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1321  Other / Off-topic / Re: Capitalism (continued from How do you deal with the thought about taxes) on: June 18, 2013, 09:58:50 PM

Nope. Serious. Why is trading something you have for something you want, bad? Unless that's not capitalism in your opinion.

Trading is not bad. The cause of trading is bad: DEBT. The first debt is debt ex nihilo: the tribute (census) to the state mafia; it is driven by organised violence of the Church and State. All of the following debts are derivatives of this first debt.

How does this apply to people who have no debt, yet still trade just to get things they need or want? For example, my net worth is positive. I don't really have any real debt (rather, I can pay off my debt with my assets at any time, and still have plenty left over). I still trade my labor for money, and money for food, electricity, gasoline, plane tickets, and hotels. Where does the debt come in?

You are a tax payer, a protection money payer, because the state mafia tells you, that you owe them protection money. That is everybody's debt, and this is the root of the so called economy. The selfsufficient communities are forbidden and destroyed by the church and state complicity. Without a community which is taking care for the seniors, you are dependent on your savings.

Am I indebted to my body that demands of me to continue living or something?

Yes. A (monogamous pairing-) family is not a community, and therefore not selfsufficient. (famulus = house slave)
1322  Other / Off-topic / Re: Capitalism (continued from How do you deal with the thought about taxes) on: June 18, 2013, 06:58:41 PM

Nope. Serious. Why is trading something you have for something you want, bad? Unless that's not capitalism in your opinion.

Trading is not bad. The cause of trading is bad: DEBT. The first debt is debt ex nihilo: the tribute (census) to the state mafia; it is driven by organised violence of the Church and State. All of the following debts are derivatives of this first debt.
1323  Other / Off-topic / Re: Capitalism (continued from How do you deal with the thought about taxes) on: June 18, 2013, 06:49:48 PM

Before capitalism if you invented something sweet your feudal lord would say YOINK thanks for the sweet invention. after capitalism the person who invented it could chose to use it for his own purposes or to trade it with someone else for something else. this is what i mean by keep, i should have been more explicit though, this was admittedly a communication failure on my part.

Capitalism is a collectivist period within a cycle. It's ending now.

http://thevelvetrocket.com/2010/04/21/paintings-of-the-day-the-course-of-empire-by-thomas-cole/

By "cycle" and "now" do we mean, "this epoch" or "this week"?

We all look forward to something better, and must have curiosity as to what that might be in order to meaningfully contribute.  Bitcoin being an example of something better.


That's simple: No gods, no masters! Don't accept them, and Anarchism will return, which has been replaced by feudalist, capitalist and socialist collectivism within the last 10'000 years. I support Bitcoin as one of the tools which have the potential to destroy the economy.
1324  Other / Off-topic / Re: Capitalism (continued from How do you deal with the thought about taxes) on: June 18, 2013, 06:36:03 PM
I'm all for reclaiming words, but when the word's near universal application is unethical, popular, and appropriate, the reclaiming is going to take some uglyand backwards revisionism, as well as resistence from longtime anticapitalists. Nothing "actually" means anything, you know. Ideology is a conversation with arguably justifiable conclusions, not an emperical fact, that determine meaning

The problem is that we are arguing for the original "idea" or capitalism, while you are arguing for something that is not exactly capitalism, while arguing against something you call capitalism, which isn't capitalism, either. So, essentially, we are trying to argue for A, while you are arguing for B while arguing against C. We're not arguing against C.


Capitalism is not an idea. Capitalism is Debitism (Paul C. Martin). Or read the Anarchist, David Graeber: "Debt". The Barter Story is Science Fiction. Capitalism is not about Barter, it is about Debt.
1325  Other / Off-topic / Re: Capitalism (continued from How do you deal with the thought about taxes) on: June 18, 2013, 06:20:41 PM

Before capitalism if you invented something sweet your feudal lord would say YOINK thanks for the sweet invention. after capitalism the person who invented it could chose to use it for his own purposes or to trade it with someone else for something else. this is what i mean by keep, i should have been more explicit though, this was admittedly a communication failure on my part.

Capitalism is a collectivist period within a cycle. It's ending now.

http://thevelvetrocket.com/2010/04/21/paintings-of-the-day-the-course-of-empire-by-thomas-cole/
1326  Other / Off-topic / Re: Capitalism (continued from How do you deal with the thought about taxes) on: June 18, 2013, 02:53:25 PM
Capitalism (= Debitism) is that expression of Collectivism, which destroys the planet and its creatures in the most murderous pace.
1327  Other / Off-topic / Re: Capitalism (continued from How do you deal with the thought about taxes) on: June 13, 2013, 04:20:25 PM
How does the notion of absolute limits of collectivism by Dunbar reconcile with collectives larger than this in evidence?

Bitcoin would be an example of this.


Yes, that's the idea, that Bitcoin (cryptography) could replace trust and state power.

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People can be naturally allied by common acceptance of an idea, or a philosophy or a practice.
One could feel a deep sense of community by participation in a group activity where the individuals are not even known to each other.

Yes, in theory. In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice - in practice there is. Grin
Do you feel a deep sense of community in this forum? I don't.
1328  Other / Off-topic / Re: Capitalism (continued from How do you deal with the thought about taxes) on: June 13, 2013, 02:51:51 PM

Well quoting Laurie puts you in my blood community as much as anything can.
But I still don't understand why you think I need organised violence.
Is not mutual benefit is a strong incentive with the sane and civilized?


Because, when love (and trust, which only exists within blood communities)
is gone (with the destruction of the blood communities by organised violence)
it has to be replaced by something, which is justice (judiciary)
which is force (state protection for the 'protection money payers')


Communism is the only natural life style for the homines sapientes. But it doesn't work beyond Dunbar's Number. Nothings works beyond Dunbar's Number.

This is all a little bit baffling for me, but I hope to understand.

Is a blood community any person with whom one establishes trust?

Does this idea allow for love and trust with people that I've not yet met?  There are many that I both love and trust that I met through out my life and I suspect this is not going to stop happening until the end of my life.


The blood community is not an idea, it is the organisation, in which the homines sapientes lived until it was destroyed and replaced by hypercollectives under organised violence, around 10'000 years ago.

The fact, that collectivism beyond Dunbar's Number is dysfunctional, doesn't mean that you won't love and trust some strangers, foreigners and aliens.
The same is true with the patriarchal monogamous pairing families (constructed also around 10'000 years ago). Some of them are not dysfuntional. But a system, in which functionality is not the rule but the exception - is a system, which is dysfunctional.
Therefore, collectivism is dysfunctional, both the socialist and the capitalist expression.



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Why is it a goal to replace trust and love with violence?

Workless income for violent offenders (church and state).

1329  Other / Off-topic / Re: Capitalism (continued from How do you deal with the thought about taxes) on: June 13, 2013, 12:14:18 PM


Well quoting Laurie puts you in my blood community as much as anything can.
But I still don't understand why you think I need organised violence.
Is not mutual benefit is a strong incentive with the sane and civilized?


Because, when love (and trust, which only exists within blood communities)
is gone (with the destruction of the blood communities by organised violence)
it has to be replaced by something, which is justice (judiciary)
which is force (state protection for the 'protection money payers')


I think you exaggerate with the 'bloodlines' thing. Unlike some other species, humans don't have a very strong sense of smell, so it's not like we can literally sniff each other and determine group membership based on DNA. Besides, how would you explain fraternal bonding within, e.g.: nationalist, church, or academic groups?

To me it seems that many people tend to gravitate towards various groups, and some of those groups happen to be a major source of that "organised violence" in the world today.


The selfsufficient blood-community is a historic fact (hundredthousand and more years). The fraternal bonding within clubs, nationalists and other groups are a perverted replacement of that natural feeling of human being.
1330  Other / Off-topic / Re: Capitalism (continued from How do you deal with the thought about taxes) on: June 13, 2013, 11:18:46 AM

Well quoting Laurie puts you in my blood community as much as anything can.
But I still don't understand why you think I need organised violence.
Is not mutual benefit is a strong incentive with the sane and civilized?


Because, when love (and trust, which only exists within blood communities)
is gone (with the destruction of the blood communities by organised violence)
it has to be replaced by something, which is justice (judiciary)
which is force (state protection for the 'protection money payers')


Communism is the only natural life style for the homines sapientes. But it doesn't work beyond Dunbar's Number. Nothings works beyond Dunbar's Number.
1331  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer - MtGoxUSD wall movement tracker - Hardcore on: June 13, 2013, 10:36:02 AM

Nope. Mr. Manip only strikes twice in a row. The third time would be otherwise too easily predictable Tongue

I expect next wash-rinse-repeat cycle from him in no less than 6 weeks - like when the memories of his distinctive pattern will have faded enough.  Grin

Kinda with you on that ... I will be surprised to see the a big Sunday dump this week and am expecting him to stay away a while
But then again, Bitcoin does like surprises ... hmmm  <scrathces chin thoughtfully>



It will take one pre-emptive dumper to trigger hell Cheesy

Bitcoin can go any way at this point; The oppostite is also true,
One big buyer can trigger an uptrend now.

No, it can go one way only, but you don't know which one it will be.
1332  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: BitCoins for Edward Snowden. on: June 13, 2013, 09:45:37 AM
If this is the price I have to pay to significantly reduce the chance my legs will be blown off, then so be it.


Oh, so you admit that you're what's wrong with America?

 Grin Grin Grin

Governments being fascist and evil INCREASES the number of terrorists. But continue to live in your silly dream world where the NSA spying on grandma actually helps to reduce terrorist attacks. Grin

Oh, by the way, asking if someone is 13 is just as much an ad hom as that person calling you a complete idiot. Just thought I'd point that out. Carry on...

(Please, let's all carry on nitpicking about how much money Snowden made and his girlfriend's occupation and how long he worked for the NSA contractor. I think we can tell who in this thread sees the big picture and who has spent too much time watching the evening news.)

+1

Gallup: Democrats even more dumb than Republicans:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/163043/americans-disapprove-government-surveillance-programs.aspx
1333  Other / Off-topic / Re: Capitalism (continued from How do you deal with the thought about taxes) on: June 12, 2013, 09:06:15 AM
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You lost me after LOL.
Warum ist Autarkie im Blut Gemeinde relevant Kapitalismus?

'LOL-answers' and 'name-calling-answers' are typical in communications within an anonymous hypercollectiv, as this and other threads show. There is not much natural respect towards members outside of your blood community. That's also the reason why you need organised violence to enforce someone to interact economically (capitalism) with foreigners, strangers and aliens.

'Cause when love is gone, there's always justice.
And when justive is gone, there's always force.
And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi Mom!

So hold me, Mom, in your long arms. So hold me,
Mom, in your long arms.
In your automatic arms. Your electronic arms.
In your arms.
So hold me, Mom, in your long arms.
Your petrochemical arms. Your military arms.
In your electronic arms.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VIqA3i2zQw
1334  Other / Off-topic / Re: Capitalism (continued from How do you deal with the thought about taxes) on: June 11, 2013, 08:12:13 AM

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Ever come across that historical example of capitalism working?


Hundreds, some better than others.  A dozen of them were listed in that other thread you abandoned because you couldn't spin an argument, most of which were there before you were even a member of this forum.  You choose to ignore them.  I'm not obligated to do anything, and I'm not here to entertain you by doing tricks.


LOL. Not a single one. Hundreds of examples of religious, paternalistic, collectivist(-ic) interactions of dependent 'protection money payers'. Zero self-sufficiency and independence.
Self-sufficiency and independence (freedom) is there, where you produce for yourself (blood-community), but not for the hypercollective.
1335  Other / Off-topic / Re: Capitalism (continued from How do you deal with the thought about taxes) on: June 09, 2013, 04:06:06 PM
and the concept of moneybags "owning" land and trees. Get your imperialist history fixed.

The Spanish did not introduce the concept of ownership to the Americas.  Get your real history straight.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Civilized_Tribes

These were some of those 'Matriarchal' societies that you favor, and they most certainly had a concept of land ownership, particularly of homesteading.  They were often referred to 'the people of the longhouse' because they built long multi-family dormitories


Pre-patriarchal communities were matrilineal/anarchal. There is no such thing as a matriarchy.

5. It is important to understand (and draw conclusions) that Paleolithic communities were egalitarian; there was no hierarchy (which is translated as „holy reign“), no domination, no rulers, no chiefs and no warfare violence, as archeology revealed and social science explains. Therefore the Paleolithic division of labour according to gender, i.e. between the female gatherers and the male hunters of a given cooperative, was a collective division of labour and not individual: A woman was not gathering for „her husband“ , and a man was not hunting for „his wife“ as is frequently misunderstood. The collective of women is gathering nutrition for the whole cooperative; her work is public work, not privatized, not domesticated or domesticised Likewise the collective of males hunt for the cooperative as a whole which is composed of the female and the male collectives. „Food- sharing“.

http://gerhardbott.de/das-buch/summary-in-english.html
1336  Other / Off-topic / Re: Capitalism (continued from How do you deal with the thought about taxes) on: June 09, 2013, 08:30:43 AM

If Capitalism can work, how come there are no historical records of it working?
Will respond in my related thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=210802.msg2416291#msg2416291
I move to not derail this thread. If anyone wants to continue, Ill post responses there.

Hey ktttn, I see, nobody is able to answer your question, neither in that thread nor in this one.
Ancap is as utopian as communism has been. A nice Utopia, but never realised in reality, because the homines sapientes are neither communists nor capitalists beyond Dunbar's Number. Within Dunbar's Number, you are a member of a self-sufficient blood-community, nothing less and nothing more, because self-sufficiency means self-suffuciency; which is the opposite of communist/capitalist dependency and paternalism.

How is it so difficult for capitalists to understand that a violent state is a prerequisite for capitalism and communism?
Without the state, the coercive mechanism sustaining them both- providing them with the mandatory toil or alternative of criminality that results in profit, falls apart.
The history of paternal lineage and corresponding property inheritence is one that makes up so much "history," its sickening.


Because they don't know the history of Paternalism/Patriarchy/Society/Citizenship, which replaced matrilinear Anarchy. Mater semper certa est / pater semper incertus est; that's the reason why patriarchy/patrilinearity needs organised violence (church and state) to come in place.
They don't know about it, because the universities are brainwashing the brains with paternalistic BS. Rousseau seems to be the first and only Philosopher who knew the difference between society and community. Smith/Hobbes/Keynes/Lenin/the Austrians et al. didn't, and with them their readers. They don't realise, that these 'different' schools of economics represent the same: economics, which is always state based violence. Without this organised violence, a growing economy is absent. Neverthless: they call trees and animals (living creatures) as Capital. That's a joke, but a sordid one, which has its roots in christian collectivism: „subdue the Earth“ = destroy nature, torture the animals.
1337  Other / Politics & Society / Re: If Anarchy can work, how come there are no historical records of it working? on: June 09, 2013, 07:37:49 AM
If Capitalism can work, how come there are no historical records of it working?
Will respond in my related thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=210802.msg2416291#msg2416291
I move to not derail this thread. If anyone wants to continue, Ill post responses there.

Glad to meet you there. The 'fight' against the collectivistic religion (Lenin, A. Smith, Th. Hobbes) must go on.
1338  Other / Off-topic / Re: Capitalism (continued from How do you deal with the thought about taxes) on: June 09, 2013, 07:20:08 AM
If Capitalism can work, how come there are no historical records of it working?
Will respond in my related thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=210802.msg2416291#msg2416291
I move to not derail this thread. If anyone wants to continue, Ill post responses there.

Hey ktttn, I see, nobody is able to answer your question, neither in that thread nor in this one.
Ancap is as utopian as communism has been. A nice Utopia, but never realised in reality, because the homines sapientes are neither communists nor capitalists beyond Dunbar's Number. Within Dunbar's Number, you are a member of a self-sufficient blood-community, nothing less and nothing more, because self-sufficiency means self-suffuciency; which is the opposite of the communist/capitalist dependency and paternalism (division of labor). Beyond Dunbar's Number, in the entire history the former homines sapientes have always been (transformed) suicidal warriors against the planet, against each other and against themselves: The Sixth Great Extinction (Pyrocene).

1339  Other / Politics & Society / Re: If Anarchy can work, how come there are no historical records of it working? on: June 06, 2013, 06:59:50 AM

If you are not a communist at 20, then you have no heart; if you are still a communist at 40 then you have no sense.

And if you are a capitalist collectivist (collectivist capitalist) at 60, you are somebody without any knowledge about history.

I know all these utopian and ahistorical arguments of the so called ancaps very well, and I found, that most of these enthusiasts are employees, not self-employed. They even don't realise, that they are enslaved. They are too busy to think, while the real homines sapientes in the non-business-doing communities in the rain forests are dancing and living. This enthusiasm with production, markets and trade within a worldwide hypercollective has its origin in the christian labor (slave-) ethos, and the ancaps are unfortunate victims of this collectivist religion which is destroying the planet with exponentially increasing speed. Collective, suicidal folly in perfection. The opposite of this collective, sucidal folly is represented by tribalism, where we find no growth and no expansion, either economically or territorially.
1340  Other / Politics & Society / Re: If Anarchy can work, how come there are no historical records of it working? on: June 05, 2013, 03:51:50 PM
I really wish I hadn't got into this right now! I'm out of time.

Uuhhh, out of time! Yes, you see the difference to the communities in the rainforests? They have plenty of time, because they are not busy! Grin

I leave tomorrow morning and there are a million and one things to be done. So I won't be replying anymore today, and probably won't be back for a couple of weeks. I love it when people make me think.

All of ya, go right on and keep pickin' at me while I'm gone. I'll be working on some stuff to post. Probably start a couple new threads, as this one is going everywhere.

Zarathrusta, I disagree severely with your analysis, though I do see where you're coming from now. I think the language barrier has been my problem. Your english is a bit confusing. At any rate, when I get back online, I'll do a bunch of catching up.

Cheers!

Kevin Biomech.


We can discuss in German, or French, no problem!
Cheers, good luck and good business! Wink
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