My experience over the past month has convinced me even more, that the state is an out-of-control predator. And that one’s only defense is portable property – a mixture of cash and gold. And that any real property one possesses, is just on lease from the state until they can find someone who will pay more for it than you do.
We have been fattened and herded for ready slaughter.
The road to hell is paved with cheap, unearned, status signals.
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-23 07:08:00 UTC
http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/12/22/propertarianism-vs-libertarianism-universally-descriptive-vs-preferentially-prescriptive-but-still-all-rights-as-property-rights/PRIVATE PROPERTY AS THE SUPPRESSION OF DISCOUNTS.
(profound)(important)
The Central Problem of Human Cooperation Is Suppression and Prevention of Free-Riding.
Private property rights, or rather, absolute private property rights, effectively place a ban on all free riding. The use of the state to police the prevention of free riding, transforms free riding into rent seeking both inside the government and out.
We advocate private property.
However that confuses consequence with cause. If we suppress all free riding in a society, we are left with absolute private property and the high trust society.
The state is a means for restoring the ability of people to conduct free riding via rent seeking while forcing the productive classes ever harder onto the hamster wheel of competition.
In this long article, I summarize propertarianism, and the construction of property rights via the total suppression of free riding (technically, in economic terms, ‘discounts’).
This helps illustrate the cause of which private property is the result.
(Edited version of prior post)
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-22 15:22:00 UTC
http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/12/22/propertarianism-vs-libertarianism-universally-descriptive-vs-preferentially-prescriptive-but-still-all-rights-as-property-rightsPRIVATE PROPERTY AS THE SUPPRESSION OF DISCOUNTS.
(profound)(important)
The Central Problem of Human Cooperation Is Suppression and Prevention of Free-Riding.
Private property rights, or rather, absolute private property rights, effectively place a ban on all free riding. The use of the state to police the prevention of free riding, transforms free riding into rent seeking both inside the government and out.
We advocate private property.
However that confuses consequence with cause. If we suppress all free riding in a society, we are left with absolute private property and the high trust society.
The state is a means for restoring the ability of people to conduct free riding via rent seeking while forcing the productive classes ever harder onto the hamster wheel of competition.
In this long article, I summarize propertarianism, and the construction of property rights via the total suppression of free riding (technically, in economic terms, ‘discounts’).
This helps illustrate the cause of which private property is the result.
(Edited version of prior post)
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-22 15:01:00 UTC
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Source date (UTC): 2013-12-19 04:25:00 UTC
http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20101129_geopolitical_journey_part_6_ukraine?utm_source=Stratfor+Subscribers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=8d7d7ae7d6-131217_Gweekly12_16_2013&utm_term=0_1c43cbbe1e-8d7d7ae7d6-49046401&utm_content=readmoreBEST ARTICLE ON UKRAINIAN SOVEREIGNTY THIS YEAR
(I read Stratfor religiously)
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-17 07:32:00 UTC
TWO ENGLISH LANGUAGE TRIVIA FOR MY UKRAINIAN AND RUSSIAN FRIENDS.
1) “Subtile” looks like it should be pronounced SUB-tile. The origin is a latin word “subtilis”, meaning ‘delicate’. However, the anglicization of the latin ‘Soob-teel-ees’ dropped the “B” sound, and in modern english it’s pronounced ‘SUH-TUL’. Like “settle”, or “suttle”.
Why do we keep these spellings? English consists of Anglo Saxon, Latin, and French words. The spellings help us identify the origin of the words, how it is pronounced, and many other subtle clues, and help clarify words that have similar sounds but different meanings. (and it’s an anglo thing to be fascinated by minuscule bits of history. Which is why so many historians are british.)
2) The show will be aired at 10PM – 9 Central. Or 10-9c. Or some equivalent like 9 Eastern, 12 pacific time. The USA is divided into four time zones: Pacific, mountain, central, and eastern. There are very few people in the mountain areas in the middle of the country, so when networks broadcast television shows, they save money by only showing a film or episode three times, instead of four, by combining the mountain and central time zones into a single broadcast. This means that you have to stay up later in the mountains to see your favorite shows. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-15 14:44:00 UTC
THE COMPACTNESS OF A THEORY : PROPERTY
Compactness of any theory, is not necessarily a virtue for the purpose of communication. Some theories can only be expressed in the form of a novel, and then via some shorthand reference to the arc of the narrative. Darwin’s evolution is an example of a shorthand that still has not managed to penetrate human cognitive biases: After all, evolution favors complexity within a niche, but not in the direction of anything.
I am naturally wordy because I am obsessed with a certain kind of perceptive precision as guarantee against misinterpretation. I would rather lose the reader, than marginally move him, albeit in the wrong direction. I am still torn, but my experience is, that people begin to grasp my work this way without making early judgements.
I started out with Propertarianism in narrative form, as a new parable for conservatism. And I have reduced it to a limited grammar and terminology. And now am engaged in narrowing Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics and Politics, into a very small number of rules, based upon the necessity of calculation – where I mean calculation in the broadest sense of defining differences.
Compactness matters because it reduces your possibility of error. Intelligibility is more a problem for the reader. For the author of any theory, the expression of that theory in terms least open to misinterpretation, and your work most open to testing.
A compact argument with vast explanatory power is the holy grail.
Property, and Propertarianism, are that missing grail. And with property under propertarianism, we possess a set of technologies capable of expressing and clarifying, not only logic (reason), but mathematics (relations), physics (causes) and economics (actions).
I care a bit more about knowing this than I care about anyone else knowing it. But that’s selfish. 🙂 So I will continue to improve it, and publish my work.
Cheers
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-15 12:24:00 UTC
-WEAPONIZE OUR AESTHETICS-
Brilliant.
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-15 11:58:00 UTC
Sigh… Entrepreneurship is the only way I can support my philosophy habit.
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-15 10:42:00 UTC
WHOEVER TOLD ME ABOUT 20K IU VITAMIN D, THANK YOU
Sleep is…. a wholly different experience. 🙂 Yummy.
Source date (UTC): 2013-12-15 08:34:00 UTC