Comments on: democracy http://imprompt.us/2006/democracy/ Computer Science and Teaching and Other Ancillary Things Sun, 01 Aug 2010 09:52:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: jes5199 http://imprompt.us/2006/democracy/comment-page-1/#comment-16700 jes5199 Sat, 03 Oct 2009 04:42:33 +0000 http://imprompt.us/2006/democracy/#comment-16700 <p>you did a funny thing, where in point (1) you are talking about Freedom, and in point (5) you are talking about Financialfreedom. It would be a weird, weird, world if an assumption about one applied to the other.</p><p>1) Trees require sunlight to grow<br>2) blah </br><br>3) blah</br><br>4) blah</br><br>5) Binary Trees exist in simulated space where there is no sun!</br></p> you did a funny thing, where in point (1) you are talking about Freedom, and in point (5) you are talking about Financialfreedom. It would be a weird, weird, world if an assumption about one applied to the other.

1) Trees require sunlight to grow
2) blah
3) blah
4) blah
5) Binary Trees exist in simulated space where there is no sun!

]]> By: jes5199 http://imprompt.us/2006/democracy/comment-page-1/#comment-58 jes5199 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://imprompt.us/2006/democracy/#comment-58 <p>Also, I picked up a libertarian newspaper. A leading member of the party had written an essay<br />"I used to believe that funding libraries and schools and parks was a good thing... now I understand that by raising taxes for these projects that I was taking the freedom away from my neighbors to decide how to spend their own money"</p><p>This sort of analysis of financial-freedom is, in my opinion, sociopathic. It totally fails to consider opportunity cost: and in modern times, the opportunity-economy is way more scarce than the money-economy.</p><p>---</p><p>On a personal note, I distrust any system that requires food and water to be stored behind locked doors.<br />Capitalism requires locks.</p><p>---</p><p>My world is a wiki.</p> Also, I picked up a libertarian newspaper. A leading member of the party had written an essay
“I used to believe that funding libraries and schools and parks was a good thing… now I understand that by raising taxes for these projects that I was taking the freedom away from my neighbors to decide how to spend their own money”

This sort of analysis of financial-freedom is, in my opinion, sociopathic. It totally fails to consider opportunity cost: and in modern times, the opportunity-economy is way more scarce than the money-economy.

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On a personal note, I distrust any system that requires food and water to be stored behind locked doors.
Capitalism requires locks.

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My world is a wiki.

]]> By: Peter Boothe http://imprompt.us/2006/democracy/comment-page-1/#comment-57 Peter Boothe Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://imprompt.us/2006/democracy/#comment-57 <p>I know quite a few people who equate personal and financial freedom - and it certainly seems true that, once you restrict financial freedom too far, you inevitably restrict personal freedom. But I agree that they are not exactly the same. </p><p>Mostly, I just think it is interesting that financial freedom may be incompatible with democracy.</p> I know quite a few people who equate personal and financial freedom – and it certainly seems true that, once you restrict financial freedom too far, you inevitably restrict personal freedom. But I agree that they are not exactly the same.

Mostly, I just think it is interesting that financial freedom may be incompatible with democracy.

]]> By: jes5199 http://imprompt.us/2006/democracy/comment-page-1/#comment-56 jes5199 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://imprompt.us/2006/democracy/#comment-56 <p>you did a funny thing, where in point (1) you are talking about Freedom, and in point (5) you are talking about Financialfreedom. It would be a weird, weird, world if an assumption about one applied to the other.</p><p>1) Trees require sunlight to grow<br />2) blah <br />3) blah<br />4) blah<br />5) Binary Trees exist in simulated space where there is no sun!</p> you did a funny thing, where in point (1) you are talking about Freedom, and in point (5) you are talking about Financialfreedom. It would be a weird, weird, world if an assumption about one applied to the other.

1) Trees require sunlight to grow
2) blah
3) blah
4) blah
5) Binary Trees exist in simulated space where there is no sun!

]]> By: Peter Boothe http://imprompt.us/2006/democracy/comment-page-1/#comment-55 Peter Boothe Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://imprompt.us/2006/democracy/#comment-55 <p>For quite some time the income distribution in the US was, if not fat-tailed, at least very odd. The existence of a large middle class that was larger than the lower and upper put together is a historical oddity, and decidedly unnatural-seeming.</p> For quite some time the income distribution in the US was, if not fat-tailed, at least very odd. The existence of a large middle class that was larger than the lower and upper put together is a historical oddity, and decidedly unnatural-seeming.

]]> By: Daniel Stutzbach http://imprompt.us/2006/democracy/comment-page-1/#comment-54 Daniel Stutzbach Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://imprompt.us/2006/democracy/#comment-54 <p>When *not* left to their own devices, do markets produce distributions that are *not* fat-tailed?</p><p>What are some historical examples?</p> When *not* left to their own devices, do markets produce distributions that are *not* fat-tailed?

What are some historical examples?

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