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Teoría de los costos de transacción de gobierno
Original article by Curt Doolittle : http://www.propertarianism.com/en_US/2014/12/11/the-transaction-cost-theory-of-government/ Translation by Alberto R. Zambrano U. [L]a historia dice que sólo el desarrollo de un estado – una burocracia monopolista- transfiere los altos costos locales de transacciones sin rentas centrales, a rentas estatales y bajos costos de transacciones. Los libertarios ignoran la evidencia de los costos de transacciones y…
Objective Good vs Subjective Preference
(the thrust of this argument is a conflation of good and preference, and my opponent’s presumption that because of that conflation there are no ‘goods’. This may be a bit hard to parse, but there are objective goods.) [I] think it is that I simply failed to provide sufficient touch stones so that you would…
Evolution of Organizing
[I]’ll add a little context by way of political economy, and say that the world (a)first organized by household and slaves in the agrarian era by kinship relations, then (b) organized militarily and monarchally for the unskilled for the seasonal production cycle with extended relations, (c) then industrially and socialistically for the semi-skilled medium term…
The Truth
[T]he Truth was enough to create the west, and it is enough to restore the west. But we must suppress the liars as we have murder, violence, theft, and fraud. That is because like air, land, and sea, information is a precious commons that cannot tolerate pollution if truth is to survive. Punish the wicked.…
Parasitism is as Natural as Cooperation: Man Follows Incentives
[P]arasitism is just as natural as cooperation. And so the function of the law is to discover new forms of parasitism so that the polity can insure one another against the new forms of parasitism. So it is not simply natural to cooperate, it is natural to cooperate as much as incentives allow, and to…
What Does Quoting Great Philosophers Imply?
[W]hen one says “Socrates said…” or some other philosopher, in defense of some position, the fact that these thinkers said one thing or another never increases the merit of the thought – that’s an appeal to authority. Instead, it tells us that this idea has been in the public discourse for many years. And that…
Man Is A Creature Of Incentives. Be Careful What You Wish For.
[B]uilding a nice pretty world is great for impressing the females. But too many of them take it for granted. Feminism killed our incentives to produce that world. They don’t seem to grasp that if we don’t have the incentives for that world, we can create any world we want with the incentives we want,…
Quarter, Ghetto, Now Ghetto City?
[W]e had ‘Ghettos’ and ‘Quarters’ under the Great Christian Monarchies. There is no reason we cannot have ghettos and quarters as we did under smaller scale states, and no reason we cannot have whole cities under today’s governments of greater scale. Rule, governance, commerce, and existence are very different things. (I have seen escape from…
The Only Objective “Good” is Trade. Everything Else is Preference
[M]ale – Female relations are a trade between competing reproductive strategies. Feminists seem to have the opinion that their strategy is superior despite the fact that all civilization seems to have been constructed to control women’s gossiping, lying, sexual and reproductive excesses as much as it has been to control men’s theft, violence, murder and…
The Cults of Megalomania: Justification of Non-Integration
[B]oth Jewish and Muslim cults include the original claims of Megalomania and utopianism that Abraham invested in the doctrine, and which is the excuse used to both create unity and prevent assimilation into host civilizations. The master race of the Nazis was the same argument made by genetic destiny rather than divine command. There is…
Prophet’s Words Are Wielded Only By Those Who Can Wield Them
[W]estern man, like eastern man, is poly-philosophical. UPPER – TRUTH – RULE – FORCE 1) Aristotle’s Law of truth, The Common Law, and The Martial Law of those who rule: aristocracy. MIDDLE – UTILITY – COOPERATION – TRADE 2) The Host of Middle Class Philosophers myths of aspiration for cooperation, 3) Aesop and the Nordic,…
How Paul Krugman Uses The Big Lie
(important piece) (progress on the cosmopolitan method of lying) [K]rugman is one of the most artful liars in the modern world. We tend to criticize him on his errors. But casting his work as error is too generous: he is simply an extremely artful liar. If you could ask the Genii how to create the…
Can We Construct A Fixed Constitution?
[A]lexander I am fairly certain that it is possible if not necessary to construct a finished constitutional basis for rule of law. It may be impossible to imagine the means of production of commons that we call government within that rule of law. Because the basis of the rule of law appears to be a…
Running Rothbardian Libertinism Into the Ground
[R]othbard “appropriated” the term “libertarianism” and instead gave us anarcho capitalism as the reinterpretation of cosmopolitan ethics of the eastern european borderlands, under Russian, Lithuanian, and Polish rule. It is the ethic of the ghetto. Of the people who do not produce commons or defense. There is nothing ‘libertarian’ in Rothbarianism, and nothing moral in…
The Power To Enforce Laws That Have Been Discovered
(by Eli Harman) “Make lying illegal and you’ll outlaw the truth. So what other “LAWS” do you want to make? What other power do you want to give to those who have power?” [Y]ou misunderstand. My aim isn’t to give power, but to take it, and to hold it. In specific, the power I seek…
Refuting Immoral Attacks on Propertarianism
(from an exchange) [W]hy would you even try to criticize Propertarianism unless you either don’t understand it, are immoral, or both? Are you trying to make the argument that a minority prescription cannot produce a revolution? Or that a majority is needed to force political change? Or that treating information as s commons such that…
No Race Is Prohibited from Transcendence
[L]ARGELY BECAUSE OF RATES OF REPRODUCTION, RACIAL DIFFERENCES ARE HORMONAL (NO RACE IS PROHIBITED FROM TRANSCENDENCE ASSUMING CONTROL OF REPRODUCTION OF THE UNDERCLASSES) Lets Stick With Occam’s Razor As far as I can tell, the central problems affecting the Chinese people are (a) lack of verbal intelligence (b) a written and spoken language that does…
First Principles: Parasitism is Bad, Cooperation is Good
[F]IRST PRINCIPLES: PARASITISM IS BAD, COOPERATION IS GOOD. Curt Doolittle I start with parasitism is bad. Erskine Fincher You can’t start with “X is bad.” You first have to define your standard of good and bad, and before that you need to explain why one even needs a standard, and before that you need to…
Never Bend At The Knee Involuntarily – Ever
—“The thing I hate about cops is it really grates having to bend the knee to those who are, by most measures, my inferiors.”—- Eli Harman [Y]eah. I’ve actually taken to using “Who do you think you’re talking to soldier?” in a demanding paternal voice to anyone in uniform. Strange how well it works. And…
Will You Insure Your Brothers?
[W]hen will you insure your brothers? Is that insurance not the origin of property rights? Is that insurance not the origin of the brotherhood of soldiers? Is not all our civilization built upon our mutual insurance of one another? Our men need confidence that we will insure one another. That we take the oath and…