Dec 23, 2019, 8:18 PM Sovereignty demands Reciprocity, where demand for Reciprocity includes all demonstrated interests, whether bodily, family, physical, normative, traditional, informational, or the civic and political institutions that defend them. Westerners produce commons that other people cannot produce, and we do by NOT DOING evil: lying, misleading, cheating, stealing, free riding, corruption, as much as what we DO: Sovereignty, Reciprocity, Truth, Duty, Heroism. So economists (all of whom are leftists) only measure individual consumer goods, not the production of commons: truth, honesty, integrity, contract, quality, civility, responsibility – which is what makes western civilization unique. What is the price of the norm of truth before face? What is the price of commons before self? What is the price of quiet public places, parks and forests without fear, lockless doors, the intergenerational nuclear family, and family income provided by only one spouse? … … our entrepreneurship, our technology, our medicine? That price is self-denial, the most important of which is soft eugenics: limiting reproduction to that which one can support while producing offspring likewise capable of support without parasitism upon others.
Theme: Demonstrated Interests
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What Price of The Conditions We Sacrificed?
Dec 23, 2019, 8:18 PM Sovereignty demands Reciprocity, where demand for Reciprocity includes all demonstrated interests, whether bodily, family, physical, normative, traditional, informational, or the civic and political institutions that defend them. Westerners produce commons that other people cannot produce, and we do by NOT DOING evil: lying, misleading, cheating, stealing, free riding, corruption, as much as what we DO: Sovereignty, Reciprocity, Truth, Duty, Heroism. So economists (all of whom are leftists) only measure individual consumer goods, not the production of commons: truth, honesty, integrity, contract, quality, civility, responsibility – which is what makes western civilization unique. What is the price of the norm of truth before face? What is the price of commons before self? What is the price of quiet public places, parks and forests without fear, lockless doors, the intergenerational nuclear family, and family income provided by only one spouse? … … our entrepreneurship, our technology, our medicine? That price is self-denial, the most important of which is soft eugenics: limiting reproduction to that which one can support while producing offspring likewise capable of support without parasitism upon others.
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“Equality of Opportunity: The Absence of Impediments to The Demonstration of Mer
“Equality of Opportunity: The Absence of Impediments to The Demonstration of Merit” https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/30/equality-of-opportunity-the-absence-of-impediments-to-the-demonstration-of-merit/
Source date (UTC): 2020-05-30 16:22:51 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1266767037294141443
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“Equality of Opportunity: The Absence of Impediments to The Demonstration of Merit”
Jan 15, 2020, 6:32 PM
—“Equality of Opportunity is only theoretically possible in a totalitarian state and even then it is impossible because those with the power to enforce equality of opportunity would be vastly more powerful than the ordinary citizen and would use that power to further entrench themselves and their class in the power hierarchy. … It’s just a dumb idea. “—Scott De Warren
I think the term means “The Absence of Impediments to The Demonstration of Merit“. The left abused it. The right doesn’t. Western civilization has always provided a path for merit and punishment for the opposite.
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“Equality of Opportunity: The Absence of Impediments to The Demonstration of Merit”
Jan 15, 2020, 6:32 PM
—“Equality of Opportunity is only theoretically possible in a totalitarian state and even then it is impossible because those with the power to enforce equality of opportunity would be vastly more powerful than the ordinary citizen and would use that power to further entrench themselves and their class in the power hierarchy. … It’s just a dumb idea. “—Scott De Warren
I think the term means “The Absence of Impediments to The Demonstration of Merit“. The left abused it. The right doesn’t. Western civilization has always provided a path for merit and punishment for the opposite.
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Our Genome is our property
Our Genome is our property. https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/30/our-genome-is-our-property/
Source date (UTC): 2020-05-30 15:27:11 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1266753025961533445
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Our Genome is our property.
Jan 29, 2020, 4:12 PM Our Genome is our property. Yes. Why? Because we and our ancestors demonstrated interest in it. And we defend it. Therefore it is. Now, you know, we’re happy to get rid of the bottom, as a sacrifice for improving the genomes of others. But that doesn’t mean you can consume our commons.
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Our Genome is our property.
Jan 29, 2020, 4:12 PM Our Genome is our property. Yes. Why? Because we and our ancestors demonstrated interest in it. And we defend it. Therefore it is. Now, you know, we’re happy to get rid of the bottom, as a sacrifice for improving the genomes of others. But that doesn’t mean you can consume our commons.
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A Full Answer of Demonstrated Interests
A Full Answer of Demonstrated Interests https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/28/a-full-answer-of-demonstrated-interests/
Source date (UTC): 2020-05-28 20:37:02 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1266106229178368001
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A Full Answer of Demonstrated Interests
Mar 22, 2020, 11:03 AM It is hard to start with first principles. We always want to narrow the domain set of our question rather than start from first principles. The first principle is time. We are in a continuous competition with time, and our inventory of resources, because of the cost of persisting our existence. Cooperation saves time. we have the same input as we did 50k ypb. The ability to cooperate creates possibility of obtaining returns on time. Cooperation provides caloric returns on time. But all opportunities for cooperation are in competition with others’ wants and opportunities, including the opportunity to prey and parasite upon one another. When people come together in proximity they (a) create opportunities for a division of labor (b) increase choice of goods services and information by division of labor (c) decrease opportunity costs of exchange within that division (d) increase opportunity and incentive for parasitism and predation, (e) create institutions to decrease transaction costs – including risk.
|INTERESTS| Unknown (potential) utility > Known (potential) Utility, Opportunity (potential interest), Demonstrated Interest, Possession, Property, Right, and Title (Proxy).
- Unknown (potential) utility…()
Known (potential) Utility …()
Opportunity: any interest that Man my wish to acquire through his investment that has not yet been invested in by others.
Demonstrated Interest: (homesteading)
Possession: Possession is a Fact. Possessions are Personally insured. Consisting of that which one has acted to prevent others from consumption or use.
Property: Property is a Norm. Property is collectively insured. Consisting of that which evolves as general rules of non-imposition between people with similar kinship, interests, or interdependence. Property is that which is insured against non-imposition by a third party organization.
Property Rights: Property Rights are dependent upon the existence of an institution that acts as the insurer of last resort, and enforces rights and obligations in matters of disputes.
Title …..(title proxy for possession)
THE FOUNDATIONS https://propertarianinstitute.com/2019/03/28/curt-doolittle-updated-his-status-314/ MARKETS https://propertarianinstitute.com/2017/05/25/why-and-how-do-free-markets-work/ THE LAW (Halfway down the page, Part 999 – The Law, Property https://propertarianinstitute.com/government-and-law/