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  • Anarchism: What Becomes Of The Idea Of “job Security” Under Proposed Systems Of Anarchist Living?

    Job security is an interesting term, because I don’t know how to define it honestly.   And I don’t think the term is meant to be honest whenever its used.

    None of us has job security if we participate in the market. The security you have comes from maintaining marketable skills. Business today are temporary, disposable alliances.  And it looks like this trend will continue.  Employment likewise will continue to be driven by rapid changes in the marketplace.

    The people outside of the market have ‘job security’ but those people are in ‘jobs’ only by analogy. Is being a soldier a job? Is being a senator a job?  An IRS Agent?  A job is driven by market. Otherwise you’re just another kind of soldier. If you cant be easily unemployed by changes in the market then you aren’t in a job, You’re a paid soldier of one kind or another.

    If the question is, can we have employment insurance.  I think so. 
    If the question is, can we have create a sort of minimum income scheme. I think possibly.  Can we do this in america? I don’t think so. The country is too big. And people are familial and tribal : they are members of some sort of kinship, and they remain that way for life.
    If the question is, can you be insulated from the variation in the market so that you do not have to constantly maintain marketable skills? No, I don’t think so.

    https://www.quora.com/Anarchism-What-becomes-of-the-idea-of-job-security-under-proposed-systems-of-anarchist-living

  • What Would Happen To Monetary Currency Under Proposed Systems Of Anarchy?

    Currency is necessary for a variety of reasons, and groups would get together to form currency unions. I suspect that no matter what happened, in no matter what circumstance, the group that managed to to this best at scale would displace all but a few of the other groups, and that we would once again return to a ‘state’ currency, if not a monopoly currency.  And I suspect those multiple currencies would be precious metals and paper money just like today.

    https://www.quora.com/What-would-happen-to-monetary-currency-under-proposed-systems-of-anarchy

  • Anarchism: What Becomes Of The Idea Of “job Security” Under Proposed Systems Of Anarchist Living?

    Job security is an interesting term, because I don’t know how to define it honestly.   And I don’t think the term is meant to be honest whenever its used.

    None of us has job security if we participate in the market. The security you have comes from maintaining marketable skills. Business today are temporary, disposable alliances.  And it looks like this trend will continue.  Employment likewise will continue to be driven by rapid changes in the marketplace.

    The people outside of the market have ‘job security’ but those people are in ‘jobs’ only by analogy. Is being a soldier a job? Is being a senator a job?  An IRS Agent?  A job is driven by market. Otherwise you’re just another kind of soldier. If you cant be easily unemployed by changes in the market then you aren’t in a job, You’re a paid soldier of one kind or another.

    If the question is, can we have employment insurance.  I think so. 
    If the question is, can we have create a sort of minimum income scheme. I think possibly.  Can we do this in america? I don’t think so. The country is too big. And people are familial and tribal : they are members of some sort of kinship, and they remain that way for life.
    If the question is, can you be insulated from the variation in the market so that you do not have to constantly maintain marketable skills? No, I don’t think so.

    https://www.quora.com/Anarchism-What-becomes-of-the-idea-of-job-security-under-proposed-systems-of-anarchist-living

  • What Restaurants In Middletown, Ct Are Good For Eating Alone?

    Luce is best IMHO.  Although Cannoli’s at Illiano’s are the main reason I look forward to food in Middletown.  (I kind of love eating at restaurants alone – habit from traveling all the time.) 

    If you are really asking if any are good for dating, or meeting people then the answer is ‘none’. Middletown was devastated by the economic and political policies of the postwar era, and still cannot recover from the ‘slumification’ of the Great Society period – but because its’ far enough from Hartford, Meriden, New-haven, Bridgeport which are some of the poorest and most unpleasant parts of America, it has seen some revitalization as a bedroom community. 

    (Old-Middletown family.)

    https://www.quora.com/What-restaurants-in-Middletown-CT-are-good-for-eating-alone

  • What Restaurants In Middletown, Ct Are Good For Eating Alone?

    Luce is best IMHO.  Although Cannoli’s at Illiano’s are the main reason I look forward to food in Middletown.  (I kind of love eating at restaurants alone – habit from traveling all the time.) 

    If you are really asking if any are good for dating, or meeting people then the answer is ‘none’. Middletown was devastated by the economic and political policies of the postwar era, and still cannot recover from the ‘slumification’ of the Great Society period – but because its’ far enough from Hartford, Meriden, New-haven, Bridgeport which are some of the poorest and most unpleasant parts of America, it has seen some revitalization as a bedroom community. 

    (Old-Middletown family.)

    https://www.quora.com/What-restaurants-in-Middletown-CT-are-good-for-eating-alone

  • Can I Get A Good Paying Job If I Studied International Relations?

    There are only two ‘good’ career paths in the present economy: Medicine and Programming.

    Medicine requires intelligence, reading comprehension, discipline, stamina, and exceptional memory skills. (It is not really mathematically rigorous. And is the last high paying occupation that we can say that of.)

    Programming (at least most of it) requires fairly good reasoning and concentration skills. Pay is immediate but tops out before you exit your twenties and you ‘age’ quickly in the discipline.

    Both fields present good opportunities for college graduates.

    If you want a good paying job with international scope then study quantitative macro economics. Unfortunately, economics requires the most mathematical skill and is one of the most challenging disciplines outside of physics or math – even if it tends to pay better.  If you can’t manage economics then it’s useful to study international finance.

    If you can’t manage finance then marketing research analyst requires basic statistical skills and is an interesting job.

    A legal degree used to be  passport but the market is oversaturated and it is becoming an ordinary job.

    Unlike finance, accounting is too tedious for someone with social and international interests, and is the modern entry level discipline for administrative labor.

    “International Relations” is a code word for ‘Administrative support’ or ‘I will sell telephones soon’. 

    The world has become extremely hostile to administrative and communications positions that have no quantitative and or statistical components to them.

    If you are a female who speaks multiple languages and wants to find a mate outside of her family and social circle it is an expensive but useful way to find one. Otherwise no, it is only a meaningful set of culture studies to prepare one for work in finance, law, tax, shipping, or marketing and without  statistical capability in one of those fields it will not be a ‘good’ job unless you’re counting on ‘luck’ to save you. 🙂

    https://www.quora.com/Can-I-get-a-good-paying-job-if-I-studied-International-Relations

  • What Are Some Problems People Will Be Surprised Mathematics Can’t Solve?

    I am not sure that there are problems mathematics cannot illustrate.  That seems unlikely.  I think there are LOGICAL problems with number theory that cannot necessarily be solved with certainty.  Math is  a pretty good way of describing the physical world.  It is a pretty good way of describing complex relations.  But that is different from saying that math can express everything about itself.  And that is probably the fundamental question that we would like to solve, but may not be able to.

    Jack Thompson below, asks the metaphysical question whether real numbers exist, and the answer is one of definitions not of existence.  No, real numbers are platonic entities. Natural numbers exist in nature.  All else is a product of mind. And even natural numbers are names for the act of counting. Everything else an act of calculating ratios.  🙂

    https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-problems-people-will-be-surprised-mathematics-cant-solve

  • Can I Get A Good Paying Job If I Studied International Relations?

    There are only two ‘good’ career paths in the present economy: Medicine and Programming.

    Medicine requires intelligence, reading comprehension, discipline, stamina, and exceptional memory skills. (It is not really mathematically rigorous. And is the last high paying occupation that we can say that of.)

    Programming (at least most of it) requires fairly good reasoning and concentration skills. Pay is immediate but tops out before you exit your twenties and you ‘age’ quickly in the discipline.

    Both fields present good opportunities for college graduates.

    If you want a good paying job with international scope then study quantitative macro economics. Unfortunately, economics requires the most mathematical skill and is one of the most challenging disciplines outside of physics or math – even if it tends to pay better.  If you can’t manage economics then it’s useful to study international finance.

    If you can’t manage finance then marketing research analyst requires basic statistical skills and is an interesting job.

    A legal degree used to be  passport but the market is oversaturated and it is becoming an ordinary job.

    Unlike finance, accounting is too tedious for someone with social and international interests, and is the modern entry level discipline for administrative labor.

    “International Relations” is a code word for ‘Administrative support’ or ‘I will sell telephones soon’. 

    The world has become extremely hostile to administrative and communications positions that have no quantitative and or statistical components to them.

    If you are a female who speaks multiple languages and wants to find a mate outside of her family and social circle it is an expensive but useful way to find one. Otherwise no, it is only a meaningful set of culture studies to prepare one for work in finance, law, tax, shipping, or marketing and without  statistical capability in one of those fields it will not be a ‘good’ job unless you’re counting on ‘luck’ to save you. 🙂

    https://www.quora.com/Can-I-get-a-good-paying-job-if-I-studied-International-Relations

  • What Are Some Problems People Will Be Surprised Mathematics Can’t Solve?

    I am not sure that there are problems mathematics cannot illustrate.  That seems unlikely.  I think there are LOGICAL problems with number theory that cannot necessarily be solved with certainty.  Math is  a pretty good way of describing the physical world.  It is a pretty good way of describing complex relations.  But that is different from saying that math can express everything about itself.  And that is probably the fundamental question that we would like to solve, but may not be able to.

    Jack Thompson below, asks the metaphysical question whether real numbers exist, and the answer is one of definitions not of existence.  No, real numbers are platonic entities. Natural numbers exist in nature.  All else is a product of mind. And even natural numbers are names for the act of counting. Everything else an act of calculating ratios.  🙂

    https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-problems-people-will-be-surprised-mathematics-cant-solve

  • How Do People Who Are Against Taxes Suggest Paying For Government Programs Many Believe Are Necessary?

    PEOPLE AREN’T AGAINST TAXES THEY’RE AGAINST WHAT THEY CONSIDER IMMORAL USES OF THEM.

    1. People do not object to Taxes. They object to what they’re used for. All of them object to some aspect or another.  Why? ….
    2. Because some people’s moral uses of taxes are immoral to others, and vice versa.
    3. The definition of necessary varies considerably for this reason.
    4. The way that things are done, via public or private sector, through saving or through intergenerational redistribution, have serious side effects.  Conservatives do not object to public health care for example. They object to the government running it instead of just giving people credit cards.
    5. Libertarians (the intellectual side of the conservative movement) believe that the problem isn’t government; it’s the behavior of people in a bureaucracy that has a monopoly – instead of using competing private firms to keep quality up and prices down.
    6. The USA redistributes money through government services which are inexpensive, poorly managed, and give terrible results, rather than just giving people the money directly. Most conservatives would prefer that we did not use programs but just gave people money, as long as they were ‘good citizens’.

    MAJORITY RULE IS THE PROBLEM

    This state of affairs is a natural consequence of majority rule where it is not possible to allocate your taxes only to those spending initiatives that you agree with.  Why isn’t it that we can all vote for money to be spent how we want to instead of whoever wins spending everybody’s money the way that they want to?

    WHAT TAXES ARE NECESSARY?

    Very few. 

    • a) The military, and depending upon which theorist you ask, the police. And we have some empirical evidence in both directions on the judiciary.  That’s all that’s technically necessary.
    • b) There are complex reasons why investments in certain commons require government and that is so that we can outlaw free riding and competition (privatizing public good) and therefore decrease the cost of commons, as well as the willingness of people to invest in them.  The problem is that this outlawing competition increases rent seeking and corruption.  so it is a two edged sword.
    • c) Taxes create a demand for fiat money and fiat money allows governments to control rates of inflation, to borrow cheaply, and to act as an insurer of last resort.  All of these things increase the economic capacity of the economy.

    This is the maximum set of necessary functions of government that I am able to justify taxation for. 

    REDISTRIBUTION IS NOT NECESSARY ITS A LUXURY
    Redistribution is a luxury that wealthy communities can afford for limited periods of time when they have a structural economic advantage over other nations.

    But redistribution that becomes a dependency is an increase in risk since no structural advantage persists for long – generally only a generation or two. Redistribution is not a necessary function of government, it is a luxury function of government.

    WHY IN THIS ERA OF TECHNOLOGY DO WE NEED REPRESENTATIVES AND MAJORITY RULE TO DETERMINE THE USE OF OUR TAX  MONEY?

    Why don’t you just vote your taxes (and some portion of the taxes that others generate if you don’t generate any)?  What’s the point of Washington?

    (Very little of our budget is discretionary.)

    https://www.quora.com/How-do-people-who-are-against-taxes-suggest-paying-for-government-programs-many-believe-are-necessary