—“Demonstrated Interests (Investments), Sovereignty (Property Rights), and Reciprocity (Voluntary Exchange).”—
Not sure I needed to say markets, but maybe… 😉
Source date (UTC): 2025-01-20 04:08:27 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1881192040006091231
Reply addressees: @queen_calder @RichardArion1
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1881188760089743565
Q:CURT:–“WHAT DO YOU DEFINE AS CAPITALISM AND AS RULE OF LAW?”–
Both Capitalism and Rule of Law are systems governed by the principles of Demonstrated Interests (Investments), Sovereignty (Property Rights), and Reciprocity (Voluntary Exchange).
Capitalism (Philosophy):
– A system characterized by a bias in favor of private control of the means of production.
– Operates with incomplete accounting for externalities that affect the demonstrated interests of others.
– Employs income statement measurements, emphasizing short-term gains and transactional efficiency.
Rule of Law by Natural Law (Science):
– A system favoring investment by any class capable of organizing resources across the spectrum of time horizons, enabling a mixed economy.
– Requires full accounting for externalities, ensuring reciprocity and the protection of demonstrated interests.
– Relies on balance sheet measurements that track changes in all forms of capital, including personal, shared, common, genetic, cultural, informal, and formal assets.
Additions:
(i) While traditionally limited to investments in military and infrastructure, there is no reason the state cannot assume venture capital objectives for strategic investments that private sectors are unwilling or unable to make, particularly when advancing long-term strategic objectives.
(ii) Under a fiat monetary system, the private provision of consumer credit at interest for durable goods and assets is unnecessary. As demonstrated by Singapore’s benefit provision model, the state could engage in consumer credit provision, eliminating practices that bait individuals into financial hazard.
(iii) These changes result in a system where the private sector is directed away from consumer rent-seeking and toward organized capital investment for medium-term returns, fostering greater economic productivity and long-term stability.
(iv) The state an reduce dependency on taxation (indirect) and increase dependency on returns on investment (direct), increasing the accountability of the public sector by creating common interests between the people, industry and state.
Cheers
Reply addressees: @RichardArion1
Source date (UTC): 2025-01-20 03:33:21 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1881183206130827264
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1881177121760161966
Q: Curt: –“I don’t see capitalism surviving the technological singularity.”–
Capitalism didn’t survive 2008. But rule of law did and we’re in the era of restoring ‘reciprocity’ in trade – which is the difference between capitalism and rule of law.
So, the end of capitalism per say is probably not true. The industrial age has produced an absence of the hand of man and the resulting aesthetics. I suspect those of us who are arguing in favor of working for the commons rather than the private sector will shift.
In other words, more of the scope of work in exchange for income will come from various levels of government. Not exactly the depression era WPA but a little more ‘soviet’ than I think most of us might wish.
But europe pre-war was a vast open air museum. And there is no reason we won’t return to that. Otherwise, Sitting around means idle hands make ill will.
Source date (UTC): 2025-01-20 03:02:36 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1881175466503200768
In my work I propose ‘full accounting’ by a balance sheet of all demonstrated interests whether personal, common, informal or formal. This narrows the difference between that which can be forecast, that which can be speculated upon, and that which is a privilege of preference.
Again you fail to make an argument by failing to define terms, failing to define causality, and claiming private knowledge, by use of private language.
I mean, I realize you’re not terribly bright but you might learn something from the feedback.
Technically, the technique of deception you’re using is relatively consistent. And terribly feminine. Which is of course why you are attracted to the feminine: you can’t compete in the masculine so you have to claim oppression as a means of self victimization and appeal to morals you don’t share.
Reply addressees: @EmbitteredThe @TheSovereignMD @nayibbukele @TyrantsMuse
Source date (UTC): 2025-01-17 20:33:55 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1880352876918370307
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@EmbitteredThe @TheSovereignMD @nayibbukele @TyrantsMuse You’re just lying now.
You asked. I answered. In detail. If there exists any error in there you’re welcome to assert one – but you haven’t because you can’t, because you have no idea what you’re talking about. 😉
Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1880343050553290951
Revisiting Propertarianism https://youtu.be/XQOV8r4grp8?si=bWxT5oNCnthHKycB
Source date (UTC): 2025-01-17 00:12:36 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1880045522540720136
–“Natural law as being in itself nothing other than a subset of laws of nature predicting human behavior is the definition I’ve been working with for years now.”– Martin Stepan @AutistocratMS
Source date (UTC): 2025-01-09 18:53:53 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1877428600107929695
RT @AutistocratMS: @Ericksvirtues @curtdoolittle God doesn’t give rights, men give one another rights via mutual insurance. And capitalists…
Source date (UTC): 2025-01-09 14:17:02 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1877358926112399522
RT @curtdoolittle: MORE ON MORAL, NORMS, TRADITIONS, AND VALUES
(A second revision by extension)
Now I could add to this list by prefixing…
Source date (UTC): 2025-01-05 20:24:39 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1876001889348956264
CORRECT ANSWER:
Regardless of the existence of, or form of existence of god or gods, the laws of the universe, and as a product of those laws, the natural law of cooperation remains constant.
If one does not deny the inviolability of those natural laws of cooperation, then regardless of god(s) existence or form, the laws remain the same.
As such universal morality – or at least, universal immorality that we must avoid, serve those laws of cooperation, of nature, and of nature’s god if he exists.
Insure the self determination by self determined means of others by insurance of their sovereignty in demonstrated interest, by insurance of reciprocity in display word and deed. This is the only means by which not to provoke retaliation such that we live and cooperate in peace and prosperity with one another.
As such it’s the laws of the universe that determine morality – because they exist independent of our claim of god’s existence or form.
However, the laws of the universe which tell us do not commit the immoral – tell us what not to do. These laws forced us to discover the derivation of those laws, to encourages us to cooperate as well as non-conflict -and the only philosopher or prophet to do so was Jesus of Nazareth, who gave us four more laws to promote cooperation (morality) rather than prevent conflict (immorality).
Those laws are:
1) The eradication of hatred from the human heart.
2) The extension of kinship love to all receptive of it.
3) The requirement for personal acts of charity to those deserving of it.
4) The extension of exhaustive forgiveness before punishment, enserfment, enslavement, death, or war.
Affections
CD
Reply addressees: @philosophytweet
Source date (UTC): 2024-12-29 23:25:15 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1873510624728326144
Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1873430269530874039
RECIPROCAL trade is the only version of ‘free trade’ that isn’t theft.
Source date (UTC): 2024-12-29 21:12:36 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1873477241885315245
Reply addressees: @Timcast
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