“Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed.” This sounds good, especially if one doesn’t think about it very hard or very long, but the harder and longer one thinks about it, the more problematic it becomes.
Tag: money
The Wonder of the Hard Fork
Bitcoin split into two different versions back in August, after years of debate between insider experts, outsider novices, businesses, hobbyists, tech-types, ideological types, investor types, and everyone else you can imagine.
How to Form the Decisiveness Habit
People who are plagued with indecisiveness generally know they don’t want to be that way, so I won’t belabor the point. It’s not fun, and I feel compassion for those who have this difficulty. So how can we form the habit of being decisive instead?
Authority Easily Leads to Abuse
This was a shitty circumstance. It isn’t “fair” that it happened. However, this happens with most teachers, and most people in places of unquestioned authority. In fact, the situation that occurred in college was a situation I had vastly more leverage than in previous similar situations.
Insurance, or Forced Charity?
On a Facebook thread (not mine) that I saw recently, someone wrote, as an objection to the idea of turning health care over to the market, “In a totally free market for healthcare, people with pre-existing conditions would be denied coverage.” Well, yes.
Why Policymaking Won’t Work for Complex Societies (and Why Principles Will) – Part 1
You are not an expert. Even the experts know they are not experts. They will spend their entire lives just grappling with one sub-facet of one of these facets, and their work still won’t be done. To claim to empirically know how to ensure the best outcome for everyone in any issue is folly. Policymaking (the practical utilitarianism used in most political thinking) is an unscalable way to make decisions.
Heleum Rising! Balloons, Balloons Everywhere (38m) – Episode 094
Episode 094 welcomes back Pace Ellsworth for a chat about his fintech startup company, Heleum. Topics include: the origins of Heleum, the mesh currency trading algorithm, how Heleum grows your savings using fiat and cryptocurrency exchange rate volatility, the results of the Heleum Private Beta, safety measures, fee structures, partnership with Uphold.com, and more.
Lysander Spooner Quote #21
By my reading, Spooner is opposed to “quanto-cracy” in any form. There are no mathematical paths to freedom, except those dealing with the individual’s voluntary relationship with each other individual, directly, in their scope of action.
There’s No Reason Money Changes The Nature of a Trade
What is happening when consenting adults have sex? They are trading emotional and/or physical feelgoods. And when money is involved? They are likewise trading emotional and/or physical feelgoods… Say what now? It’s true.
How To Use Your Fragile Ego To Do Amazing Things
Young people have incredibly fragile egos. OK, you’re right. Everyone under the age of 80 has fragile egos. We want to be seen as good, powerful, efficient, wise, attractive, hardworking, cool, and – of course – not concerned in the least with how other people think of us.