Stares at the World

Tagged: Economics

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Society

The Key To Making Western Men Stronger

The following is a guest post from Jack at Road to Solidity. Western men are divided. Real western men, those who care, those who are conscious of who they are and who cherish their civilization and their people, are divided. Here I’m not talking about the left-wing guys versus the right-wing guys.  I’m talking about the right-wing guys being divided among them. Being physically disconnected from each other. They are not bonded by something other than their ideas and what they want for their civilization. They are isolated from one another. They don’t form a real team. They don’t form...

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Society

Will the Millennials Restore the West?

Despite the constant insults from the MSM, the Millennial generation is living up to the Strauss & Howe claim that they will be Heroes, who will revitalize the Western economies.

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Philosophy / Society

Automated Prisons, and the Dilemma of Love

We are all prisoners of this world, all of us locked into this psychopathic trust game with one another, and the only sane answer is – each and every time – to defect, to sell out your co-conspirator, and to hope to God that they’re just a robotic simulacrum that sold you out first.

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Philosophy / Society / Video

Incentive Systems & Politics: Part 1

A Response to Extra Credits Introduction As a game designer, James can’t help but think about how broken our political system is.  And by broken, I don’t just mean it’s busted; I mean it’s broken in a Game Design sense.  The underlying rules and incentives which govern our politics are just wrong.  They’re completely out of whack. If you’re not already familiar with it, Extra Credits is a web-series focusing on the video game industry; they cover everything from the development, to the marketing, the design, the social impact, and even the different themes that games explore.  It’s a series...

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Society

There Will Always Be a 1%

In Prasie of the Robber Baron “We, the people…” Dark words, those.  Good seldom follows them – however elegant the parchment might be. They appeal to our basest instincts. “We, the people…” What, you mean my people?  Of course!  My Dunbar Tribe – the 100-150 people whom I can feel empathy for.  Within our tribe there’s status and privilege, of course – the Old Man has the nicest car, the Young Wolf is dating the hottest tail – but all those differences are earned, aren’t they?  And at the end of the day all of the pack members are provided...

Walking a True Path 1

Society

Walking a True Path

Bill Gates, Africa, and Crusaderist Charity A knee-jerk suspicion of charity is only natural for anyone who’s studied economics; time and time again we’ve seen instances where it does far more for the Egos of the Donors, than the Welfare of the Recipients.  Recently Hpx83 focused his sights upon Bill Gates in a pair of articles, and noted how the man’s actions almost suggest a desire to buy his way into Heaven: Now, I’m fully willing to accept that the Bill Gates charity-work comes from a genuine wish to help people and that maybe he just has a different view...

Gresham’s Law: It Also Applies to Sex and Culture 4

Philosophy

Gresham’s Law: It Also Applies to Sex and Culture

Folks, this is giong to be an argument about how degenerate culture drives out civilized culture, but we’re going to have to start this one off with some economic definitions; links to Wikipedia if I go too fast, but I think you’ll be able to keep up; so let’s jump into it: ͼ-Ѻ-ͽ 1. Gresham’s Law: “When a government compulsorily overvalues one type of money and undervalues another, the undervalued money will leave the country or disappear from circulation into hoards, while the overvalued money will flood into circulation.” The best examples involve either devaluing the coinage, or failing to...