Dear James, I will not discuss here about subjects that are not related to LENR. Actually you are not speaking about my opinion, inequality is a fact both in Nature and in societies, I am not ignorant about any actual numbers or the Gini coefficients worldwide. You are over-complicating the facts, inequality goes beyond taxes and even political regimes. What a dredful inequality is in North Korea! The dictator is a god, many people die of hunger etc and from inside nothing can be changed. By the way, when I have worked in journalism (2002-2010) I could follow the steady increase of inequality worldwide on the Web and in practice in my country, It is a very powerful process. I remember using the following quote for one of my writings about Inequality:
"“*Nature* is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equality can only lead us to boredom”. *Francis Picabia quote* Nature's main aim is interestingness. I will continue this discussion only in private, Vortex has to be focused on LENR, it was almost destroyed by a Troll. Peter On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 6:04 PM, James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > Peter, to be polite, your view is irrationally anti-civilization. It is > so irrational that it gives a bad name to anarchists. > > You are irrational because you cannot seem to grasp that degrees of > inequality -- degrees graphically illustrated in that video for those > otherwise ignorant of the actual numbers (such as yourself) -- those > degrees matter as a symptom of an underlying disease in society if not the > disease itself. > > Look, its simple: > > Civilization enables accumulation of property beyond the homestead -- the > accumulation of what might be called "artificial" property. Artificial > property rights are therefore the proper tax base. Basing your taxes on > economic activity is crazy and leads to run-away centralization of wealth. > It is an obvious failure mode of civilization as the wealthy are prone to > institutional capture in order to shift the tax base from wealth to > economic activity. > > I laid all this out, including macroeconomic as well as microeconomic > aspects in a white paper over 2 decades ago but the current short story is > as follows: > > Tax the liquid value of artificial property rights at the risk free > interest rate of modern portfolio theory. Establish liquid value via > escrowed bids. The high escrowed bid for a property right receives > interest at the risk free interest rate. Other bids do not. > > This gets rid of what might be called "private sector economic rent" as a > corrupting influence on civilization. > > However, it leaves public sector rent seeking as a moral hazard. This is > best dealt with by distributing revenues as a citizen's dividend -- equally > to all citizens -- and requiring national defense to be decentralized as it > is with the Swiss. > > > > > On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Peter Gluck <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Inequality is a law of Nature. Now, when we are living in Moneytheism, >> it is applied to wealth, in the dawn of the human societies it was already >> applied to power. (who has invented kings, emperors, dictators?) Re-read >> please the chapter about Mediocristan and Extremistan in the "Black Swan" >> by N.N. Taleb a great book to be read by LENR workers of all ages,too. >> Democracy can scratch a bit at the surface of Inequality but cannot >> change the situation much. >> Peter >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> That is depressing. The facts described in it have been widely known for >>> decades. It is like the extreme cost variations of healthcare described in >>> Time magazine the other day. Educated people know about it but it is not >>> considered politically correct to discuss it in the mass media or during >>> political campaigns. >>> >>> - Jed >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Dr. Peter Gluck >> Cluj, Romania >> http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com >> > > -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
