THE LOWEST AMERICAN PARTICIPATION IN THE WORK FORCE SINCE 1978
“On Friday, the Labor Department reported that 720,000 Americans left the labor force. This exodus pushed the labor force participation rate down to 62.8%, the lowest level since 1978. One out of three adults in neither working nor actively looking for work”
MORE THAN ONE THIRD OF AMERICANS ARE OUT OF IT. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2013-11-08 14:15:00 UTC
ON FB FRIENDS
Friends keep increasing but the demographic is different.
I’m continuing to drop the old employees that I have nothing in common with. Its not like I’m going to get back into the agency or consulting business any time soon. I have the freedom to express myself now that I didn’t have as an American CEO. And while the technology business is a bit libertarian, the agency business is almost entirely socialist.
I did manage to piss off a few people with Buddhist Interest with a few of my sketches. I guess if I want to promote scientifically based morality that I’m an equal opportunity offender. I try not to actually get into religion where it’s arational but still consequentially positive for economic cooperation. I try only to attack religious ideas that are IRRATIONAL and consequentially negative for economic cooperation. But I still manage to dig a hole.
the entirely sentimental libertarians that I seem to offend now and then, well, I ‘m sorry but I’m kind of happy to offend them. I am OK with every religion doing it’s thing, but libertarianism is a pretty weak religion if that’s how you approach it. But some people take it as sacred and when I slay libertarian sacred cows now and then, I expect to lose people.
Women friends are interesting because I actually value their criticism pretty seriously for reasons that are too difficult to go into here. If the canary makes noise I know that I’ve done something wrong. If I say the truth and the truth is what it is, it should be disturbing, but still obvious that it’s true, and that it’s not my fault that it’s true. It’s true that marriage isn’t very good for a lot of women, and its probably disproportionately more satisfying for men. However, our economies depend on marriage and the nuclear family for our political institutions that govern by majority rule, to operate as designed and intended. And redistribution only can function if it’s not from married people to unmarried people and that’s what’s happening. Class is one thing. But if class means married and unmarried that’s going to have pretty serious consequences.
But the number slowly grows.
I can’t imagine there are more than a few hundred people out there that are really interested in libertarian philosophy at any level of detail.
I can’t imagine that there are that many out there who understand that we need a reformation of libertarianism.
I can’t imagine that there are all that many who could understand the argument and solution (although that is what I try to do.)
So I don’t particularly seek numbers, I seek a certain class of individual who is interested in the detail, the reformation, and the solution.
Source date (UTC): 2013-11-08 12:38:00 UTC
Why the ____ does FB nag me to complete profile stupid stuff like the TV shows I watch. I DON”T WATCH THEM. Ok?
Source date (UTC): 2013-11-08 10:57:00 UTC
YOU’VE GOT IT BACKWARDS : ARISTOCRACY
Aristocracy CREATES property rights by forcibly demanding them of everyone he or she encounters, under the threat that he restricts his use of his WEALTH of VIOLENCE, only upon the condition that all others do so as well.
It is not that the world desires property rights. Demonstrably that is false. What the world desires is to be taken care of and to consume, as a comfortable slave or farm animal.
To be human, requires property.
The only possible form of HUMANISM is ARISTOCRACY that demands by the threat of violence, property rights for all.
Without property you are not human. You are only an animal, herded and shepherded like any other.
Source date (UTC): 2013-11-08 10:37:00 UTC
—-TRUE ——————– FALSE——
Operational Language………… Moral language
Compensation……………………Shame, Moral Duty or Claim
Voluntary Exchange…………….Involuntary Transfer
Source date (UTC): 2013-11-08 08:53:00 UTC
CRITERIA FOR CHARITY
I like to sort of randomly give $20 or $50 to someone on the street here now and then.
I’ve been taking my vitamin D lately because the dark season has started, and it makes me incredibly calm and cheerful. 🙂
But I have this sort of criteria that the person can’t look mad at the world or beggardly. They just have to look poor, but that they carry on with quiet dignity.
So usually I find some little old lady, babushka style.
Couldn’t find anyone on the walk home today.
That means just more opportunity tomorrow!
Source date (UTC): 2013-11-08 08:50:00 UTC
http://www.jackdaniels.com/history/charcoal-mellowingJack Daniels, is a Kentucky Whiskey, (and not a bourbon, for the same reasons that distinguish vegetables from fruits – arbitrariness) And I’ve always wondered why it doesn’t set off my allergies. At all. Where, one or two sips of wine, and most vodka, sends me for my inhaler in moments.
Now, I haven’t sent the stuff away for analysis or anything, but I assume that it’s gentility is due to two factors.
1) It’s 80%+ corn (american meaning of the term) rather than wheat or rye
2) It’s charcoal filtered prior to distillation by the Lincoln County process.
I’ve tried using a charcoal water filter for vodka and that seems to help a lot. And of course, most of us know that if you put vodka or gin thru these filters six or seven times they become almost tasteless.
Source date (UTC): 2013-11-08 08:44:00 UTC
RUINING AN AUSTRIAN’S DAY
“Man must act” is of course, true, but it is an incomplete sentence. “Man must act to serve his interests” is the full sentence. And completing the sentence demonstrates it’s irrelevance. The meaningful problem is that “Man must voluntarily cooperate.” And that is where the problem becomes difficult. Because man must actually “calculate and choose to outwide the current course of events”.
We call Reductio ad absurdum arguments rhetorical fallacies for a reason. ANy act of simplification or categorization is necessarily eliminative. “
One must be careful not to eliminate the causal properties of that which is required for later deduction from first principles.
It’s a cute trick of obscurant logic. And the genius is in constructing the (false) obscurant logic. Not in what we can deduce from it.
Human cooperation requires the voluntary payment of vast opportunity costs, for which they expect something in return. No activity is conducted for altruistic reasons. All activity is conducted in exchange for something. Most of it for insurance on inclusion in future opportunity.
Which Mises ignores and Rothbard intentionally avoids.
It’s possible to fix Mises’ Praxeology and Rothbard’s ethics, but only by restoring the recognition of those costs, and the consequential impact those costs have on the program of ethics we libertarians rely upon.
Fixing those errors then, returns LIBERTY TO ARISTOCRACY, truth and clarity, and rescues it from the ghetto of obscurant, deceptive language meant intentionally to mislead.
Source date (UTC): 2013-11-08 07:21:00 UTC
Nerd problem of the day.
Mouse won’t work. Most of my keyboard doesn’t seem to work? But some of it does. Try plugging and unplugging all the different devices… But the Right mouse button still works? Hmmmm….
There is an Apple Mouse in my backpack in the next office. It’s on. Something is pressing on it. So my computer sees ‘mouse down’ no matter what I do.
Ten minutes wasted.
LOL.
( Idea for a good prank really. 🙂 )
Source date (UTC): 2013-11-08 05:52:00 UTC
Brought an extra coffee for the taxi driver this morning.
Instant smiles.
Doesnt take much to make people happy. Just a little evidence that we care about one another.
Source date (UTC): 2013-11-08 05:05:00 UTC