Oct 9, 2019, 9:41 PM It sounds horrible to you but the easiest answer is to hire 10,000 American lawyers to run your courts. This is the same strategy ancient empires used by using people from remote parts of the empires to govern populations they had no knowledge of. It works perfectly in past and present. Everyone says they want good government, but they cannot have good government without good courts, and either soldiers or police who enforce the judgement of the court. The court constrains the government. Your constitutions are probably fine. Your government is probably not fine. it is a government. What makes the west successful is not our governments. IT IS OUR LAW. Law is a ‘Religion’ in for our people. Especially in America.
Theme: Institution
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Why the American Model “worked”
Why the American Model “worked” https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/27/why-the-american-model-worked/
Source date (UTC): 2020-05-27 17:51:18 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1265702130888986627
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Why the American Model “worked”
Oct 10, 2019, 6:03 PM by James Louis LaSalle Law is the glue that holds American society and culture together; we are not inherently smarter, nor do we have better natural resources than other countries. What we do have is an idea, that we’re infused with our entire lives: respect for the rule of law. We go to court, we pay our fines, we show up for jury duty, the vast majority of defendants out on bond turn themselves in for their sentences, rather than flee. And it’s just an idea. Kansas City, Missouri has around 500,000 people. It has a police force of 1100 officers, working in three shifts. At any given time, there’s perhaps 300 officers on duty. Policing half a million people. It’s only possible in a society where the citizens respect other citizens’ persons, property, and space. The govt’s primary purpose is to provide me infrastructure to enhance my ability to generate income, purchase property, and protect those activities from other citizens, other countries, and the govt itself. It actually does this so well that we dwell on trivial issues, like who has to bake who a cake. Which is actually pretty awesome when you think about it. Our system isn’t implemented with force. It’s there, lurking in he background, but it isn’t the prime mover. The IDEA of the rule of law is the prime mover. It’s why Americans find concepts like “sanctuary cities”, where the rule of law is suspended, utterly infuriating. I would say it’s one of the single greatest factors in the election of Trump. Nothing offends your regular American more than someone escaping Justice.
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Why the American Model “worked”
Oct 10, 2019, 6:03 PM by James Louis LaSalle Law is the glue that holds American society and culture together; we are not inherently smarter, nor do we have better natural resources than other countries. What we do have is an idea, that we’re infused with our entire lives: respect for the rule of law. We go to court, we pay our fines, we show up for jury duty, the vast majority of defendants out on bond turn themselves in for their sentences, rather than flee. And it’s just an idea. Kansas City, Missouri has around 500,000 people. It has a police force of 1100 officers, working in three shifts. At any given time, there’s perhaps 300 officers on duty. Policing half a million people. It’s only possible in a society where the citizens respect other citizens’ persons, property, and space. The govt’s primary purpose is to provide me infrastructure to enhance my ability to generate income, purchase property, and protect those activities from other citizens, other countries, and the govt itself. It actually does this so well that we dwell on trivial issues, like who has to bake who a cake. Which is actually pretty awesome when you think about it. Our system isn’t implemented with force. It’s there, lurking in he background, but it isn’t the prime mover. The IDEA of the rule of law is the prime mover. It’s why Americans find concepts like “sanctuary cities”, where the rule of law is suspended, utterly infuriating. I would say it’s one of the single greatest factors in the election of Trump. Nothing offends your regular American more than someone escaping Justice.
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The Law Creates Trust, and We Create Observance of It
The Law Creates Trust, and We Create Observance of It https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/27/the-law-creates-trust-and-we-create-observance-of-it/
Source date (UTC): 2020-05-27 17:44:43 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1265700475179020290
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The Law Creates Trust, and We Create Observance of It
Oct 11, 2019, 4:20 PM by Luke Weinhagen “Every man a Sheriff” In a high trust group this is not a request, nor a demand, it is a description. That is the nuance I’d like to add – that it is our individual willingness to apply the law, and to self-enforce, that is the difference not just the idea (other groups see those very same laws, interpret the same ideas, as weak points to exploit). The idea of law, and its individual observance and practice, allows trust to be the prime mover. (shifting from passive to active)
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The Law Creates Trust, and We Create Observance of It
Oct 11, 2019, 4:20 PM by Luke Weinhagen “Every man a Sheriff” In a high trust group this is not a request, nor a demand, it is a description. That is the nuance I’d like to add – that it is our individual willingness to apply the law, and to self-enforce, that is the difference not just the idea (other groups see those very same laws, interpret the same ideas, as weak points to exploit). The idea of law, and its individual observance and practice, allows trust to be the prime mover. (shifting from passive to active)
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Q: “… Unions?”
Q: “… Unions?” https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/27/q-unions/
Source date (UTC): 2020-05-27 17:39:24 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1265699136424292353
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Q: “… Unions?”
Oct 12, 2019, 5:20 PM The original purpose of unions was to protect the underclasses. The communists worked thru the labor unions. They used unions to drive class warfare. Unions were the largest contributors to the democratic party. Unions drove the democratic party into socialism and communism under marxism like identity politics under postmodernism. The remaining purpose of unions is to attempt to provide labor with above-middle class earnings not sustainable in the world economy. Unions are what drove business offshore (I was involved in that discussion back then). Trump is trying to drive business back on shore. Taxes WERE the the primary reason preventing re-shoring. Trump fixed that. Now unions are the primary reason preventing re-shoring manufacturing. The market and political problem with unions is collective bargaining law, not unions themselves (safety, work distribution). The primary problem with unions today is pensions which cannot ever be paid (and won’t be), not wages. Mandatory fees are the primary complaint by people opposed to the left. Unions are not resisting immigration, which is what is keeping wage down. Unions were advantageous during the brief postwar period where it allowed labor to capture a grater share of windfall profits – that no longer exist. Unions were necessary at least in the private sector to cause legal change in health, safety, and work load, but it was insurance companies and liability law that provided that change not unions. It is not clear what value they serve today in the private sector other than to limit competition for labor and raise wages and possibly lengthen careers preventing constant turnover by age discrimination. The general argument has been for years that any valuable function provided by unions (pensions) must eventually be provided by the state or it will disappear. The only reason collective bargaining still exists is that it’s politically impossible to get it past the government union competition, not the private sector. So unions are responsible for the overpayment of government costs, salaries, benefits, and pensions despite the unproductively of government, and preventing customer service, and preventing and rotation of government workers not providing government service. There is a reason the region around Washington is wealthy.
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Q: “… Unions?”
Oct 12, 2019, 5:20 PM The original purpose of unions was to protect the underclasses. The communists worked thru the labor unions. They used unions to drive class warfare. Unions were the largest contributors to the democratic party. Unions drove the democratic party into socialism and communism under marxism like identity politics under postmodernism. The remaining purpose of unions is to attempt to provide labor with above-middle class earnings not sustainable in the world economy. Unions are what drove business offshore (I was involved in that discussion back then). Trump is trying to drive business back on shore. Taxes WERE the the primary reason preventing re-shoring. Trump fixed that. Now unions are the primary reason preventing re-shoring manufacturing. The market and political problem with unions is collective bargaining law, not unions themselves (safety, work distribution). The primary problem with unions today is pensions which cannot ever be paid (and won’t be), not wages. Mandatory fees are the primary complaint by people opposed to the left. Unions are not resisting immigration, which is what is keeping wage down. Unions were advantageous during the brief postwar period where it allowed labor to capture a grater share of windfall profits – that no longer exist. Unions were necessary at least in the private sector to cause legal change in health, safety, and work load, but it was insurance companies and liability law that provided that change not unions. It is not clear what value they serve today in the private sector other than to limit competition for labor and raise wages and possibly lengthen careers preventing constant turnover by age discrimination. The general argument has been for years that any valuable function provided by unions (pensions) must eventually be provided by the state or it will disappear. The only reason collective bargaining still exists is that it’s politically impossible to get it past the government union competition, not the private sector. So unions are responsible for the overpayment of government costs, salaries, benefits, and pensions despite the unproductively of government, and preventing customer service, and preventing and rotation of government workers not providing government service. There is a reason the region around Washington is wealthy.