Curt Doolittle

Theme: Property

  • Strict construction will make transparent transfers so that they require defense

    Strict construction will make transparent transfers so that they require defense.

    But shares are not shares. This is empirically demonstrable.

    The problem as in banking is lack of understanding on the part of depositors and retail investors.

    Shares are not and cannot be equal.

    Not possible

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-26 09:40:00 UTC

  • EVOLUTION OF COOPERATION (important for understanding the evolution of property

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2014/09/28/the-evolution-of-cooperation/THE EVOLUTION OF COOPERATION

    (important for understanding the evolution of property rights)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-24 08:06:00 UTC

  • #tcot #NRx Aristocracy must rule by the formal logic of cooperation: non parasit

    #tcot #NRx Aristocracy must rule by the formal logic of cooperation: non parasitism expressed as property. Else be ruled by worse.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-22 09:57:49 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/623794064685727744

  • #tcot Take nothing not paid for. Master a craft. Speak the truth. Safeguard the

    #tcot Take nothing not paid for. Master a craft. Speak the truth. Safeguard the weak. Mete justice. Improve commons. Show love. Add beauty.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-22 09:46:56 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/623791326534979584

  • #tcot #NRx Cultures vary in their needs for commons. But rule of law, common law

    #tcot #NRx Cultures vary in their needs for commons. But rule of law, common law, property rights are objectively universal for all men.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-22 09:36:53 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/623788797336158208

  • #tcot #nrx Rule and Colonization are two different things. Rule by rule of law a

    #tcot #nrx Rule and Colonization are two different things. Rule by rule of law and strict property rights is objectively universally moral.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-22 09:34:08 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/623788104969814020

  • Owner is protecting other patrons and his business, from an incompetent parent.

    Owner is protecting other patrons and his business, from an incompetent parent. It’s simple. Take Crying Children Outside.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-22 09:25:17 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/623785880105435136

    Reply addressees: @washingtonpost

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/623785499858219008

    IN REPLY TO:

    @washingtonpost

    A kid cries in a restaurant. The owner yells at her. Now what? http://t.co/jfb7WBItvT

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/623785499858219008

  • PROPERTARIANISM’S PROPERTY, PROPERTY RIGHTS, AND OBLIGATIONS CATEGORIES OF PROPE

    PROPERTARIANISM’S PROPERTY, PROPERTY RIGHTS, AND OBLIGATIONS

    CATEGORIES OF PROPERTY

    0) Non-Property (Bring under total control)

    ….CONTROL: Total Control

    ….PURPOSE: Create Property

    ….YES: Constituo, Transitus, Usus, Fructus, Mancipio, Abusus.

    1) Personal (Private) Property (limited control)

    ….PURPOSE: Acquisition Inventory and Consumption

    ….YES: Transitus, Usus, Fructus, Mancipio,

    ….MAYBE: Abusus

    2) Shareholder (Private) Property (very limited control)

    ….CONTROL: Very Limited Control

    ….PURPOSE: Dividends from Cooperation

    ….YES: Fructus

    ….MAYBE: ?Transitus, ?Usus,?Mancipio,

    ….NO: Abusus

    3) Common (Public) Property (All Citizen Shareholders)

    ….CONTROL: No control.

    ….PURPOSE: Prohibition on Consumption.

    ….MAYBE: Transitus, Usus, Fructus,

    ….NO: Mancipio, Abusus

    RIGHTS

    1) Constituo – Homesteading: Convert into property through bearing a cost of transformation.

    2) Transitus – Transit: passage through 3d space.

    3) Usus – Use: setting up a stall.

    4) Fructus – Fruits: (blackberries, wood, profits)

    5) Mancipio – Emancipation: (sale, transfer)

    6) Abusus – Abuse: (Consumption or Destruction) Opposite of Constituo.

    OBLIGATIONS

    1) Non-Imposition : Productive, Fully informed, Warrantied, Voluntary Transfer(Exchange) of property-en-toto, Free of External Imposition of Costs against Property-en-toto.

    PROPERTY EN TOTO (Demonstrated Property)

    I. SELF-PROPERTY

    Personal property: “Things an individual has a Monopoly Of Control over the use of.”

    ….a) Physical Body

    ….b) Actions and Time

    ….c) Memories, Concepts and Identities: tools that enable us to plan and act. In the consumer economy this includes brands.

    ….d) Status and Class (mate and relation selection, and reputation.)

    II. PERSONAL PROPERTY

    ….a) Several Property: Those things external to our bodies that we claim a monopoly of control over.

    III. KINSHIP PROPERTY

    ….a) Mates (access to sex/reproduction)

    ….b) Children (genetics)

    ….c) Familial Relations (security)

    ….d) Non-Familial Relations (utility)

    ….e) Consanguineous property (tribal and family ties)

    IV. COOPERATIVE PROPERTY

    ….a) Organizational ties (work)

    ….b) Knowledge ties (skills, crafts)

    V. SHAREHOLDER PROPERTY

    ….a) Shares: Partnership or shareholdership: Recorded And Quantified Shareholder Property (physical shares in a tradable asset)

    VI. COMMON PROPERTY

    ….b) Commons: Unrecorded and Unquantified Shareholder Property (shares in commons)

    ….c) Artificial Property: (property created by fiat agreement) Intellectual Property.

    VII. COMMON INFORMAL INSTITUTIONAL PROPERTY:

    ….a) Informal (Normative) Property: Our norms: manners, ethics, morals, myths, and rituals that consist of our social portfolio and which make our social order possible.

    VIII. COMMON FORMAL INSTITUTIONAL PROPERTY

    ….a) Formal Institutional Property: Formal (Procedural) Institutions: Our institutions: Religion (including the secular religion), Government, Laws.

    WILSONIAN SYNTHESIS: LAW, MORALITY, PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE(TRUTH TELLING)

    1) Morality: preservation of the disproportionate rewards of cooperation by a total prohibition on imposition of costs against property-en-toto.

    2) Law: an evolutionary list of the accumulated prohibitions on innovations in the means of immoral actions: impositions of costs on property en toto.

    3) Property Rights: The promise that third parties will warranty restitution and retaliation, and not retaliate for restitution and retaliation, for imposition of costs against property en toto in exchange for the same warranty from the defending party or parties.

    4) Science: the discipline(technology) of laundering imaginary content, error, bias, wishful thinking, and deception from testimony, leaving only truth candidates.

    5) Philosophy: The discipline(technology) of improving truthful testimony.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-21 11:37:00 UTC

  • THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ECONOMICS, COOPERATION, And ACQUISITION 0) Existence 1)

    THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ECONOMICS, COOPERATION, And ACQUISITION

    0) Existence

    1) Acquisition (Property, Planning, Calculating)

    2) Cooperation (Necessary Morality, Property, Rights)

    3) Micro Economics (Causation, Reducing Friction of Cooperation)

    4) Macro Econometrics (Correlation, Observation of Externalities)

    5) Macro Economic Monetary Policy (Interference, Coercion)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-07-21 11:31:00 UTC

  • Contractual Commons: Law is Discovered, Contracts and Exchanges are Made.

    [W]e can produce a market for un-consumable commons using a government just as we produce a market for consumable private goods. But that law and commons are two different things. But there is no reason whatsoever, that knowing how to construct the common law, government should be capable of producing law. It cannot. Law is discovered, contracts and exchanges are made.
    1. Economic velocity (wealth) is determined by the degree of suppression of parasitism (free riding/imposed costs). This eliminates transaction costs.

    2.  Central power originates to centralize parasitism and increase material costs, by suppressing local parasitism and as a consequence, eliminated local transaction costs. And using those costs to pay for the suppression of local parasitism.  We trade expensive local transaction costs for less expensive costs of suppression.

    3. Once centralized those costs can be incrementally eliminated. But if and only if an institutional means of deciding conflicts can be used to replace personal judgement as a means of deciding conflicts.

    4.  The only means of producing institutional rules to replace personal judgement (provision of ‘decidability’) is in the independent, common, evolutionary law resting upon a prohibition on parasitism/free-riding/imposed costs (negatives), codified as property rights (positives): productive, warrantied, fully informed, voluntary transfer(exchange), free of negative externalities.

    5. Suppression of violence and theft is fairly easy because the actions are existential and the results obvious.  But as we increasingly suppress violence and theft, people resort to fraud, fraud by omission, fraud by suggestion, imposition of costs by externality, corruption, and conspiracy. So suppression of these more complex thefts requires testimony and decidability.

    6. Language evolved to justify (morality), negotiate (deceive), and rally and shame (gossip), and only tangentially and late to describe (truth). Truth as we understand it is an invention and an unnatural one – which is why it is unique to the west, and why it has taken philosophers so long to understand it. However, westerners evolved a military epistemology because they relied upon self-financing warriors voluntarily participating, as well as the jury and truth telling. (The marginal difference in intellectual ability apparently not common – they were all smart enough. and such testimony was in itself ‘training’.)

    7. We cannot expect or demand truthful testimony from people unless they know how to produce it. ie: Education in what I would consider the religion of the west: “the true, the moral and the beautiful”. So I consider this education ‘sacred’ not just utilitarian.

    8. We cannot demand truth and law from people unless it is not against their interests: ie: the only universal political system is Nationalism, because groups can act truthfully internally, truthfully externally, and can use trade negotiations to neutralized competitive differences. And with nationalism, individuals cannot escape paying the cost of transforming their own societies, and themselves, and laying the burden of doing so upon other societies.

    9. Commons are a profound competitive advantage. Territorial, institutional, normative, genetic, physical, and economic (industrial) commons are a profound advantage to any group.


      The west is the most successful producer of commons so it is even more important to the west. So we must provide a means of producing those commons.


      The difference between market for private goods and services (where competition in production is a good incentive) and corporate (public) goods, where we must prevent privatization of gains an socialization of losses, requires that we provide monopoly protection of those goods from consumption.


      But does not require that we provide monopoly contribution to them. Commons require only that the people willing to pay for them, do so. Otherwise there is no demonstrated preference for that commons.

      Insurance is a commons and I will leave that for another time.

      Return on investment (dividends) are the product of commons. I will leave that for another time as well.


      The central point is that we can produce a market for common goods using government just as we do in the market private goods. But that law and commons are two different things. and that there is no reason whatsoever, knowing how to construct the common law, that government should be capable of producing law. it cannot.

      Law is. It cannot be created. Only identified.