When I had studied at Marburg University for one year, which is the only city which was not blown up during World War II, I had met Bechazziah who was a son of a Zimbabwe king or prince . He was a wonderful companion and entirely congenial. This was in 1990.
Back in my day we read Harry Schultz and Doug Casey, and when the newsletters finally arrived we all had lots of time to consider what they had to say.
World grew so much and so fast. So many of today's financial charts look like exponentials... they'll plunge back down in real terms soon enough though, as the Greater Depression is just around the corner.
Which country most resembles Ayn Rand ideal? Answer: Taiwan. - One of the few countries (and probably only one developed one) that is going more free-market with time in the last decade. Over the years Taiwan went from top-15 in economic freedom index, to top-4. - It's Asian Tiger like Singapore or HK before CCP-takeover, but democratic and with civil liberties like freedom of speech, etc. - One of the most free-market country on Earth, low taxes, low regulations ("business freedom" at the level of Singapore and HK), you can open shop on the street and sell things just like that, which is impossible in other developed countries and nowadays even in Chinese cities. There's a saying in Taiwan that every family has one entrepreneur. - Two major parties are pro free-market, society has pro free-market mentality (like Hongkongers), current president was saying publicly that she wants young Taiwanese to become entrepreneurs ("I don't want you to be employees, I want you to start your own companies - be adventurous, be courageous."). When she gives speeches she says that Taiwan is a bastion of "democracy and free-market" (while Western leaders are only saying "democracy" part). - Digital minister of Taiwan is an anarchist and popular and respected person in this country and he dreams of gradually transforming Taiwan into voluntary society. - They're very open to blockchain technology and social innovations which make functions of the state obsolete. They have a system in place which forces government by law to implement technology improving or replacing state functions if it won in yearly national contest. - The state is relatively friendly to citizens and very friendly to high-quality immigrants. For example, sometimes police wasn't ticketing people during covid for not wearing a mask, but was giving masks instead, there are many small pleasant things like that. Taiwan for years is in top-3 in "global expats ranking", in some years being at top-1 spot. - And lastly, Taiwanese society has pro-freedom mentality, in economical and social spheres (like libertarians). They were supporting Hong Kong Revolution and if you're not hurting anyone they're very tolerant. Being with these people influences one to be a better person, because Taiwanese are kind-hearted. This society is an example of how freedom makes people better in terms of personality and behavior. PS. I'm not Taiwanese, but Western libertarian and digital nomad. This is objective assessment.
He's a 30-something male virgin who trashed his technology job with an auto company so he could take a menial job on a railroad and stalk the railroad's hot female vice president. In other contexts this would sound like the premise of an episode of a police-procedural TV series like _Criminal Minds._
I had visited a couple decades ago a Libertarian bookstore on Mass Ave between Somerville and Harvard Square in Cambridge Massachusetts. Further down the road towards Harvard was an herb store at which I had purchased Gotu Kola. Unfortunately I had overdosed. This is what has made me respectful of herbals. Also on this road was an Aikido association. I am A- with the Teacher phenotype and the diplomat enneagram , just like the origin of Aikido: this is the only martial art made by my type.
Objectivists don't want to talk about the problem where a successful capitalist builds up enough FU money so that he doesn't have to "serve" his customers any more, and then he can use his fortune to fund socially damaging projects. Friedrich Engels is the classic example of that, since he was the competent half in his partnership with Karl Marx. Engels ran the Manchester branch of his family business successfully, retired financially independent around the time he turned 50, and along the way he basically "hired" the otherwise inept and unemployable Karl Marx to write the sort of anti-capitalist propaganda they both wanted. It's also ironic that Engels's effectiveness at building the violent socialist movement which came to fruition after his death in 1895 probably derived from the skills he developed from his business experience. He could handle money competently, organize the available resources towards attaining feasible goals, recognize and manage talented people, plan for the future and so forth. Those are all familiar skills shown by businessmen who know what they are doing. Marx, by contrast, was noticeably lacking in those abilities.
I'm not an Objectivist which some people may find surprising. I think Objectivists are willing to talk critically of people such as Gates and Soros but believe that it is more productive to talk about men and women who are producers who are not engaged in evil.
@@hrearden6993 Objectivists still don't have an answer to the problem for when billionaires want to spend their money to damage society. Obviously the state needs to step in to stop these creeps' projects by confiscating their wealth. But Objectivists rule that out categorically, even though in other contexts they want the state to arrest and prosecute poor men who damage society.
@@hrearden6993 What solution do you propose for the problem that wealth once accumulated can be used in destructive ways? It seems like any solution is wildly more dystopian than just dealing with the misuse of wealth as it translates into criminal actions rather than attempting to enshrine some notion of a thought crime into law.
only possible if he'd be colluding with the state in order to destroy a free market. The state and its service to self politicians and bureaucrats are the problem
The thing about UBI is it needs to be voluntary funded by donors, not extorted from producers at gunpoint. Just like any other cause someone wants to fund.
UBI supporters like to point out that Milton Friedman proposed a UBI as a negative income tax. What they tend to leave out though is that he proposed it as an alternative to all other forms of welfare as a lesser evil and changed his mind when he realized that it would be impractical to get rid of other forms of welfare. The reason he considered it to be less evil is that if people on welfare knew they would continue to receive the payment even if they got a job and earned money then they would not be as disincentivized to work. I can personally see the logic behind that but yeah its still theft and still creates a class of dependants. I think that only gets worse as automation since at some point either the capital owners will overthrow / phase out governments or governments will capture the capital and then realize they have no need for labor whatsoever. In either case the currency becomes worthless because there is no circular economy between labor and capital. I intend to own a diverse range of capital before that happens and there are a few kinds of post full automation societies that could work for like forming communities that have their own micro circular economies. I'm pretty sure the Amis for example wont be affected too much by the existence of AGI in an economic sense. They can go on farming and interacting with themselves. Its only really an issue if the AGI wants what they have in which case we are all screwed anyway.
Hardly the most moral man. Casey refutes John Donne's sermon that no man is an island. “No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as any manner of thy friends or of thine own were; any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” I can imagine in the revolutionary American colonies, while Thomas Paine is writing Common Sense and Patrick Henry is challenging the British Empire to give him liberty or to give him death, a colonial Doug Casey is skedaddling onto a sailing ship bound for South America.
You neglect what America’s Patriotic Revolutionaries knew: Ittakes a community to wage a war! How many in the US are left to support and lead the fight today? Well, the next 12 months shall reveal the Truth.
We love you man, and you are on the winning team, anyone with a net worth above $10 million got that wealth from inheritance or investments, and the difference between a speculator and a gambler is inside information, and the very best inside information comes from gaming the market like Warren Buffett, and when a uppity shareholder calls out Warren Buffett as an invited speaker, have your military strong man take him to the woodshed, free market oligarchy style, it's not personal, it's how business gets done
As long as the information you are digesting is tainted poisoned creating opinions from your perspective are subject at best. He mentioned education which he did not receive from the institution. Life is the best school. There is a reason you are only here a short time. When you come back you come back empty-handed empty-headed! This life is a very addicting school and if you think obtaining and controlling possessions that you will never keep is the answer you have already failed.
Drug Lords are great guys unless you're a competitor in which case you often need a well fitting bodybag from your tailor .Also, Rand was a proponent of Eugenics I believe ?
When I had studied at Marburg University for one year, which is the only city which was not blown up during World War II, I had met Bechazziah who was a son of a Zimbabwe king or prince . He was a wonderful companion and entirely congenial. This was in 1990.
Jennifer, Thank you for letting Doug talk:) Peace.
Back in my day we read Harry Schultz and Doug Casey, and when the newsletters finally arrived we all had lots of time to consider what they had to say.
World grew so much and so fast. So many of today's financial charts look like exponentials... they'll plunge back down in real terms soon enough though, as the Greater Depression is just around the corner.
Doug! I like money too!! Great to hear you.
Which country most resembles Ayn Rand ideal? Answer: Taiwan.
- One of the few countries (and probably only one developed one) that is going more free-market with time in the last decade. Over the years Taiwan went from top-15 in economic freedom index, to top-4.
- It's Asian Tiger like Singapore or HK before CCP-takeover, but democratic and with civil liberties like freedom of speech, etc.
- One of the most free-market country on Earth, low taxes, low regulations ("business freedom" at the level of Singapore and HK), you can open shop on the street and sell things just like that, which is impossible in other developed countries and nowadays even in Chinese cities. There's a saying in Taiwan that every family has one entrepreneur.
- Two major parties are pro free-market, society has pro free-market mentality (like Hongkongers), current president was saying publicly that she wants young Taiwanese to become entrepreneurs ("I don't want you to be employees, I want you to start your own companies - be adventurous, be courageous."). When she gives speeches she says that Taiwan is a bastion of "democracy and free-market" (while Western leaders are only saying "democracy" part).
- Digital minister of Taiwan is an anarchist and popular and respected person in this country and he dreams of gradually transforming Taiwan into voluntary society.
- They're very open to blockchain technology and social innovations which make functions of the state obsolete. They have a system in place which forces government by law to implement technology improving or replacing state functions if it won in yearly national contest.
- The state is relatively friendly to citizens and very friendly to high-quality immigrants. For example, sometimes police wasn't ticketing people during covid for not wearing a mask, but was giving masks instead, there are many small pleasant things like that. Taiwan for years is in top-3 in "global expats ranking", in some years being at top-1 spot.
- And lastly, Taiwanese society has pro-freedom mentality, in economical and social spheres (like libertarians). They were supporting Hong Kong Revolution and if you're not hurting anyone they're very tolerant. Being with these people influences one to be a better person, because Taiwanese are kind-hearted. This society is an example of how freedom makes people better in terms of personality and behavior.
PS. I'm not Taiwanese, but Western libertarian and digital nomad. This is objective assessment.
It's a truly unforgettable place. High IQ, high trust, high performance society with the most pleasant people you can imagine.
Doug Casey is an American hero .
Brilliant interview. Thank you!
Everyone stops talking and starts listening when Doug Casey Marc Faber and Rick Rule speak!!!!!!!
Doug is the Ayn Rand of our time.
Doug is a realist. Ayn Rand was mired in theory.
Who is john Galt?
He's a 30-something male virgin who trashed his technology job with an auto company so he could take a menial job on a railroad and stalk the railroad's hot female vice president. In other contexts this would sound like the premise of an episode of a police-procedural TV series like _Criminal Minds._
John Galt is son of old man Galt.
I had visited a couple decades ago a Libertarian bookstore on Mass Ave between Somerville and Harvard Square in Cambridge Massachusetts. Further down the road towards Harvard was an herb store at which I had purchased Gotu Kola. Unfortunately I had overdosed. This is what has made me respectful of herbals. Also on this road was an Aikido association. I am A- with the Teacher phenotype and the diplomat enneagram , just like the origin of Aikido: this is the only martial art made by my type.
Objectivists don't want to talk about the problem where a successful capitalist builds up enough FU money so that he doesn't have to "serve" his customers any more, and then he can use his fortune to fund socially damaging projects. Friedrich Engels is the classic example of that, since he was the competent half in his partnership with Karl Marx. Engels ran the Manchester branch of his family business successfully, retired financially independent around the time he turned 50, and along the way he basically "hired" the otherwise inept and unemployable Karl Marx to write the sort of anti-capitalist propaganda they both wanted.
It's also ironic that Engels's effectiveness at building the violent socialist movement which came to fruition after his death in 1895 probably derived from the skills he developed from his business experience. He could handle money competently, organize the available resources towards attaining feasible goals, recognize and manage talented people, plan for the future and so forth. Those are all familiar skills shown by businessmen who know what they are doing. Marx, by contrast, was noticeably lacking in those abilities.
I'm not an Objectivist which some people may find surprising. I think Objectivists are willing to talk critically of people such as Gates and Soros but believe that it is more productive to talk about men and women who are producers who are not engaged in evil.
@@hrearden6993 Objectivists still don't have an answer to the problem for when billionaires want to spend their money to damage society. Obviously the state needs to step in to stop these creeps' projects by confiscating their wealth. But Objectivists rule that out categorically, even though in other contexts they want the state to arrest and prosecute poor men who damage society.
@@hrearden6993 What solution do you propose for the problem that wealth once accumulated can be used in destructive ways? It seems like any solution is wildly more dystopian than just dealing with the misuse of wealth as it translates into criminal actions rather than attempting to enshrine some notion of a thought crime into law.
only possible if he'd be colluding with the state in order to destroy a free market. The state and its service to self politicians and bureaucrats are the problem
I'd buy this guy anything he wanted from his fast food restaurant of choice. Haven't read his novels due to length but I like him as a human.
Speak English
His novels can be read in one day easily.
@@GeorgeDoughty-m8e not for me. It took me about 13 minutes to read your comment.
Read the novels
@@blake1948 will you call me on the phone and read them to me in bed?
Yes they are great books:)
The thing about UBI is it needs to be voluntary funded by donors, not extorted from producers at gunpoint. Just like any other cause someone wants to fund.
Imagine Mel Gibson and Casey collaborating. “High Ground” would smash box office records.
Great interview!
UBI sounds to me like a "Proposal" offered by the delites in Atlas Shrugged 😂
UBI supporters like to point out that Milton Friedman proposed a UBI as a negative income tax. What they tend to leave out though is that he proposed it as an alternative to all other forms of welfare as a lesser evil and changed his mind when he realized that it would be impractical to get rid of other forms of welfare. The reason he considered it to be less evil is that if people on welfare knew they would continue to receive the payment even if they got a job and earned money then they would not be as disincentivized to work.
I can personally see the logic behind that but yeah its still theft and still creates a class of dependants. I think that only gets worse as automation since at some point either the capital owners will overthrow / phase out governments or governments will capture the capital and then realize they have no need for labor whatsoever. In either case the currency becomes worthless because there is no circular economy between labor and capital. I intend to own a diverse range of capital before that happens and there are a few kinds of post full automation societies that could work for like forming communities that have their own micro circular economies. I'm pretty sure the Amis for example wont be affected too much by the existence of AGI in an economic sense. They can go on farming and interacting with themselves. Its only really an issue if the AGI wants what they have in which case we are all screwed anyway.
Hardly the most moral man. Casey refutes John Donne's sermon that no man is an island.
“No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as any manner of thy friends or of thine own were; any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”
I can imagine in the revolutionary American colonies, while Thomas Paine is writing Common Sense and Patrick Henry is challenging the British Empire to give him liberty or to give him death, a colonial Doug Casey is skedaddling onto a sailing ship bound for South America.
You neglect what America’s Patriotic Revolutionaries knew: Ittakes a community to wage a war! How many in the US are left to support and lead the fight today? Well, the next 12 months shall reveal the Truth.
👍
What a women :-).
No matter how hard you try, it is not possible to recruit even one of the Devil's Disciples to your cause.
Boots on the ground, growing GDP, lower wages for the people, less people per acre, basically a newly or growing economy country:)
We love you man, and you are on the winning team, anyone with a net worth above $10 million got that wealth from inheritance or investments, and the difference between a speculator and a gambler is inside information, and the very best inside information comes from gaming the market like Warren Buffett, and when a uppity shareholder calls out Warren Buffett as an invited speaker, have your military strong man take him to the woodshed, free market oligarchy style, it's not personal, it's how business gets done
As long as the information you are digesting is tainted poisoned creating opinions from your perspective are subject at best. He mentioned education which he did not receive from the institution. Life is the best school. There is a reason you are only here a short time. When you come back you come back empty-handed empty-headed! This life is a very addicting school and if you think obtaining and controlling possessions that you will never keep is the answer you have already failed.
Drug Lords are great guys unless you're a competitor in which case you often need a well fitting bodybag from your tailor .Also, Rand was a proponent of Eugenics I believe ?
Not trying to be insulting on any level, but this comes off like an hour long job interview.
Liechtenstein maybe most libertarian?
Accuracy.
Sorry, but I was taught to be wary of people who wear purple makeup.
So, you never listen to Prince?
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