why should I 'convert'? I am an anarcho capitalist, always have been, as long as I can remember myself.
I off-shored jobs myself, it makes perfect sense to do that given the taxes, regulations, laws, inflation. All these things is what makes Americans (and Canadian and many others) unproductive, while making others much more productive by the very virtue of the fact that their governments will not or cannot regulate and tax in the same manner. I don't owe anybody a job, nobody has any entitlement to the jobs that I create when I need another person to add to the team effort and I hire and train somebody. Nobody is entitle to shit. I worked and saved and started my own company, didn't steal from anybody and didn't need government assistance to do it, in fact everything I do is somehow interfered with by some government somewhere, so I never stop looking. It is tiring, to have to think about such things instead of just running the business, but it's the only way in today's world.
If you really want to hurt the wealthy, raise inflation. A lot.
- ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaa:) Money printing does not take away somebody's factory but it DOES make them MOVE that factory from Detroit to Mexico or China. You think inflation hurts 'the rich'? Seriously? Many of 'the rich' love inflation, many of 'the rich' are also the people running banks and other institutions directly connected to the government and the government has already been producing amazing amounts of inflation, printing money, handing the new money out to 'the rich'. Inflation destroys the poor by pushing manufacturing and other productive sectors out of the economy to other economies, with less inflation and inflation seriously hurts people who live on fixed incomes. Inflation also is a major cause for rising prices and if you think that 'the rich' suffer the most when potato prices go up you should rethink your understanding of what 'the rich' and 'the poor' eat today.
Your GDP numbers are bloody nonsense, they are a reflection of inflation (money printing) not being more productive. A house sells for more dollars, a government contract gets more dollars, stock market has more dollars, retailers of foreign goods get more dollars.... That's your GDP. America has more unemployment than it ever had in its own history, again not with the official nonsense numbers, but with people not working or underemployed. Inflation is magnitudes greater than what is officially admitted, so the GDP deflator number is understated. Talking about productivity in terms of inflation instead of trade balance is nonsense.
USA is running half a trillion dollars of trade deficit. A productive country? No, the most unproductive country.
Well America is much better at efficiency than other countries.
- right, Americans are better at efficiency... are they? Efficiency is ability to do more but cheaper. Are Americans better at efficiency if companies are specifically leaving (and so many left) to make their production cheaper? Americans today are horrendous at efficiency because their government made them absolutely inefficient. As to what makes a person efficient - capital savings and investment into labour saving devices.
To be a very efficient worker you are not going to swing your arms at a much higher rate if all you have is a shovel. You will need an excavator to be as efficient as a few hundred people with shovels. However America has destroyed its savings and capital investment pool with inflation (money printing) and taxes and regulations and it's not at all efficient based on work of any average labourer. Businesses that are still in the USA may be efficient because they hire fewer and fewer labourers and thus they are subject to less regulations and taxes, but they are not efficient because all of a sudden an American worker can do more with his powerful hands and powerful mind than a German or a Chinese worker.
Just you wait until the governments realize their DMV functions are no longer required (or at least can be reduced to a tiny fraction of their current size). The buggy whip industry could never raise a similar stink, it just didn't have the numbers and the power and the unions.
And isn't it interesting: 'not everyone willing to work can find a job that pays what they need'. No shit. So did these people pop out of vacuum? They just magically appeared out of nowhere without any understanding or skills or use in the world? Who are their parents and were there any? Where and what and for what did they study? Did they bother to learn to do things that let them be something more than a toilet cleaner? Hmmm, I take it in your world people are just appearing, ready to work but without any idea or knowledge or parents, completely oblivious how anything works.
As to vagrancy laws - I am against all government, but anybody should be free to run and protect their own property in any way they see fit. Not any child or a teenager can do something useful enough to feed themselves but by the time a person is more or less grown they better figure this part out.
Once again, who is forcing you to do anything? Having income is not that difficult, it is definitely easier than growing your own food, or maybe you are under the impression that farming is not actual work?????? If you want to eat you have to produce that food or buy it from somebody who produced it. If you want to be a farmer buy the land and grow whatever you want on it. Oh, nobody will give up their for you for free? Oh the humanity. Why don't you work, save, buy your land and give it away for free to somebody else who is going to be talking at that time about how he is 'coerced' to trade and cannot just take something for free.
I am of the opinion that nothing comes for free if it is worth having.
That you want to live and have food is not a problem of everybody who has a way to produce food and owns a place to sleep. There are plenty homeless people in the USA, you can choose that or choose to work to trade with others who choose to work to trade.
Oh, so by providing lower prices and a much wider variety, Amazon out competed a number of retailers you used to walk to? I, on the other hand, buy much more on line than I could at small retailers before Amazon.
Actually the original ruling didn't say that API cannot be copyrighted. That API in fact *can* be copyrighted is still true. The issue is fair use of an API, not inability to copyright it.
Nonsense, nobody forces you to have money. You are the one who wants money to obtain productive output of others. There is no such thing as 'basic income', there is only theft and redistribution and theft is always oppressive and coercive.
Maybe it is funny in a way, but I want to ask you this: how does Amazon screw you? By offering insane number of options to choose from when you are looking to buy something? By offering competitive prices? By offering to deliver to you faster than anybody else can? By offering a fairly simple and consistent return / exchange policy? Seriously, how, as a consumer, are you getting hurt by a company working to outcompete anybody else in the retail business?
Aha, so if it is a trivial part of the economy then how is it that people want to get manufactured goods, stores are filled with grown, manufactured goods that are the result of production, which requires mined and grown resources, energy, land, capital and labour? Manufacturing is the most non trivial part of the economy and the societies that forget it lose their productivity and ability to trade and thus to purchase. Consumption is the most trivial part of an economy, not production.
Well, we could start by selecting people for jury who would know the difference between their ear canal and their asshole... Both are orifices and yet...
I 100% agree that politicians are responsible for inflation that causes rising prices. The root cause of it is feeling of jealousy in the masses who vote in politicians promising to steal and redistribute from those who have more to the majority. These promises end up unworkable and grow debt, eventually causing default on honest money (in case of the USA this happened in 1971, with Nixon defaulting on the gold dollar). Then inflation (money printing)accelerates, this causes outflow of capital investment and manufacturing jobs. Eventually the economy stops being productive, goods are imported and not paid for in anything of value. The foreigners accumulate bonds and printed money but cannot spend these to buy anything from the issuer to offset the trade imbalance. At this point this money returns back to the country of origin to buy properties, lands, any remaining productive assets (businesses).
The locals haven't been productive in decades by this point and cannot compete with the returning cash.
Yes, but did you see my nick? You cannot say 'romanticise' without 'roman', can you? Besides, language is not precise either, you can say the same thing in a dozen different ways. A contour of an object has a promise of that object but nothing more than a promise. As long as your side of the system fits to the contour of an object your system has a belief that it will have the underlying object available to it. This works for static but also for dynamic linking.
Language is used to describe ideas and thoughts and feelings and facts. How is language an API when it is actually the structure?
Alphabet is an API to language (maybe) but not really, language came to exist without any alphabet, alphabet was built on top of language. Actually alphabet serves as superstructure, language is not derived from it.
In case of an API the syntax allows the API to exist, not the other way around. But it is getting too muddy here, too meta.
I like your approach better than what was said in the courtroom though.
Do you want to be happy or do you want to be right? It is a court where people have to decide a number of things based on the current and very unfortunate copyright and patent law. A precise architectural drawing can most certainly be copyrighted and maybe patents apply as well. A precise architectural drawing describes the internal workings of an object, API does not. A contour or an outline without the description of the internal structure is what API provides.
Correct, and both countries are 'working hard' to grow the amount of debt they owe. Without a productive manufacturing sector, *exporting more* than importing from others, the populations of these countries *will pay for those imports somehow* and being out competed for housing based on the falling dollar value compared to the more productive foreigner currencies and earnings is a payment as well. Years ago I was already saying that payment will come in some form - a falling standard of living due to rising pricess is a payment. Foreigners are buying properties and businesses because foreigners have collected enough money from all the debt that Americans and Canadians accumulated. This should be obvious but apparently not to everyone.
Well, if Canada was a productive manufacturing country it too could have much wealthier people who could compete for housing in the global market. The market is global today and competition is for everything. Be productive, manufacturr, mine, grow, build, provide good service or live like a bum.
I think the result that is worth pursuing is maximum freedom of any individual from any vollective and that all cooperation and collaboration needs to be voluntary. Minimize the oppression, maximize individual freedom.
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Nobody is entitled to shit. My wallet is my problem, my security is my problem, don't worry about it.
why should I 'convert'? I am an anarcho capitalist, always have been, as long as I can remember myself.
I off-shored jobs myself, it makes perfect sense to do that given the taxes, regulations, laws, inflation. All these things is what makes Americans (and Canadian and many others) unproductive, while making others much more productive by the very virtue of the fact that their governments will not or cannot regulate and tax in the same manner. I don't owe anybody a job, nobody has any entitlement to the jobs that I create when I need another person to add to the team effort and I hire and train somebody. Nobody is entitle to shit. I worked and saved and started my own company, didn't steal from anybody and didn't need government assistance to do it, in fact everything I do is somehow interfered with by some government somewhere, so I never stop looking. It is tiring, to have to think about such things instead of just running the business, but it's the only way in today's world.
If you really want to hurt the wealthy, raise inflation. A lot.
- ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaa :) Money printing does not take away somebody's factory but it DOES make them MOVE that factory from Detroit to Mexico or China. You think inflation hurts 'the rich'? Seriously? Many of 'the rich' love inflation, many of 'the rich' are also the people running banks and other institutions directly connected to the government and the government has already been producing amazing amounts of inflation, printing money, handing the new money out to 'the rich'. Inflation destroys the poor by pushing manufacturing and other productive sectors out of the economy to other economies, with less inflation and inflation seriously hurts people who live on fixed incomes. Inflation also is a major cause for rising prices and if you think that 'the rich' suffer the most when potato prices go up you should rethink your understanding of what 'the rich' and 'the poor' eat today.
Your GDP numbers are bloody nonsense, they are a reflection of inflation (money printing) not being more productive. A house sells for more dollars, a government contract gets more dollars, stock market has more dollars, retailers of foreign goods get more dollars.... That's your GDP. America has more unemployment than it ever had in its own history, again not with the official nonsense numbers, but with people not working or underemployed. Inflation is magnitudes greater than what is officially admitted, so the GDP deflator number is understated. Talking about productivity in terms of inflation instead of trade balance is nonsense.
USA is running half a trillion dollars of trade deficit. A productive country? No, the most unproductive country.
Well America is much better at efficiency than other countries.
- right, Americans are better at efficiency... are they? Efficiency is ability to do more but cheaper. Are Americans better at efficiency if companies are specifically leaving (and so many left) to make their production cheaper? Americans today are horrendous at efficiency because their government made them absolutely inefficient. As to what makes a person efficient - capital savings and investment into labour saving devices.
To be a very efficient worker you are not going to swing your arms at a much higher rate if all you have is a shovel. You will need an excavator to be as efficient as a few hundred people with shovels. However America has destroyed its savings and capital investment pool with inflation (money printing) and taxes and regulations and it's not at all efficient based on work of any average labourer. Businesses that are still in the USA may be efficient because they hire fewer and fewer labourers and thus they are subject to less regulations and taxes, but they are not efficient because all of a sudden an American worker can do more with his powerful hands and powerful mind than a German or a Chinese worker.
Just you wait until the governments realize their DMV functions are no longer required (or at least can be reduced to a tiny fraction of their current size). The buggy whip industry could never raise a similar stink, it just didn't have the numbers and the power and the unions.
And isn't it interesting: 'not everyone willing to work can find a job that pays what they need'. No shit. So did these people pop out of vacuum? They just magically appeared out of nowhere without any understanding or skills or use in the world? Who are their parents and were there any? Where and what and for what did they study? Did they bother to learn to do things that let them be something more than a toilet cleaner? Hmmm, I take it in your world people are just appearing, ready to work but without any idea or knowledge or parents, completely oblivious how anything works.
As to vagrancy laws - I am against all government, but anybody should be free to run and protect their own property in any way they see fit. Not any child or a teenager can do something useful enough to feed themselves but by the time a person is more or less grown they better figure this part out.
Once again, who is forcing you to do anything? Having income is not that difficult, it is definitely easier than growing your own food, or maybe you are under the impression that farming is not actual work?????? If you want to eat you have to produce that food or buy it from somebody who produced it. If you want to be a farmer buy the land and grow whatever you want on it. Oh, nobody will give up their for you for free? Oh the humanity. Why don't you work, save, buy your land and give it away for free to somebody else who is going to be talking at that time about how he is 'coerced' to trade and cannot just take something for free.
I am of the opinion that nothing comes for free if it is worth having.
That you want to live and have food is not a problem of everybody who has a way to produce food and owns a place to sleep. There are plenty homeless people in the USA, you can choose that or choose to work to trade with others who choose to work to trade.
Oh, so by providing lower prices and a much wider variety, Amazon out competed a number of retailers you used to walk to? I, on the other hand, buy much more on line than I could at small retailers before Amazon.
Actually the original ruling didn't say that API cannot be copyrighted. That API in fact *can* be copyrighted is still true. The issue is fair use of an API, not inability to copyright it.
Nonsense, nobody forces you to have money. You are the one who wants money to obtain productive output of others. There is no such thing as 'basic income', there is only theft and redistribution and theft is always oppressive and coercive.
Maybe it is funny in a way, but I want to ask you this: how does Amazon screw you? By offering insane number of options to choose from when you are looking to buy something? By offering competitive prices? By offering to deliver to you faster than anybody else can? By offering a fairly simple and consistent return / exchange policy? Seriously, how, as a consumer, are you getting hurt by a company working to outcompete anybody else in the retail business?
Maybe they should hire a cow as an interpreter.
Aha, so if it is a trivial part of the economy then how is it that people want to get manufactured goods, stores are filled with grown, manufactured goods that are the result of production, which requires mined and grown resources, energy, land, capital and labour? Manufacturing is the most non trivial part of the economy and the societies that forget it lose their productivity and ability to trade and thus to purchase. Consumption is the most trivial part of an economy, not production.
Nonsense. SOS is a message itself, it is data, not an interface.
Not a government problem.
Well, we could start by selecting people for jury who would know the difference between their ear canal and their asshole... Both are orifices and yet...
Come up with a better one if you think this one is flawed.
I 100% agree that politicians are responsible for inflation that causes rising prices. The root cause of it is feeling of jealousy in the masses who vote in politicians promising to steal and redistribute from those who have more to the majority. These promises end up unworkable and grow debt, eventually causing default on honest money (in case of the USA this happened in 1971, with Nixon defaulting on the gold dollar). Then inflation (money printing)accelerates, this causes outflow of capital investment and manufacturing jobs. Eventually the economy stops being productive, goods are imported and not paid for in anything of value. The foreigners accumulate bonds and printed money but cannot spend these to buy anything from the issuer to offset the trade imbalance. At this point this money returns back to the country of origin to buy properties, lands, any remaining productive assets (businesses).
The locals haven't been productive in decades by this point and cannot compete with the returning cash.
Yes, but did you see my nick? You cannot say 'romanticise' without 'roman', can you? Besides, language is not precise either, you can say the same thing in a dozen different ways. A contour of an object has a promise of that object but nothing more than a promise. As long as your side of the system fits to the contour of an object your system has a belief that it will have the underlying object available to it. This works for static but also for dynamic linking.
Language is used to describe ideas and thoughts and feelings and facts. How is language an API when it is actually the structure?
Alphabet is an API to language (maybe) but not really, language came to exist without any alphabet, alphabet was built on top of language. Actually alphabet serves as superstructure, language is not derived from it.
In case of an API the syntax allows the API to exist, not the other way around. But it is getting too muddy here, too meta.
I like your approach better than what was said in the courtroom though.
Do you want to be happy or do you want to be right? It is a court where people have to decide a number of things based on the current and very unfortunate copyright and patent law. A precise architectural drawing can most certainly be copyrighted and maybe patents apply as well. A precise architectural drawing describes the internal workings of an object, API does not. A contour or an outline without the description of the internal structure is what API provides.
Correct, and both countries are 'working hard' to grow the amount of debt they owe. Without a productive manufacturing sector, *exporting more* than importing from others, the populations of these countries *will pay for those imports somehow* and being out competed for housing based on the falling dollar value compared to the more productive foreigner currencies and earnings is a payment as well. Years ago I was already saying that payment will come in some form - a falling standard of living due to rising pricess is a payment. Foreigners are buying properties and businesses because foreigners have collected enough money from all the debt that Americans and Canadians accumulated. This should be obvious but apparently not to everyone.
Well, if Canada was a productive manufacturing country it too could have much wealthier people who could compete for housing in the global market. The market is global today and competition is for everything. Be productive, manufacturr, mine, grow, build, provide good service or live like a bum.
I think the result that is worth pursuing is maximum freedom of any individual from any vollective and that all cooperation and collaboration needs to be voluntary. Minimize the oppression, maximize individual freedom.