Tag: natural law = soviet law
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Storage is the heart of civilization
Previous item reminded me of this. Storage is not only the key to experimentation and learning, it’s the key to LIFE. = = = = = START 2019 REPRINT: Noticed a badly done graph on corporate bankruptcies at ZH. The graph doesn’t adjust the assets for inflation, so it’s useless. There’s an even stupider description…
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The answer is work
This 1935 Ford promotional film starts with a long florid speech by a pompous grandiose announcer, introducing an important address by Henry Ford himself! Mr Ford will announce the company’s way of countering the Depression. After the long highly “grammatical” intro, we hear a long florid verbose oration by Henry himself: The answer is work.…
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Reprint again on Russian tech
Apparently China has busted our idiotic monopoly on job-destroying AI, which might bust the AI stock bubble. The bubble was bound to pop anyway, and some observers thought it would pop soon. All stock bubbles pop when the inflators want to cash out. Of course the Chinese effort might not live up to its claims;…
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Fits the pattern
Quick thought, might be invalid. For a long time I’ve noticed that the Wokies are correct about lots of basic concepts. First and most powerfully, LIVED EXPERIENCE makes better learning than memorizing theories. This has been my guiding passion for many years. Second, the older cultures, including the old Americans and most Africans, know how…
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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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