Theme: Property

  • “PROPERTARIANISM: THE LOGIC OF ARISTOCRATIC EGALITARIAN LIBERTARIANISM” Help me

    “PROPERTARIANISM: THE LOGIC OF ARISTOCRATIC EGALITARIAN LIBERTARIANISM”

    Help me save liberty from the rothbardian ghetto of immoral obscurant and deceptive logic.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-29 05:10:00 UTC

  • ILLIBERAL IMMORAL ROTHBARDIANS: MORE ON BLOCK AND BLACKMAIL –“Walter Block has

    ILLIBERAL IMMORAL ROTHBARDIANS: MORE ON BLOCK AND BLACKMAIL

    –“Walter Block has made a career out of making himself and libertarianism look stupid. “–Craig J. Bolton

    I owe Walter somewhat for his assistance in my intellectual development. But like Rothbard, to whom Walter is the closest current author, he relies on the same ethics of the ghetto, and the entire elaborate structure of argumentative nonsense.

    Rothbard made us look stupid but he gave us hope. Promoting blackmail not only makes us look stupid, but it proves we are stupid, and it removes any hope of obtaining and holding liberty.

    Property rights are not given by god, by natural law, or by a logical inference from the necessary conditions for debate.

    The source of property rights is the organized use of violence to suppress free riding (“cheating”) in every arena of life, such that the only means of survival is mutually productive cooperation in the market for goods and services.

    Property rights are the CONSEQUENCE of the organized suppression of ‘cheating’ – they are not the CAUSE of their own existence.

    Blackmail, like all the other rothbardian inverted logic, is not productive, and mutually beneficial even if it is consensual. It’s ‘cheating’. It’s free riding. IT’s not productive. And the only reason we should agree to abandon our use of violence, and cooperate, is for mutually beneficial ends.

    The entire rothbardian program was a disaster, and we can see that in the electoral data, in the literature. And in our impact on policy. Like Marx and Freud, and to some degree Cantor, Rothbard was yet another manufacturer of elaborate nonsensical arguments based upon false assumptions leading to catastrophic effects.

    Liberty originated ONLY with aristocratic egalitarianism. It did not originate in the ghetto. And it’s time to falsify Rothbardian obscurantist drivel, and return liberty to aristocracy: the organized application of violence to suppress all free riding and thereby deny opportunity for sustenance via every possible action EXCEPT the market.

    It’s time to ridicule and outcast parasitic rothbardian ethics from libertarian discourse. And if that means forcing people like Walter to continually recant their previous positions, or be labeled as proponents of one of the greatest intellectual scams in history, and by consequence an unethical, immoral, and socially detrimental man.

    If we cannot reform the Rothbardians and redirect them to abandoning the ethics of the ghetto, we must find the donors to these causes and publicly out them as conspirators against liberty.

    Because that is what they are. And I am ashamed that I was once one of them.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-29 05:00:00 UTC

  • RUSSIA DECLARES BITCOIN A MONEY SUBSTITUTE –“CB noted that according to Article

    RUSSIA DECLARES BITCOIN A MONEY SUBSTITUTE

    –“CB noted that according to Article 27 of the Federal Law “On the Central Bank of the Russian Federation” issuing “money substitutes” on the territory of the Russian Federation is prohibited.

    The regulator also noted that Bitcoin transactions are classified in the category of questionable transactions.

    The Bank of Russia noted that there is no provision for virtual currency and legally obligated economic agents: “Operations on them [virtual currency] are speculative in nature, carried out on the so-called” virtual exchanges “and carry a high risk of loss of value,” – said the Central Bank.

    In addition, as noted by the regulator, the company may inadvertently be parties to the transaction on money laundering, in connection with the fact that the release of virtual currencies engaged in anonymous actors.

    In this regard, the Bank of Russia intends to consider the provision of services to Russian companies Bitcoin exchange for rubles and foreign currency as a potential involvement in the implementation of suspicious transactions.

    CBA first outlined the position in relation to the Bitcoins. Earlier, similar statements were made by other regulators. National Bank of China, for example, forbade banks to use their virtual currency than provoked the collapse of Bitcoin rate to 50 percent. Cautions on the use of Crypto-currency were also isused by CB France, India and Estonia. Nevertheless, none of them did not declare questionable transactions with Bitcoin.

    January 24 Sberbank head German Gref defended the virtual currency. Leader of the largest in Russia Financial Organization said in an interview with Bloomberg, he had sent letters to the Presidential Administration, the Central Bank and Ministry of Finance to prevent the spread of e-money restrictions.’–


    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-28 05:19:00 UTC

  • PROPERTARIANISM Types of Property The anarchist libertarians have artificially n

    PROPERTARIANISM

    Types of Property

    The anarchist libertarians have artificially narrowed the concept of property to suit their desired ends. Property exists in those forms that people ACT as if it exists. If the anarchists choose to suggest otherwise, they refute their own arguments for the Praxeological necessity for the institution of property. Humans demonstrably act as though there are four categories of property:

    I. Interpersonal (Relationship) Property

    Cooperative Property: “relationships with others and tools of relationships upon which we reciprocally depend.”

    Mates (access to sex/reproduction)

    Children (genetic reproduction)

    Familial Relations (security)

    Non-Familial Relations (utility)

    Consanguineous Relations (tribal and family ties)

    Racial property (racial ties)

    Organizational ties (work)

    Knowledge ties (skills, crafts)

    Status and Class (reputation)

    II. Several (Personal) Property

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

    Physical Body

    Actions and Time

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

    Several Property: Those things we claim a monopoly of control over.

    III. Artificial Property

    Artificial Property: “Can a group issue specific rights to members?” This topic is dependent again, upon the ORIGIN question above. If markets are made, then the shareholders of the market may create artificial property of any type that they desire. Including but not limited to:

    Shares in property: Recorded And Quantified Shareholder Property (claims for partial ownership)

    Monopoly Property such as intellectual property. (grants of monopoly within a geography)

    Trademarks and Brands (prohibitions on fraudulent transfers within a geography).

    IV. Institutional (Community) Property

    Institutional Property: “Those objects into which we have invested our forgone opportunities, our efforts, or our material assets, in order to aggregate capital from multiple individuals for mutual gain.”

    Informal (Normative) Institutions: Our norms: manners, ethics and morals. Informal institutional property is nearly impossible to quantify and price. The costs are subjective and consists of forgone opportunities.

    Formal (Procedural) Institutions: Our institutions: Religion (including the secular religion), Government, Laws. Formal institutional property is easy to price. costs are visible. And the productivity of the social order is at least marginally measurable.

    VOLUNTARY TRANSFER

    Types of Voluntary Transfer

    i – Self-Eschange: (for perks)

    ii – Other-Exchange (everything is exchange)

    iii – Commons-Exchange (contribution to the commons)

    Constraints on Voluntary Transfer

    1. Symmetry (Ethics): Fully informed exchange. The responsibility or lack of responsibility for symmetric knowledge in an exchange. Stated as “In any exchange the seller has an ethical obligation to mitigate fraud from the asymmetry of knowledge.” Classical liberals and Christian authors advocate symmetrical-knowledge ethics. Anarchists and Jewish authors advocate asymmetrical-knowledge ethics. Rothbard and Block are asymmetrical advocates. Most classical liberals lack the knowledge of Rothbardian/Hoppian ethics necessary to articulate their values in Propertarian terms. However, the classical liberals as well as the Hayekians, both advocate symmetrical-knowledge ethics whether they articulate the ideas effectively or not.

    2. Warranty: Implied warranty is a derivation of Symmetrical Knowledge Ethics above. Expressed as: “In any exchange the seller must warrant his goods and services to prevent fraud by asymmetry of information.” Classical liberal and Christian authors imply warranty. Anarchist and Jewish authors expressly deny warranty. (I address this elsewhere as the bazaar exchange ethic vs the warrior exchange ethic.)

    3. Contribution (value added): You must add value to any item exchanged for profit, and you certainly may not profit from others distress or harm.

    4. Externalities: “No exchange, action or inaction may cause involuntary transfers from others”. Whether or not there is a prohibition against all involuntary external transfers (classical liberal and Christian authors), or a prohibition only against state conduct of involuntary transfers (anarchist and Jewish authors).

    5. Exclusion (Ostracization) Whether individuals can aggregate into groups have the right of exclusion. That is, to prohibit individuals from a defined area. While all seem to agree that individuals must have the right of passage in some way, others deny groups from forming a boundary and in effect prohibiting immigration.

    INVOLUNTARY TRANSFER (PARASITISM)

    Types of Involuntary Transfer

    i-Direct Interpersonal

    – Murder

    – Violence

    – Destruction

    – Theft

    – Theft by Fraud

    – Theft by Fraud by omission

    ii – Indirect Interpersonal

    – Theft by Obstruction

    – Theft by Externalization

    iii – Indirect Social

    – Theft by Free riding

    – Theft by privatization

    – Theft by socialization

    iv – Conspiratorial Social

    – Theft by Rent seeking

    – Theft by Complexity, Rule, Process or Obscurantism

    – Theft by Extortion

    – Murder, Destruction and Theft by War

    v – Conquest

    – Immigration

    – Overbreeding

    – Religious Expansion


    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-27 14:12:00 UTC

  • Been trying to find a solution to a particular problem of political economy, and

    Been trying to find a solution to a particular problem of political economy, and that is, that I’m not convinced it is even possible to honestly resell a loan. In fact, I’m pretty sure that everyone involved in the issuance of any loan should be responsible for it.

    Now, digital coinage solves that problem by allowing us to cheaply issue shares on any particular loan, and to sell the shares against that loan without laundering causality or transferring responsibility for the loan and its default. This restores the lender’s liquidity without transferring ownership of something that I do not think can be ‘priced’ honestly except by the issuer and his honest assessment of the risk.

    This is a very interesting political theory. And it’s a fascinating business problem. The insurer then, simply functions as a title registry for data, and that registry could even be public as are BTC.

    Since it’s not POSSIBLE to honestly issue a loan any other way, then this gets out of the problem of loan bubbles, and even makes it nearly impossible to profit from state inflation of individual markets…. hmmmmm…… also stops too big to fail….

    I knew I would figure it out if I stuck with it…..


    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-26 09:30:00 UTC

  • LIBERTARIAN SHOULDN’T MEAN “STUPID” What libertarian means to me is: (a) a prefe

    LIBERTARIAN SHOULDN’T MEAN “STUPID”

    What libertarian means to me is: (a) a preference for liberty above all other political preferences, and (b) that all rights can be reduced to property rights, and (c) that I actively pursue obtaining liberty for myself and other a daily basis by sacrificing my time and effort to pursue it.

    LIBERTARIAN SHOULDN’T MEAN “WRONG”

    It does NOT mean that I agree with rothbardian ethics. Or that I think rothbard’s strategy of relying on the work of the french anarchist and jewish resistance movements, instead of the process by which property evolved in the high trust societies. In fact, I am pretty confident rothbard was a little bit right, but damagingly wrong.

    LIBERTARIAN SHOULDN’T MEAN “FAILED”

    So if libertarian means failing, and being wrong, then I’m not libertarian.

    LIBERTARIAN SHOULDN’T MEAN “ROTHBARDIAN”

    If you mean ‘rothbardian’ then no I am not a rothbardian since that would be irrational.

    LIBERTY IS THE PRODUCT OF ARISTOCRACY:

    The organize application of violence for the purpose of suppressing all involuntary extractions – including criminal, unethical, immoral, corrupt and conspiratorial actions. All of them.

    PROPERTY RIGHTS ARE WHAT’S LEFT ONCE YOU SUPPRESS ALL CHEATING.

    Property rights are what remain once we do that. You can suppress less, and have weaker property rights, and suppres more and have stronger property rights, but the velocity of your economy and therefore your wealth is predicated on the degree of suppression of involuntary extraction you suppress through the organized application of violence.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-23 16:03:00 UTC

  • THE ROTHBARDIAN CART BEFORE THE HORSE Rothbard got it backwards. You don’t start

    THE ROTHBARDIAN CART BEFORE THE HORSE

    Rothbard got it backwards. You don’t start with property rights as an assumption. You start in a state of nature with pervasive free riding in any population.

    Crusoe’s island is an obscurant argument. We do not start the development of ethics on an island where the ‘government’ is provided by the sea.

    Instead, we start in a tribe of consanguineous relations all of whom engage in free riding – and we must use violence, shame or remuneration to stop them from free riding so that we can accumulate capital.

    Property is what’s left as you increasingly suppress various forms of involuntary extraction. Property is not the cause. It is the consequence.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-23 15:57:00 UTC

  • LIBERTY WITHOUT ROTHBARD: A RETURN TO ARISTOCRACY I see rothbardianism as a fail

    LIBERTY WITHOUT ROTHBARD: A RETURN TO ARISTOCRACY

    I see rothbardianism as a failed amateurish pseudo philosophical ideology, rejected by all but a meaningless minority, disproven by even the least talented of philosophers, contrary to all evidence in evolutionary biology, experimental psychology, anthropology and history, and economically irrational on praxeological grounds alone. And any chance we have of obtaining liberty whatsoever requires that we start with what we have that is supportable: that all rights are reducible to property rights, that the struggle for prosperity is the universal responsibility to suppress parasitism in every possible form, thereby forcing all human cooperation into the market for productive voluntary exchange. – and in doing so reconstruct liberty on its historical aristocratic grounds, such that it is not amateurish, contrary to the evidence, and irrational.

    Liberty is on life support. Rothbard gave it cancer. And I’m out to cure it.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-23 15:55:00 UTC

  • Walter Block Is Wrong. Just Like Rothbard

    http://nblo.gs/T4UkzNo. Walter Block Is Wrong. Just Like Rothbard.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-23 07:41:00 UTC

  • NONSENSE —“We would have to start with a clarification of the terms. Capitalis

    NONSENSE

    —“We would have to start with a clarification of the terms. Capitalism is an economic system that exists in various forms over time & in different places but it has certain core essential features”—

    THE UNIVERSAL REFUTATION OF SOCIALISM

    The vague term ‘economic system’ is a form of deception. Capitalism is a MEANS OF PRODUCTION.

    The capitalist means of production is possible because both the incentives to do what we do not wish to do, and the means of calculating how to do so, are available to us; such that by doing what we may not wish to do, we do what we are capable of doing, and by doing so satisfy the wants of others, such that we may finally satisfy our own wants.

    The socialist means of production is not possible. It is impossible. It is impossible because neither the means of calculation, nor the incentive to do what we do not desire to, exists in that method of production.

    Marxism is the biggest organized systemic set of lies since the invention of scriptural monotheism. It is the most murderous religion ever created by man – by replacing mystical allegory with verbal obscurantism and pseudoscience.

    If you cannot explain an economic argument in operational language you are either engaged in ignorance or deception or perpetuating deception out of ignorance.

    —“libertarian socialism”–

    Like socialist economy, ‘libertarian socialism’ is a contradiction in terms. One cannot create an economy under the socialist method of production. One cannot create socialism from libertarianism. The reason being that libertarian is defined by the necessity of private property, and socialism is defined by the necessity of community property.

    PERIOD.

    I am surprised that anyone still can get away with writing the irrational mystical obscurant deceptive lies of socialist dogma but given the durability of mystical scriptural religion I should not be.

    Socialism is pseudoscience. It is a religion dependent, like postmodernism, on the abuse of language in order to deceive mediocre and ignorant minds.

    My opinion is that it is only immoral. But I could easily make the argument that obscurant arguments for the purpose of conducting theft by conspiracy (socialism) are CRIMINAL acts.

    The fact that we tolerate free speech is because we feel we may err. However, we do not tolerate shouting fire in a theater, nor should we tolerate advocacy of suicide.

    Which is what socialism is: suicide.

    If you advocate socialism you are, ignorant or not, at the very least an immoral person. And arguably a criminal who deserves punishment.


    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-19 10:26:00 UTC