Ukrainian women see a dress they like in a magazine. What do they do? They buy the fabric And either make it themselves or have someone make it for them.
Freaking awesome.
You can spend your time doing all sorts of things. The only choice we have in life is that.
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-09 08:49:00 UTC
Socialism in skirts.
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-09 08:44:00 UTC
Josh Jeppson (ALL)
I figured out how to do it. I knew I would. Thank you for your aggressive persuasion. You were right. I could do it. I can do it.
(Now I just have to live long enough to finish it. lol)
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-09 04:25:00 UTC
ON REISMAN’S CAPITALISM
(from elsewhere)
It’s an exceptional work, and it’s probably timeless. I’ve thought about writing a criticism of it in order to make it even better, and by consequence Austrian Economics (natural economics) even better.
But this brief overview.
All philosophies are class philosophies. Most if not all, are written by the middle class as a rebellion against the status quo, in a bid for rotation of power.
The question is (a) what resources, geography, and competitors are near, (b) what gives a family, tribe, nation, or polity competitive advantage against competitors, (b) once competitive advantage is obtained, then what organization of property, production, and decision making perpetuates and improves competitive advantage.
In this sense, Reissman’s Capitalism, like Natural Law, presents us with an ideal. But competing polities must make contracts within natural law, and within capitalism, that preserve their assets: optimum rates of innovation, given optimum human capital, without exposing the polity to vulnerability from competitors inside and out.
This is the failure of ‘bottom up’ constructions of Natural Law, Common Law, and Capitalism. They tell us that which is law, not contract with one another, just as physics tells us what is law not engineering – the contract with the universe.
Note that I don’t consider mises an Austrian(natural law) but a Polish or Ukrainian Jewish anarchist. And I certainly don’t consider Rothbard an Austrian, but a Russian and Polish jewish anarchist. Although polish, Ukrainian, and Russian jews in that era were indifferent. Austrian Economics and Anarchic economics are different. They share only the avoidance of authority. But Austrian economics seeks social science in order to preserve german sovereignty. Anarchic economics seeks to avoid bearing the cost of the commons in order to preserve separatism. Austrian economics seeks to create liberty as the most competitive commons under natural law. Rothbard and Mises seek to escape any commons whatsoever.
Why? The landed agrarian legal aristocracy of commons producers of versus the un-landed religious middle class of commons free-riders. We carry our group competitive strategy with us at all times as metaphysical and moral value judgements and we cannot escape relying upon introspection for decidability in moral and metaphysical judgements.
So I think this is the correct positioning for reissman’s capitalism: it is a work of natural law – almost. I think it can be made into one.
But it is not a manual for surviving competition. In no small part because we compete for human capital. And human capital chooses rationally not ideologically. And commons are a competitive advantage.
Curt Doolittle
The Propertarian Institute
Kiev, Ukraine
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-09 03:50:00 UTC
Identity: The Categorical Instrument
Logic: The Set Instrument
Mathematics: The Relational Instrument
Physics: The Causal Instrument
Operationalism: The Existential Instrument
Economics: The Cooperative Instrument
Reason: The Rational (Linguistic) Instrument
Social Instrumentalism: Debate, Criticism, Testing.
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-08 14:10:00 UTC
sprawling 2.5 aches, he’s joking right?
make it 250 & I’ll still need to think about it, some of us still remember what happened to the Volga Germans.
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-08 10:09:00 UTC
(Repost. Oldie but goodie)
1) Fiat Money(1) The operating principle behind fiat money is to require taxes be paid using it. This creates a demand for the fiat money that cannot be satisfied without widespread trade that makes use of it, or is conducted for the sole purpose of obtaining the money needed to pay the taxes.
2) Fiat Money(2) The second evolution of fiat money is to legislate that the fiat money be accepted for all debts public and private. This effectively creates a discounted market for fiat money that gives it a competitive advantage against other currencies. In turn this allows the state or government to purchase goods and services at a discount by printing money to do so, and then distributing that discount across all holders of money and assets. We call this inflation or credit expansion depending upon how it’s accomplished.
3) Fiat Money(3)The third evolution of fiat money is to legislate that the fiat money be the ONLY, accepted currency for the payment of debts public and private. This further expands the discount that the state can use to increase purchases of goods and services while distributing the increased costs across all money and asset holders by increasing the amount of money by printing additional money or expanding credit.
4) Fiat Money(4)The fourth evolution of fiat money is to legislate the elimination of all currency in favor of electronic records, the purpose of which is to eliminate the tax evasion rampant in any cash economy, and therefore to increase the government’s income from it’s least wealthy citizens.
5) Fiat Money(5) The fifth evolution of fiat money is electronic redistribution of gains from productive efforts, and the elimination of the ability to save, thus creating a monetary slave economy of total dependence that is no different from the totalitarian feudalism of the pharaohs and the early Mesopotamian states.
Freedom consists in money, property, and the common law under a written constitution that protects money and property and the common law. The only government any population requires is a constitution and the common law, and a body of judges who resolve disputes according to that constitution and common law. Everything else can be privatized, and should be.
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-08 09:18:00 UTC
( this freaking country. someone stole my headphones. a nation of petty thieves. sigh. no commons. anything that isn’t nailed down or policed 24x7x365 gets stolen in the blink of any eye. I swear I go through a set of apple headphones every quarter. )
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-08 06:48:00 UTC
I just figured out the simple UI model that will allow us to replace Microsoft Excel with a next-generation application both similar enough yet innovative enough – and it’s trivial really.
Oversing in later versions will be powerful enough. It may require that we add a desktop version in addition to the web version.
But the Oversing Model holds up.
Just got to get it across the line. So close now.
All those resources that all those people in California have to do what little they do, and we want to revolutionize the workspace and we do it on a shoestring.
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-08 04:03:00 UTC
—“We calculate. Through measuring whether we have added more of various sorts of capital to kin+kith than we have consumed from them, and whether that capital we have consumed was consumed via transactions which are productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfer, free of negative externality, especially from the moment we become conscious that personal adherence to this is a means by which to gauge our demonstrated and continually warrantied value relative to the value of others/competitors in a given investment pool.
One way I do this is by incrementally reporting everything I’ve ever said and done to people in my trust, while protecting the privacy of people with whom I’ve been involved in various things, especially if they imposed no costs/privacy is a means to avoid gossip. Transparency is a means of preventing gratuitous cost impositions, and of beginning to honestly, and truthfully, gauge the value of one’s contributions now or in potential.”— Vivek Upadhyay
Source date (UTC): 2016-05-08 03:15:00 UTC