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what society and the general public find "worthy" i typically pay little attention too.... are you looking for a general society wide recognition of van gogh? or pointing out that you think that art is frequently more valuble than the money that is paid to the creators? (i would agree, but...

Can you point to what piece from Francisco speech you are talking about? http://tti.naut.org/html/speeches-capitalism.shtml I can't find 'metric' as such there. Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape o...

as long as he made his own choices and was self sustaining... being broke and only able to buy ramen noodles to eat is still self sustanance... then i see no problem? if that is how he wishes to live his life, then that is his choice. as long as he never has to depend on someone else to help him out...

money is a tool to be used for public exchange. money is the only thing of universally PUBLIC value..... privately i do what i wish with said money.... if i wish to exchange value it must be done in monetary terms, not in terms i privately value. being an objectivist has doesnt deal with how much on...

core beliefs: an individual should rule himself... should also apply to national policies. fine, saddam broke international law and was hauled to geneva and executed...wait whoops no he wasnt... and im not exactly sure of the proper method of taking care of a nation after nuking its leadership, but ...

Don't tell me americans are unwilling to do the work, I've done it..... but I cannit afford to raise a family on hte measly wages they offer.... now if i was one of the immingrats that cone do the work I could.... when you pack 5 or so families in the same house they can afford the rent and utiliti...

must we always be producing something? wealth becomes just another tool to aid us in turning our dreams into reality. well i've wasted 3 years of my life getting to that. so rand has not given me a philosophy to live by, but a philosophy to stand on. although i think there is some merit in holding ...

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so continual production is a go or no go?

i believe that was the view rand put forth in atlas.... when man stops producing is when man becomes uh lifeless?

must we always be producing something?

for those of you who have read 'we the living' there is a part where leo and kira are talking. vaguely i remember the conversation going like this: leo asks kira what she wants to do or what she wants to accomplish or something like that. Kira responds, I want to build a glass tower. and leo's respo...

mmm well i havent drunk in about 3 years since the last irrationality i last had :) well i should be over near there for the highlander festival in san antonio in a weekend or two i think..... ARI has online classes i think..... heh, you have no idea how good it is to see my sig again with "no ...

capitalism works on two principles.... well with regards to this example i shall say: greed and fear. to put it mildly perhaps, production and desire for personal security and place in society. job protection essentially is locking the worker in their job... if they dont do anything illegal and most...

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good vs bad

good vs bad.....




what about neutral?

yea i think its funny that the "poor" people in america live in run down houses etc which isnt bad, but they have some expensive item somewhere, a tv and cable usually, or a semi nice/nice car, or stuff like that. everyone has electricity a house/apt and so on.... those who dont are either...

ok see i have this pattern in pvp..... click click to set direction and hit f5 for mwd..... click on target name in overview, quickly move mouse over and hit the lock buttonon the selected icon, and then the default orbit icon. at some point ill hit f6 for scrambler/disruptor and f1-f4. now..... if ...

I'm not aware of one, but we have a public channel in EVE. "taggart" is the name

the public view of value is measured in money.

the private view of value is up to the individual.

i havent expressly seen this from rand or peikoff.... but seems reasonable heh

the part about 'deleting filthy pictures from script' was hilarious if you were there.....

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global economy?? :roll: I care deeply for everyone in this world. I never cease wondering if we all as collective humans are going to do better or not in this world. :twisted: sry musashi heh, im just finding it hard to get riled up and thoroughly analyze the global economy.... even in a great depre...

mark a is the forum admin. he's european so you should have it this weekend....

ever watch the time commanders series? you may know what im talking about..... mongol strategy has always been my favorite, esp the MTW kind. hit and relocate rinse and repeat, and at some point get right in thier faces. it will definately be a pleasure to have another strategist around :) hang arou...

i think in a perfect and fast calculation world it would be possible to quickly and effectivly tax people per use..... like using a road but not a highway taxes x amount and the recording of that is done automatically and calculated via acomputer to keep human effort out of it. security issues and t...

without taxes? erm so where does thier income come from?

you say windfalls like renting the land that oil is drilled from? things like that?

the theory makes it much easier to manipulate people lower on down the chain. 'do your duty for the sake of society' while the benefits really are slanted towards the speaker. fear of losing your job pay or moral status is the motivation. whenever someone whines about something "OMFG THIS NEEDS...