Tag: natural law = sharia law
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Lazy is best.
Following on this item and this item on the importance of MECHANICAL government. = = = = = Good businesses and good rulers are LAZY as well as mechanical. The two go together. When you make a process mechanical it’s affordable and easy to use. When everything is custom-made and ’boutique’, everything is expensive and…
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Mechanical is better
A passionate defense of informal justice by Michael Moore: = = = = = START QUOTE: Yes, I condemn murder, and that’s why I condemn America’s broken, vile, rapacious, bloodthirsty, unethical, immoral health care industry and I condemn every one of the CEOs who are in charge of it and I condemn every politician who…
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Three parallels
Since 2008 I’ve been trying to highlight and illustrate better ways of solving the problems created by Wall Street. The New Deal was the most effective solution. It was preceded by Mutual Benefit Societies in the 1880s, then Social Economics around 1910. All three movements continued in various ways until Wall Street finally killed everything…
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Reprint on Bimetallism
Mentioned in previous item on HBO’s “reveal” of Satoshi. When I wrote this in 2017, bitcoin wasn’t yet big enough to notice as a new version of bimetallism. I was comparing to Modern Monetary Theory, which was a big deal among leftist types. MMT wasn’t even a system, it was just a fancy way of…
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Real value
This ’57 Ford sales training film starts with a corny intro even by ’50s standards. After that it settles into some useful experience and advice from the best salesmen. Most of the advice is generic. Know the Ford thoroughly and also know Chevies and Plymouths. Know the customer. Develop trust, find out what he wants…
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Didn’t need Buffett backup
Noticed somebody using Warren Buffett’s advice as an authority to say “Buy low, sell high”. First thought: Shit, you don’t need to bring in Buffett to reinforce this basic advice for stock criminals. Second thought: The motto for people who are NOT stock demons is: Buy lasting and maintainable things regardless of price. Then keep…
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More good things
More good things are happening this month! At least temporarily good things. A judge in Colorado issued an injunction to prevent the merger of Kroger and Albertson until the feds finish dealing with the case. Safeway has already been suffering from the costcutting moves intended to aid the merger and improve Share Value. FEDS, GET…
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Reprint on Soviet skill-estate
Linked in previous item, worth reprinting. = = = = = START 2014 PARTIAL REPRINT: What’s the moral of the story? Self-sufficiency. (1) When kids are educated through HANDS and MUSCLE MEMORY, they gain a deep and unremovable knowledge. Soviet math and science education did this. American math and science education relied on rote memory,…
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Digital sentencing
I randomly made this metaphor in previous item: France, like most countries, is not stuck in hell for an unstoppable 4-year term. Parole is possible. Exploring the metaphor a bit more, I see a definite split in our tendencies. In the last 40 years of total Wall Street control, we’ve removed some paroles and imposed…
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Dying empires continued
Continuing the timeline from Harrington’s magnificent insight. What happened next? After Spain’s religious and primitive empire was defeated by the superior tech and finance of England and France and Italy, the same damn thing happened. France took the tech and science learned from Islam, along with the secular reaction of the Protestants, and overmodulated it…
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Belt and suspenders
Rushfield hits the nail again in the middle of a general news column: = = = = = START RUSHFIELD: We’ve been living in an environment of very low-risk speculation thanks to a decade of low interest rates, also known as a speculative bubble. That affected entertainment as much as anything else, as people poured…
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He gets the big point
Most of the time, both “sides” in each hot-button Machiavellian divider are missing the main point. The anti-bitcoiners are right about some details but miss the BIG point that every transaction on the web is perfectly global, perfectly centralized, and perfectly public. Here’s one anti who grasps the biggest point of all. He’s citing a…
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Theories
This is what happens when you get involved in theories and theologies and philosophies. Religion Unplugged writes about a survey of Army chaplains, revealing a peculiar and outright evil function served by the chaplains. The survey was dealing with the perceived morality or legitimacy of software-driven drone warfare. It turns out that chaplains ADVISE GENERALS…
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Totally understandable
Just noticed a skeptic asking if “any non-governmental entity has actually photographed the alleged sunspots.” In today’s utterly crazy tyranny, total skepticism is totally understandable. When rulers are torturing and strangling and imprisoning us and bombing countries down to bedrock, all justified by blazingly fake “science” and fake “threats”, total disbelief is a natural and…
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Substock
I’ve decided that everyone who succeeds on Substack is a stock trader, manipulating the “two” “sides” of an issue to gain arbitrage. Questions that can’t be turned into a trade or a bet aren’t discussed much. With a few notable exceptions, the writers who don’t engage in stock crime don’t last. This is historically normal.…
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