(FB 1547732420 Timestamp) “IF YOU STILL HAVE PROBLEMS, THEN MAYBE INDEPENDENCE IS NOT FOR YOU.” (insight) by Adam Voight You are watching colonialism being replayed right in front of your eyes. This is exactly the same process as we find with the early Modern Period. China will end up owning “too much” of Africa, and people will use their voting power to bail themselves out, and there will be small wars to prevent it. Colonialism is perfectly fine, since it benefits everyone concerned, primarily the colonized. This is why Australia and New Zealand are both currently colonies and yet also two of the best nations to live in. This is why Canada is better off than the USA, Canada gets all the fringe benefits of being a colony with none of the costs, such as having to pay for own self-defence. Africans will beg us to come liberate them, but that will also be a waste of time. Gosh, I recall when I first started arguing with Curt Doolittle, I also thought that colonialism was like the f-ing Original Sin. In reality, it was almost as bad as what came before. The reason why people pretend otherwise is that they need something or someone to blame their problems on. Like really, people if you have been independent for as long as Japan, Korea, or China, then your problems are your own. That’s what it means to be sovereign. If you still have problems, then maybe independence is not for you.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1547748265 Timestamp) NATIONALIZING VISA AND MASTERCARD WILL BE A NECESSITY We are going to nationalize visa/mc with a controlling govt interest rather than regulating it. Why? With the end of consumer interest, the businesses will collapse, and the organization survive entirely on transaction fees. This organization is necessary for the distribution of liquidity, the transfer of payments, and the purchasing of goods, services and information. When this occurs, it will no longer be possible for the card companies to intervene in the process of political speech. Consumer Banking as we know it will largely collapse, and the services will be picked up by grocery stores and drug stores. Private companies will also no longer be able to play credit games with consumers nor issue their own credit, because it will be uncollectible (unenforcible) debt if they do. This will cause a shit-storm. There is nothing in consumer credit that is not purely actuarial (computational). Nothing. There is very little need for enforcement when liquidity is distribute to consumers instead of through the financial system, and consumer debt is paid down from that distribution. The regularity that this will add to the commercial cycle as we can adapt to shocks almost instantaneously will be as historic an improvement as was use of shares in the economy as a money substitute.
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Curt Doolittle shared a link.
(FB 1547732178 Timestamp) KYIV(KIEV) PROPERTARIAN MEETUP! Yves Raphael Burri has launched the Kyiv Propertarian Meetup. They’re having their Kickoff “Startup” Meeting Weds, Feb. 13 at 7pm local time. (I will attend digitally if requested.) This is the (Fyi: Kiev -> Kyiv -> KyEEVE (one syllable, with very soft y after the K. )
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1547744140 Timestamp) —“Different peoples have a very different concept of honor. Ours is the only one that contains speaking truth in it.”—Martin Å tÄpán
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1547708700 Timestamp) —“An unearned equality outcome is theft by another name.”—William L. Benge
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1547744006 Timestamp) PROPERTY IN TOTO, RECIPROCITY, AND THE NECESSITY OF VIOLENCE by Lucas Cort (via brandon hayes) (curtd: this is flawless) Property in toto (demonstrated property) provides a measurement of what humans value. Demonstration of value occurs in human action, when individuals or groups show a willingness and ability to defend said value. The use of violence ensures retention of property and acts as a deterrent against future violations. People can choose the strategies of cooperation, predation, parasitism, or non cooperation. Cooperation with strict adherence to reciprocity being the optimal strategy for long term productive interactions. Reciprocity entails non imposition of costs against others property in toto, through productive, fully informed, warrantied, voluntary transfers. Violations of reciprocity lead to conflict due to asymmetrical imposition of costs. Predation being short term and parasitism being a medium term strategy. Retaliation cycles ensue violations, revealing the need for third party assessment and resolution, including enforcement between parties. This gives rise to the discovery and evolution of Law, an insurer of last resort (polity/government), and the militia. These institutions and discoveries are created and upheld through the use of violence, creating disincentives for violations of reciprocity. Through this incremental domestication of man we maintain group cooperation and reap the surpluses that ensue. Resulting in the rapid evolution and competitive edge of the society at large.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1547696467 Timestamp) The scope of each form of government (religion, law, credit, information, (genetics?)) will expand to exhaust all possible opportunity.
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(FB 1547743834 Timestamp) “A Good Quote is a Gift That Keeps On Giving.”
(FB 1547743834 Timestamp) “A Good Quote is a Gift That Keeps On Giving.”
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1547696411 Timestamp) —“Well jewish novelty seeking and female novelty seeking are the same, right? I think european men are heroism seeking.”— These two directions exploit different opportunities.
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(FB 1547743629 Timestamp) Now it’s ready. 😉
(FB 1547743629 Timestamp) Now it’s ready. 😉