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  • WHY DON”T WE TEACH MARXIST ECONOMICS EXCEPT IN SOCIOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY AND LITERAT

    WHY DON”T WE TEACH MARXIST ECONOMICS EXCEPT IN SOCIOLOGY, PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE?

    —“No one teaches Marxism in economics….” vitiates any merits there may be to your rather prosaic submission 🤔”— Jason Tutu

    Find me some university economics department that teaches marxist economics. They may teach a touch of marx in the history of economic thought. They don’t teach it at all. IN fact I don’t know any economics department that teaches anything other than mainstream (keynesian, saltwater) thought, albeit with some nod to chicago and at least in the best, some nod to austrian (mengerian). That’s because the labor theory of value is clearly false, economic calculation and coordination is impossible, and incentives are impossible, and every attempt at marxism whether fast failure (communism), medium failure (authoritarian socialism), or slow failure (democratic socialism) has failed, for not just one of the three reasons, but for ALL three reasons. And it cannot be otherwise. Why? Because in the end it violates the laws of physics, violates human moral intuition, which is bound by the laws of physics and therefore reflects them, and because there are limits to the debt-credit of human intuition and memory that make it possible for us to shift time between us so that we can obtain the outsized returns on cooperation, within those laws of physics.

    There are few people on this planet whounderstandd these subjects as well as I do and if you manage to capture the attention of one of us and actually respond to you, its wise counsel to read and understand what is being said to you.

    I do this for a living online because the public functions not just as my classroom but because of my method by teaching using king of the hill games, the public also serves as my test subjects.

    Affections.

    Curt


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-26 11:30:00 UTC

  • MARX, MARXISM, THE WESTERN SOLUTION, AND HIS LIFE OF FRAUD, IN HISTORICAL CONTEX

    MARX, MARXISM, THE WESTERN SOLUTION, AND HIS LIFE OF FRAUD, IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT

    —“Folks criticize what they don’t understand. Marxism advocates nothing like uniform income. The central dogma of Marxist economic philosophy is “From each according to his ability, and to each according to his need”. How can this translate into an advocacy for uniform income?

    The redistribution programs and other such interventions are geared towards redressing the prior social injustices that led to the undue accumulation of the means of production and opportunities by a few; to create access and opportunity for those with the ability to become productive members of society, but by the very accident of their births lack such opportunities. This should not be contorted into the school of thought which indiscriminately redistributes wealth without recourse to ability nor need, typical of the welfare state. Thus it’s quite instructive to distinguish the welfare state from the socialist state. …. Mind you, egalitarianism calls for equal rights and equal opportunities; this does not in any way guarantee equality of outcomes. Thus the presupposition that Socialists’ advocacy of equality of rights and opportunity means a certain determination of equality of incomes and any other such social outcomes is a flawed deduction. …. Lastly, it’s Marxism that introduced the concept of labour as capital in the production process in the first place; insisting that without labour, Finance Capital and Production Capital cannot automatically create value. So at what point does Marxism deny the value of humans in the production process?”—Jason Tutu

    Yes, except every premise he relied upon, and you reiterated is false, and those that aren’t false, are dysgenic.

    Families produce individual members of families.

    The distribution of proceeds of production by family despite the individual rights of the individual to property. That’s why families exist as the central unit of production in all civilizations that survive – and their work product is another generation of humans.

    The only ‘according to need’ that is ‘measurable’ is equality with subsidy for the dysgenic, diseased, or results of accident. Nothing else is need.

    The only ‘according to ability’ that’s measureable without markets is coercion, favoritism, corruption.

    The only ‘advantage’ to be gained under such a scheme is competition for the most dysfunctional so that one can do the least and consume the must – and that’s what we see in every instance.

    Labor isn’t capital. That’s the thing. Its just cheaper than automating until the present era. *all the value that is created is created by the ORGANIZATION of production*. Everyone else is just a fungible domesticated animal.

    And that is what we see in labor markets around the world.

    Labor is cheaper than slaves, because they can be positively motivated, and seek self interest. (In fact, investing hgh trust hgh value capital into low trust low value labor is merely a way of putting dead weight semi-domesticated animals to use such that they are less a burden on the productive.)

    All marxism did was return man to the condition under which he makes the least possible contribution in order to survive, and seeks rents, black markets, and corruption, by every possible venue. Marx tried to restore slave economy. All creativity (Positive incentive) evolves in the invention of black markets (every market other than the productive market, and every market other than the one suppressed by the authoritarian communist state).

    No one teaches marxism in economics, as other than yet another fantasy-moral-literature, except in pseudoscientific rather than supernatural, or moralizing prose.

    The most damning evidence of all, and why the marxist program of undermining western civilization’s tripartic division of responsibilities between the classes, by the generation of class conflict ended in the 60s and was replaced immediately by the Postmodern and Feminism as a means of undermining western civilization through gender and identity conflict, was that consumer capitalism and fiat credit, and fiat currency, made possible the expansion of employment and the vast at the cost of entrepreneurs and capitalists’ inability to save accumulated earnings except by flight into commodities (oil) or rental assets (land, buildings). The only beneficiary of the capitalist program has been the common man. And the only correct that needs to be made is the redirection of consumer credit from the financial sector (which has captured all gains from increases in employment and increased consumption) to the government, thus relegating the financial sector to the production of innovation, instead (driving them again out of savings) and back into longer and longer research cycles, with higher and higher returns .

    To offset this shift, the government may no longer generate inflation that would alter this investment, and instead redistribute liquidity (increase in the money supply to maintain monetary velocity in the economy) directly to consumers, to maintain the velocity and volume of investment, without requiring manipulation of the labor market. This effectively makes ordinary people shareholders in the state and eliminates all demand for, want of, immigration outside of exceptionally talented experts. And immigration must be stopped because it will destroy the balance by increasing the unproductive and dependent population to the point of causing the same systemic failure as the concentration of the results of liquidity distribution in the financial sector.

    I’m a lot better than marx mostly because I don’t want to lie cheat and steal, and undermine western civilization. He did. He was a parasite his entire life. And he tried desperately to justify and expand hs parasitism. Else if he was a moral and ethical and honest man he would have stopped taking money from Engels when he stopped writing, as soon as he’d read Menger and the marginalists, and in doing so understood his entire edifice was wrong, and that he had been falsified, and his work no longer of merit.

    Others would have known this except when Keynes used marx’s research to write the general theory he couldn’t believe anyone would see it as other than a means of recovering from the war, and a general strategy for economic development. Hayek likewise didn’t refute keynes’ reformation of marx, because he couldn’t imagine people being that stupid. Unfortunately, he didn’t, move on once he understood the problem of modernity was not economics but the rule of law, and while keynes told hayek he would correct the public and government if they got out of hand, he died early before he could do so.

    Marx was just another lying cheating scumbag like Boaz, Freud, Adorno, Derrida, trying to overthrow the applecat for no other reason than to rebel and get attention, so that he could have the pretense of moral cover by which to get away with parasitism – and he wanted to industrialize parasitism. And 100M people are dead because of it.

    An there are still idiots running around talking about marxism without realizing that there isn’t any difference between marx and tolkien other than subject matter. It’s fiction. Fantasy fiction. The difference is tolkien was moral and marx was, like saul of tarsus who he imitated, a sick evil immoral human being.

    I understand marx far better than anyone else I’ve ever met. But that’s because I’ve spent a great time studying the female and abrahamic means of deceit by false promise, baiting into hazard, profiting from hazard, and hiding behind pretense of moral ambition, selling by pilpul and defending by critique, to create the semitic dark ages we escaped, and to try to create the second semitic dark ages, we have been entering since Das Capital. Marx is just another crook lying by intuition, and covering his lies with extremely detailed fictionalisms.

    The most obvious sophism in the above post, is:

    —“Marxism advocates nothing like uniform income.”—

    Not directly, but he presumes (a) people are relatively equal in value, or worse, that many people are not harmful to others by their mere existence; When it is the excess of harmful people that are more influential to the current condition than the beneficial people; (c) western success was as much a product of our thousands of years of eugenics, as it was our truth telling, traditional law of sovereigns, and preference for technology and magic we controlled, over supernaturalism and the occult that controlled us. (d) labor is other than yet another fungible resource, and organization of production takes all the risk and creates all the value – automation has made this painfully obvious over the past fifty years – and it’s escalating.

    Marx was recommending a repeat of the semitic dark ages, this time in pseudoscience instead of supernaturalism, that would expand the underclasses we sought so hard to gracefully reduce, thereby reversing our self-evolution.

    He was a fantastic liar.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-26 11:19:00 UTC

  • “Apologies. Last night’s ‘Happy Hour’ only served to increase my disdain for ple

    —“Apologies. Last night’s ‘Happy Hour’ only served to increase my disdain for plebs”—Micah Pezdirtz


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-26 09:46:00 UTC

  • “For libertarians to understand men in full, would require they BE men in full.”

    —“For libertarians to understand men in full, would require they BE men in full.”—Micah Pezdirtz

    (Micah’s brutal this morning) 😉


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-26 09:44:00 UTC

  • “Libertarianism is Peter Pan government”—Micah Pezdirtz

    —“Libertarianism is Peter Pan government”—Micah Pezdirtz


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-26 09:42:00 UTC

  • “Then again, if libertarians wanted to understand man in full, they wouldn’t be

    —“Then again, if libertarians wanted to understand man in full, they wouldn’t be libertarians.”—Marshall Lentini


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-26 09:28:00 UTC

  • Decidability by Luke Weinhagen 1. Decidability facilitates the defining of limit

    Decidability

    by Luke Weinhagen

    1. Decidability facilitates the defining of limits.

    2. The defining of limits facilitates the discovery of full accounting.

    3. The discovery of full accounting facilitates the enforcement of reciprocity.

    4. The enforcement of reciprocity facilitates the suppression of parasitism.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-25 21:23:00 UTC

  • “CAN I WRITE A 1000 PAGE NOVEL TODAY?”— 1. It’s economically unwise at present

    —“CAN I WRITE A 1000 PAGE NOVEL TODAY?”—

    1. It’s economically unwise at present to write a 900 page novel. It is much better to break it into three books, and edit to provide rewards for the reader at the end of each.

    2. It is extremely difficult to accumulate sufficient life experience to provide character, plot, and environmental novelty (entertainment) for 900 pages. That’s why people don’t do it – they can’t.

    3. The current trend is simply ‘more’ characters, plots, etc in an effort to move beyond the exhausted 90-min plot lines, that books were written for, in the hope that they would be optioned as scripts.

    4. To answer the question, I would need to understand the plot, theory, or experiment you’re trying in the book, the number of characters, and maybe a few of their story arcs.

    Authors you might know:

    RRMartin (Can I reverse the good vs evil exhausted plot line through continuous character development using epic character arcs over a long period of time, written for teens, and young adult heroes with adult subject matter,).

    Rowling ( can I reach a young adult or teen audience, with a stereotypical boy’s adventure, written from a girl’s perspective and voice, played by a boy to to maximize my book sales, using one year of schooling at a time, where the character grows with the audience and books are released in parallel to the audience’s growth.)

    Stephenson (Cryptonomicon: can I write the seminal work of the Cyberpunk era, combining Ludlum’s thriller, King’s Characters, Tom Clancy’s scale, tech entrepreneur life in the dot com boom, And in doing so explain the the history of cryptography across generations, construction of the world banking and economic system, and how it could change in the future, shifting the world power balance. Maybe gibson was more influential, but Stephenson wrote the canon literature of that era.)

    Eddings (can I merge with wizard of earthsea, pohl’s ‘scientific magic’, and tolkien’s epic wars between civilizations, and do the characters well enough to get a away with it and not be called a hack? Add a hundred other copycats using the formula after him here….)

    King (It, the Stand – most of his books – Can I weave an entire village , an enormous cast of characters, into an epic of mythic consequence mystery and scale, and succeed with most of the characters by producing an backstory, dialog, and character arc the audience will empathize with despite so many of them you need a score card to keep track. I mean, the stand is a dark sci fi attempt at Tolkein’s epic. We should note that while King does manage to produce some archetypal characters in a novel context he failed in the stand to achieve his goal of maintaining character empathy, and audience interests, for the duration.)

    Rand (Atlas Shrugged can I write a play that the reader will empathize with, that creates a middle class heroic mythos of creative excellence, where the characters represent political archetypes, instead of writing another work of philosophy that will be ignored? (it worked despite cutout characters. Not as clear as plato’s socrates, but she did it.) )

    Tolkien (Can I create the largest most detailed alternate world ever tried by the reconstruction of the tradition of anglo saxon, germanic, proto-germanic european, mythos as a means of exploring ancient tongues. Can I write an anglo saxon world we would be desperate to live in, because we sense it is more moral than the world we live in today? Don’t over analyze Tolkien. ).

    Michner: (can I learn about and teach history of different areas of the world by weaving long intergenerational family stories over many generations with interesting plots with strong characters instead of writing a history book or set of biographies – and will that sell to readers? Absolutely.)

    Gone With The Wind … (The experience of the entirety of the civil war in the south?)

    War And Peace (the experience of the entirety of the napoleonic invasion of russia and leave a lasting memory of it as a monument? Yes.)

    Don Quixote (Can I write a homeric epic of equal meaning, and greater tragedy because modernity traded knowledge and prosperity yes, but destroyed chivalry, honor, nobility – and his idealism is considered insane and useless in the face of modernity.

    You get the point.

    What are you going to deliver in 900 pages of novel that is novel, and novel enough to hold the reader’s attention when his or her attention is competing with every other demand for his or her attention? What do you have to offer?

    I wish I could get people to write write an overview of their plot (a theory of the book), then some back story. then some character backstories. Then write a few SCENES. So then you can immerse yourself in a world and weave your way through it because you have enough to work with that you won’t just imagine the most recent stereotypical thing you encountered.

    Try to write the skeleton of the story while inspired, in just one to t three weeks. Even if you just throw it away. Then pick scenes that you feel inspired to work with. You will find that you will create anchors, and then ask “why would my characters get from A to B”.

    Research. Fill your head with whatever your character’s head would be filled with in the circumstance. then your writing won’t be trite.

    If you sit down and try to daydream a novel you will create precisely nothing novel.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-25 21:16:00 UTC

  • I need more Daniel Roland Anderson these days. Where are you? lol 😉

    I need more Daniel Roland Anderson these days. Where are you? lol 😉


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-25 20:15:00 UTC

  • P-DECIDABILTY IS A DANGEROUS IDEA! by Duke Newcomb This decidability is a danger

    P-DECIDABILTY IS A DANGEROUS IDEA!

    by Duke Newcomb

    This decidability is a dangerous idea.

    If the you-know-whos were to figure out the stuff we talk about and what we really mean, they’d SHUT IT DOWN!

    Decidability may be more of an antipode to parasitism than reciprocity. A decidable institution could hit such an escape velocity that it would shake off or burn off parasites along the way. It could not just counter the small hats’ group strategy as enforced reciprocity does, it could foreclose on its use.

    Perhaps that’s wishful thinking on my part, but mein Gott, this idea seems highly radioactive and long half-lived.


    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-25 19:48:00 UTC