Post AiQLek1HE3YROdaNlo by Felix_Krull@poa.st
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(DIR) Post #AiNpGEGE4EV36AvToO by cjd@pkteerium.xyz
2024-05-29T12:27:47.544465Z
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Nobody wants to admit this, but you only get a High Trust Society by EXCLUDING people. In American cities you can build all the tramways you want but still nobody's getting out of their car because it's just not safe to do so.
(DIR) Post #AiNq7Gk1Zi0Y8k9hkO by dowitcher@poa.st
2024-05-29T12:31:02.748863Z
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@cjd How many niggers does Bern have?
(DIR) Post #AiNq7ppZ76Eiy417k8 by Zergling_man@sacred.harpy.faith
2024-05-29T12:37:24.195930Z
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@cjd "Very little reasons could be here", he thought. "Very little reasons could be anywhere."Jpop reverberated his entire car as cheap softdrink pumped through his veins, washing away his (merited) fear of unsubstantiated logic after dark
(DIR) Post #AiNqLtAbUjb9NXYixc by jimmybuffettfanaccount@poa.st
2024-05-29T12:40:12.016588Z
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@dowitcher @cjd Looks like negligible; the worst they’ve got is about 2k combined jeets and turks. Those Balkan niggas might cause problems too but it’s possible these are all white collar cosmopolitan types rather than the street gang types, youd have to talk to someone who lives there to be sure.
(DIR) Post #AiNqvB9sbf5fIu32bQ by cjd@pkteerium.xyz
2024-05-29T12:46:23.843397Z
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White Supremacism is a simple and largely effective way to exclude low trust people - this is why even after 70 years of Teachers Teachering just as hard as they possibly can, they've still been unable to get rid of it entirely. It confers evolutionary advantage because it works.However, it is not perfect at all. Case in point, which one of these you rather have as your neighbor?If you pick the meth head just because he's white, you're not being serious.Other than the problem that it's not always accurate, White Supremacism has a bigger problem: There's no continuous selection pressure. If you're born white, you can be whatever kind of hoodlum you want because you "already passed". Entropy is constant, so anything that isn't continuously improving is continuously devolving.As I've said numerous times before, if a city would simply require criminal liability insurance for anyone inside city bounds, within 5 years that city would be the most wonderful place to live in the entire world.
(DIR) Post #AiNrxhpgCBFxAsMu5w by s2208@nicecrew.digital
2024-05-29T12:58:14.459168Z
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tramways and so forth are just ways to spread low trust people into the suburbs.
(DIR) Post #AiNs47TRm3xORB1lhI by teknomunk@apogee.polaris-1.work
2024-05-29T12:57:56Z
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@cjd A high trust society can only be created by excluding people not worthy of trust from it. There is no substitute.
(DIR) Post #AiNsJ6Oc435NRCuWdk by Sirpantangelini@noauthority.social
2024-05-29T12:59:04Z
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@cjd woe. Insurance to exist in a city in case you commit a crime... yea... that will totally make cities nicer.Did you know the moon is flat
(DIR) Post #AiNsJ7yoAxdILkqwhE by cjd@pkteerium.xyz
2024-05-29T13:01:55.510718Z
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You gonna spit gum on the sidewalk if it's gonna make your insurance rate go up ?
(DIR) Post #AiNtnjHm8b0Sh4seoK by skylar@misskey.yandere.love
2024-05-29T13:18:48.172491Z
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@cjd or maybe folks in European cities just have to make do with less convenient ways to get around than driving, because the city was already built for hundreds if not thousands of years before the car was even invented and it's not feasible or desirable to bulldoze it and start over with decent road and parking infrastructure.meanwhile, most north american cities were did most of their growing during and after the time cars were already popular.then there's the weather differences. europe has a very mild climate until you get really far to the north or east. no amount of social trust is going to make folks decide that it'd be nice to walk around phoenix in july to visit some shops after work and eat at a restaurant's goofy ass outdoor dining area, nor that it'd be nice to wait for the train to work on a january morning in fargo north dakota.
(DIR) Post #AiO0UHkUzff3T1zVui by professionalbigot69@poa.st
2024-05-29T14:33:45.965787Z
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@cjd i'm never getting rid of my car because i actually have things
(DIR) Post #AiO0Ye2E4qGpkCMU1w by theorytoe@ak.kyaruc.moe
2024-05-29T14:34:32.779399Z
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@cjd >but muh netherlands!1!1!1!!!niggas have NOT been there and realized the TRUTH
(DIR) Post #AiO3iwZKK5wtz5RlFA by RedTechEngineer@bae.st
2024-05-29T15:10:01.775548Z
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@skylar @cjd roads are still ghey tho :ancapshades:
(DIR) Post #AiO43ZMnmatE6cQJn6 by skylar@misskey.yandere.love
2024-05-29T15:13:43.515195Z
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@RedTechEngineer @cjd if you look closely you'll notice it's actually walking that's gay
(DIR) Post #AiO4DJv44RBP5n6D3I by RedTechEngineer@bae.st
2024-05-29T15:15:30.321162Z
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@skylar @cjd trains are cool. Choo! Choo!
(DIR) Post #AiO8JFws99REKb1xgW by Sirpantangelini@noauthority.social
2024-05-29T13:07:21Z
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@cjd I'm not going to buy the stupid insurance and I'm not going I to a shithole city with some dumb as all fucking he'll mandatory insurance policy when half of its inhabitants don't carry the mandatory car insurance they are supposed to have while blowing through red lights.Insurance should be abolished. Not more mandated insurance industry.Do you even exist in reality?The moon is definitely flat my dude
(DIR) Post #AiO8dlTmcpyBujCgwS by amerika@annihilation.social
2024-05-29T16:05:04.836512Z
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@cjd @Sirpantangelini The smart side of libertarianism recognizes that people will abuse anything they get for free.
(DIR) Post #AiO9KxSdxCHLWhGaxs by amerika@annihilation.social
2024-05-29T16:12:52.089402Z
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@cjd Supremacism works for all ethnic groups. They all believe they are the chosen master race, and that's probably healthy.However, I think the problem with white supremacism is that it is not tied to culture. Culture produces goodwill and zaps violators.The insurance idea is a good one, since it transfers the cost of criminality to everyone through collective punishment.Taxes are unaccountable and always wasted.
(DIR) Post #AiO9XoorOWc6UOn5kG by mar77i@gleasonator.com
2024-05-29T16:14:42.063845Z
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@amerika @Sirpantangelini @cjd How do you even make this much sense after claiming there was a smart side of libertarianism...
(DIR) Post #AiO9aCKUxGGXz5ivy4 by amerika@annihilation.social
2024-05-29T16:15:38.336470Z
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@mar77i @Sirpantangelini @cjd Libertarianism is really good as a method, really bad as a goal.Austrian economics works.But, society needs more than just an economic system!
(DIR) Post #AiOA0EIAHVPTbF2rPU by amerika@annihilation.social
2024-05-29T16:20:20.914274Z
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@cjd like natural selection or eugenics
(DIR) Post #AiOAeX3hvThvO4V6K8 by mar77i@gleasonator.com
2024-05-29T16:22:52.817282Z
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@amerika @Sirpantangelini @cjd Free advice, everybody!
(DIR) Post #AiOY6JlTFEl9D6BlGy by Sirpantangelini@noauthority.social
2024-05-29T16:33:37Z
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@mar77i @amerika @cjd Libertarianism exists within a society that has a strong moral framework.Corporations and insurance are signs of an irresponsible society with a weak or breaking moral framework.Using insurance as a means of punishment is a morally bankrupt society where people are forced to participate in an industry because nobody is responsible to themselves or their surroundings
(DIR) Post #AiPo1viwTk2xuotagS by cjd@pkteerium.xyz
2024-05-30T11:23:24.588940Z
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I'm also a fan of decentralized unregulated insurance markets. The government has no business deciding how risk is evaluated. If I'm gonna buy insurance, I don't want to pay one cent more than the cost of the actual risk based on the kind of person I am.
(DIR) Post #AiPu8WrNv52uYONHDE by amerika@annihilation.social
2024-05-30T12:31:58.493551Z
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@cjd This is consistent with natural selection.In my view insurance is good for managing catastrophic risk and nothing else.
(DIR) Post #AiPunhHA6C1EjM3thI by Sirpantangelini@noauthority.social
2024-05-30T12:38:28Z
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@cjd @amerika Why would you buy insurance?In what aspect of life would you want insured?
(DIR) Post #AiPutw59xhMoOCQHDc by amerika@annihilation.social
2024-05-30T12:40:33.288421Z
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@Sirpantangelini @cjd You want coverage for any real or substantial assets you own, as well as some kind of catastrophic health coverage, life insurance, and wage insurance.
(DIR) Post #AiPvMkJ4p1i2GYfbs0 by Sirpantangelini@noauthority.social
2024-05-30T12:44:55Z
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@amerika @cjd Why?And how much would one need to pay for this coverage to be functional?How many years of payments would cover the cost if insurance was required to pay out?Mind you the requirement to pay out is only enforceable through government.
(DIR) Post #AiPvTkpLHlOTuJ6VPs by amerika@annihilation.social
2024-05-30T12:47:00.732764Z
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@Sirpantangelini @cjd Good questions. Sometimes it makes more sense to get a loan after a tragedy than insurance.However, if you get hit with cancer or AIDS, it might be hard to get a loan.
(DIR) Post #AiPw6Fz7tEX9Xt2WZ6 by cjd@pkteerium.xyz
2024-05-30T12:53:51.713832Z
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I buy renter's insurance because my landlord won't rent to me without it. It costs me like 200/year and it would probably be less if the insurers knew more about me.
(DIR) Post #AiPwsnDhcr5YWS09XU by Sirpantangelini@noauthority.social
2024-05-30T12:57:01Z
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@cjd @amerika Why would they charge you less? It's a business, they charge as much as they can.What will they pay out if you have a claim and how much arguement and paperwork will it take to get your value back?How is playing scatch off cards any different in risk assesment?
(DIR) Post #AiPwsoBG3Qj9V9riMq by cjd@pkteerium.xyz
2024-05-30T13:02:36.116279Z
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> Why would they charge you less? It's a business, they charge as much as they can.Communist logic detected.> What will they pay out if youNot me, my landlord - if I destroy his property.> How is playing scatch off cards any different in risk assesment?I'm in France, we still have a functioning legal system, fake scam insurance companies aren't a thing here.
(DIR) Post #AiQ1XHtHPbtX2t0uXo by Sirpantangelini@noauthority.social
2024-05-30T13:13:08Z
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@cjd @amerika Communist login? Claiming a business needs/wants to make money is not communist.All insurance is a scam, you are just falling for it.
(DIR) Post #AiQ1XJ7UqErQrGfmLI by Sirpantangelini@noauthority.social
2024-05-30T13:15:42Z
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@cjd @amerika Did you not just say you wanted unregulated insurance unfettered by government?Perhaps you call me communist for pointing out the functional stupidity of the insurance industry.
(DIR) Post #AiQ1XJu3vfi1HtOZ2e by Sirpantangelini@noauthority.social
2024-05-30T13:20:04Z
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@cjd @amerikaHow is the concept of insurance not communist in logic on the fundamental level.Typically government mandated and regulated heavily. Everyone must pay in to cover the cost of fucking morons so that the industry can pay all of its useless beauracrat employees. If you are responsible and don't induce payouts, you always lose.Sounds like communism this insurance industry.
(DIR) Post #AiQ1XKTrmYLh4w99qi by Sirpantangelini@noauthority.social
2024-05-30T13:23:07Z
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@cjd @amerika things like vaccine mandates and gun free zones are implemented through insurance.A business is not allowed to exist without a business license issue by a governing body. Insurance requires xyz be done.This is fascism. With an ugly dose of communism.Try to explain how this industry should exist like I didn't take a vaccine for a free donut
(DIR) Post #AiQ1fTkJDaZ08Aiv5c by amerika@annihilation.social
2024-05-30T13:56:21.248758Z
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@Sirpantangelini @cjd Insurance, like unions, is related to collective subsidy of externalized costs, yes.No way to separate that.It's also handy when something really bad happens:* Life-threatening disease* Loss of job for long time* Tree falls on house* Nuclear warfareIt's bad for day-to-day stuff like doctor's office costs.
(DIR) Post #AiQ1p0O5E8wlyNs0zw by amerika@annihilation.social
2024-05-30T13:58:06.355825Z
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@Sirpantangelini @cjd Gotta side with the lawyers on this one: any business that can charge more, will charge more.Same as any individual.This too is part of the supply/demand curve.
(DIR) Post #AiQ25F5oJxfkDK48p6 by amerika@annihilation.social
2024-05-30T14:01:00.026188Z
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@cjd @Sirpantangelini France was once a superpower. Now they're anal cooter power bottom bitches for Europe.I don't think the supply/demand curve is Commie logic although the helicopter bait do use it in arguments.That is, each person is going to demand as much as he can get... the market limits what that is through competition.If you are the one guy who can remove alien brain slugs, you are going to charge a million bucks for doing so until you run out of people with that kind of money, then reduce the price to $500k and so on.
(DIR) Post #AiQ2zLJCOgwri14wYi by amerika@annihilation.social
2024-05-30T14:11:09.545639Z
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@cjd @Sirpantangelini The problem with insurance is that the guy who always carefully dumps his barbecue coals to avoid fire ends up paying something for the guy who does not.
(DIR) Post #AiQ37Ulh6unvMdIKaO by amerika@annihilation.social
2024-05-30T14:12:36.197712Z
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@Sirpantangelini @cjd With insurance, the insurer is betting against something going wrong. If they get the wrong odds, rates go up.It's a large "unregulated" industry because it is almost impossible to regulate. Insurers will simply not issue policies, sort of like they are doing in huge parts of Texas now.
(DIR) Post #AiQ3JTajJOVlBmsZ9M by Sirpantangelini@noauthority.social
2024-05-30T14:00:18Z
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@amerika @cjd Like unions...Don't get me going on unions.How is insurancegood for a life threatening disease? How many go fund me's are for life threatening diseases?Loss of job for a long time? What kind of corporate slave are you?Maybe take care of your trees like you own a home below them.How is insurance good for nuclear war?
(DIR) Post #AiQ3JVLulRqgePxlKq by Sirpantangelini@noauthority.social
2024-05-30T14:02:07Z
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@amerikaHonestly, I would expect you to be on my side with ending insurance. No insurance would be good to encourage more community caring more directly for the people in their lives the can directly help. @cjd
(DIR) Post #AiQ3UgxRxKdrpVr1YO by amerika@annihilation.social
2024-05-30T14:16:49.007856Z
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@Sirpantangelini @cjd Unions are parasites.Insurance is good for long-term diseases where someone ends up in a hospital bed for weeks, months, or years.Wage insurance (formerly job insurance) is a replacement for welfare. Basically, if there is a recession and lots of people are out of work, they do not starve.Tree care is tenuous at least around here. That is, root rot is not always visible. But I think your point is a good one.The nuclear war bit was mostly hyperbole.
(DIR) Post #AiQ3YoYpd93oZIIyiu by amerika@annihilation.social
2024-05-30T14:17:35.338695Z
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@Sirpantangelini @cjd I am mostly on that side, since I think insurance is a loose canon.I wanted to first point out a few exceptions where I think it can be useful.I dislike "health insurance" for example, or the various no-fault insurance options.
(DIR) Post #AiQ3ea6AJWqbS3e8kC by amerika@annihilation.social
2024-05-30T14:18:37.458383Z
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@Sirpantangelini @cjd My favorite metaphor for this is what Uhaul used to do when you rented a steam cleaner.You paid an extra $10/day for insurance, no-fault.So if you dropped it off a roof, lol you just come back and give them the wreckage and you're free and clear.This only works when most people try not to drop steam cleaners off a roof, BUT like unions and communism, it reduces that number over time...
(DIR) Post #AiQ3nd46eXXLG7zuvA by Sirpantangelini@noauthority.social
2024-05-30T14:17:22Z
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@amerika No insurance industry sounds like a utopia to me.Less lawyers, less beauracrats, less paperwork, more living life for life's sake. More midwits who have to face their actual reality in life.@cjd
(DIR) Post #AiQ3s7af6SlF5bMqGG by amerika@annihilation.social
2024-05-30T14:21:04.847986Z
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@Sirpantangelini @cjd I do not trust Utopian thinking in any form. It's just not realistic. It also reflects the human duality of talismans and scapegoats.I agree on reducing lawyers and bureaucrats, but the best way to do that ironically is less government.
(DIR) Post #AiQ3sa90wKsPeFefh2 by Sirpantangelini@noauthority.social
2024-05-30T14:18:29Z
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@amerika @cjd Like in huge natural disasters of huge race riots, insurance companies simply claim bankruptcy and pay noone out.It's a scam on all levels.
(DIR) Post #AiQ3vRKq9IVTCBY7CS by Sirpantangelini@noauthority.social
2024-05-30T14:21:08Z
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@amerika @cjd I'm actually OK with unions if they function within a market of unions.The HUGE problem with unions is you cannot hire a different union for the same labor task in an area.And this monopoly is enforced by the government, which then allows all the other crooked union behavior
(DIR) Post #AiQ3wZTRNIykj86yK8 by cjd@pkteerium.xyz
2024-05-30T14:21:48.186312Z
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> Unions are parasites.Yup.
(DIR) Post #AiQ3wtheACE5SyubFA by eriner@noauthority.social
2024-05-30T14:21:58Z
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@cjd @Sirpantangelini This is you:> you gonna spit gum on the sidewalk if it makes your social credit score go down?Lmao.c-c-c-cucked
(DIR) Post #AiQ3xUgWfKJYADfj8K by amerika@annihilation.social
2024-05-30T14:22:02.333708Z
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@Sirpantangelini @cjd I view collective reward schemes as all Communism.Ending legal protection for unions would achieve what you seek.
(DIR) Post #AiQ44ogYhc6EDnBADQ by matty@nicecrew.digital
2024-05-30T14:23:24.105877Z
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I like the concept of unions but its just a business within a business. If unions actually did their job to fight for the people they "protect", then they'd be good.
(DIR) Post #AiQ44tt9ME8sMI6n2G by amerika@annihilation.social
2024-05-30T14:23:20.107191Z
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@cjd @Sirpantangelini Collective reward and cost externalization schemes generally are.SP is making a good point here which is that any rule requires a bureaucracy to administer it.This is why early American industry was almost entirely managed by cultural goodwill and not by government.I see government as a lesser substitute. If your culture refuses to buy food made with HFCS and sees people who make it as parasites, that functions more effectively than regulation.
(DIR) Post #AiQ4BUwUVMpr15ojWi by Sirpantangelini@noauthority.social
2024-05-30T14:23:00Z
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@amerika @cjd No corporations, no insurance, minimal government, a market for unions = more labor that actually produces something, more need for local community, more productive creatively so we can all walk on the flat moon
(DIR) Post #AiQ4CDwNCeTmZl6m5g by Sirpantangelini@noauthority.social
2024-05-30T14:24:44Z
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@eriner #winning @cjd
(DIR) Post #AiQ4GatvmIY6wf39PM by amerika@annihilation.social
2024-05-30T14:25:29.637590Z
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@Sirpantangelini @cjd Without legal protection, unions compete against each other and also against the market itself.That is, if non-union shops dominate, unions cease to exist.I have to remember to scream THE MOON IS FLAT versus EARTH IS FLAT at the various people who try to proselytize or sell me stuff in meatspace.
(DIR) Post #AiQ4HOU7QXbwj5MF7I by dictatordave@poa.st
2024-05-30T14:24:50.732169Z
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@matty @cjd @amerika @Sirpantangelini its like how the gov 'negotiates' on how hard they're going to fuck youoh you're getting fukt, its just a question of spit for lube or raw
(DIR) Post #AiQ4HTKjOs4ZlQ0Jg8 by Sirpantangelini@noauthority.social
2024-05-30T14:24:07Z
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@matty @amerika @cjd Like.. where they could lose jobs or employees to better unions in the same region and field?!
(DIR) Post #AiQ4KVQw34k396LvRw by amerika@annihilation.social
2024-05-30T14:26:12.488487Z
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@Sirpantangelini @matty @cjd All unions have a greater interest in doing what benefits the union leadership than in helping the worker.Most workers should not be helped; you want to reward the good, smite the bad, and pay the rest the minimum for being unexceptional.
(DIR) Post #AiQ4MYmyXmpi8Edow4 by matty@nicecrew.digital
2024-05-30T14:26:36.593017Z
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No like if the unions said, "you're going to give employees a 30 percent raise over the next two years or your car is going to be at risk of detonating the next time you start it"
(DIR) Post #AiQ4aPc1SXTTj17hce by Sirpantangelini@noauthority.social
2024-05-30T14:27:55Z
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@matty Ohh like how the carpenter union in philly lit milk boy on fire cause the owners made their own bar using hand tools.....@amerika @cjd
(DIR) Post #AiQ4aSfg5PBHDDrAEi by cjd@pkteerium.xyz
2024-05-30T14:28:57.107947Z
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Social credit = how much you are liked by Dear Leader - and I don't trust Dear Leader to look after my interests.Insurance is how the market prices the chance of you doing something bad.If you wouldn't live in a place with that, be it. I would live there in a heartbeat.
(DIR) Post #AiQ5f54dLf7JQbIPWS by Red_Hat@nicecrew.digital
2024-05-30T14:41:09.861087Z
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It's legal organized crime.
(DIR) Post #AiQ7HnKTM7rVdsjE5w by eriner@noauthority.social
2024-05-30T14:59:21Z
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@cjd @Sirpantangelini > Insurance is how the marketOh yeah? That free and unencumbered insurance market?My mistake, you're right, they're totally different!
(DIR) Post #AiQ7l5CRzaTrSswSiO by cjd@pkteerium.xyz
2024-05-30T15:04:28.547243Z
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Yes, we need decentralized smart-contract insurance markets, but that's not a reason to eschew criminal liability insurance entirely.
(DIR) Post #AiQKTrT161dJM2oE76 by Felix_Krull@poa.st
2024-05-30T17:21:41.748309Z
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@cjd @Sirpantangelini @amerika Do you have tranny story hour in France?
(DIR) Post #AiQKla2QdQN6Vpp0ka by cjd@pkteerium.xyz
2024-05-30T17:30:14.357377Z
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We do not.The worst we have is climate/enviro/vegan/communism, but the whole "teachers recruit your kids to be gay and eunuchs" is not a thing here.
(DIR) Post #AiQLek1HE3YROdaNlo by Felix_Krull@poa.st
2024-05-30T17:39:19.361308Z
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@cjd @amerika @Sirpantangelini Same in Denmark. No statues being torn down either; we (still) have a literal crusader - Bishop Absalon, the founder of Copenhagen - prominently displayed across from the parliament's main entrance.America is the epicenter of the poz, and the virus spreads via the English language.
(DIR) Post #AiRcjxAxdDBe1h990K by Beefki@noauthority.social
2024-05-31T08:26:30Z
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@cjdThe reason to eschew criminal liability insurance is because fuck yet another tax on normal people because shitty people can't stop being retarded.Re normalize bullying people and social ostracization for being retarded subhumans.@eriner @Sirpantangelini
(DIR) Post #AiRgI12C5jCThZynbM by cjd@pkteerium.xyz
2024-05-31T09:06:05.357120Z
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I get where you're coming from - because I gather you're in the US which has adopted the policy of fucking over net-positive economic contributors.In a country with functioning institutions that are worthy of respect (there are still some of these), this insurance would almost certainly REDUCE tax burden on normal decent people - because the cost of policing would be much reduced - and what's left born by criminals and those who the insurance market deems "high risk".The rational move for these people is to change something about themselves so that the insurance market downgrades their risk - for example: Join a church.In order for this to work though, we NEED decentralized insurance markets. We need crypto degens friending people on facebook to figure out if they're risky, and staking in on individual insurance contracts. This isn't going to work if it's some boomer lady at a desk applying a government approved risk model that's "blind to race" (and blind to practically everything else).
(DIR) Post #AiRmzDW2A4W0aZv6zw by Sirpantangelini@noauthority.social
2024-05-31T10:04:50Z
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@cjd @Beefki @eriner I love this. You sincerely think that having personal insurance for behavior would lower taxes. How is spitting gum out on the street policed by insurance? Or is it policed by police and charged to your insurance?Oh and explain how this decentralized insurance works?How is risk assessed. Do you wear a body camera?Do you pay more if you carry?I do not like your brave new world.
(DIR) Post #AiRmzEi7ibmQIMaHTs by Jonny@annihilation.social
2024-05-31T10:21:16.513651Z
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@Sirpantangelini @cjd @Beefki @eriner The police body camera films me banging your mom. The footage is uploaded too Average White Dicks dot com. Your mom becomes infamous.
(DIR) Post #AiRqdbn1d83JJrosAS by cjd@pkteerium.xyz
2024-05-31T11:02:03.582652Z
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1. Policed by police (which should also be private, but that's a different thread).2. Insurance pays the damage and cost of remediation - which includes policing, court costs, etc. So the only policing that must be paid by city taxes is police wandering around not finding anything.3. Decentralized insurance is really simple: You have a million dollars and you want to make revenue with it, so you find 5000 really trustworthy people and you make an offer that if they pay you $10/month, they can claim your million $ in case something bad happens to them. Now maybe someone else makes one of them the same offer for $9/month. What happens? They automatically switch to that guy's offer. Or maybe someone offers 500k at $7 and someone else offers 500k at $8, you get the idea. The whole thing can be implemented in smart contracts.4. How is risk assessed: Any way you want, there are no rules.5. Do you pay more if you carry? : People who trade financial markets don't give a shit about anything except risk & reward. Is carrying correlated with crime? Suppose it's NEGATIVELY correlated because people who carry are more boyscout-like. If some people don't want to insure because someone carries, their portfolio is going to underperform, then THEIR investors will pull out - or if they're investing their own personal money, they're just going to lose money.
(DIR) Post #AiRsGsMu1b1pz8tAh6 by h4890@liberdon.com
2024-05-31T11:20:32Z
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@amerika @mar77i @Sirpantangelini @cjd Note that libertarianism makes no claims about what you shoud fill your time with. It is only a scientific method, by which we maximize material quality of life and create more spare time for yourself. What you fill that time with, is entirely up to you. That's it. Libertarianism is nothing more and nothing less than a method to increase everyones material wealth and time they can devote to their own values and life goals.
(DIR) Post #AiS4ZtzZPXwzyNoXK4 by charliebrownau@poa.st
2024-05-31T13:36:10.000389Z
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@cjd and theirs been a effort since the last realm resetto remove trainstramssteam poweredYou cant have goyim Making wood trams that need low maintaince and tech
(DIR) Post #AiS4ZvCMvRmZiMoGuW by cjd@pkteerium.xyz
2024-05-31T13:38:15.645061Z
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Steam trains are costly to operate. China still has some, they're phasing them out. Diesel is cheaper when you exclude the steam engine maintenance.
(DIR) Post #AiSCH8eNUHGTZ8Sum0 by amerika@annihilation.social
2024-05-31T15:04:37.979680Z
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@h4890 @mar77i @Sirpantangelini @cjd Right, it works as a method. I prefer the Austrian economics approach when possible to any other. It is the gentlest and rewards useful, productive, creative, and constructive behavior.However, that means something else is the goal for the society as a whole. This is why culture is needed.People do not like it when I say that capitalism is an economic system and we also need social, political, and legal systems, but there is no One Big Idea that exists without context.
(DIR) Post #AiSCQ0w7XKG2FQzqmu by amerika@annihilation.social
2024-05-31T15:06:13.752214Z
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@h4890 @mar77i @Sirpantangelini @cjd As a side effect of this, libertarianism promotes what we might call qualified freedom.That is, if your actions are productive, do as thou wilt. This gets us out of means-over-ends neurosis, but not for long, because libertarianism always gets absorbed by its parent (egalitarianism).With culture, you also have goodwill... as long as your actions are *culturally* productive, also do as thou wilt.
(DIR) Post #AiSDkhqNoj2f4KkA9Q by h4890@liberdon.com
2024-05-31T15:21:10Z
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@amerika @mar77i @Sirpantangelini @cjd Culture are fluid. Culture is also a good tool to create cohesion. In terms of which culture and what values to adopt, history might be a guide or a current or future philosopher. In terms of the long term future of a libertarian society, as a libertarian, my favourite arguments against my own position are: 1. Violence. If a libertarian society becomes successful, countries will use violence since they become threatened if a country shows that
(DIR) Post #AiSDtoPelONO33aIQy by amerika@annihilation.social
2024-05-31T15:22:50.051948Z
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@h4890 @mar77i @Sirpantangelini @cjd Cultures are like nature: internally fluid but also contiguous. That is, they avoid entropy through internal change but arrive at the same spot in a type of sine wave.So no, cultures are not "fluid" but not "not fluid" either. They are not tools. They are ends in themselves.But they also restrain the worst of commerce of government (both demotism).
(DIR) Post #AiSDwmNulCJQcwBVGS by h4890@liberdon.com
2024-05-31T15:23:23Z
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@amerika @mar77i @Sirpantangelini @cjd a big government and politicians are not necessary for success and prosperity. It shatterns the illusion of the necessary and "good" government. 2. Herding cats. Libertarianism is like herding cats. Strong wills, strong minds that don't easily go together. Some power faction might be created that takes over it all and we are then back to monarchy, which will evolve into oligarchy, which might then evolve into democracy.
(DIR) Post #AiSE2xmdIEeliVh9Sy by h4890@liberdon.com
2024-05-31T15:24:29Z
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@amerika @mar77i @Sirpantangelini @cjd Neither of the 2 are of course given, technology can open up new vistas and new means of self defense and of structuring society, but 1 and 2 have definitely happened in the past, and serious libertarians about to form their own country need answers to those two questions. Lacking that... I think the easiest form of of libertarianism that is actually possible _today_ are:
(DIR) Post #AiSE9rVP25BUH0vR20 by h4890@liberdon.com
2024-05-31T15:25:45Z
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@amerika @mar77i @Sirpantangelini @cjd 1. Individual libertarianism, i.e. hiding in plain sight, where you use lawyers and tax planning and slide through different jurisdictions to achive close to 0% tax and the life style you want. or 2. Small, decentralized communities in remote areas of a big country, living completely online. But they cannot become huge players internationally because then the iron fist of the government comes down, and see counter argument 1. above.
(DIR) Post #AiSEM6prrTXTIHKzo0 by h4890@liberdon.com
2024-05-31T15:27:58Z
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@amerika @mar77i @Sirpantangelini @cjd Hmm, I don't know if I agree with your definition of culture, but I think it comes down to me not understanding correctly what you mean. Cultures can be engineered and centrally created. Just look at national socialism and the soviet union. Great examples of engineered cultures as tools. Having he king as the son of god, great example of an engineered culture to keep the people in check and not having them question orders.
(DIR) Post #AiSPREMoO1exazOL9k by mar77i@gleasonator.com
2024-05-31T17:31:26.095773Z
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@h4890 @amerika @Sirpantangelini @cjd A society that questions each order for too long will be conquered. Engineered culture? I guess we're still in it.
(DIR) Post #AiSaX55gt3483kNLrE by h4890@liberdon.com
2024-05-31T19:36:28Z
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@mar77i @amerika @Sirpantangelini @cjd Incorrect. A society where individuals question orders and law, is a society protected against totalitarianism. A society where no questioning or very little questioning happens, is a society where everyone eventually will lose their freedom, and a political nobility will be established. A proof of this is that when a society turns totalitarian, one of the first things to go is free speech, and the first thing implemented is censorship.
(DIR) Post #AiSgOchb9OfRQESNdo by mar77i@gleasonator.com
2024-05-31T20:13:31.554329Z
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@h4890 @amerika @Sirpantangelini @cjd > A society where no questioning or very little questioning happens, is a society where everyone eventually will lose their freedom, and a political nobility will be established. No. That only describes a society that achieves a level of trust we just can no longer even fathom. You do not desire freedom if you can trust. It might become "totalitarian" to defend from an imminent outside threat. But even their ordinary dumbasses would welcome the reasoning, and it would reliably relax back into "just functioning" once the threat is overcome.Edit: Although you seem to be right. Not everyone would be able to contribute to such a state's decisions equally. But let's not pretend that would even be remotely the case with any status quo government, whether it calls itself a "democracy" or not.