Once you start thinking the equilibrium between density and the discount on opportunity, versus sparsity, and the premium on the commons, you understand that value judgements of the urban vs suburban, vs rural people. The lower density the more responsibility for commons and the more costly are opportunities. Whereas the higher density the lower responsibility for commons and the lower cost of opportunities. Hence why density determines value judgements regarding the private and common.
Theme: Incentives
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Density Income and Taxation
Once you start thinking the equilibrium between density and the discount on opportunity, versus sparsity, and the premium on the commons, you understand that value judgements of the urban vs suburban, vs rural people. The lower density the more responsibility for commons and the more costly are opportunities. Whereas the higher density the lower responsibility for commons and the lower cost of opportunities. Hence why density determines value judgements regarding the private and common.
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Let’s Get This Labor Thing Straight.
Let’s get this labor thing straight. Labor has no value other than under capitalism we can create a consumer out of the laborer which organizes the very fractional contribution of labor into large groups producing many complex parts, and the complex part provides the value. The profit on the price is required to organize others in this network. That’s the whole thing. If you’re ‘labor’ you aren’t ‘value’ to others, since none of us is productive enough to matter. What matters is multipliers, and labor isn’t one. Labor’s primary value lies in (a) you are at least self supporting because (b) as a slave you’re even less productive, and (c) as a barbarian you’re a parasite. The value is in organizing using incentives using prices and profits.
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Let’s Get This Labor Thing Straight.
Let’s get this labor thing straight. Labor has no value other than under capitalism we can create a consumer out of the laborer which organizes the very fractional contribution of labor into large groups producing many complex parts, and the complex part provides the value. The profit on the price is required to organize others in this network. That’s the whole thing. If you’re ‘labor’ you aren’t ‘value’ to others, since none of us is productive enough to matter. What matters is multipliers, and labor isn’t one. Labor’s primary value lies in (a) you are at least self supporting because (b) as a slave you’re even less productive, and (c) as a barbarian you’re a parasite. The value is in organizing using incentives using prices and profits.
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Lets get this labor thing straight. Labor has no value other than under capitali
Lets get this labor thing straight. Labor has no value other than under capitalism we can create a consumer out of the laborer which organizes the very fractional contribution of labor into large groups producing many complex parts, and the complex part provides the value.
The profit on the price is required to organize others in this network.
That’s the whole thing. If you’re ‘labor’ you aren’t ‘value’ to others, since none of us is productive enough to matter. What matters is multipliers, and labor isn’t one.
Labor’s primary value lies in (a) you are at least self supporting because (b) as a slave you’re even less productive, and (c) as a barbarian you’re a parasite.
The value is in organizing using incentives using prices and profits.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-15 08:39:00 UTC
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The Incentive to Produce Quality Goods, Services, and Information
by Steve Pender In a village/polity populated entirely by family/loved ones, there is lower incentive to produce low quality goods, since the only people using them would be allies/family, and their use of those goods diminishes the survival of the polity. Voluntarily producing lower quality goods and profiting more due to higher markup opportunities would be seen as a form of treason to one’s people. 3 scenarios: EMPIRE: Individual with high quality production ability + lower-quality strangers = incentivized to lower production standards and privatize profit COSMOPOLITAN FREE MARKET: Individual with high quality production ability + high-quality strangers = incentivized to maximize producer surplus (profits) since no long-term alliance NATIONALISM: High quality production ability + high quality family/allies = incentivized to maximize production quality, lower incentive to profit (since profit is just a means to ensure privatized survival) Why do people maximize profit? Because they can’t guarantee long-term alliances with those around them, and maximizing profit is the means to increase long-term survival. We don’t feel the strong need to profit with trade between friends/family. Why is that? Because long-term survival is more important.May 14, 2018 8:31am -
The Incentive to Produce Quality Goods, Services, and Information
by Steve Pender In a village/polity populated entirely by family/loved ones, there is lower incentive to produce low quality goods, since the only people using them would be allies/family, and their use of those goods diminishes the survival of the polity. Voluntarily producing lower quality goods and profiting more due to higher markup opportunities would be seen as a form of treason to one’s people. 3 scenarios: EMPIRE: Individual with high quality production ability + lower-quality strangers = incentivized to lower production standards and privatize profit COSMOPOLITAN FREE MARKET: Individual with high quality production ability + high-quality strangers = incentivized to maximize producer surplus (profits) since no long-term alliance NATIONALISM: High quality production ability + high quality family/allies = incentivized to maximize production quality, lower incentive to profit (since profit is just a means to ensure privatized survival) Why do people maximize profit? Because they can’t guarantee long-term alliances with those around them, and maximizing profit is the means to increase long-term survival. We don’t feel the strong need to profit with trade between friends/family. Why is that? Because long-term survival is more important.May 14, 2018 8:31am -
THE INCENTIVE TO PRODUCE QUALITY GOODS, SERVICES, AND INFORMATION by Steve Pende
THE INCENTIVE TO PRODUCE QUALITY GOODS, SERVICES, AND INFORMATION
by Steve Pender
In a village/polity populated entirely by family/loved ones, there is lower incentive to produce low quality goods, since the only people using them would be allies/family, and their use of those goods diminishes the survival of the polity. Voluntarily producing lower quality goods and profiting more due to higher markup opportunities would be seen as a form of treason to one’s people.
3 scenarios:
EMPIRE: Individual with high quality production ability + lower-quality strangers = incentivized to lower production standards and privatize profit
COSMOPOLITAN FREE MARKET: Individual with high quality production ability + high-quality strangers = incentivized to maximize producer surplus (profits) since no long-term alliance
NATIONALISM: High quality production ability + high quality family/allies = incentivized to maximize production quality, lower incentive to profit (since profit is just a means to ensure privatized survival)
Why do people maximize profit? Because they can’t guarantee long-term alliances with those around them, and maximizing profit is the means to increase long-term survival. We don’t feel the strong need to profit with trade between friends/family. Why is that? Because long-term survival is more important.
Source date (UTC): 2018-05-14 08:31:00 UTC
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The Only Time To Use A God Via Positiva
In any dispute between two testimonies regarding the same phenomenon, we have two tests of decidability: 1- Rationality (incentives) 2 – Parsimony (occam’s razor) If the incentive exist to fictionalize, and if fictionalism is defeated by parsimony, then the person is in fact lying. The only time to use a god is via positiva (poetic meaning and communication) but it cannot be used via negativa (truth or argument). The reason gods were necessary is intergenerational transfer. if gods were mortal they could not explain the long standing. A god is just a unit of measure of the intertemporal.
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The Only Time To Use A God Via Positiva
In any dispute between two testimonies regarding the same phenomenon, we have two tests of decidability: 1- Rationality (incentives) 2 – Parsimony (occam’s razor) If the incentive exist to fictionalize, and if fictionalism is defeated by parsimony, then the person is in fact lying. The only time to use a god is via positiva (poetic meaning and communication) but it cannot be used via negativa (truth or argument). The reason gods were necessary is intergenerational transfer. if gods were mortal they could not explain the long standing. A god is just a unit of measure of the intertemporal.