In the year 1980 development began on the Cassini-Huygens expedition spacecraft, comprised of an orbiter (Cassini) and a lander (Huygens) – which you can read more about here (link).
The longer you leave it to solve a problem …
I don’t know if this is a popular saying or not, but it’s something that’s been with me since childhood:
” … the longer you leave it to solve a problem, the harder it becomes to solve … “
which speaks to the entrenchment of problems, the flow on effect – including the chain reaction & domino effect of additional problems being caused – and the backlog of unhandled consequences.
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Meritorious Economics
The disingenuousness of capitalist economics is ubiquitous throughout the zeitgeist of the status quo, whether you look at the mission statements of companies, their environmental and community statements … it’s all too often complete bullshit, which is as transparently disingenuous as the average political broadcast.
The Anarcho-Capitalist Oxymoron
For those who don’t know, there’s a group of people who call themselves “ancaps” or “anti-capitalists”, and another group called “anarcho-capitalists” who typically invade ancap discussions, trying to take the title ancap away from the anti-capitalists.
Now, the problem here is that an anarcho-capitalism is an oxymoron, because anarchy is that which has no rulers, but capitalism is ruled by the banks and the other ultra-wealth … so there’s nothing remotely anarchic about capitalism.
Divergence: Consensus Conflict and Change
For any action undertaken, 3 intertwining processes determine our course:
- Attempt to achieve consensus;
- Failed consensus results in conflict;
- Conflict is resolved through change.
So let’s have a look at these in the light of the status quo versus Open Empire.
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The “Capitalism isn’t supposed to work that way” excuse
In many online discussions & articles, I keep seeing this excuse again & again … the excuse basically blames every problem you see around you on something other than capitalism.
So let’s just debunk this once & for all.
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Eradicating Political Footballs
[Republished – 1st edit – from original article April 2015]
As part of a transition strategy from the status quo (ie – the property/trade/currency-based capitalist economic paradigm), to a future system that is wholly (yet anarchically) “governed” by the principles of Open Empire, and by the informed choices of well educated free people … we need a strategy to deal with preventing our existing political system (so long as it exists) from corruptly and disingenuously manipulating every issue, as a political football for their own personal gain – instead of just fixing real problems for the common good. Continue reading “Eradicating Political Footballs”
Property vs. non-Property Reward Models
[Republished – 2nd edit: March 18, 2017 – from original article April 2015]
author’s note
A common question I am asked is:
how people are rewarded if not by ownership of things?
… but the problem with this question is that it assumes if you don’t actually own something, then you have no certainty of access to it, and thus you haven’t received a reward.
But this is actually just an assumption &/or a failure of imagination. Continue reading “Property vs. non-Property Reward Models”