Category: Thoughts

A postmodern attempt to demonize behavior that is universally demonstrated by all groups as an expression of kin selection. https://www.quora.com/What-is-racism-prejudice-and-discrimination-Why-are-they-so-hard-to-overcome

Necessity of decision making under the pervasive influence of the principle agent problem. https://www.quora.com/Why-does-corporate-governance-emerge

REALLY BAD ANSWERS, I’LL TRY TO DO BETTER1) How can the world be ‘significantly better’? 2) If the world would be significantly better,  for whom would the world be ‘significantly worse’ in your interpretation of how the world would be ‘significantly better?’3) Before we took action on our hypothesis of, how would we know the…

AN ANSWER THAT YOU WON’T LIKE: PRIVILEGE NOT CHOICE Humans justify. Justification is necessary for adaptation, and we are very good at justification. Canada is the world’s most privileged country, so Canadians can justify unprecedented luxuries.   Imagine, anywhere else in the world, a country of that size, with so few people, with that many natural…

Americans still produce. Since 1972 the cost per unit has been steadily increasing. And america still produces complex goods. And inly complex goods that require increasingly skilled labor. However, from the civil war onward, America produced cheap goods because of cheap land and labor – so much so that it caused the european depression if…

They are not. The data clearly demonstrates that companies operate at the minimum profitability that is tolerated by creditors, and that employees and management seek the highest extraction possible that creditors will tolerate.  Government bureaucrats demonstrate exactly the same behavior, but government, because it is a monopoly cannot be ‘corrected’ by the forces of competition,…

All human rights are reducible to property rights, because all rights that can be brought into existence are reducible to property rights.  The International charter of human rights consists, in all but the last three line items, of statements of private property rights.  The last three, are not rights but ‘ambitions’ and were reluctantly admitted…

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ETHICS This is an interesting question in the sense that it’s a clear application of the problem of asymmetry of information, understanding, and power, in the control of a utility (a commons). In any niche where one has power and influence over others, because of an asymmetry of knowledge of a common resource…

It depends on whether you are referring to Christian, “classical liberal” libertarianism in the Hayekian sense, or Jewish “libertine” libertarianism in the Rothbardian sense. Around 10-12% of Americans identify themselves libertarian – although the number that consider themselves Rothbardian is not something we have trustworthy survey data for, the activism of the rothbardian libertine minority…

That postmodernism is a philosophical system of thought that assists us in understanding the world, acting in it, and cooperating, rather than a political system system of propaganda, for the purpose of advancing ideology.  (Read Explaining Postmodernism by Stephen Hicks.) https://www.quora.com/What-are-biggest-misconceptions-about-postmodernism

SHORT TERM LUXURY FOR LONG TERM EXPENSE Multiculturalism is permissible as a short term luxury that increases consumption by servicing a multitude of consumers, without requiring that consumers pay the cost of adapting to the norms of the host culture.  For this reason, both the sellers and the consumers obtain what they want at a…

I’M GOING TO PROVIDE AN INTERESTING AND POSSIBLY NOVEL ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION. Neither Capitalism (the voluntary organization of production, and distributed control of property) nor Socialism (the involuntary organization of production, and the centralized control of property) is possible.   Both systems result in totalitarian oligarchies.  Economic operation under socialism is impossible.  Economic concentration under…

“Political Economy” refers to the pre-war term for the discipline of Economics.  However, because the discipline of 20th century economics evolved to emphasize Macro-Economics and Econometrics, we use Political Economy today to refer to the study of institutions that assist in the voluntary organization of production (which is what capitalism means), by allowing individuals to…

This question posits a possible misrepresentation.  No society where government supplies services is categorized as ‘civil’. A ‘civil’ society is one in where we demonstrate civic participation whether in the pre-war or greek sense: where citizens volunteer to participate in the management of the commons and the provision of services.  We live in an managerial…

This question is not necessarily coherent, since subjective reason is a non-sequitur. If you mean, “When is intuition more useful than reason?” then that is a question currently addressed by Kahneman and Haidt.  Intuition is very powerful, but not logical or observable.  Reason is very weak, but observable.  And they inform one another.  However, any…

Restoration of Modernism, and extension of Modernism to include Operationalism, Intuitionism, Instrumentalism, and Performative (or Testimonial) Truth.  Repudiation of Platonism, Pseudoscience, Verbalism, and Social Construction. Repudiation of Universalism. Repudiation of Democracy. Return to Nationalism.  Its already happening. https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-what-comes-after-postmodernism-essays

Abraham for religious totalitarianism.Marx for economic totalitarianism.Freud for pseudoscience.Cantor for pseudoscience. https://www.quora.com/Which-historical-figure-is-least-recognized-for-having-caused-a-tremendous-amount-of-harm-and-what-harm-did-they-do

History, not of just the middle east, but of the entire world,  says it cannot. https://www.quora.com/How-could-the-conflict-between-Israel-and-its-neighbors-be-solved-to-the-satisfaction-of-all-parties-involved

NOT BENEFIT, BUT DEPEND Scientific investigation is not logical but intuitive, because it is conducted by free association.  Because formal logic has attracted unmerited attention in the 20th century, the importance of the scientist in the ‘decidability’ (which is the correct term, believe it or not) between possible avenues of exploration has been lost.  There…

Protestants practice the Absolute Nuclear Family and the High Trust Society. In the Protestant (northern european) social model, high trust is extended to non-family members.  In the catholic countries, they practice the extended family model, and high trust is retained for use only by family members, and not extended to ‘everyone you meet’.  This explains…

I assume that you do realize that you have not asked a question, and that you’ve advertised an opinion. https://www.quora.com/unanswered/Whats-your-radical-view

An important and interesting question,  So I will do my best. Although you might not like the answer. 1) Well, a common man certainly can make a positive impact on society merely by accumulating and making use of the Virtues.  2) Common many have made positive impact accidentally on the world by virtuous action at…

It isnt. It isn’t widely considered a great book. Through at least Chapter 15 it is a work of pseudoscientific philosophy, and from 15 onward is adequate.  Mises’ reputation like that of most Jewish authors has been the subject of extravagant but unworthy promotion by Jewish Anarchists and a small number of third-tier academics who…

[K]nowing is an experience. Constructing an existence, logical, or mathematical, proof is an action. We can demonstrate them. That is not to say that they are true, it is to say that they are proofs. If we have constructed proofs, we may err, but it is very hard to lie. And even if one does,…

[P]oincaré rejected the later foundational work of Cantor, saying that —“There is no actual infinity, the Cantorians have forgotten that, and they have fallen into contradiction. It is true that Cantorism rendered services, but that was when it was applied to a real problem whose terms were clearly defined, and we could walk safely. Logisticians…