Category: Thoughts

It isn’t’ just that the majority cannot join the aristocracy, and earn, use and keep property rights. It is that they do not desire to earn, use and keep property rights. People want the benefits of aristocracy but not the effort. They want to be serfs. They want to be taken care of. They don’t…

  I have been struggling with this idea for a while: that, for some reason, of the empirical fields, including math, physics, engineering, computer science, and economics (into which I include the social sciences), it appears that platonism seems to originate in philosophical spiritualism, gain legitimacy in mathematics and roll downhill until it is cleansed…

One’s moral priorities are not a choice, but a justification that has been reduced to an intuition. They must be – reason would be too expensive and too unpredictable for the formation of norms. And those intuitions, which we are in the process of confirming, are both genetically and familially determined. And the structure of…

We had it backwards. Aristocracy simply didn’t adapt to the change in membership in the cult of property rights fast enough. If you can’t convince the anti-aristocrats to go along and create an ‘aristocracy of everybody’ promised by the enlightenment, then the alternative is natural Aristocracy: Self Defense. Pay people to get married, cohabitate, and…

1. THERE IS ONLY ONE LAW AND THAT IS PROPERTY. All else is a command given by man. 2. THE ONLY NUMBERS ARE NATURAL NUMBERS. All else is ratio and relation. 3. THERE IS ONLY ONE MEANS OF REASON, AND THAT IS NATURALISM. All else is deception or self deception.

(not profound, but almost) (good Austrian argumentative material) I need to update Peter Boettke’s definition of Austrian Economics to include the reasons WHY certain groups of people are morally and intellectual attracted to the Austrian model, rather than just the methodological differences: 1) The testability of incentives as rational 2) The visibility of voluntary versus…

Thanks for asking me to answer this question. Unfortunately I can’t do it comfortably, because all the products that I would classify as ‘good’ or ‘recommended’, are not on Sharepoint. The reason is architectural.   Although Sharepoint is an amazing and nearly universal product.   Sharepoint isn’t well designed for this problem and neither is Jira really,…

The Koch’s are irrelevant.  They are just the easiest source of money. But it doesn’t take much money to run a think tank, so there are a lot of them. The libertarian spectrum is roughly aligned with the conservative,  Right Libertarian, Left Libertarian, and Anarchist spectrum, and most of us are associated with one or…

I don’t know if he is the only PhD, since there are a lot of PhD’s in Political Science.  You must realize that in America that a PhD does not mean that  you have mastered a field, but it means you have mastered the art of RESEARCH in your field.  And I am fairly sure…

I WILL TRY TO DO YOUR QUESTION JUSTICE (If you think I have then please promote this piece) PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE AND THE STATUS QUOProgressive and conservative express positions relative to the status quo.However, out of repeated use, this term refers to the difference between State control of society (left = totalitarianism), and ‘normative’ control of…

I WILL TRY TO DO YOUR QUESTION JUSTICE: RE: “That represents a huge expenditure of human and physical resources that is not typically looked at when evaluating the efficiency of the winner.” Actually, it is obvious, common sense, and assumed in economics and politics, but we come to the opposite conclusion.  (a) we are constantly…

THE QUESTION IS A PARLOR TRICK BUT I WILL TRY TO DO IT JUSTICE – MORE JUSTICE THAN IT DESERVES. 🙂 OBSERVABLE TYPES OF LOVEAs far as we know, humans demonstrate these kinds of love, from the most intense to the least intense. 1) Erotic love ( sexual attraction with the potential of joining the…

EINSTEIN LIKE MOST GENIUS IS A PRODUCT OF THE OPPORTUNITY TO COALESCE DISPARATE INSIGHTS IN A PARTICULAR BODY OF TIME. 1) It certainly appears that Einstein merely provided mathematical tests for work of Poincare. (Almost everything else he said, did, and wrote was really.. quite silly.). The genius was provided by Maxwell and Poincare. Einstein’s…

Dear libertarian(s) Some of your statements trouble me, because we need passionate and articulate advocacy of libertarianism. And you’re clearly a passionate and articulate advocate. But it’s better if all of us are the best quality advocates possible, so that we reduce internal friction as wasted effort, and direct it elsewhere where it can be…

Dear libertarian(s) Some of your statements trouble me, because we need passionate and articulate advocacy of libertarianism. And you’re clearly a passionate and articulate advocate. But it’s better if all of us are the best quality advocates possible, so that we reduce internal friction as wasted effort, and direct it elsewhere where it can be…

Dear libertarian(s) Some of your statements trouble me, because we need passionate and articulate advocacy of libertarianism. And you’re clearly a passionate and articulate advocate. But it’s better if all of us are the best quality advocates possible, so that we reduce internal friction as wasted effort, and direct it elsewhere where it can be…

THE SOURCE OF PROPERTY: THE NECESSITY, VIRTUE AND MORALITY OF ORGANIZED VIOLENCE I (we) may not be able to coerce you into accepting freedom – individual monopoly of control over property obtained by voluntary exchange production or homesteading – as a superior form of cooperation to all other forms of cooperation. But you may not…

(ironic humor) The exchange of free riding, fraud, theft and violence for property rights functions as an involuntary loan of the opportunity to consume by way of free riding, fraud, theft and violence, on the unproductive. In exchange for which, at some later time, they receive the service of less toil, lower prices and greater…

Manners are a promise prior to a transaction (or action). Ethics are a promise internal to the transaction (or action). Morals are a promise external to and antecedent to any transaction (or action). The promise is quite simple. A promise to avoid involuntary transfer. That’s it. Ethics isn’t complicated.

(Silencing the silly people) [P]olitical discourse is not civilized. It is a bloody brutal deceitful affair that is conducted in the pursuit the of power to allocate influence, property and opportunity, using every dishonest, distracting, fraudulent tactic available. Humanities is what it is. And I will let the empirical evidence speak for itself. It is…

1) The division of labor is many thousands of times more productive than what an individual can do alone.2) The division of knowledge and labor produces a moral society without the enforcement of religion or law.3) International trade allows countries to specialize.4) International trade produces peace. https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-key-takeaways-from-The-Wealth-of-Nations

Is this a serious question or is it meant to be humorous?   look at investments in male health vs female health.  No comparison. https://www.quora.com/unanswered/In-post-modern-gender-studies-is-phallocentric-capitalism-defined-as-a-distinct-economic-and-social-order

1) If we are to supply money to the economy, how do we know how much? When are we causing more distortion than good?2) There is something wrong with the standard model.  What is the theory of the universe? The theory of ‘everything’?3) What is the human population load bearing capacity of the planet? What…

Currency is necessary for a variety of reasons, and groups would get together to form currency unions. I suspect that no matter what happened, in no matter what circumstance, the group that managed to to this best at scale would displace all but a few of the other groups, and that we would once again…

Job security is an interesting term, because I don’t know how to define it honestly.   And I don’t think the term is meant to be honest whenever its used. None of us has job security if we participate in the market. The security you have comes from maintaining marketable skills. Business today are temporary, disposable…