http://www.nationalreview.com/node/388336/printWHERE THE MIDDLE CLASS GOES TO DIE
Urban policy.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-06 15:17:00 UTC
Theme: Class
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THE MIDDLE CLASS GOES TO DIE Urban policy
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LOVE THIS MEME: ROASTED BANKER WITH PRISON SAUCE. A DELICACY
http://t.co/E6nCjY8Bs8I LOVE THIS MEME: ROASTED BANKER WITH PRISON SAUCE. A DELICACY.
Source date (UTC): 2014-10-01 02:30:00 UTC
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MARX WAS WRONG ON LABOR. THE PROBLEM IS ORGANIZING PRODUCTION NOT LABOR. LABOR I
MARX WAS WRONG ON LABOR. THE PROBLEM IS ORGANIZING PRODUCTION NOT LABOR. LABOR IS A COMMODITY WHOSE ONLY VALUE IS DETERMINED BY SCARCITY. THE MORE POPULOUS THE LOWER CLASSES THE LESS SCARCE, THE LESS VALUE.
Organizing production is where the value is created. Potential labor is merely a commodity like wood or wheat.
Organizing production, and in particularly organizing voluntary production using nothing but incentives, in an environment where your offered incentives are tested against other incentives, (your theory of demand for your good or service is tested), is where value is created.
If that was not true, people would never have to look for work. When people look for work they are seeking to ‘buy’ income by participation in the organization of production that they themselves cannot organize and profit from – they are capable only of organizing their OWN labor. Property-Rights Makers(aristocracy), Investors, Bankers, Entrepreneurs, People who calculate in various jobs, down to the people who manage machines and who operate machines, each organize labor – their own and that of others. And we do this all in real time with constantly changing wants, needs, scarcity and prices.
We are rewarded for the value of our contribution, which is determined by the scarcity of our contribution. Organizing production is more rewarding than any other activity. It is extremely difficult. It is extremely difficult and highly unproductive to organize production involuntarily in a managed economy. It is extremely difficult but highly productive to organize production in a voluntary economy.
There is no reason that we cannot use both involuntary (the military) and voluntary (the market) organization of production in the same economy. There is no reason that the physical commons cannot be maintained involuntarily as is the military, while the more complex commons and the market itself are organized voluntarily. Only socialism and libertarianism have tried to enforce a monopoly mode of production. And while I agree that an aristocratic, highly homogenous society that that of the English once possessed could produce a libertarian order, the fact of the matter is that even in that order, we had a lot of lower class labor in oversupply, which for all intents and purposes could have been organized, like the military, for the production of commons.
THE OBJECTIVE OF THE LOWER CLASSES MUST ALWAYS BE TO REDUCE THEIR NUMBER TO INCREASE THEIR TAKE. DEMOCRACY REVERSES THIS AND WORKS AGAINST THEM.
Source date (UTC): 2014-09-29 05:10:00 UTC
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Propertarian Class Theory
1) CLASS BY SPECIALIZATION Weapon of Coercion (influence) Product of Coercion
TABLE: ARISTOCRACY........OLIGARCHY............PRIESTHOOD...CRAFT Violence...........Payment..............Gossip.......Production Suppress Disorder..Organize Production..Resistance...Goods
Humans are capable of only three means of coercion: violence, payment and gossip. Every society produces specialists (elites) in the three means of coercion, violence, payment and gossip, and one non-coercive group: producers. The size of each group varies and the power varies. But because of the limited choices available for coercion, this law of social orders exists of necessity everywhere at all points in time 2) GENDER DIFFERENCE IN STRATEGIC REPRODUCTIVE CONTROL Masculine Aristocratic Eugenic vs Female Gossip(priestly) Dysgenic. 3) COMPETITION FOR RENTS BETWEEN PRODUCERS AND INFLUENCERS I should probably alter this chart so that it operates on three axis to show how aristocrats, oligarchs and priests/academics/public-intellectuals seek rents. CONCLUSION I have been working on this for years and there appears to be no compromise to maintaining the balance of these powers. Anglos had the correct model. The greeks and romans did. We simply lacked the technology (communication and data storage) to extend enfranchisement, and the lower classes were too disgusting (hedonistic and fertile) to include in the power structure.
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Propertarian Class Theory
1) CLASS BY SPECIALIZATION Weapon of Coercion (influence) Product of Coercion
TABLE: ARISTOCRACY........OLIGARCHY............PRIESTHOOD...CRAFT Violence...........Payment..............Gossip.......Production Suppress Disorder..Organize Production..Resistance...Goods
Humans are capable of only three means of coercion: violence, payment and gossip. Every society produces specialists (elites) in the three means of coercion, violence, payment and gossip, and one non-coercive group: producers. The size of each group varies and the power varies. But because of the limited choices available for coercion, this law of social orders exists of necessity everywhere at all points in time 2) GENDER DIFFERENCE IN STRATEGIC REPRODUCTIVE CONTROL Masculine Aristocratic Eugenic vs Female Gossip(priestly) Dysgenic. 3) COMPETITION FOR RENTS BETWEEN PRODUCERS AND INFLUENCERS I should probably alter this chart so that it operates on three axis to show how aristocrats, oligarchs and priests/academics/public-intellectuals seek rents. CONCLUSION I have been working on this for years and there appears to be no compromise to maintaining the balance of these powers. Anglos had the correct model. The greeks and romans did. We simply lacked the technology (communication and data storage) to extend enfranchisement, and the lower classes were too disgusting (hedonistic and fertile) to include in the power structure.
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1) That the family structure of all worldwide organizations, from business and i
http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-principle-ideas-of-the-American-political-theorist-James-Burnham-and-what-is-their-importance/answer/Curt-Doolittle?share=1BURNHAM?
1) That the family structure of all worldwide organizations, from business and industry to politics and government would be replaced by professional managers with empirical expertise in individual disciplines. (Law, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Marketing (Propaganda), etc.)
“The Managerial Society”
2) That Democracies must always result in Oligarchies, without exception, out of necessity.
3) That the entire marxist, socialist, postmodern, (and feminist) program was both dishonest and contrary to science and reason. And that all that will occur no matter what we do, is that we will replace one set of oligarchs with another set of oligarchs and because these oligarchs will function as elites, there will no material difference.
4) IMPLIED: that the managerial class will destroy family, culture, and nation.
Source date (UTC): 2014-09-27 09:48:00 UTC
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data: the imaginary hobgoblin of rising income inequality. Isn’t happening
http://www.aei-ideas.org/2014/09/more-on-the-imaginary-hobgoblin-of-rising-income-inequality-with-data-from-todays-census-report/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+aei-ideas%2Fcarpe-diem+%28AEIdeas+%C2%BB+Carpe+Diem%29#mblCensus data: the imaginary hobgoblin of rising income inequality.
Isn’t happening.
Source date (UTC): 2014-09-16 19:35:00 UTC
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I am not sure that I understand what has happened but Fashion just changed in re
I am not sure that I understand what has happened but Fashion just changed in response to status signals worldwide.
I can see it in the economy – which drives fashion. I can see it in fashion this fall. I can feel my own taste shift. I can feel what my intuition is rejecting. I can see designers are confused as well.
It feels like a search for a less flamboyant conservatism. And thats harder than the experimentalism thats been universal for so long.
I sensed german influence was ascendant, and that new york had lost touch, but not that Californian influence was in decline. It is partly generational as well as economic as the boomers and their hedonistic proletarianism wane in influence.
I wish I had contacts at the fashion editorial level.
This will drive me nuts until I figure it out.
Source date (UTC): 2014-09-16 10:31:00 UTC
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IT IS ONLY IN RETROSPECT I SEE FORMER IDOLS AS INSTRUMENTS OF COSMOPOLITANISM We
http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/ukraine-iraq-and-black-sea-strategy#axzz3C9w2N7iENEOCONS – IT IS ONLY IN RETROSPECT I SEE FORMER IDOLS AS INSTRUMENTS OF COSMOPOLITANISM
We do not need to make the world safe for others, if making the world safe for others is making the world unsafe for us.
End the empire.
http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/ukraine-iraq-and-black-sea-strategy#axzz3C9w2N7iE
Source date (UTC): 2014-09-02 08:09:00 UTC
