(imposing) Democracy in Africa, and Xeer (somali) law
From The Rule of Law without the State which is well worth reading in its entirety:democracyDemocracy is unworkable in Africa for several reasons. The first thing that voting does is to divide a...
View ArticleIntroduction to constructive anarchism (links)
Voluntarism is a framework to develop ground up governance that seeks to rely only on market forces in ways thematically outlined in this introduction.A similar lecture by David Friedman that also...
View ArticleEquality of Responsibility
Equality of opportunity is a universal humanist tenet. We want all groups to have equal opportunity to flourish and pursue happiness. The concept is politicized by the right more than the left, but...
View ArticleNatural Governance
Natural Governance is the outcome of designing governance from the ground up. The principles are similar to anarchist ideals, but also the ideals of democracy we are led to believe exist in grade...
View ArticleHigh Tax Libertarianism
Natural Governance proposes both high progressive taxation system and small libertarian government. It is libertarian because it both breaks down government into small independent electorally...
View ArticleModerate Anarchy
Even anarchist communities would quickly institute regulation against murder and theft. Human rights must be inclusive of property rights, as the right not to be murdered or abused is your property,...
View ArticleCanadian basic income vs guaranteed income
Hugh Segal a Canadian senator has been proposing a guaranteed income for Canadians of $20k. Guaranteed income means that if you make less than 20k, the government will provide you with the DIFFERENCE...
View ArticleISP Usage Based Billing is reason to leave Ontario and Canada
The CRTC's decision to allow BCE to protect its television properties and services by forcing all ISPs to charge $1.90 per gb (their cost is under $.01) over 25gb per month rate is a good reason for...
View ArticleAnarchist's Dilemma game
The core idealist anarchist principle is that of non-aggression. It is in fact a core tenet of any utopian philosophy: A pledge to not initiate aggression. The Anarchist's dilemma game is a...
View ArticleSecession of the individual: Outlaw to Inlaw (Associated subscriber)
Secession is the only human right necessary to achieve political freedom and political processes that promote the status of the governed as equal associated members of a society rather than subjects...
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Deficit Adjusted GDP - An improvement to measuring economic health.
This is essentially a basic-intermediate economics post that hopes to fix distorted public policy discussions.Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the sum of all income during a year/quarter in a nation....
View ArticleCustomer vs member relationships
Libertarian and anarcho-capitalist philosophies generally espouse the voluntaryism principle that society would be better off if its members formed bilateral contracts among each other as an...
View ArticleCrisis of Democracy
Democracy for politicians means cobbling together a coalition of interests into a majority. This often involves packaging individually corrupt programs and promises to enough interest groups such that...
View ArticleIn recent Canadian budget, Conservatives stole up to $30,528 from Canadians...
By raising eligibility of OAS and GIS to 67 (equivalent to US social security), the Canadian Government took $30,528 from the poorest (1278/month), and at least $13000 (540.12/month) from all Canadians...
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New building design: OctaYurt
Hexayurts are an incredibly simple, and affordable design to make a self supported fully enclosed building using common materials with a few simple cuts, and no material waste. If made out of...
View ArticleGeneral purpose robots sooner than you think
This paper details an approach to making cheap and useful general purpose robots. No scientific breakthroughs are required to achieve the goal, but there is still considerable engineering work needed....
View ArticleDiscretionary authority vs. Freedom
Discretionary power is the greatest systemic evil we face, and understanding this will allow us to create fairer societies that minimize discretionary power. Minimizing discretionary power is as...
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