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The Myth of the Freemarket

5/28/2012

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Earlier this month I wrote about Human Nature. And for exactly the same reasons we will always need a government, we will never have a freemarket, because the assumption is that a freemarket has a level playing field for everyone trying to enter it.

The rich, or 1%, who control the market, will never let the market be free. The bigger you are, the better positioned you are at frightening off competition and people will go to extraordinary lengths to frighten you out of the market if they perceive you as a threat.

Its always been that way, whether it was one tribe trading with another to the corporate giants trading now.

The 'market' is always problematic in that if you sell something and incur retribution, a la pitchforks, you have no good will left and any future attempt at entering the market will leave you unable to compete. Thus you and your family from now on will starve. I am sure the libertarians think this is a disincentive for people doing things wrong in the first place. But misunderstandings happen. There is a reason corporations pay a fortune to market research corporations to find out the perception of their products in the market place.

So its a free market, all you have sell are lemons that aren't ripe yet. you starve. Libertarians would say you need your community to support you when all you have is unripe lemons. But perhaps you are bad at growing lemons and need to move into another area of expertise. Do the community continue to support you when you can't grow lemons for nuts? Do people finally drop the hint, your lemons suck? Whereas Joe down the road produces plenty of awesome lemons.

For some libertarians the safety net is the community. And perhaps they do build good communities, they may be the only ones to do so. If you belong to the Los Angeles community and want to move to New York. The New York community don't need anymore movie stars and no one wants to give you work in New York... Are you forced to stay in the Los Angeles community then?

How does the New York community organize shipments of almonds from LA? How does LA community trade computers with San Jose community for almonds. Who maintains the road between LA & San Jose?

Markets unregulated by a benevolent government will cause chaos. If our government isn't perceived as being benevolent, then it is time to take the government back and make it work on your behalf again. Contact your state or federal representative today.
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Abstinence

5/22/2012

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There is a myth that circulates that men's only approach to reproduction, is that men try to impregnate as many women as possible.

While there is some biological plausibility to that for young men, older men know their off spring stands a far better chance of not only surviving, but surviving far better if they, the men stick around.
Whereas young men are likeliest to die young defending the tribe as they are the fittest, agilest and strongest. This remained true when tribes transformed into countries, young men are still the premium defense resource. And of those young men, the high school football/hockey team have to be the best of the premium resource. They work well in a team, they are fit, fast and smart enough. Exactly the kind of kids you want defending us.

Young men's kids are needed by our nations because they will invariably be the next generation of cannon fodder. Society expends few resources on them. Their mother teaches them enough language that they can get by in society and they may get enough education to make them useful to the military forces. They also learn to buy a girl a few drinks, treat her especially well for an evening and then she will likely give herself to him with the promise of calling on her tomorrow, when in all likelihood she'll never see him again.

Young men will do pretty much anything to get laid, generally, and, unfortunately, some women will pretty much do anything to get love. I personally think it is better to be alone than be with the wrong person, now that I am older.

But I remember when I was young, I was unlikely to have been easily convinced of that. I couldn't wait to find love. The man who was the other half of me, who would complete me. Sex was a new concept. Enticing, the ultimate expression of love. A concept totally intoxicating to most young girls. Yet the reality is teenage boys the same age as the girl are utterly useless sexually. They are likely to cum upon entry and then if the girl is as unfortunate as Bristol Palin, she'll be forced by a self-serving mother to have a baby she doesn't want. I can't imagine Bristol got any pleasure from the blessed conception and nothing but years of humiliation afterwards. And despite the humiliation, Bristol is one of the lucky girls who has family that will help her take care of the kid. Many young girls will have to survive on their own without any help if they have been bludgeoned into believing abortion is bad. If they do have an abortion, they will possibly spend the rest of their life regretting it. Or, potentially worse, adoption, worrying whatever happened to their child.

If I could tell all teenage girls this one truth, I am sure it would bring down the numbers associated with teen pregnancy. Boys your own age suck so hard at sex and especially at love, its truly not worth being involved with them. He'll have all the fun and you'll have a life time of misery, probably. It really is better to wait until you are old enough to find an older guy. If teenage girls knew this simple fact, it would possibly cut down on the number of teenage pregnancies. But for some reason society has a vested interest in protecting the egos of men, no matter what age they are.

Or at least use contraception. But abstinence just doesn't work unless you know that the teenage guy is just gonna be really bad at it. Besides how likely will he be able to support you if you do get pregnant and keep the baby?

Older men know that they must stay with the mother, if their children are to prosper. Premium children have premium resources spent upon them. Look around, you see politicians, CEOs, lawyers, professionals, scientists, academics and business owners, in general, come from two parent households. If they did come from a single parent household, there would've been plenty of help and plenty of money. Lots of resources are spent on these kids.

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Banks

5/17/2012

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I am not sure how many horror stories I've read regarding banks and foreclosures. Bank fuck ups abound,time and time again. Banks foreclosing on houses they don't even hold a mortgage over.

What boggles my mind is how people from the right give banks a pass and blame the victims of the banks get richer scheme.

With the mortgage crisis starting in 2008, we saw a tirade against people losing their homes for getting into mortgages that they wouldn't be able to pay off. The people borrowing didn't know they were going to lose their jobs. They wanted their own home, they probably paid right up to when they couldn't anymore.

When clearly banks had been approving mortgages where the bank anticipated the mortgagee would not be able to keep up the payments. The mortgagee being the ideal tenant for property the bank was confident would soon be theirs. Mortgagee would happily be turning the house into a livable home, paying the property tax, repairing it and taking care of it, all at the mortgagees expense, while making monthly payments to the bank, until the property was foreclosed upon. This is a much better investment for banks because rental properties require the owner to make repairs and paying the property tax. As soon as the mortgagee could no longer afford to make payments, the bank would then be able to repossess and sell the house for even more money because in the meantime the value of property would've gone up in value and the house would very likely be in good repair. Meanwhile the bank is keeping all the payments made by the mortgagee.

How cruel is this? People set up with the dream of owning their own home only to be used by banks as a long term keep getting richer scheme.

I can only imagine how many people lost their homes and jobs in the 2008 debacle. Banks making a profit and the people are left with nothing.

Banks, of course, meanwhile are manufacturing excuses to generate fees for holding your money if by some chance you are someone who actually has money.

Then you have these RW people who defend banks and blame the people losing their homes for the loss of their home when people lose their jobs and their savings when the banks rigged the system in the first place, engineering that the people taking the mortgages had a good chance of losing their homes, so the banks could later profit from the foreclosure of the house.

I suggest a new law, when the bank forecloses on a house, the bank MUST repay all the funds the mortgagee paid on the loan.
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Human Nature

5/16/2012

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First thing when training a dog is to teach it who is the boss. This is probably true with young children too as a first step of empathy.

Power, control, domination, courtesy, submissiveness are all part of the human condition.

Part of the very oldest part of the human brain is the very famous amygdala. Its where we get our fight, flight or negotiate traits from. If its big and angry looking, run. If its small and you're hungry, fight. If we're both the same size then negotiate.

Information from our eyes passes straight to the amygdala before ever making it to the primary visual cortex - why? If its big and huge and coming straight towards you, you'll have more time to get out of its way, because the cortex pretends to be the rational part of the brain. Its the part that thinks about things and generally wastes time giving names to things and performing abstractions. Very civilized and intellectual, but not very useful when a herd of buffalo are heading straight for you.

My point is we are predisposed to hierarchical structures based on millenia of evolution. Dogs, males of species which organize, of which human men are examples. Every new job I've taken its been my pleasure to watch men, regardless of position in the company, form hierarchies.

The best marriages I've seen, have always had the woman in the position of power. Research has shown that the best marriages permit the women to figure out what needs to be done and the man happily obeys. (I do have references for all my stuff, i just don't know how to add links yet and I am not sure I can be bothered at the moment to find the link.) This is often why men who cheat don't get divorced. They are still committed to their wives. As an aside, women tend to form equalities and cooperate as equals to perform tasks.

The formation of groups by men have been a problem for society since probably we humans climbed down from the trees. Even now groups of men coalesce to form armies in various countries which go around raping & killing women and children, destroying property and creating fear. Whether its in Africa or Afghanistan, the mafia, gangs of disaffected youth, these groups cause problems for others.

Without police forces instituted by the government, there would be no way to control them.

The best way to solve problems of this nature is always to increase the power women have. However when men have power, as with any group with power, it is harder to get them to surrender or give up some of their power when they are used to having it. And men's power originally derives from their being physically stronger and more violent than women. Men are more likely to engage in violent criminal activities. From this, all men benefit, despite the fact that most men I know are not violent and would never consider being so. Nevertheless, serial killers are always the people we least expect them to be. Women must always be guarded when they are with unfamiliar males, despite the general safety of American streets.

In our society, there will always be people who have more power than others. The main point is to have a benevolent government in tune with the needs of the country to ensure the well being of the people, that will enforce rules that preserve the sanctity of women's self determination, protect them and ensure their rights, along with the safety and well being of all the people of the country.

If a government is no longer acting in the best interests of the people we must take back our government and make it work for us again.

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the Deficit

5/2/2012

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If you don't want the government to be in debt, you complain when its getting into debt, IE when it drops taxes, puts two wars on credit & seems to do everything in its power to deregulate banks so the banking greed will crash the economy and when the banks do crash the economy, throw another 700B at them.

Once we're in debt, do we stop eating? Lines like corporations are the job creators, is nonsense. Corporations won't create jobs until they see an upswing in the economy because they won't incur costs unless they see some net win, ie employing this person will generate more income than cause expense.

Employing causes expense. One of the ways to improve the economy would be to fix healthcare. Providing employees with healthcare is expensive. Many countries all around the world prove that universal healthcare is much more cost effective than the system in place in the US.

Government is the only entity obliged to stimulate the economy when the economy is bad. Corporations have no incentive to do so unless government does so.
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