Theme: Incentives

  • “Did your views change at all when you had children?”

    October 20th, 2018 8:27 AM

    —“Did your views on allocation of public funds change at all when you had children from when you didn’t?”— Dan Springhorn

    [N]o. It was just study of economics and history: data. And most importantly, when I understood the uniqueness of western civilization as commons. Now, there are no such thing as ‘public funds’ other than credit money. The rest is private funds that have been possible because of the political order of property rights. So, there is a difference between redistribution for consumption, and redistribution into commons, and the externalities whether consumptive or common. In general, parks, infrastructure, and insurance are good commons, but charity needs be private so that it produces the optimum externalities (charity) vs the worse possible externalities (welfare that breeds dysgenia). ( As a side note, I (me, myself) don’t figure into my thinking much at all. My test is reciprocity, capital production, competition, eugenics, and evolution-transcendence. )

  • “Did your views on allocation of public funds change at all when you had childre

    —“Did your views on allocation of public funds change at all when you had children from when you didn’t?”— Dan Springhorn

    No. It was just study of economics and history: data. And most importantly, when I understood the uniqueness of western civilization as commons. Now, there are no such thing as ‘public funds’ other than credit money. The rest is private funds that have been possible because of the political order of property rights. So, there is a difference between redistribution for consumption, and redistribution into commons, and the externalities whether consumptive or common. In general, parks, infrastructure, and insurance are good commons, but charity needs be private so that it produces the optimum externalities (charity) vs the worse possible externalities (welfare that breeds dysgenia).

    ( As a side note, I (me, myself) don’t figure into my thinking much at all. My test is reciprocity, capital production, competition, eugenics, and evolution-transcendence. )


    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-20 08:27:00 UTC

  • Jonathan (all): The same demonstration of ‘Affordable Preference Pursuit’ is the

    Jonathan (all): The same demonstration of ‘Affordable Preference Pursuit’ is the reason that under prosperity we’ve diverged politically instead of converged as expected: Feminine, Equalitarian Proportionality, Herd morality vs Masculine Reciprocity Proportionality,Pack morality.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-20 00:28:57 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1053442915077361667

    Reply addressees: @JonHaidt @glukianoff @sciencemagazine

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  • Is the Alt Right Socialist?

    October 19th, 2018 9:44 AM IS THE ALT RIGHT SOCIALIST? (A Response to Jeff Tucker) 1) The alt right chooses nationalism (the optimum group evolutionary strategy) over globalism (the worst possible group evolutionary strategy for sovereign peoples). 2) The alt right claims (correctly) that (under nationalism) the debate is not between capitalism and socialism since all extant and all SURVIVABLE polities are and must be mixed economies – but between (a) rule of law, vs. arbitrary rule, and (b) unlimited trade that allows costs imposed upon the polity by externality, vs limits to trade that prohibits costs upon the polity by externality. This is because lower prices that are obtained in exchange for the spectrum of losses to capital including human capital are not in fact lower prices, but involuntary transfers by indirection. 3) The alt right claims (correctly) that the returns on Commons (capital accumulation) are higher than the returns on consumption for the purpose of signaling. Libertarians must choose if they are Globalists and Dysgenicists and Destroyers of capital in exchange for consumption, or Nationalists and Eugenicists, and creators of capital by investment in commons. Libertarianism is unmasked: Jewish (rothbardian) Diasporic Globalist Dysgenic Capitalism (capital accumulation in separatists), or European Nationalist Eugenic, Mixed Economy (capital accumulation in commons). The west outpaced the rest by the simple but profoundly expensive strategy of producing commons, including the commons of trust, truth, rule of law, reciprocity, and the suppression of ir-reciprocity by externality, thereby creating a condition of ‘morality’. There is a reason why large companies are in protestant (Hajnal Line) states: trust. There is a reason low trust polities do not produce large companies.

  • WEALTH CREATES OPPORTUNITY TO PURSUE BIASES. The presumption that people would c

    WEALTH CREATES OPPORTUNITY TO PURSUE BIASES.

    The presumption that people would converge was wrong. Instead, when given license, people specialized (diverge).


    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-17 21:21:00 UTC

  • “MARKETS OF THE VIA-NEGATIVA A.K.A.: “Incremental Suppression.”— Bill Joslin

    —“MARKETS OF THE VIA-NEGATIVA
    A.K.A.: “Incremental Suppression.”— Bill Joslin


    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-16 21:10:06 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1052305709013114880

  • Markets of The Via-Negativa

    October 16th, 2018 1:44 PM MARKETS OF THE VIA-NEGATIVA [M]arkets don’t do much more than suppress the network of rents that exist wherever market competition does not. As always, markets are a via-negativa good. Just as law is a via-negativa good. Just as falsification is a via negativa good. We never know the truth, the good, the moral, the just, we only know their opposites. Why? Our knowledge is forever incomplete.

  • Markets of The Via-Negativa

    October 16th, 2018 1:44 PM MARKETS OF THE VIA-NEGATIVA [M]arkets don’t do much more than suppress the network of rents that exist wherever market competition does not. As always, markets are a via-negativa good. Just as law is a via-negativa good. Just as falsification is a via negativa good. We never know the truth, the good, the moral, the just, we only know their opposites. Why? Our knowledge is forever incomplete.

  • NYU MED SCHOOL FREE TUITION…. (how?) As Usual, NOTHING TO DO WITH NYU – everyt

    NYU MED SCHOOL FREE TUITION….

    (how?)

    As Usual, NOTHING TO DO WITH NYU – everything to do with Entrepreneurs.

    The wife and the founder of home depot gave 100M to NYU for the program IF AND ONLY IF they can rise the other 600M to fund the program. In other words, RICH PEOPLE ARE PROVIDING AN ENDOWMENT that will (hopefully)produce sufficient returns that the TUITION (and only the tuition) will be free for STUDENTS.

    Nothing is free. Someone always pays. Someone must.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-16 16:31:00 UTC

  • MARKETS OF THE VIA-NEGATIVA Markets don’t do much more than suppress the network

    MARKETS OF THE VIA-NEGATIVA

    Markets don’t do much more than suppress the network of rents that exist wherever market competition does not. As always, markets are a via-negativa good. Just as law is a via-negativa good. Just as falsification is a via negativa good.

    We never know the truth, the good, the moral, the just, we only know their opposites.

    Why? Our knowledge is forever incomplete.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-16 13:44:00 UTC