...and as Robert A. Heinlein said: an insurance company is just a bookie-- let's call it what it is -- you make bets that something will go wrong.
From: James Bowery [mailto:jabow...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 8:19 AM To: vortex-l Subject: Re: [Vo]:Coal mining industry in steep decline The original libertarians in the US -- the 1800s frontier libertarians like Lysander Spooner, understood legitimate government as a mutual insurance company. An insurance company operating as government would charge an insurance premium for the protection of property rights. This is essentially a wealth tax. Moreover, as a mutual insurance company, not only would the territory be protected under a collective defense -- rendering immigration restriction a natural function -- but dividends would be paid to the members, and those dividends would function as an unconditional basic income thereby rendering virtually all social goods a natural function of local communities so endowed. Then the "Austrian" School of Economics that came along in the 20th century shot the original libertarian movement in the head, execution style, totally denying any kind of collective right to territorial protection (open borders) and totally socializing the cost of protection of property rights. This is why Ron Paul and Rand Paul don't stand a chance of being elected as "libertarians". On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Orionworks - Steven Vincent Johnson <orionwo...@charter.net> wrote: I find it interesting to view this entire process as an interesting game in how humans go about redistributing units of wealth across the planet. The entire process, the mechanisms currently installed to initiate “wealth distribution” has become so incredibly convoluted and obfuscated (intentionally so, I might add) that it’s easy to lose site of the fact when you really boil this process down to its most primal level, it’s just about how one individual, group, or organization goes about getting (or stealing if they can get away with it) more gummy from their neighbor. It’s all based on an illusion that there are a fixed number of gummy bears in the BIG POT. As such it behooves you to acquire as many gummy bears as you can before your neighbor does the same to you. Well… we are competitive creatures by nature. On a monthly basis, I play a board game called “Game of Thrones” with my friends. It's based on the popular George R.R. Martin books and spin-off TV series. I feel fortunate if I can make it through the afternoon without my cattle being raped. It is perhaps naive of me to believe this but it remains my hope that as our society continues to evolve in the direction a highly networked, responsive global civilization more and more of the population will begin to clearly see the abject hypocrisy and injustice all these little gummy bar games we now perform against each other does. We will begin to see how such self-serving injustices induce great harm upon on vast swatches of society and end up needlessly devaluing many of their ability to make incalculable contributions to the common good. I suppose I sound like an evil socialist, or worst, a communist. However, in my view, as technology, robotics, and AI continues to advance, robbing many of us of our jobs and identities, it may turn out to be the case that some form of high-tech modernized communism that revolves around enforced distribution of goods and services amongst all the population will eventually be recognized as the fairest and most humane. It will ensure the fact that we all get the essential basics of what need in order to survive in a modern civilization. It will ensure that all of society benefits, and not just those who know how to play the Game of Thrones game board better than their neighbor. If not, I will probably end up being repeatedly raped along with my cattle. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson OrionWorks.com zazzle.com/orionworks --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com
