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Share a fear that you’re working to overcome.
I’ll share several: The fear of being proven wrong. This, of course, is the motivation behind my creation of the present blog. Intellectually, I know I’m wrong. This is my act of defiance in the face of even that. The fear of the marketplace. Anagorism is just a fig-leaf term for agoraphobia. Hiding psychology behind…
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In lieu of a comment, on the “multiverse models”
William Gillis has a no-comment policy over at Human Iterations, where it says Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site. …whatever that means. At any rate, I wrote the following comment on The Human-Level Implications of Multiverse Models before I discovered the no-comment policy: =====8<————- Nothing ambiguous about it. It’s not slaughtering…
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“I want to believe” strikes again
Consider the following: The first time I heard about RBE, I immediately got a feeling that ‘this is good’, but at the same time, I couldn’t get it to work in my intellectual analyzing mind. And that’s why I started this blog. I felt strongly that RBE is possible, and not only possible, but the best alternative…
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Against human nature essentialism
Surely one of the defining characteristics of anarchism is rejection of human nature essentialism; be it the “human nature is inherently vicious” argument behind statism or the slightly less slanderous “human nature is inherently self-interested” argument behind market ideology.
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What do you wish you spent more time doing?
I wish I spent more time working. I really really wish I could boast a higher working-to-looking-for-work ratio. I know that some people wish they could work less; dealing as they are with mandatory overtime and the like. Some people have the exact opposite problem—an overtime freeze (when they really need the overtime hours) or…
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Quotebag #48
“The idea that trade is some sort of platonic ideal of virtue, and that it’s not really just a mode of interaction that can be used to accomplish anything when you set the rules a certain way, floors me.”—Jeremy Weiland “History shows that a mode of travel always deteriorates right after the rich abandon it.”—David…
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Introducing the T-corporation
T as in transparent. How transparent? Transparent enough to satisfy Transparency Extremist: Every ledger, every account, every transaction held or made by a transparent corporation should be open and auditable by the world. Commercial confidentiality be damned: we have a right to know. I propose a “soft anagorist” approach, making this level of disclosure voluntary…
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Quotebag #47
“How is it that the morality of debt can trump any other recognizable form of morality, and make things that no one would ever, possibly agree with in any other context seem suddenly acceptable?”—David Graeber “I don’t think of Murray Rothbard as somebody that academics need pay any attention to, other than historians studying the…
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In pursuit of the haggle-free economy
laura k explains more clearly than I am able, why I hate haggling. Hopefully deep transparency will make the Iron Law of One Price a fact and not just a promise, but more on that in my upcoming post on deep transparency. For now, laura has given me another rallying cry: No bargaining but collective…
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Quotebag #46
“On the supply side a community may have a electricity company, a water company, a gas company, oil companies (gasoline), and waste stream companies (sewer, trash, recycle, compost). Each company is siloed and views their job as maintaining and operating a supply chain for an ever growing demand for their service. Some pay lip service…