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Quotebag #64
“As a policy matter, austerity measures are nothing but a kind of pseudo-scientific bloodletting, treating as a treatment the weakening of the weakest. As a moral matter, austerity measures are nothing but a kind of brutal bullying, treating as a treat the weakening of the weakest.”—Dale Carrico “I’m not sure what ‘skin in the game’…
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Another survey instrument
In the spirit of the Agnostic Ideology Sorter, but far more specific. This Likert scale survey is intended to pinpoint the specific beliefs of free-market anticapitalists, and to highlight similarities and differences between them, their closest allies and people who may be orthogonal to them or something. It seems there are a lot of subtleties…
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Quotebag #63
“Few employers want to hire workers who have experience and have already commanded decent salaries and know their rights. It’s like the desire to fuck virgins in hopes they’re so ignorant they won’t realize you’re lousy in bed.”—Jennifer Kesler “A ‘big player’ potentially can hamper and harm the market almost always. Even in an anarchic…
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What is an official news agency?
I don’t know what algorithm Twitter uses to measure “similarity” of feeds, but at least one page load of the profile page of @DPRK_News yielded this:
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10 reasons some of us find laissez-faire, at best, a bitter pill
Free-market economist David Henderson has been doing some outreach work in the #Occupy camps. Good on him. We all need to broaden our horizons from time to time, sampling alternate reality tunnels and the like. His approach seems to be to “draw out” individual members of his audience and elicit the libertarian answers from the…
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Quotebag #62
“Anyway, the discussion of whether any particular nation was ‘invented’ is kinda pointless, since nationality is intrinsically a myth. All nations are invented.”—Ricketson “Libertarians are propertar-ians and seem to have major problems with social minorities as well. The ownership class is, sui generis, important to them and the rest, not so much. They will NOT…
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The perils of non-radical unionism
Libcom reminds us of the forces behind the Wagner Act, and Labor Notes points out the fatal flaw in contract unionism. It’s as if labor has been confined to a “free speech zone” of sorts.
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Just my effing luck: Software development no longer isolation and drudgery
According to Michigan Economic Development Corporation: The life of a software writer is stereotyped as one of isolation and technical drudgery. In reality, it’s a fun job – really. Today’s coders are highly social and collaborative, take initiative to creatively complete projects and bring ideas to life, love learning, and are highly flexible problem solvers…
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Quotebag #61
“The existent of a tax advice profession is a strong indicator of a tax system that is too complex.”—ejoftheweb “Illegal immigration is not a crime; it’s an offence made up by nationalists. For there to be a crime, there needs to be a victim. Lines on a map are not people. Grow up.”—Marcel Dubois “A…
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Ancaps may be a genuine step in the general direction of freedom
For better or worse, I understand anarcho-capitalism to be the abolition of the political order in favor of an economic order. The key to survival in either order is fending for oneself. In the political order this means literal self-defense, while in the economic order it is the less explicit “holding one’s own” in negotiation…