https://www.quora.com/How-does-the-Libertarian-party-view-the-electoral-college-Are-there-any-reasons-if-they-do-or-do-not
https://www.quora.com/Why-havent-western-countries-signed-the-International-Convention-on-the-Protection-of-the-Rights-of-All-Migrant-Workers-Members-of-Their-Families
https://www.quora.com/Why-havent-western-countries-signed-the-International-Convention-on-the-Protection-of-the-Rights-of-All-Migrant-Workers-Members-of-Their-Families
IMPOSSIBILITY OF AN EQUALITY OF SNOWFLAKES
“Every one of us is a very special snowflake, and we are all equal.”
That doesnt make much sense unless we mean treated equally under the law when we need to resolve a conflict. Marginal difference vs marginal indifference and all that sort of thing….
Source date (UTC): 2014-08-06 03:06:00 UTC
WHAT IS CURT DOING? DRIVING TOWARD FASCISM? (NO)
Just a note to tame the people I might make nervous: Don’t get ahead of me. I have already solved the institutional problem of a heterogeneous system of cooperation over homogenous normative polities – the way we demonstrate that want to live. Shared cooperation but tribal homes. Insurance at scale. I solved that first. The problem has always been in explaining why it’s necessary, and why its the ONLY institutional solution to heterogeneous polity: calculability.
We have to stop people from trying to steal. The history of the evolution of the suppression of free riding is that we must expand our definition of property with the expansion of what we use as property. The commons is property. That property can be polluted with lies, or constantly maintained by truthful debate.
It’s not that complicated. We’ve been doing it mostly right for 4500 years.
I work by constructing arguments out of necessary propositions constrained by a few assumptions: liberty, prosperity, and rates of innovation that improve our genetic competitiveness against others who are doing the same. Our western strength has been the degree with which we have maintained conceptual correspondence with reality while increasing the population we cooperate with. This turns out to produce the greatest rate of innovation of any civilization, allow us out here on the fringe to ‘come from behind’ repeatedly.
The side effect is that we get to profit from selling these innovations to others, just as others previously benefitted from selling their innovations to us. But we have always been in small numbers. And we are returning to a people of small numbers. And we have lost our advantage.
So when I work I run down ideas and test them via argument. some of them succeed and some of them fail. I reinforce the ones that succeed, and discard those that fail. Sometimes I have to abandon entire strains of thought. But when I have an idea, I take it to market and find people to criticize it. And I improve it more.
Right now I am trying to find a solution to what I call ‘lying’ or ‘shipping fraudulent intellectual product’. And while I know the basis of it, I see something very interesting out on the horizon at least as interesting as the other ideas I’ve produced.
And so I am constructing arguments that function as a bridge that extends in that direction.
Curt
Source date (UTC): 2014-08-01 07:45:00 UTC
READING LIST FOR THE COMMON LAW (PRIVATE LAW)
– Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty
– Milsom’s Natural History of the Common Law.
– Plucknett’s A Concise History Of The Common Law.
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-29 11:34:00 UTC
[W]ith private property rights, universal standing, the common (polycentric) law, shareholder dividends (what we think of as direct redistribution, but is constructed as a dividend), what policy is there for us to advocate? If we can’t justify stealing from one another by force of law then what can we try to do, without majority rule? Well, a lot of commons, a lot of contracts, but no thefts. Propertarianism leads us to contractual government. We separate the law, from our contracts. Our law remains constant but we construct voluntary contracts for whatever we need to. Contracts expire, have terms and conditions, and laws do not.
[W]ith private property rights, universal standing, the common (polycentric) law, shareholder dividends (what we think of as direct redistribution, but is constructed as a dividend), what policy is there for us to advocate? If we can’t justify stealing from one another by force of law then what can we try to do, without majority rule? Well, a lot of commons, a lot of contracts, but no thefts. Propertarianism leads us to contractual government. We separate the law, from our contracts. Our law remains constant but we construct voluntary contracts for whatever we need to. Contracts expire, have terms and conditions, and laws do not.
THE BRITS WERE RIGHT, STILL ARE, EVEN IF THEY”VE ABANDONED REALITY.
Except for writing down the constitution in explicit terms (a project that still would be valuable), and giving the proletariat its own house rather than handing over the house of commons, and not ‘really’ preserving the monarch’s right of veto, the british system was superior to the american system in every possible way.
The parliamentary system as they conduct it is superior on so many levels, not the least of which is that we could get rid of an Obama today more easily. The use of Barrister’s and Solicitors is something I would never have thought of but certainly produces better process. And it is easier to hold policy across multiple governments. The one thing I feel strongly about is that the military must be its own branch of government, with written constitutional obligations and limits, rather than commanded by the government. (and when I say military, I mean it in my terms, not extant american terms.)
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-27 02:11:00 UTC
THE COMMON LAW (PROPERTY RIGHTS AND POLYCENTRIC EVOLUTION) ARE A SOLUTION TO POLITICAL ILLS THAT IS AWE INSPIRING.
Elegant: the common law will let us destroy socialism. It’s sort of like the universal solvent: water. It dissolves theft and deception regardless of form, as long as property rights (a protocol) exist to permit it to do its work.
Source date (UTC): 2014-07-27 01:50:00 UTC