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Great post, Jiriki!
I have to say though, I think you might be missing a small point about partisanship and whether or not people can be made to do anything in the sense that we mean the expression. What I mean is that you can force peo… -
It makes me sad to see old bash.org quotes showing up verbatim in lollercats as if they were shiny new blue jeans. This post makes me happy though
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If you don't mind my asking, what cross section of common beliefs has lead to your agreeing with him on this point but disagreeing with nearly all of his other views? Or in another way, what do you believe about things?
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I have most definitely drunk the kool-aid. But I considered it long and hard before I drank, and upon doing so realized that it was sweet and delicious.
The biggest concern I can think of is corrosion as you said, but that's a manageabl… -
I don't understand this jump from over use to capitalism being at fault. Humanity is at fault. Do you think we were somehow more noble and would refuse as a matter of honor to raze the landscape at any point in our past before any concept of capit…
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Sorry for the necro, smite me if you must. I'd like to point out a few things about deflation and its effect on digital mathematical currency:
First, bitcoin is infinitely divisible. This means that while a whole bitcoin will increase … -
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The labor surplus is due in part to the fact that the price of labor has been mandated in the first place. Labor is like any other good: supply and demand will meet at a market dictated price if left alone. But that's not the who… -
Told 2483 2595 lies on these forums.
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I'm glad I got in before all this screening, I would would have probably answered "marbles."
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I was on your side until you inferred that us backwoods folk who never venture into the main forums are somehow sub-human. We read OT, man, WE do!
I'm not sure why someone rated this is spam. Very good post!The problem with trying to wrangle politics itself is that it's futile by ignoring the fundamental truths of the human condition and what brings about corruption in the first place. Like the(Quote)
I think you're exactly right, here. For a person, or a community, or a committee to determine fitness is so absurd that the only thing more absurd is that the concept is considered seriously in discussions and policy. No matter i…The other fallacy here is in the belief that a law has any meaningful effect the outcomes of interactions so completely controlled by instinct. It's a bit presumptuous to take a position of "it's against the law now, so it can't be happening. Only…(Quote)
Not at all. I don't believe anything is strictly unnatural. Anything that can be described or results from consequences of our existence must surely be natural. It really gets me an a rant when talking to people about so called …(Quote)
I think the part I keep miscommunicating is that a free market or the concept of free trade can not be implemented by a government. They exist in the absence restrictions on freedom by law. It's an emergent quality of the network…(Quote)
If that's the case, how have those situations ever resolved themselves? It was either a benevolent dictator or a realization in the power of freedom on a mass scale and the reclamation of those rights. If it's a benevolent dictato…(Quote)
You can't just discount the complexity of a network as vast as human civilization with a simple quip. You seem to think that you can legislate freedom, and I don't believe that's the case. It's honestly frustrating because I don'…(Quote)
That seems a fair timeline to me:
1704: John Locke died
1764: Spinning Jenny
1776: Wealth of Nations
Late 1700's: Steam Engine
~1760-1840 Industrial Revolution
It's also importa…(Quote)
(Classical) Liberalism is widely held to be have been conjured forth by John Locke and others like him and it studies the effective oppression of democracy and the absolute importance of liberty. It's not much resemblance to the l…(Quote)
I'm not sure I understand your line of reasoning. I can understand that restriction of common land would force people to cities if cities had better prospects, though that ignores a discussion of why that land was common and not p…As you say, any issue is complex. The biggest mistake made is to assume that an idea like charity has only one meaning and that meaning is shared exactly by everyone on the planet. Therefore, when someone opposes your idea of charity, it's easy to…Free market capitalism is a classical liberal idea that ignited the industrial revolution, spurred advances in electronics and the scientific understanding of atoms and particles which lead to integrated circuits and ultimately the orders of magnitu…(Quote)
It's not a conservative trope channel, it's a collection of videos explaining classical liberalism (wiki). The video only explored one aspect of the mi…There's a difference between a wage and stipend. A wage is part of a contractual transaction, a stipend is a gift. Market forces do not concern themselves with gifts, but they very much concern themselves with wages. Therefore, you will certainly…(Quote)
You can't rail against making blanket statements and then make one yourself. Sticking it to the bourgeois is a vaporware goal. I won't deny such people exist, but this statement is dismissive and makes two critical assumptions th…Warning No formatter is installed for the format ipbWarning No formatter is installed for the format ipb
