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|    Is Welfare Part of Capitalism? (3/4)    |
|    01 Feb 06 02:25:30    |
      [continued from previous message]              they embrace the root of all evil, envy. That explains why we have so       many laws against mutually beneficial consensual acts and governments       regulations to protect us from our own choices. The truth is, all those       laws and restrictions are more often not there to protect stupid people       from making mistakes. All such laws are there to prevent the smart from       making the right choices.              That's why, for example, every body has to move equally slowly in       school, to prevent the smart from moving faster. That's why various       reproductive techniques are politically incorrect proportional to the       expected quality of genetic material that will be duplicated. In       particular, life long monogamous marriage, free sex, prostitution,       polygamy, and cloning are sequences that both have increasingly       expected value of genetic quality outcome and politically       incorrectness.              In Europe and China, the smart monks are encouraged not to get married.       When some minority groups don't buy the bullshit and hence greatly       improving their productively earned wealth and genetic quality, such       minority groups somehow become victims of genocide.              Life is like a real time strategy games. That means when we're not at       war, we're in a race. That's simply how we evolve. Morality,       religions, and ideologies, are stuffs created by really smart people to       persuade us to run backward.              Peace means we're in a race. Freedom means we are in a competition.       Some people just don't want to compete. Hence, they craft lies and       prejudices against those who are in front preventing progress to       prosperity.              I'll tell you the scientific truth. It's from the fruit we knows       the tree. Anyone opposing free trades and globalization is more evil       than Hitler or Nazi. If only Japan and German could have acquired       natural resources through consensual peaceful trade, Nazism wouldn't       have been popular there and Hitler wouldn't have risen to power. With       his mass hypnotic skills, he may have ended up as seminar speaker I       guess.              If only those who had wanted to incite the Second World War see all the       miracles and prosperity the free market brings, they would have       repented and embrace free market. Yet, after all the prosperity and       wealth the free market is bringing to all of us, still many people       choose to oppose competition, and hence, miss-properly align our       interests from productivity. That is the cause of all evil in the       world.              All causes opposing free market can be negotiated and appeased.       However, if the very thing that a group of people want to prevent is       the success of the others, then the situation is pretty much kill or be       killed zero sum game.              How does such situation usually end up? What would be our optimum       solutions for such situation?              Under normal circumstances, an optimum solution of any business       decisions is a solution where the marginal revenue equals to the       marginal costs. Hence, in a zero sum game, each party will try to       maximize its benefit to that point. Sometimes, the marginal costs have       a spike. There is a certain point where increasing a resources       allocation beyond a certain point will create adverse costs. For       example, increasing the number of labors will increase revenue.              After a certain point, increasing one additional labor will mean buying       a new machine or building a new factory. We may end up choosing to do       it, we may not. In either case, discretions are the better part of the       valor when it comes to that line.              The same way, in most countries, each of us can increase our profits       using property we own or consensually rent. When we maximize our profit       that way, the public will, ideally and some times truly, not interfere,       and defend us from being prevented to enjoy our "rights" by others.       However, when we start using others' property to maximize our gain,       say by stealing, public opinions may shift from protecting us to       against us.              Hence, the choice whether we should steal or not depends on the extra       costs of crossing the politically correctness line of war. If a person       sees that the potential gain justifies the increase costs of public       support shifts, he'll still steal and make a great career out of it.       Otherwise he'll stop stealing while coming up with a pretext to       justify his cowardly decisions, such as morality.              But what do the people choose their reaction to a specific act like       stealing? They do so based on their sense of fairness, justice, and       right-wrong discernment. How do people get that sense? From ideology.       The ideology, religions, or whatever, then decides the line of war       where the rest of us should consider before crossing. But how does the       line gets drawn? By estimates of bargaining position.              Let's examine an example. Is the King (or Queen?) of England the King       of France? Don't know. How do we know? In the beginning, a ruling       class from France went to England and become king of England. Then they       lost control of France. Hence, king of England wanted to take back the       controls they have lost. Well, such conflicts are solved by war. In       this particular case, the war lasted 100 years.              The British attacked France and successfully route knights with long       bows. Then, the Frances stroke back driving the British back to their       isolated islands. However, the France cannot move further and go all       the way to attack British because of the Strait of Dover separating the       two nations. Finally both sides realized that the straits somehow       became the sacred line of war. It's not auspicious to cross the line       of war for either side. The France, having more army and larger       population would beat up the British on land, and the British being       stronger at sea can always repulsed France sea invasion. Hence, we got       peace.              Such natural separators like straits and mountains explain why       Europeans are divided into many different countries. The Chinese, not       having that natural line of war, end up getting united all the time.              Now, let's get back to the question whether welfare is part of       capitalism. If all of us have just enough food, and some people don't       work, what would we end up doing to those who are not productive?              Humans' basic instincts and preferences lead to gene pool survival.       When food is scarce, such as when the people demand centralized       planning, it would serve ones' gene pool survival to slaughter the       parasites rather than sharing food to them. That's because sharing       food to those who do not earn it means starving ones own self. In fact,       humans will kill each other to literally eat each other when food is       scarce. Such is what happened in China and Rusia when centralized       planning, governments' intervention in economy, and prejudices       against successful capitalists became the norm.              However, when food and money are abundance, such as when the people       embrace free market, fighting the parasites might cause more gene pool       survival lost than feeding them. On the other hand, simply giving and       yielding toward threaten will motivate people to keep pushing us       around. Moreover, giving in to those who can use force against us will       motivate countries to build arms rather than say, better video games.              Hence, one possible strategy to minimize open war while still properly       aligning ones interest with other individuals around them is to give to       those who ask nicely and ask less. As free market brings a lot of       abundance, those who are needy can be appeased much more cheaply than       those who are envy, and hence, we got welfare program.                     [continued in next message]              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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