Oct 1, 2019, 1:08 PM Economics has been a cudgel for justifying a moral bias, not a science to which we must conform our moral intuitions. Libertarians are largely advocating free riding on the commons just as much as socialist advocate free riding upon the private sector. No economic proposition is decidable by either libertarian or socialist without first solving the question of the distribution of a mixed economy, since only mixed economies can survive competition in the market for polities. The answer of course is just rule of law by reciprocity and that we track investments by the polity in returns and prevent the public from privatizing public gains, just as much as we prevent the public from socializing private gains. In other words, it’s largely a problem of record keeping and accounting. The problem is everyone has an interests in maintaining the lie, and maintaining chaos in the public who resorts to petty moralizing out of ignorance.
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The Golden Rule Explained
Oct 2, 2019, 3:41 PM by Luke Weinhagen Those of us living in high trust societies recognize the importance of The Golden Rule. We understand its value and the benefits we derive from it. It is one of the first formal lessons in social interaction we teach our children. But when you stop there at the Golden Rule alone, we too easily take it for granted. What we seem to miss is that rather than the Golden Rule being the First Rule of a high trust society – it is the last. THE FOUNDATIONS And so we often take for granted the other foundational rules:
- Via Positiva: ……. The Golden Rule.
- Via Negativa: ….. The Silver Rule.
- Via Logica: ……….The Natural Law of Reciprocity.
- Via Existentia: …. Rule of Law,
………………………….. … The Jury, and
………………………….. … Markets in everything. - The Iron Rule: …. Might Makes Right.
These are Foundational rules – rules that form the foundations of interaction upon which we build the functions of our society – the closer you get to the Golden Rule the more trust you can support. But High Trust, absent vigilance, allows one to make the mistake of standing on that foundation seeing nothing but the immaculate Gold and stop looking – ignoring the layers below that must be there to support each ascending layer. But these other rules can not be ignored. They are active. Starting from the Iron Rule each rule supports the next, making each possible in turn. The next rule in sequence can not exist without the previous rule being applied and maintained. Today someone is out there applying the fifth rule so that you have access to the fourth. Today someone is out there applying the fourth rule so that you have access to the third. Today someone is out there applying the third rule so that you have access to the second. Today someone is out there applying the second rule so that you have access to the first. “BE THAT SOMEONE” Be willing and able to be that someone. All they way down. If you can not be that someone, be grateful that someone is there. If you can not be grateful, at least do not try to knock that someone down – Trust is valuable and we really want to keep the Golden Rule. These are the rules. They are not complicated, but they are demanding. They are not hard to understand, but they so often seem easy to forget. -Luke Weinhagen
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The Golden Rule Explained
Oct 2, 2019, 3:41 PM by Luke Weinhagen Those of us living in high trust societies recognize the importance of The Golden Rule. We understand its value and the benefits we derive from it. It is one of the first formal lessons in social interaction we teach our children. But when you stop there at the Golden Rule alone, we too easily take it for granted. What we seem to miss is that rather than the Golden Rule being the First Rule of a high trust society – it is the last. THE FOUNDATIONS And so we often take for granted the other foundational rules:
- Via Positiva: ……. The Golden Rule.
- Via Negativa: ….. The Silver Rule.
- Via Logica: ……….The Natural Law of Reciprocity.
- Via Existentia: …. Rule of Law,
………………………….. … The Jury, and
………………………….. … Markets in everything. - The Iron Rule: …. Might Makes Right.
These are Foundational rules – rules that form the foundations of interaction upon which we build the functions of our society – the closer you get to the Golden Rule the more trust you can support. But High Trust, absent vigilance, allows one to make the mistake of standing on that foundation seeing nothing but the immaculate Gold and stop looking – ignoring the layers below that must be there to support each ascending layer. But these other rules can not be ignored. They are active. Starting from the Iron Rule each rule supports the next, making each possible in turn. The next rule in sequence can not exist without the previous rule being applied and maintained. Today someone is out there applying the fifth rule so that you have access to the fourth. Today someone is out there applying the fourth rule so that you have access to the third. Today someone is out there applying the third rule so that you have access to the second. Today someone is out there applying the second rule so that you have access to the first. “BE THAT SOMEONE” Be willing and able to be that someone. All they way down. If you can not be that someone, be grateful that someone is there. If you can not be grateful, at least do not try to knock that someone down – Trust is valuable and we really want to keep the Golden Rule. These are the rules. They are not complicated, but they are demanding. They are not hard to understand, but they so often seem easy to forget. -Luke Weinhagen
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The Rules
Oct 2, 2019, 5:27 PM
Via Positiva: ……. The Golden Rule.
Do unto others as you would have done unto youVia Negativa: ….. The Silver Rule.
Do not unto others as you would not have done unto you.Via Empathia : …….The Copper Rule
Do not unto others as they would not have done unto them.Via Logica: ……….The Natural Law of Sovereignty and Reciprocity.
Limit your actions to productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfers, of the demonstrated interest of others, free of imposition of costs upon the demonstrated interests of others by externality.Via Existentia: …. Rule of Law,
………………………….. … The Jury, and
………………………….. … Markets in everything.The Iron Rule: …. Might Makes Right.
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The Rules
Oct 2, 2019, 5:27 PM
Via Positiva: ……. The Golden Rule.
Do unto others as you would have done unto youVia Negativa: ….. The Silver Rule.
Do not unto others as you would not have done unto you.Via Empathia : …….The Copper Rule
Do not unto others as they would not have done unto them.Via Logica: ……….The Natural Law of Sovereignty and Reciprocity.
Limit your actions to productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfers, of the demonstrated interest of others, free of imposition of costs upon the demonstrated interests of others by externality.Via Existentia: …. Rule of Law,
………………………….. … The Jury, and
………………………….. … Markets in everything.The Iron Rule: …. Might Makes Right.
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Every Man a Common Man
Oct 3, 2019, 7:17 AM By: Bill Joslin, via Brandon Hayes (CD: core) A model for this could be described as concentric rings of influence, centering on the individual and radiating out into the commons based on which domain one acts as judge-of-last-resort. Am I judge-of-last-resort for my mind (clarity of intention) Am I judge-of-last-resort for my body (voluntary intentional action) Am I judge-of-last-resort for my household (do I direct my domestic life) Am I judge-of-last-resort for my livelihood (do I direct my means of survival) Am I judge-of-last-resort which secures (ensures) my property-en-toto Am I judge-of-last-resort in the intergenerational shared commons (do I direct my place in history) For each of those questions, if there is another person to which you are beholden then the answer is no. Everyman a king of his household Everyman a rifleman Everyman a sheriff Everyman a judge ….in opportunity only, secured by demonstrations of ability. Cult of non-submission – cultivation of autonomy
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Every Man a Common Man
Oct 3, 2019, 7:17 AM By: Bill Joslin, via Brandon Hayes (CD: core) A model for this could be described as concentric rings of influence, centering on the individual and radiating out into the commons based on which domain one acts as judge-of-last-resort. Am I judge-of-last-resort for my mind (clarity of intention) Am I judge-of-last-resort for my body (voluntary intentional action) Am I judge-of-last-resort for my household (do I direct my domestic life) Am I judge-of-last-resort for my livelihood (do I direct my means of survival) Am I judge-of-last-resort which secures (ensures) my property-en-toto Am I judge-of-last-resort in the intergenerational shared commons (do I direct my place in history) For each of those questions, if there is another person to which you are beholden then the answer is no. Everyman a king of his household Everyman a rifleman Everyman a sheriff Everyman a judge ….in opportunity only, secured by demonstrations of ability. Cult of non-submission – cultivation of autonomy
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Mercy is a luxury good
“Mercy is a luxury good. Kindness is an unlimited resource.”
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Mercy is a luxury good
“Mercy is a luxury good. Kindness is an unlimited resource.”
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As Deluded as Marx but With Some Economic Literacy Thrown in The Mix to Dazzle and Confuse People.
Oct 5, 2019, 11:04 AM By: Daniel Jordan via Michael Hayes I think it’s difficult for some people to get their brain out of a certain loop. Once someone destroys the illusion that the wealthy are not by necessity rich due to exploitation of the poor because the pie isn’t fixed (only the past is a fixed pie). The next illusion that gets propped up is created by applying this logic to other avenues of life. The idea that mass migration cannot possibly effect you because again the ‘pie isn’t fixed’ or that it simply should not effect you if not for bad policies (excessive welfare state brought onto you by force of the government) and so the next illusion that is propped up in tandem with the non fixed pie view of immigration is the NAP(non aggression principal). And this farcical idea of speculative harm being out of the question for use of force. Now we see the axiom that lays at the root of the ex socialist, neo-liberal. The most important commodity in the commons is trust. Trust that for various biological/cultural reasons can be eroded. NAP can collapse on its own merits if we even allow one iota of punishment for the most heinous of crimes such as murder. It’s not an axiom/ethic congruent with our nature to simply let evil walk free in the name of NAP. Consider the fact that the whole reason you lock someone up for murder is based on speculative future harm. Take the idea of air pollution or water pollution. The latter can generally be solved efficiently through property rights and give people all the protection we need. The former requires targeted regulation due to the nature of the problems and that it’s not really possible to have someone own the air (other than perhaps air traffic rights). Both of these things however have to be backed up by the courts (force, aggression if you will) and both require proactive (speculative) measures. Libertarians generally get economic issues, but they do not have a consistent view of the use of force. I suppose they are perfectly consistent if they are genuine ancaps, but really very few of them are, and that kind of Rothbardian view of humanity is pure fantasy, just as deluded as Marx but with some economic literacy thrown in the mix to dazzle and confuse people.