tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067263.comments2023-05-26T13:06:04.164+00:00Es un alimento muy completo.Lorrainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13567383019731167967noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067263.post-58624350319756813912022-12-04T03:08:41.278+00:002022-12-04T03:08:41.278+00:00Great blog I enjoyyed readingGreat blog I enjoyyed readingSkylight Contractors Schaumburghttps://www.professionalskylight.com/us/illinois-skylights/skylight-contractors-schaumburg.shtmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067263.post-42962377281815325422022-05-25T07:25:27.203+00:002022-05-25T07:25:27.203+00:00Hello maate great blog postHello maate great blog postMila Bhttps://www.milabrowning.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067263.post-88423575230252088222013-06-13T20:54:27.214+00:002013-06-13T20:54:27.214+00:00I could really care less about the shape and or re...I could really care less about the shape and or relative sizes of the middle and top. I'm a negative <a href="http://anagory.wordpress.com/?s=negative+utilitarianism" rel="nofollow">utilitarian</a>, so my only concern, really, is with the bottom. First consideration is minimizing the number of people "below poverty line" (although I think the line between survivability and not is a little more complex an issue) with high priority. Second consideration, is raising the lowest point in the configuration. Assuming levitation or powered/unpowered flight is somehow not permissable/possible or is outside the parameters of the exercise, I suppose Brin's concentration of the weight of society on a very small base area (a single point) is the optimal satisfaction of the first consideration. Also, if the lowest <i>organic</i> (i.e. human) portion of the structure is above ground, supported by the inorganic portion (say, automation), that is also acceptable, as long as the automated industrial substructure can support the entire social structure sustainably. If not, my next suspicion is that there are too many people. But don't blame me, I'm child-free.Lorrainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13567383019731167967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067263.post-82523527804215365122013-06-13T06:11:09.250+00:002013-06-13T06:11:09.250+00:00"When poor people are a tiny voting bloc, the..."When poor people are a tiny voting bloc, the interests of poor people are especially poorly represented."<br /><br />LOL. Give me that kind of problem, please.<br /><br />"Perhaps a small amount of equality can be traded for some efficiency by folding the sheet into a paper airplane."<br /><br />Brilliant.<br /><br />Lorraine, you raise some good issues but I think Brin might say something like this: Diamonds can vary in the ratio of their width and height. That ratio should reflect the Gini coefficient that is desired. As the height decreases the flatness of the diamond approaches a plane, the Gini coefficient approaches zero, and David Brin approaches Lorraine.Poor Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00780183195105651583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067263.post-20882897396983118322013-06-13T04:06:57.618+00:002013-06-13T04:06:57.618+00:00It happens yet again. Try http://issuepedia.org/D...It happens yet again. Try <a href="http://issuepedia.org/David_Brin/The_Other_Foe_of_Free_Enterprise" rel="nofollow">http://issuepedia.org/David_Brin/The_Other_Foe_of_Free_Enterprise</a>Lorrainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13567383019731167967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067263.post-87442676398460220052012-10-04T01:07:14.768+00:002012-10-04T01:07:14.768+00:00Encyclopedic! I'll have to save this link.
FW...Encyclopedic! I'll have to save this link.<br /><br />FWIW, I recently heard of a movement within public health to NOT encourage helmets when bicycling. The rationale is that by encouraging helmets, they are implicitly discouraging biking by portraying it as dangerous (which depends on the roads) and a hassle. They say that biking without a helmet is healthier than not biking at all, due to the health benefits of regular exercise.<br />Ricketsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02579799843541826447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067263.post-36998073830211371172011-09-30T08:57:51.944+00:002011-09-30T08:57:51.944+00:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.RE Accounting Serviceshttp://www.actuitindia.com/industry/real-estate-accounting-services/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067263.post-57535283266859063032011-09-23T06:25:17.886+00:002011-09-23T06:25:17.886+00:00You have a beautiful mind, and as usual a thought ...You have a beautiful mind, and as usual a thought provoking analysis. I would change several of my answers after reading your comments, but I'm too tired to retake that thang now...<br /><br />PRPoor Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00780183195105651583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067263.post-23416128466598350392011-03-29T01:05:22.672+00:002011-03-29T01:05:22.672+00:00You're right that the p2p counter-economy is d...You're right that the p2p counter-economy is different from the agorist one. I think most of us participate in all three economies and I don't think they are really different economies but threads of a hybrid one. They are in opposition, but each is essential--take any one away and the rest collapses.<br /><br />I empathize with your distaste for competition in a house of games...house of cards...house of card games...<br /><br />Actually play and competition are in our dna, which I think is why it matters to you and I that the games on offer are such crap.<br /><br />PRPoor Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00780183195105651583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067263.post-76983728730036930752011-03-28T22:42:12.794+00:002011-03-28T22:42:12.794+00:00Per Michel Bauwens: For example, [commoners] could...Per Michel Bauwens: <i>For example, </i>[commoners]<i> could create enterprises that are not profit-maximisers, but cooperatives, or they could use the peer production license, which allows free usage of the commons only to other commoners and thereby creates a counter-economy.</i><br /><br />This reads a little different to me from the <a href="http://www.agorism.info/counter-economy" rel="nofollow">agorist definition of counter-economy</a>: <i>the sum of all human action proscribed by the State.</i> Note the assumption that there is no human action which is considered non-economic.<br /><br />I prefer "equal footing" over the "level playing field metaphor" because, as an anagorist, I dream of the society that is less of a playing field; less of a game. Maybe I would be OK with the need to compete if the game weren't rigged, but I'm skeptical.<br /><br />That proverb, "less is more, up to a point" should be added to the text for <a href="http://scratchpad.wikia.com/index.php?title=Nonzero_tolerance_policy&action=edit" rel="nofollow">Nonzero Tolerance Policy</a>. I'll do so when I get around tuit, of someone else hasn't by then. BTW, Google shows 4 instances of <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=%22nonzero+tolerance+policy%22" rel="nofollow">"nonzero tolerance policy"</a>. The <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=7JRbk2hTWiMC&pg=PA164&lpg=PA164&dq=%22nonzero+tolerance+policy%22&source=bl&ots=HjV6s_qOR9&sig=d8YO7tInPMgKdJR1hyiuf4GYL-o&hl=en&ei=uQ2RTZThOsW50QGjoozEDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22nonzero%20tolerance%20policy%22&f=false" rel="nofollow">one that I'm not responsible for</a> is in Google Books, and is about microbiology, of all things.Lorrainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13567383019731167967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067263.post-30916106386896547152011-03-28T17:40:30.811+00:002011-03-28T17:40:30.811+00:00I like the way you write and the way you think, Lo...I like the way you write and the way you think, Lori. You are a NWAKFR (nerd with a knack for rhetoric).<br /><br />This would be good material for our Economical Bestiary.<br /><br />Have you seen my comments about non-ideological language in <a href="http://almanac2010.wordpress.com/2011/03/25/analyzing-mixed-socio-economic-systems/" rel="nofollow">Analyzing mixed socio-economic systems</a>?<br /><br />We are all agorists and counter-economy users up to a point. Agorism and electoral politics are co-dependent.<br /><br />People tend to have unrealistic expectations for unfettered freedom and liberty. The counter- economy has rules and conventions.<br /><br />So the question is where is the point of diminishing returns on socio-economic balkanization (anything goes, somewhere) and, at the other extreme, excessive consensus-seeking (our "more perfect union")?<br /><br />Balance. An old proverb goes "less is more". It should go "less is more, up to a point."<br /><br />Another expression for "equal footing" is "level playing field". That reminds me of Mark Twain's comments about warped billiard tables. Of course the wily old coot liked them because it gave him an advantage.<br /><br />PRPoor Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00780183195105651583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067263.post-86775325031813902202011-01-13T18:49:16.451+00:002011-01-13T18:49:16.451+00:00Michelito (quoted above) is an apparently foreign ...Michelito (quoted above) is an apparently foreign traveler planning a trip to America, land of ISP oligopoly, expensive bandwidth, gotcha clauses, locked phones and second-class citizenship for prepaid users.<br /><br />And to think this country used to be a leader in communications.Lorrainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13567383019731167967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067263.post-62310865750735770092011-01-13T18:29:37.980+00:002011-01-13T18:29:37.980+00:00Apropos comment by one 'michelito' at the ...<a href="http://lifehacker.com/comment/34878654/#c34883494_author" rel="nofollow">Apropos comment</a> by one 'michelito' at the Lifehacker site:<br /><br />“I have looked at the big four cell providers in the US, but all their websites are just as complicated one compared to the other… it’s as if they don’t want us to know how much exactly things will cost.”Lorrainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13567383019731167967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067263.post-35970948625438425302010-12-06T20:09:38.010+00:002010-12-06T20:09:38.010+00:00Most likely an inattentive producer missing his/he...Most likely an inattentive producer missing his/her cue to launch the CNN newsfeed. This is nothing new for WDTW. As a former Detroit-area resident, this was a common occurence on the weekend broadcasts. Maybe the offendind producer got a promotion to weekdays.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067263.post-33104277114563774882010-11-19T00:52:32.393+00:002010-11-19T00:52:32.393+00:00Hello, LL
I tried the Cory Moloney link, but it s...Hello, LL<br /><br />I tried the Cory Moloney link, but it seems that being an anarchist takes a lot of effort... I briefly wondered what Rothbard did to so-and-so, but naaa.<br /><br />Then I tried the Tremblay link... started with the post itself... The first sentence I cannot understand, which makes the second one irrelevant. And then the 3rd and 4th sentences --<br />"People will argue that, say, one person deserves to be paid more than another because they contribute more to society. First of all, the basis of capitalism is that value is subjective, therefore such a statement reduces itself to saying that one person deserves to be paid more because they are being paid more."<br />-- is just plain wrong. Yes, value is subjective. Value is in the eye of the beholder. But that doesn't matter. Whatever lies behind the value judgment, the judgment of value, lies behind it. People with rare and valuable skills are paid more than people with no skills, because their skills are rare and more valuable. It doesn't matter why people find those skills valuable.<br /><br />But your excerpts are interesting, I think. And hey, thanks for including me in the bag last week.<br /><br />ArtThe Arthurianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16501331051089400601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067263.post-43233928981329172632010-11-04T20:55:31.500+00:002010-11-04T20:55:31.500+00:00Lorraine and Winton,
I just came across this. I ...Lorraine and Winton,<br /><br />I just came across this. I think you might also want to look at my book, Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development: The Bloomington School (Routledge, 2009) as well as the special issue of JEBO that I edited in honor of Lin and Vincent Ostrom. The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics also has the biographical essay on Lin Ostrom by myself (and my coauthor on many of these projects dealing with Lin and Vincent and their students, Paul Aligica).<br /><br />The essay under question was published in Public Choice, but it is based on a variety of other works and also many conversations with Lin and Vincent as well as study and teaching from their work for years. Aligica and I also have a paper that is forthcoming in Policy Studies Journal related to the two social philosophies of the Bloomington approach.<br /><br />PeteAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067263.post-24385669234927090242010-11-04T00:46:15.415+00:002010-11-04T00:46:15.415+00:00Instead of mobilizing against the fact that privat...<b>Instead of mobilizing against the fact that private sector workers are underpaid, they have successfully been conned into griping about 'overpaid' civil servants.</b><br /><br />Exactly. People seem to think that the solution to a shrinking economy is to attack a sector that has been shrinking less!<br /><br />Nice, Lorraine, what you did with Blended Purple's emigration post.<br /><br />My first time here.<br />ArtThe Arthurianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16501331051089400601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067263.post-6321290512709966812010-10-03T01:15:29.650+00:002010-10-03T01:15:29.650+00:00Well, I messed that up. Perhaps Poor Richard could...Well, I messed that up. Perhaps Poor Richard could be right about me being a fool! <br />I will try again: The site was <a href="http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=41379" rel="nofollow">here</a>Winton Bateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07383561940886657594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067263.post-82694898612861151122010-10-03T01:04:11.848+00:002010-10-03T01:04:11.848+00:00Thanks very much for that advice, Lorraine. I used...Thanks very much for that advice, Lorraine. I used the information you gave me to find a site talking about that stuff <a href="http://http://www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=41379" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Just practicing.Winton Bateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07383561940886657594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067263.post-38979338927083917682010-10-02T00:23:40.854+00:002010-10-02T00:23:40.854+00:00Blogger and most other blog engines accept <a h...Blogger and most other blog engines accept <b><a href="</b> tags in comments. The list of accepted tags tends to be shorter for comments than for posts, but a tags (links) are included. On some blog platforms they are not, and some blogs have an editorial policy of regarding links as spam. I only delete those comments that read like an infomercial. I think links are great. They're what puts the hyper in hypertext.Lorrainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13567383019731167967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067263.post-89093086645920949322010-10-01T22:00:13.202+00:002010-10-01T22:00:13.202+00:00One further point. Having now read the article abo...One further point. Having now read the article about robots that you linked to, I would like to draw your attention to this:<br />http://wintonbates.blogspot.com/2010/05/will-history-judge-marx-to-have-been.html<br /><br />(By the way, talking about technology, can you tell me how you manage to link to other pages when making comments?)Winton Bateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07383561940886657594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067263.post-80679015723852437722010-10-01T21:42:36.942+00:002010-10-01T21:42:36.942+00:00First, the goose that lays the golden eggs. I see ...First, the goose that lays the golden eggs. I see the goose as the economy, rather than the working age population. The point is that redistribution may adversely affect incentives and thus reduce total product eg through effects of tax rates on investment location as well as work-leisure choices.<br />Second, how important is the demographic crunch? Its importance depends on how much birth rates have been declining - not so much in the US as Europe. It also depends on what else is happening in an economy. Its importance diminishes if productivity is rising rapidly, or if there is a terms of trade improvement (as in Australia in recent years), or if pension levels are relatively low etc.<br />You make a valid point about the relevance of the assumptions of public choice. Other factors are also relevant. When deciding what kind of public support to provide to the elderly poor I think voters would have some regard to the way alternative approaches might impact on their grandchildren if they were aware of the path dependency involved in universal PAYG systems. My point is somewhat Rawlsian - people don't really have much idea what position their grandchildren are likely to have on the income distribution.Winton Bateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07383561940886657594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067263.post-30094546082814408542010-10-01T15:01:01.733+00:002010-10-01T15:01:01.733+00:00I don't like mean testing either. To come out ...I don't like mean testing either. To come out on the good side of the mean test you have to be proved to be a bum. This is inherently demeaning even when it works in your favor. More often it excludes people who should be included.<br /><br />Bates is a bozo who would "strain out a gnat and swallow a camel" (that's how Jesus reportedly described a fool).<br /><br />The benefit should not be means tested, the retirement age should be lowered to 50 to end unemployment, and the benefit should provide a very comfortable living (though not more, of course).<br /><br />The fix for social retirement programs (or any other kind of social program) is just to tax the rich very progressively, and for pete sake tax every buck they make with no crazy fat-cat exemption. It isn't rocket science. If the rich pay their fair share of the tax, I don't mind if they collect a social security check. Forget the means testing BS.<br /><br />What, somebody's fortune wasn't built on the backs of poor laborers, consumers, and taxpayers? The rich OWE us. We should tax the bejesus out of them.<br /><br />Or be their drooling collaborators and maybe they'll take good care of us in our old age.<br /><br />Poor Richard<br /><br /><a href="http://almanac2010.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">Poor Richard's Almanack 2010</a>Poor Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00780183195105651583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067263.post-65330166835122531582010-09-24T02:11:24.464+00:002010-09-24T02:11:24.464+00:00The Reform The LP website has been moved. The URL...The <i>Reform The LP</i> website has been moved. The URL of the David Brin essay referenced above is now <a href="http://www.reformthelp.org/reformthelp/rights/generalizing/foe.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.reformthelp.org/reformthelp/rights/generalizing/foe.php</a>Lorrainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13567383019731167967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4067263.post-20669412051948663312010-09-16T05:32:44.918+00:002010-09-16T05:32:44.918+00:00Lori,
I apologize for the glitch, your excellent ...Lori,<br /><br />I apologize for the glitch, your excellent reply went into the spam bucket because it had more than the allowed number of links.<br /><br />It is properly posted now and I have also posted a lengthy reply to it at <a href="http://almanac2010.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">Poor Richard's Almanack 2010</a><br /><br />PRPoor Richardnoreply@blogger.com