[I]’ll add a little context by way of political economy, and say that the world (a)first organized by household and slaves in the agrarian era by kinship relations, then (b) organized militarily and monarchally for the unskilled for the seasonal production cycle with extended relations, (c) then industrially and socialistically for the semi-skilled medium term production cycle of heavy capital and long term medium term relationships between firms, and is (d) currently organizing entrepreneurially and social democratically for the educated ‘discretionary worker’ for short term production cycles, highly distributed capital, and temporary networks of firms wherever it can do so. But meanwhile (a) labor was never of much value in contrast to organizing production, and is of still declining value (b) marginal difference in firms was created by capital, and is now created by talent and creativity, (c) the duration of organizations (firms) has continued to decline along with the duration of networks of production. (d) Those countries playing catch-up will not sustain their growth because (e) institutions (trust and corruption) prevent them from doing so. So good institutions are less valuable than not having bad institutions. Worse, it appears that (f) good genetic capital is not as important as not having bad genetic capital. As France is illustrating, you can reverse the Flynn effect (benefit from transitioning from many individual rules to few simple general scientific principles of universal applicability). We are engaged in the third world war at present, and it has no sign of improvement. And neither temporary networks of production nor the governments that facilitate may be able to survive the combination of a third world war, a slowing of growth, and a continued expansion of population of the underclasses for whom gainful labor is decreasingly available. Not trying to rain on your parade, but the reverse side of the coin is just as frightening as the obverse is inspiring.
Source: Original Site Post
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The Truth
[T]he Truth was enough to create the west, and it is enough to restore the west. But we must suppress the liars as we have murder, violence, theft, and fraud. That is because like air, land, and sea, information is a precious commons that cannot tolerate pollution if truth is to survive. Punish the wicked. And if requiring fails, what follows is bloody constraint.
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The Truth
[T]he Truth was enough to create the west, and it is enough to restore the west. But we must suppress the liars as we have murder, violence, theft, and fraud. That is because like air, land, and sea, information is a precious commons that cannot tolerate pollution if truth is to survive. Punish the wicked. And if requiring fails, what follows is bloody constraint.
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Parasitism is as Natural as Cooperation: Man Follows Incentives
[P]arasitism is just as natural as cooperation. And so the function of the law is to discover new forms of parasitism so that the polity can insure one another against the new forms of parasitism. So it is not simply natural to cooperate, it is natural to cooperate as much as incentives allow, and to act parasitically as much as incentives allow. And in almost all cases production is more burdensome than parasitism. So, we create institutions to raise the cost of parasitism such that all incentives favor cooperation. We force everyone to participate in the market in order to survive. And if we don’t grasp this we make the same mistake as the Enlightenment peoples, and in particular the classical liberal libertarians, and the cosmopolitan libertines: that man is good and oppressed, rather than man follows incentives and he needs to be prohibited from parasitism so that his only choice is production. Not just because his participation in production increases productivity, but because his abstinence from parasitism decreases transaction costs, risk, and increases its corollary, trust. In this way, prosperity is created not so much by the emphasis on the good, but on the prohibition of the bad, leaving only good actions available to man. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine
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Parasitism is as Natural as Cooperation: Man Follows Incentives
[P]arasitism is just as natural as cooperation. And so the function of the law is to discover new forms of parasitism so that the polity can insure one another against the new forms of parasitism. So it is not simply natural to cooperate, it is natural to cooperate as much as incentives allow, and to act parasitically as much as incentives allow. And in almost all cases production is more burdensome than parasitism. So, we create institutions to raise the cost of parasitism such that all incentives favor cooperation. We force everyone to participate in the market in order to survive. And if we don’t grasp this we make the same mistake as the Enlightenment peoples, and in particular the classical liberal libertarians, and the cosmopolitan libertines: that man is good and oppressed, rather than man follows incentives and he needs to be prohibited from parasitism so that his only choice is production. Not just because his participation in production increases productivity, but because his abstinence from parasitism decreases transaction costs, risk, and increases its corollary, trust. In this way, prosperity is created not so much by the emphasis on the good, but on the prohibition of the bad, leaving only good actions available to man. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine
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What Does Quoting Great Philosophers Imply?
[W]hen one says “Socrates said…” or some other philosopher, in defense of some position, the fact that these thinkers said one thing or another never increases the merit of the thought – that’s an appeal to authority. Instead, it tells us that this idea has been in the public discourse for many years. And that we are not novel in our thoughts, or particularly insightful in our times. Instead, that we might learn from great minds how they approached the problem and see if we can better them having many additional shoulders of giants to stand upon between long ago, and the present. On the other hand what we find in these ancient texts and in all histories of man, is that he remains constant over time. It is his geography, the number of his population, and his technology that changes. Not he.
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What Does Quoting Great Philosophers Imply?
[W]hen one says “Socrates said…” or some other philosopher, in defense of some position, the fact that these thinkers said one thing or another never increases the merit of the thought – that’s an appeal to authority. Instead, it tells us that this idea has been in the public discourse for many years. And that we are not novel in our thoughts, or particularly insightful in our times. Instead, that we might learn from great minds how they approached the problem and see if we can better them having many additional shoulders of giants to stand upon between long ago, and the present. On the other hand what we find in these ancient texts and in all histories of man, is that he remains constant over time. It is his geography, the number of his population, and his technology that changes. Not he.
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Man Is A Creature Of Incentives. Be Careful What You Wish For.
[B]uilding a nice pretty world is great for impressing the females. But too many of them take it for granted. Feminism killed our incentives to produce that world. They don’t seem to grasp that if we don’t have the incentives for that world, we can create any world we want with the incentives we want, and they’re just along for the ride.
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Man Is A Creature Of Incentives. Be Careful What You Wish For.
[B]uilding a nice pretty world is great for impressing the females. But too many of them take it for granted. Feminism killed our incentives to produce that world. They don’t seem to grasp that if we don’t have the incentives for that world, we can create any world we want with the incentives we want, and they’re just along for the ride.
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Quarter, Ghetto, Now Ghetto City?
[W]e had ‘Ghettos’ and ‘Quarters’ under the Great Christian Monarchies. There is no reason we cannot have ghettos and quarters as we did under smaller scale states, and no reason we cannot have whole cities under today’s governments of greater scale. Rule, governance, commerce, and existence are very different things. (I have seen escape from ny btw. lol)