tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5230838677541650554.post579100674746960660..comments2024-03-23T02:48:29.718-07:00Comments on The Aquarian Agrarian: Pareto Optimality in Political EconomyAquarianAgrarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03463155756548494828noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5230838677541650554.post-4380657473887432592013-09-25T17:22:47.381-07:002013-09-25T17:22:47.381-07:00It's just what we're assuming for illustra...It's just what we're assuming for illustration's sake. If "libertarian" means Ron or Rand Paul, then we might experience losses of economic equality, but at that, in some policy areas but not in others. And a Green administration would probably improve many (although probably not all) individual civil liberties.<br /><br />I'm not too familiar with the Venus Project. I do like the idea of a new industrial revolution with individuals possessing Thingmakers etc. as a way of increasing egalitarian access to the means of production, which is one of the conditions necessary for perfect and complete markets leading to equality.<br /><br />I discuss my views on currency - specifically gold - a bit in my post "An Anarchist Kindergarten: An Open Letter to Noam Chomsky".<br /><br />I should write something about how to fulfill the practical aspects of physical currency, explaining why some aspects are not necessarily good things. For example, society derives few benefits from the freedom of a billionaire who is the beneficiary of government largesse to access all his money by simply carrying a few credit cards around. For some purposes, the ease of carrying money is hazardous to the freedom of markets.<br /><br />I feel that a corporate nationalist culture can only survive by promoting the interests of autocrats over individuals, and subsidized corporations over enterprises, and also by compelling unwilling people to contribute funds to government.AquarianAgrarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03463155756548494828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5230838677541650554.post-43706040137927303112013-09-22T23:26:56.299-07:002013-09-22T23:26:56.299-07:00I think there are probably some republicans who wo...I think there are probably some republicans who would argue, vehemently, that moving towards their area of the graph would only result in things getting better.<br /><br />That kind of brings up the question - how do we actually know that moving towards a polar end of the spectrum always results in a loss of something? Or is that just what we're assuming for the moment to help illustrate the concepts?<br /><br />Also! What do you think about ideas such as the Venus Project, where everything is automated with the aim of making money obsolete? I can see how socialist would totally dig that... but how would a corporate nationalist culture survive?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03683718518848940384noreply@blogger.com