Tag: natural law = soviet law
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Satisfying metaphor
A dream this morning formed a metaphor. I had finished one piece of a courseware project … [this is true, not a metaphor] … and told the maid to send out the result. [THE MAID? WHERE DID SHE COME FROM? I’VE NEVER HAD A MAID!] Later I checked the mailbox and saw that the maid…
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All are error signals
Cults, ideologies, swindles and get-rich schemes are all the same. All are ERROR SIGNALS, warning lights, sharp pains. All are human culture’s way of telling the ruler that LIFE IS SHIT. If a ruler wants to rule comfortably, with popular consent and very little trouble from radical movements, he needs to insure that ORDINARY PEOPLE…
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Y no Gates?
Picking up WWV for New Year pulled me back into shortwave, at least for a while. (I have real work to do right now, and I don’t have enough spare gumption to delve into another sideline.) I’m reminded again of the fact that shortwave is a vacant resource. Broadcasters and commercial communication services have moved…
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Constants and Variables, interstate edition
Constantly quoted by the usual quoters: Central planning always fails, THEREFORE we should trust freedom-loving Libertarian anti-centralizers like Larry Fink and Jeff Bezos and Elon. If you think Larry and Elon are the opposite of central, you’re too stupid to breathe. Variable truth: Central planning by government is VITALLY NECESSARY when it helps ordinary people.…
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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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Good diagnosis, bad fix
Seen at Reddit: = = = = = START QUOTE: I’m tired of boomers telling Gen Z and millennials to “suck it up” when we say that a salary of $60k or less shouldn’t trap us in a mediocre lifestyle, sharing apartments, skipping dining out, avoiding social outings, or never taking vacations. No, these things…
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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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Kirn quibble
Haven’t done one of these quibbles in a LONG time. This one is a real clanger. Kirn was responding to a twitterite who said (somewhat more accurately) that communists hate private property but love copyrights, which are only fictional. = = = = = START KIRN: Copywrights, along with patents, are the LEAST fictional form…
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When you don’t know
Good example of censorship by omission. A redditor posted this description of a rational way to set up business. Half of the commenters said it’s pure myth, can’t possibly happen anywhere, no business could succeed. The other half noted ACCURATELY AND CORRECTLY that much of Europe already has these rules, and businesses there are profitable…
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Frightening?????
Jesus, what’s wrong with these people? They discuss a drop in the totally fictional “value” of the stock market like it’s the end of the world. They call it “frightening”. They say this REQUIRES Powell to give up his disastrous catastrophic REAL ECONOMY and return to the wonderful heavenly Bush/Trump plutonomy where Larry Fink gets…
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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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From an extremely different era 22
In a 1934 Billboard magazine: Cooper and Clifton, Four Robeys and Dare and Yates will be the first vaude troupe going into Soviet Russia. The first two acts sail next month and will be joined in Europe by Dare and Yates. Alexander Basy, head of the Amsov Agency here, says he is negotiating with several…
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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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