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Well without accumulation of capital there can be no progress. One generation needs to save more than they consume in order for there to be better productive opportunities for the next.
Because they're elected by "the people" (the masses). Which is a bad thing, but it's what we've got.
Democracy is a form of government in which all eligible citizens participate equally—either directly or indirectly through elected representatives—in the proposal, development, and creation of laws.
It is, just not to a 100% degree.
In my 'state' area, the leader is an ex contracted lobbyist for the oil pipeline (she is jamming through the due diligence system) that the majority of the people want more discussion on.
Well you better check your definition again, democracy doesn't mean rule by the smart, or anything of the sort.
By the way, it seems to me that you need to wake up to reality. While you're living in this 2+2 dream (or whatever other social circles you typically engage in), it can seem to you that just about everybody is fairly smart. That is not true. It's just that smart people tend to choose groups where most other members are fairly smart as well.
Democracy is the antithesis of freedom. What you're proposing would make things much worse.
We didn't have the technology to do this before bitcoin. Now we do (yes i realize we had it, but the public had no concept that bytes could be turned into secure gold).
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Lets say its not arbitrary if it can be shown to be fun.
Lets say its fun if it solves something.
Lets say its fun if it solves something.
I find people like to say 'no' to change, and generally refuse to cut out what is correct, and point out the actual piece they disagree with. Then we have zero explanation as a rebuttal, and simply the mass peoples throwing there vote into the pot, and mass people agreeing because your vote is the same as their vote.
Is this issue i point out, your point about my system, or is a systemic issue stemming from the current one?
Is this issue i point out, your point about my system, or is a systemic issue stemming from the current one?
However, notice that the OP is not a libertarian by any stretch of the imagination. So it's not just libertarians that are in this predicament.
I've been through the ins and outs of it, my understanding is what we want is the free flow of the efficiencies created by advances in this regard. The hoarding of wealth does nothing to this (mind you it depends on exactly how wealth is defined), but we want economy to flow. At a fundamental level economy just needs to flow, as I understand it, and wealth does not need to accumulate. It needs maybe we agree on, the option to create wealth, or the freedom to, but in a rational unrestricted market, why should wealth pool to certain people?
But when you define wealth more broadly, by just referring to stuff that has actual intrinsic value, be it corn, oil, textile machinery, or what have you, then without the accumulation of wealth (savings), there can be no investment. And without investment, there can be no economic growth, which means there can be no increases in productivity. What's more, productivity will tend to fall because you can't even keep up with maintenance costs.
"Part" democracy is not democracy, its broken and a broken democracy is the opposite of democracy. You say just not to 100%..now that can mean 1% or 99%. What % do you suggest it is? In my country the leading party rigged the election, was publicly outed for, and now they created a new act to change the election laws for the next election. 0% democracy.
We agree people are ignorant and stupid, and I'm not free from that, I grew up ignorant and stupid, and definitely have not freed myself from that conditioning completely. But that stupidity is bred and supported by the CURRENT system, not by democracy. Its not democracy because we call it that.
The current system is the antithesis of freedom, what i am proposing is real democracy, real power in the power. This changes peoples perception on what daily life should be, instead of being apathetic and ignorant to world issues and unsolvable problems, people will start to realize at an accelerated rate, that they have a real outlet for change...not just a 'change' button to press thats not hooked up to anything.
And what you said is encompassed by my 2. and 3. point
It is absurd, but we do have it, because the technology is possible, and much of our society understands this because of bitcoin.
I want to check the counted my vote...but i also want to be able know that everyone can check if their vote counted. I want there to be an observable integrity to the system.
And we have the ability to set that up. By what authority are the people not able to reform their government system to a known better one? Should it be by the constitutions and legal from work they installed themselves?
It is absurd, but we do have it, because the technology is possible, and much of our society understands this because of bitcoin.
I want to check the counted my vote...but i also want to be able know that everyone can check if their vote counted. I want there to be an observable integrity to the system.
And we have the ability to set that up. By what authority are the people not able to reform their government system to a known better one? Should it be by the constitutions and legal from work they installed themselves?
But when you define wealth more broadly, by just referring to stuff that has actual intrinsic value, be it corn, oil, textile machinery, or what have you, then without the accumulation of wealth (savings), there can be no investment. And without investment, there can be no economic growth, which means there can be no increases in productivity. What's more, productivity will tend to fall because you can't even keep up with maintenance costs.
In doing this, a different kind of wealth, in the terms of what money can buy increases, which in a true but round about way is the wealth you refer to that is not paper money.
No. 50% democracy is more democratic than 0% democracy. Cuba is more democratic than the United States, which is more democratic than China, which is more democratic than Liechtenstein. And the results are evident.
What you mean to say is that since there is a random factor to poker, then poker is partially random. But just because you refuse to understand the concept of ev, does not make this true. A dictatorship with a ballot box is not part democracy, its pseudo democracy.
Actually, intelligence is mostly genetic
What you're proposing is to decrease the levels of freedom to the point where everything that isn't illegal is mandatory (total communism). When a simple majority decides what everbody must do and must not do, there is no freedom.
If "when a simple majority decides what everybody must do and must not do" is an indication of not freedom, then what is when society uses a system to end such the actually of such an observation as your point here.
The current system is the embodiment of what you point out as not freedom, my system leads us to a possible out, and the taking of this out, is the ending of the thing that you suggests and indicator of not being free.
And i specifically stated my system should be allowed to dissolve itself.
I'm not shooting down what you propose should or might be first...but we should acknowledge that some things that are need, when applied too quickly before others that are needed, will be exploited in the current environment and produce not a favorable change/result.
You are saying we need to save these things to invest. Which is true in a certain sense, but in the application you use it, investment, is an expenditure, not a savings. To increase productivity, what is important, is that the savings flows, not accumulate. In the context of your application, wealth needs to flow, not accumulate.
You also fail to recognize that as countries became more and more democratic over the course of the last century, freedom diminished tremendously. You've stated that you have no interest in finding out how democracy is destroying and must necessarily destroy civilization. It seems to me that you're so sold on this idea of democracy, that to you it's like a religion. Only pure democracy will work, and the fact that democracy has been shown to be a tremendous failure and a huge threat to humanity as a whole only proves to you that we need perfect democracy, because "that's not real democracy"...
If "when a simple majority decides what everybody must do and must not do" is an indication of not freedom, then what is when society uses a system to end such the actually of such an observation as your point here.
The current system is the embodiment of what you point out as not freedom, my system leads us to a possible out, and the taking of this out, is the ending of the thing that you suggests and indicator of not being free.
The current system is the embodiment of what you point out as not freedom, my system leads us to a possible out, and the taking of this out, is the ending of the thing that you suggests and indicator of not being free.
That is, if I don't want to be a part of your democracy thing, then I should not be forced into it. And you shouldn't be able to just come and take my property either, just because you drew some lines on a map that say you own that territory.
"Flow" is just goods changing hands. Investment requires things that were previously saved. If they were not saved by the investor, they were saved by somebody else who provided a loan to the investor. Someone needs to do the saving in order for any investment to take place. If everything that is produced is consumed, there can be no investment.
All of these countries have democratic elements. That is every citizen gets a vote which represents an equal share in the State. I don't know anything about the US rigging elections in favor of Fidel Castro. In any case, if you poll people in Cuba at random you find that most still support him. Just like if you polled people in of the US right after the 2011 election, Obama came out ahead.
From the AP via The Washington Post:
WASHINGTON — In July 2010, Joe McSpedon, a U.S. government official, flew to Barcelona to put the final touches on a secret plan to build a social media project aimed at undermining Cuba’s communist government.
McSpedon and his team of high-tech contractors had come in from Costa Rica and Nicaragua, Washington and Denver. Their mission: to launch a messaging network that could reach hundreds of thousands of Cubans. To hide the network from the Cuban government, they would set up a byzantine system of front companies using a Cayman Islands bank account, and recruit unsuspecting executives who would not be told of the company’s ties to the U.S. government.
McSpedon didn’t work for the CIA. This was a program paid for and run by the U.S. Agency for International Development, best known for overseeing billions of dollars in U.S. humanitarian aid.
WASHINGTON — In July 2010, Joe McSpedon, a U.S. government official, flew to Barcelona to put the final touches on a secret plan to build a social media project aimed at undermining Cuba’s communist government.
McSpedon and his team of high-tech contractors had come in from Costa Rica and Nicaragua, Washington and Denver. Their mission: to launch a messaging network that could reach hundreds of thousands of Cubans. To hide the network from the Cuban government, they would set up a byzantine system of front companies using a Cayman Islands bank account, and recruit unsuspecting executives who would not be told of the company’s ties to the U.S. government.
McSpedon didn’t work for the CIA. This was a program paid for and run by the U.S. Agency for International Development, best known for overseeing billions of dollars in U.S. humanitarian aid.
Well "dictatorship" doesn't mean anything. Was Hitler a "dictator"? He was democratically elected. You're just doing the whole communist thing of saying "but that wasn't real communism!"... you say "that's not real democracy!" without giving a proper explanation as to how and why.
You also fail to recognize that as countries became more and more democratic over the course of the last century, freedom diminished tremendously. You've stated that you have no interest in finding out how democracy is destroying and must necessarily destroy civilization. It seems to me that you're so sold on this idea of democracy, that to you it's like a religion. Only pure democracy will work, and the fact that democracy has been shown to be a tremendous failure and a huge threat to humanity as a whole only proves to you that we need perfect democracy, because "that's not real democracy"...
Twin studies show that as long as kids get proper nutrition and a somewhat decent upraising, intelligence as measured by IQ does not change based on environment (the differences are so small as to be statistically insignificant). Now you can claim that this is because all the society is equally corrupt and damaging to kid's minds. Alright, but then how do you know that you have the perfect solution that everyone must adhere to in order to raise intelligence levels and not just slightly, but drastically?
I don't know what you mean here. I will respond to what you said right after.
But it's not without authority. It's just that the authority becomes the mob. That is much more dangerous than having just one guy decide everything. At least he can be held accountable somewhat.
But what are you going to do when the masses are the ones stealing, plundering, raping, torturing and murdering, all under the legal cover of democracy?
No, the current system is not entirely like that, although it's getting there fast, due to democracy. And your unrestricted total democracy would get us there much faster.
Allowed by who? The mob? Why would they give up that power? In order to truly have freedom, you must allow secession up to the invididual level, or as close to that as is possible.
That is, if I don't want to be a part of your democracy thing, then I should not be forced into it. And you shouldn't be able to just come and take my property either, just because you drew some lines on a map that say you own that territory.
This is no longer an accurate depiction of the fundamentals of economy since the invention of hyper currency. Saving is not investing, investors don't save by their fundamental nature, they spend. They are not the same thing today nor with the new currency technology. With the expedited and hyper efficient exchange of efficiency and goods we are not concerned with saving in the hoarding sense.
How is it rigged if all the polls still show the guy who won has the most supporters?
Well it's democratic, I agree, and it's horrible. You can't in one sentence say that most people are stupid and ignorant, and then go right on to say they should determine what everyone must and must not do, including how to educate all children.
You missed my plea entirely. I don't want to be a part of your democracy. I don't want my life and my property to be subjected to be taken away or managed by the vote of the mob. Will your system allow me to opt out? It doesn't seem like you even considered the possibility that someone may not want to be a part of your perfect system.
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