Federal Disability Retirement: Options

Often, in life, we believe that others walk around with esoteric knowledge unavailable and unreleased; it is considered from the viewpoint of what is, in philosophy, identified as an “epistemological privilege” — that as others have private thoughts which are inaccessible to us, so there must be a vast array of knowledge similarly situated. Experience teaches us to become suspicious of others, as somehow the inner workings of power and wealth tend to bypass most of us, and the list of uninvited guests […] Read More …

OPM Disability Retirement: Confirmation of Worth

Diamonds demand it and markets survive by it; investments grow or shrink according to assessed worth, and relationships are maintained by the relative perspective of individuals entangled. Worth, or the value of a thing, is determined in a capitalist society as a result of increase in demand, and scarcity of supply. But what of the worth of an individual, as opposed to an inanimate object? Do we treat it in the same manner? Should it be? […]

 
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