Category: Economics, Finance, and Political Economy

  • WE CAN LOOK AT IT BOTH WAYS Have we failed to create equality through forcible r

    WE CAN LOOK AT IT BOTH WAYS

    Have we failed to create equality through forcible redistribution? Or have we failed to constrain reproduction of the unproductive?


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-22 06:32:00 UTC

  • PROPERTARIAN CLASS STRUCTURES (draft)(note that education is a commercial class)

    PROPERTARIAN CLASS STRUCTURES

    (draft)(note that education is a commercial class)

    Martial Class (suppression of parasitism)

    —Kings and Generals

    —Knights(professionals), Soldiers

    —Judges, and Sherriffs

    Commons Class (Construction of Commons)

    —Infrastructure Institutions

    —Civic Organizations

    —Beauty and Maintenance

    —Disaster Services

    Insurer Class (Insurance)

    —Priesthood and Intellectuals

    —Insurers, and Insurers of last resort

    —Medicine and Nursing

    —Mothering and Child Care

    —Elder Care

    —Poor Care

    Commercial Class (organization and execution of production)

    —Major Corporate Alliances

    —Finance, Banking

    —Business and Entrepreneurship

    —Distribution and Trade

    Producer Classes

    —Calculators

    ——Scientists (discover)

    ——Engineers (build)

    ——Programmers (instruct)

    ——Accountants (measure)

    ——Project Managers (time)

    —Artist Class



    —Labor Class



    —Dependent Class (incapable of engaging in goods and service production)



    —Out of Sight Class (incapable of engaging in commons production)



    Criminal Class (forcing costs on commons and production)


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-22 04:57:00 UTC

  • THE FIRST FORM OF CAPITAL: TIME, AND VIOLENCE (very important) Time is neutral.

    THE FIRST FORM OF CAPITAL: TIME, AND VIOLENCE

    (very important)

    Time is neutral. It is put either to good ends or bad.

    Violence is neutral. It is either put to good ends or bad.

    Money is neutral. It is either put to good ends or bad.

    Law is neutral. It is put to either good ends or bad.

    Action is neutral. It is put to either good ends or bad.

    Violence is however, the first capital upon which all other capital is constructed and preserved. If you lack violence-capital, lack legal capital, lack economic capital, and lack territorial capital, you lack cultural capital, and lack genetic capital.

    The origin of wealth is not trade, it is violence used to prohibit non trade.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-21 06:08:00 UTC

  • Useful: Given 1/3,1/3,1/3 budget, and that currency demand/inflation pays for th

    Useful: Given 1/3,1/3,1/3 budget, and that currency demand/inflation pays for the military 1/3: ~1/2 of taxes go to those programs.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-20 09:39:02 UTC

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  • AND FWIW, “IN THE LONG RUN THE ECONOMY IS THE DEMOGRAPHY, STUPID.” Demography –

    AND FWIW, “IN THE LONG RUN THE ECONOMY IS THE DEMOGRAPHY, STUPID.”

    Demography – > Institutions -> Economy -> “Will”


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-16 04:16:00 UTC

  • Ending Financial Sector Predation

    (still working on this but it’s getting there) [W]e can stop it. The problem is, that the way we stop it is non-trivial: (a) require all issues released at market price with no favoritism (equal starting gate provision). (b) prevent insurance (hedges), require proportional holding of debt, force proportional losses (‘skin in the game’) (c) eliminate protection from liability for all individuals involved in any transaction, and reward (commission) for reporting offenders – (make it profitable to report your boss or peers.) (d) professionalize banking just like law and certified public accounting increasing the quality of people in the industry. (e) require total transparency of all OPM investor transactions. (what I recommend). (f) move all companies to block chain ledgers. (g) tax arbitrage and volatility entirely, while eliminating taxation on dividends, and appreciation. (eliminate trading and force investing) (h) Buy (federally) ‘bottom-feeder’ Mastercard, and redistribute liquidity directly to citizens rather than through the financial sector and interest rates – in exchange for elimination of sales tax and minimum wage. (what I recommend). These cards cannot be attached or indebted for any purpose whatsoever, private or public. The money is split between disposable and retirement security. The retirement funds are investable. (i) Stocks provide no voting or ownership provisions (positive), only legal defense(negative). One may contract for ownership provisions as condition of investment, but one cannot simply buy up control of companies without consent. (j) Eliminate boards of directors – I have not seen any empirical evidence that a board has any value whatsoever that could not be provided by an advisory board that assists in the development of relationships and expertise. But boards appear to have a negative influence on business. Transparency and rule of law are the only material defense. We no longer need political representatives in this age, and we no longer need the private sector equivalent. My experience is that boards that do not consist of material owners are universally damaging to a business. (The Buffett Principle: substantive owners with deep knowledge of the business, only). Both boards of directors and stock voting are hangovers from the paper and pencil era. (k) Elimination of all non-safety employment regulation – voluntary association, merit based. This social engineering is harmful to social cooperation, and a constant source of cost and conflict that encourages the internal equivalent of a black market in information. (l) Eliminate taxation on unrealized profits (this nonsense we go through for options for employees). We go through tons of falsehoods to circumvent the fact that while large transfers may occur almost no profits do. So eliminate the burden of preventing false taxation by simply requiring tax only on realized profits. (j) Move all accounting, banking, and credit, nationally if not world-wide to thirteen four week periods, and off the lunar cycle invented in the age of sail. STRENGTHEN 1) rule of law, individual accountability, civic morality, truth content, 2) encourage more Andresson Horowitz investment organization (innovation producing risk taking) and less Goldman Sachs (systemic parasitism). PRESERVE 1) I want to preserve the lottery effect that the stock market provides to entrepreneur, business, and industry, but to limit the finance sector’s ability to disproportionately privatize issues – which is how it’s done today. With little or no value to the economy, business, and citizenry. ELIMINATE 1) Eliminates the ability of the financial sector to direct the economy, only profit from funding the fulfillment consumer demand, thereby forcing the consumer and the investor to have the same interests. 2) Eliminates financial predation on business and industry. (which if you have been involved in it – and I have – is unimaginable ) 3) Eliminates costly burdens on organizations that must preserve multiple fallacies: a) that tax, credit, and operational accounting differ because credit cycles demand stability that does not exist, taxes demand returns that do not exist. b) social engineering compliance is costly and we merely work hard to circumvent it. c) fallacy that the financial sector works in our interest. d) if we distribute liquidity directly outside of the financial system then minimum wage is unnecessary, and the incentive to limit immigration will exist. ( more… but I’m out of time for this today. ) Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine

  • Ending Financial Sector Predation

    (still working on this but it’s getting there) [W]e can stop it. The problem is, that the way we stop it is non-trivial: (a) require all issues released at market price with no favoritism (equal starting gate provision). (b) prevent insurance (hedges), require proportional holding of debt, force proportional losses (‘skin in the game’) (c) eliminate protection from liability for all individuals involved in any transaction, and reward (commission) for reporting offenders – (make it profitable to report your boss or peers.) (d) professionalize banking just like law and certified public accounting increasing the quality of people in the industry. (e) require total transparency of all OPM investor transactions. (what I recommend). (f) move all companies to block chain ledgers. (g) tax arbitrage and volatility entirely, while eliminating taxation on dividends, and appreciation. (eliminate trading and force investing) (h) Buy (federally) ‘bottom-feeder’ Mastercard, and redistribute liquidity directly to citizens rather than through the financial sector and interest rates – in exchange for elimination of sales tax and minimum wage. (what I recommend). These cards cannot be attached or indebted for any purpose whatsoever, private or public. The money is split between disposable and retirement security. The retirement funds are investable. (i) Stocks provide no voting or ownership provisions (positive), only legal defense(negative). One may contract for ownership provisions as condition of investment, but one cannot simply buy up control of companies without consent. (j) Eliminate boards of directors – I have not seen any empirical evidence that a board has any value whatsoever that could not be provided by an advisory board that assists in the development of relationships and expertise. But boards appear to have a negative influence on business. Transparency and rule of law are the only material defense. We no longer need political representatives in this age, and we no longer need the private sector equivalent. My experience is that boards that do not consist of material owners are universally damaging to a business. (The Buffett Principle: substantive owners with deep knowledge of the business, only). Both boards of directors and stock voting are hangovers from the paper and pencil era. (k) Elimination of all non-safety employment regulation – voluntary association, merit based. This social engineering is harmful to social cooperation, and a constant source of cost and conflict that encourages the internal equivalent of a black market in information. (l) Eliminate taxation on unrealized profits (this nonsense we go through for options for employees). We go through tons of falsehoods to circumvent the fact that while large transfers may occur almost no profits do. So eliminate the burden of preventing false taxation by simply requiring tax only on realized profits. (j) Move all accounting, banking, and credit, nationally if not world-wide to thirteen four week periods, and off the lunar cycle invented in the age of sail. STRENGTHEN 1) rule of law, individual accountability, civic morality, truth content, 2) encourage more Andresson Horowitz investment organization (innovation producing risk taking) and less Goldman Sachs (systemic parasitism). PRESERVE 1) I want to preserve the lottery effect that the stock market provides to entrepreneur, business, and industry, but to limit the finance sector’s ability to disproportionately privatize issues – which is how it’s done today. With little or no value to the economy, business, and citizenry. ELIMINATE 1) Eliminates the ability of the financial sector to direct the economy, only profit from funding the fulfillment consumer demand, thereby forcing the consumer and the investor to have the same interests. 2) Eliminates financial predation on business and industry. (which if you have been involved in it – and I have – is unimaginable ) 3) Eliminates costly burdens on organizations that must preserve multiple fallacies: a) that tax, credit, and operational accounting differ because credit cycles demand stability that does not exist, taxes demand returns that do not exist. b) social engineering compliance is costly and we merely work hard to circumvent it. c) fallacy that the financial sector works in our interest. d) if we distribute liquidity directly outside of the financial system then minimum wage is unnecessary, and the incentive to limit immigration will exist. ( more… but I’m out of time for this today. ) Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine

  • FINANCIAL PREDATION (still working on this but it’s getting there) We can stop i

    FINANCIAL PREDATION

    (still working on this but it’s getting there)

    We can stop it. The problem is, that the way we stop it is non-trivial:

    (a) require all issues released at market price with no favoritism (equal starting gate provision).

    (b) prevent insurance (hedges), require proportional holding of debt, force proportional losses (‘skin in the game’)

    (c) eliminate protection from liability for all individuals involved in any transaction, and reward (commission) for reporting offenders – (make it profitable to report your boss or peers.)

    (d) professionalize banking just like law and certified public accounting increasing the quality of people in the industry.

    (e) require total transparency of all OPM investor transactions. (what I recommend).

    (f) move all companies to block chain ledgers.

    (g) tax arbitrage and volatility entirely, while eliminating taxation on dividends, and appreciation. (eliminate trading and force investing)

    (h) Buy (federally) ‘bottom-feeder’ Mastercard, and redistribute liquidity directly to citizens rather than through the financial sector and interest rates – in exchange for elimination of sales tax and minimum wage. (what I recommend). These cards cannot be attached or indebted for any purpose whatsoever, private or public. The money is split between disposable and retirement security. The retirement funds are investable.

    (i) Stocks provide no voting or ownership provisions (positive), only legal defense(negative). One may contract for ownership provisions as condition of investment, but one cannot simply buy up control of companies without consent.

    (j) Eliminate boards of directors – I have not seen any empirical evidence that a board has any value whatsoever that could not be provided by an advisory board that assists in the development of relationships and expertise. But boards appear to have a negative influence on business. Transparency and rule of law are the only material defense. We no longer need political representatives in this age, and we no longer need the private sector equivalent. My experience is that boards that do not consist of material owners are universally damaging to a business. (The Buffett Principle: substantive owners with deep knowledge of the business, only). Both boards of directors and stock voting are hangovers from the paper and pencil era.

    (k) Elimination of all non-safety employment regulation – voluntary association, merit based. This social engineering is harmful to social cooperation, and a constant source of cost and conflict that encourages the internal equivalent of a black market in information.

    (l) Eliminate taxation on unrealized profits (this nonsense we go through for options for employees). We go through tons of falsehoods to circumvent the fact that while large transfers may occur almost no profits do. So eliminate the burden of preventing false taxation by simply requiring tax only on realized profits.

    (j) Move all accounting, banking, and credit, nationally if not world-wide to thirteen four week periods, and off the lunar cycle invented in the age of sail.

    STRENGTHEN

    1) rule of law, individual accountability, civic morality, truth content,

    2) encourage more Andresson Horowitz investment organization (innovation producing risk taking) and less Goldman Sachs (systemic parasitism).

    PRESERVE

    1) I want to preserve the lottery effect that the stock market provides to entrepreneur, business, and industry, but to limit the finance sector’s ability to disproportionately privatize issues – which is how it’s done today. With little or no value to the economy, business, and citizenry.

    ELIMINATE

    1) Eliminates the ability of the financial sector to direct the economy, only profit from funding the fulfillment consumer demand, thereby forcing the consumer and the investor to have the same interests.

    2) Eliminates financial predation on business and industry. (which if you have been involved in it – and I have – is unimaginable )

    3) Eliminates costly burdens on organizations that must preserve multiple fallacies:

    a) that tax, credit, and operational accounting differ because credit cycles demand stability that does not exist, taxes demand returns that do not exist.

    b) social engineering compliance is costly and we merely work hard to circumvent it.

    c) fallacy that the financial sector works in our interest.

    d) if we distribute liquidity directly outside of the financial system then minimum wage is unnecessary, and the incentive to limit immigration will exist.

    ( more… but I’m out of time for this today. )

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-14 03:43:00 UTC

  • How many EU programmers work 80-90 hour weeks on a regular basis in return for s

    How many EU programmers work 80-90 hour weeks on a regular basis in return for stock options? How many in USA? USA invents. EU Copies.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-12 10:42:30 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/675626776341663745

    Reply addressees: @wef

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/675616196671221760


    IN REPLY TO:

    @wef

    Can #Europe ever build its own Silicon Valley? https://t.co/Yg2c68VzkH #tech https://t.co/n5pwtNqPhd

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/675616196671221760

  • So the reason for higher USA tech risk is economy is designed to encourage risk

    So the reason for higher USA tech risk is economy is designed to encourage risk and reward and only ‘interfere’ if someone ‘cheated’.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-12 10:40:55 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/675626377543065600

    Reply addressees: @wef

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/675616196671221760


    IN REPLY TO:

    @wef

    Can #Europe ever build its own Silicon Valley? https://t.co/Yg2c68VzkH #tech https://t.co/n5pwtNqPhd

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/675616196671221760