov. Ronald Reagan, Young American's for Freedom, July 20, 1974.

03/10/2026

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

Before we argue policy, before we debate mechanisms, before we drown ourselves in data, we must confront a simpler and more unsettling reality: our economic life is marked by a kind of cultivated blindness. Not the blindness of incapacity, but the blindness of comfort—of those who benefit from the system being least inclined to notice its defects, and those most harmed by it having the least power to repair it.

Kelso saw this with painful clarity. He understood that the deepest crisis in a modern economy is not scarcity, nor productivity, nor even inequality—it is the refusal to see the institutional design flaws and fraud that quietly determine who owns, who works, who advances, and who is left behind.

So, before we ask how to fix the system, we must ask a more fundamental question:

𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭?

“It is axiomatic that those who suffer most from ill-designed economic institutions have the least power to effect change, whereas those having the power are little inclined to correct, or even to question, a system which favors them. All the more credit is therefore due those who do not allow their own personal success to blind them to institutional defects which deny equality of economic opportunity to the majority of their fellow men.”

— Louis O. Kelso and Patricia Hetter Kelso, Two-Factor Theory (1967)

O͎W͎N͎ ͎O͎R͎ ͎B͎E͎ ͎O͎W͎N͎E͎D͎

01/24/2026

Machines are getting richer. People aren’t.
Kelso warned us this day would come—and Davos just confirmed it.
Our latest piece asks the only question that matters now:
Who Will Own the Future?

Kelso’s Paradox, Davos’ Blind Spot, and the Case for Expanding Capital Ownership Now

01/21/2026

Davos is talking. But the world is choosing its Absolute.
Dialogue without truth is theater. Dialogue without justice is surrender.
What we need now is not another panel—but a great idea rooted in the dignity of the human person.

The Silent Architecture — OF A GREAT IDEA
shows how a civilization is rebuilt:
not from the powerful down, but from the person outward—
through ownership, stewardship, and moral clarity.

If Davos resets systems, this vision renews souls.
Step inside the architecture that can actually rebuild the world.

A Counter‑Vision to Davos and the Spirit of Dialogue

01/20/2026

“The most effective motivational arrangement known to man is for each individual to be protected in the receipt and enjoyment of what he produces through his labor, through his capital, or through both.

It is just as moral for an individual to produce the wealth he desires to consume through his privately-owned capital as through his privately-owned labor power.”

~Louis Kelso, Two-Factor Theory, Second-Income-Plan, 1967 (page 60-61).

01/15/2026

POWER FOLLOWS PROPERTY . . and whoever has property, has power. The problem is what to do when the experts assume that most people shouldn't or can't own private property. . . .

In case you haven’t noticed, it has become increasingly frequent over the past couple of decades to demonize anyone w...

01/13/2026

When Edgar Allan Poe Meets the Lollipop Patrol
What if the answer to our economic crises has been hiding in plain sight, like Poe’s Purloined Letter? This piece uncovers the mechanism Kelso designed — the one scholars and policymakers somehow missed.

The Tool Hidden in Plain Sight

01/05/2026

Michael D. Greaney’s reflection on Samuelson and Kelso reveals a truth hiding in plain sight: ownership grows like a seed. So why are only a few allowed to plant it?

Why Paul Samuelson’s Famous Quip Missed the Orchard Entirely