25% of the population is willing to use physical violence for political aims.
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The virulent simply cannot comprehend the statement:
“I don’t want people like you around me and mine, there is nowhere we can flee be safe from you because the government will gang up on me if I use force against you as you pursue me and mine to ‘enrich’ our community.”
Worse, the virulent think they comprehend it and dismiss it even as they pursue and destroy, with government’s protection, people who then see their only option as destroying the government.
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The Left always prioritizes winning over the rule of law. The only sense in which that applies to the current situation is that the Right is beginning to awaken to this fact.
When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
(popularized by Frank Herbert)
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What if I offered Elon Musk 4 trillion cash?
What if I offered YOU 4 times your current net worth in cash?
I’m not talking 10 years down the line – I’m talking about NOW.
Would that be enough to get your attention?
The emergence of graduation ceremonies as protests against “artificial intelligence” evinces a race against time to implement Militia.Money with the emphasis on “Militant” opposition to “AI billionaires” by what some have called academic “overproduction of elites”:
The problem I’ve had ever since I first set forth the neo-Georgist principles in 1992 is that the people whose bloodlines would most benefit are the ones who are being used by rent-seekers to oppose that transition. The primary case in point is Elon Musk:
There is no point in arguing with these people that they’re being used. The top priority of any highly evolved parasite is to make their hosts identify with them. The most extreme case is infection of white blood stem cells to produce the parasite that white blood cells are supposed to destroy (ie: Human Immunosuppression Virus). They get people like Elizabeth Warren and Elon Musk fighting with each other so that parasite niches are maintained in the public and private sectors respectively.
I’m still hopeful that Hume’s Guillotine can advance the incentives to reform the social pseudosciences via machine learning. Scott Adams was convinced this would be hopeless because “We” don’t want the truth. (This Imperial We comes up very frequently as a symptom of parasitic infection – which is obviously a term of “inclusion”.) Why does hope remain? Because the mind control mechanisms available to even the most highly evolved of parasitic cultures of fraud that have invaded Western Civilization, aren’t aware of just how powerful scientific rigor can be in rooting out even self-deception!
Indeed, the sine qua non of the scientific method is the rooting out of self-deception.
But time is running short, folks. The mid-terms are upon us and Trump has burned through his political capital. The parasites may very well lock in their gains and kill AI before it can expose them.
At present the most obvious way in which the parasites are succeeding is in using generational division over what I’ve called “The Cost of Replacement Reproduction”. Ever since the so-called “sexual revolution” that cost has been skyrocketing orders of magnitude more than inflation. Not everyone can be Elon Musk and essentially PAY women ENOUGH to overcome their addiction to what David Brin called “The gracious things of civilization.” in his transhumanist attack on humanity called “The Postman”. Children just aren’t that kind of “grace”.
Whenever I bring up Militia.Money (or related concepts) with Boomers, all but a very few bridle at the concept, not realizing how deeply the vast majority of them have been damaged – materially damaged – by the political economy. All they can see is that what little security they have for their final years is threatened by Militia.Money. And given the youthful hatred being cultivated toward them by the invasive parasite culture of fraud, who can blame them?
So here’s the deal:
Imagine it’s 1968 and rather than MLK Jr. being assassinated for having advocated Henry George’s reform of the political economy (no taxes but on land value, paying out a citizen’s dividend) he gets together with Nobel Prize Economist and Georgist-apologist, Milton Friedman. He runs for President in 1972 on a platform he and Milton Friedman came up with:
Abolish the 16th Amendment and replace it with a single flat tax on liquidation value of net assets at the 30 Year Treasury rate – and abolish all government agencies but the military ala Friedman and replace them with a citizen’s dividend to privatize the delivery of social goods.
If you’re a median Boomer, you never had to pay taxes until your home equity exceeded your remaining debts. Since this would be the extreme libertarian and extreme progressive notion of “social justice” you, the median Boomer, would, today, be owed “reparations” in an amount approximately equal to having all* that stolen income, instead, invested in the S&P500 over those decades!
That’s the “buy out”.
Likewise for younger generations who have been trying to get a leg up on home ownership.
And that’s where Elon Musk gets his 4 trillion “WTFU” cash.
* The cost of services now provided by the government would be a tiny fraction when privatized.
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Wait until you hear what Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross has to say:
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Entrepreneurs like Musk and retired Boomers need to accept the fact that they are owed huge amounts of money in reparations from the rentiers in both the public and private sectors. This will be difficult for them because they are scared.
That’s understandable because the rentiers have convinced them rent seeking is the way to security.
But they should be absolutely horrified of the alternative.
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I wouldn’t be quite as alienated if I didn’t have VERY good reason to believe Peter Diamandis is aware not only of my role with the Hutter Prize, and not only the CATS Prize and not only my leading role in the Launch Services Purchase Act of 1990 (declared by its original sponsor introducing my Congressional testimony July 31,1991), but even the relatively obscure political economic reform I proposed in 1992 to replace the 16th Amendment with a single flat tax on liquidation value of net assets to replace the increasingly meaningless “vote” with a citizen’s dividend that privatizes delivery of social goods.
When Diamandis succeeded with the Ansari X-Prize I congratulated him on pulling off something that I likely couldn’t have. When one of the standard aerospace journals tried to get me to denounce the X-Prize (knowing there was something of a rivalry going back to the antecedent of the Singularity University) I refused to do so.
We all have our strengths. This lack of acknowledgement of my strength – even if only plagiarizing my ideas (which I would welcome) – is getting to be a serious danger to humanity.
I wouldn’t admonish Diamandis if I didn’t have a lot of respect for him relative to the “foundations” like Gates and now OpenAI’s, let alone that Unspeakable Thing In DC.
1:01:57 look for maoist intelligence influence on libertarian influencers. They are the ones that have stood in the way of political economic reforms that would unleash the private sector such as abolishing the 16th amendment and replacing it with a flat tax on net assets to fund the privatization of delivery of social goods through a citizens dividend. I proposed all that in 1992 after testifying before Congress on the launch services purchase act of 1990 and the direction Western civilization should take towards space. Look I know it’s hard for guys like you to admit that I was way ahead of you but you have no business talking about maoist influence on the US until you recognize capital socialism has damaged entrepreneurs as well as the middle class.
3:25 real disservice in this segment. Here’s why: there are enormous differences between base load and dispatchable generation capacity and this matters not only to consumers but to hyperscalers and most particularly to hyperscalers like SpaceXai. Indeed this distinction is at the heart of its IPO.
31:00 Philanthropy is like government in that no one takes the conflicts of interest seriously enough to propose objective criteria for awards. You have to limit judge discretion to attract the best talent. And that of course needs operational definitions.
… Related and to some degree inspired by Diamandis’s approach to political economy …
Many have postponed childbearing and nesting too long. Millions of potential families, not to mention tens of millions of children aborted for financial reasons, have been lost to our society forever.
In short, our social contract has been breached and the angry plaintiffs are about to realize they can sue.
This is a politically explosive situation.
Just as I would like to know who made Richard Dawkins into their extended phenotype upon his publication of the book by that name I would also like to know who sunk their fangs into George Gilder when he published sexual suicide.
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A monetary system backed by property rights shall be established with the following characteristics:
- Sovereigns shall periodically be issued an equal dividend in an amount as set forth in §8.7 below.
- Individuals claiming property rights shall declare them.
- The owner has sole authority to transfer his property. (The Monetary Regime has no eminent domain authority.)
- The highest escrowed bid for a property right shall be its assessed value.
- Owners shall periodically, coinciding with §8.1, pay demurrage on the assessed value of their properties. The money as high bids in escrow do not pay demurrage.
- The demurrage rate shall be established after the manner of §3.
- The amount of the dividend shall be established after the manner of §3 with the intent that the cost of homesteading be held constant. Demurrage paid in excess of that issued in §8.1 reduces the money supply by the excess amount. Conversely, demurrage paid in deficit to that issued in §8.1 increases the money supply by the deficit amount. – Further explanation: “Homesteading” is defined as that which provides, at least and on average, replacement reproduction. “Replacement reproduction” is defined as neutral evolutionarily consequence. “Evolutionary consequence” may include any cultural or biological values that sovereigns consider salient. Homesteading cost is therefore that which is necessary to, at least and on average, maintain intergenerational value.
Regarding the video:
Katherine’s recommendation? Use cash for everything you do.
You already know my recommendation: Militia.Money
