“We live in a world of insufficient shared-reality.”
Source date (UTC): 2012-06-27 15:19:00 UTC
https://www.quora.com/Why-does-the-tech-community-seem-to-be-so-liberal
Author: Curt Doolittle
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exit is the best answer
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/27/opinion/to-save-the-euro-germany-must-leave-it.htmlGerman exit is the best answer.
Source date (UTC): 2012-06-27 15:12:00 UTC
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2000 Years Of Economic History In A Chart? What Would That Chart Tell Us?
I don’t know what we’re supposed to learn from this chart from The Atlantic, but as others have already stated with passion, it’s pretty bad information design. And even without that criticism, almost every conclusion that one would draw from it certainly appears to be simply meaningless or false – at least without some sort of prevarication.
It reminds me of the biggest statistical sin in current economics: using ‘families’ rather than individuals. If someone uses that measure, then everything that follows is false. Families have changed too much. More so than the economy itself. The economy is noise by comparison. Likewise, for such gross categorization as this chart seeks to make use of, economic activity is meaningless without the sizes of the geography and the population. Boundaries are meaningless unless what happens within them is substantially different per person per square mile/km. Perhaps even, limited to per person per acre of arable land. Otherwise all the chart tells you is that big arbitrary geographic areas produce more income than small arbitrary geographic areas. Which tells us precisely nothing that isn’t absurdly obvious. WHAT SHOULD A CHART OF ECONOMIC HISTORY SHOW US? What any such chart would allow us to draw the conclusion that:
Economic history is not complicated. People need:
They need institutional technologies which do not so much require the state as require the state not abuse:
And, they need those institutions that *are* complicated: social aspects we too often ignore, and which appear to require intervention on the part of the state:
A chart that is useful, will be the chart that illustrates that the only value of a state is in creating these institutions (a) thru (h).
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2000 Years Of Economic History In A Chart? What Would That Chart Tell Us?
I don’t know what we’re supposed to learn from this chart from The Atlantic, but as others have already stated with passion, it’s pretty bad information design. And even without that criticism, almost every conclusion that one would draw from it certainly appears to be simply meaningless or false – at least without some sort of prevarication.
It reminds me of the biggest statistical sin in current economics: using ‘families’ rather than individuals. If someone uses that measure, then everything that follows is false. Families have changed too much. More so than the economy itself. The economy is noise by comparison. Likewise, for such gross categorization as this chart seeks to make use of, economic activity is meaningless without the sizes of the geography and the population. Boundaries are meaningless unless what happens within them is substantially different per person per square mile/km. Perhaps even, limited to per person per acre of arable land. Otherwise all the chart tells you is that big arbitrary geographic areas produce more income than small arbitrary geographic areas. Which tells us precisely nothing that isn’t absurdly obvious. WHAT SHOULD A CHART OF ECONOMIC HISTORY SHOW US? What any such chart would allow us to draw the conclusion that:
Economic history is not complicated. People need:
They need institutional technologies which do not so much require the state as require the state not abuse:
And, they need those institutions that *are* complicated: social aspects we too often ignore, and which appear to require intervention on the part of the state:
A chart that is useful, will be the chart that illustrates that the only value of a state is in creating these institutions (a) thru (h).
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Why Does The Tech Community Seem To Be So Liberal?
I have no idea why you think the tech community as a whole is liberal. All the data that I’ve ever seen shows that libertarianism is the only overrepresented political representation in the technology community. -
Political Theory: Is The West’s Problem With Middle Eastern ‘democracy’ That It Tends To Be Religious?
I HAVE TO DISAGREE with the other answers.
The USA’s strategic policy equates democracy with consumer capitalism, human rights, and economic and military stability. They are a set, for which ‘democracy” is a simply a shorthand. Which is unfortunate, since that brevity obscures the complexity of the strategy.
The USA spent the majority of the past century trying to prevent the alternative to consumer capitalism, world communism, from developing the military and economic power necessary to interfere with world oil production, and world trade – as well as preventing the further death and suffering that are the result of managed economies.
Therefore the simplistic statement “democracy is good”, means “Democracy that is good is democracy that advances consumer capitalism, will create states that are good world citizens and will not disrupt the world system of trade, and world production of oil.”
The problem that the USA has with islamic states, is that, having spent the past century trying to prevent the rise of anti-capitalist states, it appears that the muslim world is going to coalesce into three or so factions all of whom are militant and at least one of whom’s ambitions (Iran) is to control the price of oil as a means of concentrating the capital necessary to build a military strong enough to defeat the other two factions, thereby restoring the islamic empire.
So the USA is very cautious, and one should not confuse “democracy” which is simply the means of transitioning power, with the broader concept of democratic, consumer capitalism of small independent states all of whom are good world citizens. Those are different things.
Party politics is a nonsense-sport to entertain the population. The USA generally follows strategic policy, because the consequences are so serious, which is why all politicians, once in office, tend to follow it. If the world system of trade is dramatically threatened, the average american can lose a third to a half of his standard of living in far shorter order than we did in the great depression. And at the current level of social discord, the government may not be able to prevent civil conflict.https://www.quora.com/Political-Theory-Is-the-Wests-problem-with-Middle-Eastern-democracy-that-it-tends-to-be-religious
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Why Does The Tech Community Seem To Be So Liberal?
I have no idea why you think the tech community as a whole is liberal. All the data that I’ve ever seen shows that libertarianism is the only overrepresented political representation in the technology community.https://www.quora.com/Why-does-the-tech-community-seem-to-be-so-liberal
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Political Theory: Is The West’s Problem With Middle Eastern ‘democracy’ That It Tends To Be Religious?
I HAVE TO DISAGREE with the other answers.
The USA’s strategic policy equates democracy with consumer capitalism, human rights, and economic and military stability. They are a set, for which ‘democracy” is a simply a shorthand. Which is unfortunate, since that brevity obscures the complexity of the strategy.
The USA spent the majority of the past century trying to prevent the alternative to consumer capitalism, world communism, from developing the military and economic power necessary to interfere with world oil production, and world trade – as well as preventing the further death and suffering that are the result of managed economies.
Therefore the simplistic statement “democracy is good”, means “Democracy that is good is democracy that advances consumer capitalism, will create states that are good world citizens and will not disrupt the world system of trade, and world production of oil.”
The problem that the USA has with islamic states, is that, having spent the past century trying to prevent the rise of anti-capitalist states, it appears that the muslim world is going to coalesce into three or so factions all of whom are militant and at least one of whom’s ambitions (Iran) is to control the price of oil as a means of concentrating the capital necessary to build a military strong enough to defeat the other two factions, thereby restoring the islamic empire.
So the USA is very cautious, and one should not confuse “democracy” which is simply the means of transitioning power, with the broader concept of democratic, consumer capitalism of small independent states all of whom are good world citizens. Those are different things.
Party politics is a nonsense-sport to entertain the population. The USA generally follows strategic policy, because the consequences are so serious, which is why all politicians, once in office, tend to follow it. If the world system of trade is dramatically threatened, the average american can lose a third to a half of his standard of living in far shorter order than we did in the great depression. And at the current level of social discord, the government may not be able to prevent civil conflict.https://www.quora.com/Political-Theory-Is-the-Wests-problem-with-Middle-Eastern-democracy-that-it-tends-to-be-religious
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SO IS THIS WHY I WOULDN”T FINGER PAINT AS A CHILD?
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0025552UM. SO IS THIS WHY I WOULDN”T FINGER PAINT AS A CHILD?
Source date (UTC): 2012-06-26 16:24:00 UTC
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Those few people in the world who are entirely positive, universally joyous, unf
Those few people in the world who are entirely positive, universally joyous, unfailingly supportive, and unquestionably giving and loving are too rare. Losing one of them hurts even more.
Source date (UTC): 2012-06-26 16:07:00 UTC