Organizational Physics

Via Forbes - Six Fundamental Laws That Control Your Business, um pouco mecânico demais para o meu gosto no que diz respeito às artes da gestão, mas útil para contrapor à estrutura e funcionamento organizacional do Estado, onde tudo é atrito, entropia, falta de alinhamento interno e externa — com as pessoas — pudera, se são roubadas para "gozarem" o que políticos e burocratas determinarem...


Lex Sisney Discusses The Power Of Organizational Physics

A Bill of Intellectual Rights

A Bill of Intellectual Rights por Wendy McElroy:

Everyone Has the Right to Be Uninterested
Everyone Has the Right Not to Understand
Everyone Has the Right to Be Uninformed
Everyone Has the Right to Make a Mistake
Everyone Has the Right to Change His or Her Mind
Everyone Has the Right to Disagree
Everyone Has a Right to His or Her Own Opinion

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Obama: Four Years

Obama's Accomplishments:

So the president's accomplishments are a little difficult to find. But I'm here to offer assistance. I've combed through the research, and unearthed some achievements the president can claim:

- Most deportations ..
- Most leaks prosecutions ..
- Most troops in Afghanistan ..
- Most medical marijuana raids ..
- Most drone strikes ..
- Most fundraisers ..

Among other things, since taking office Obama has::

- Signed the NDAA into law -- assassinating US citizens w/o trial now legal
- Personally oversaw a 'Secret Kill List'
- Waged war on Libya without congressional approval
- Started a covert, drone war in Yemen
- Escalated the proxy war in Somalia
- Escalated the CIA drone war in Pakistan
- Will maintain a presence in Iraq even after "ending" war
- Sharply escalated the war in Afghanistan
- Secretly deployed US special forces to 75 countries
..

(uma longa lista)

convince people to be libertarian

How to convince people to be libertarian

"Igualdade"

- o Estado paga salário a alguns dos cidadãos mas não o paga a outros
- o Estado rouba salário aos segundos para pagar-se, e para pagar salário aos primeiros
- segundo o Tribunal Constitucional, atenuar este estado de coisas atenta contra "o princípio da igualdade"

Free Markets Beat Climate Change

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Citação Liberal do Dia

The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never under any circumstances admit that his success may be due to his own efforts, to the productive contribution he has made to the whole community. Always attribute his success to the exploitation, the cheating, the more or less open robbery of others. Never under any circumstances admit that your own failure may be owing to your own weakness, or that the failure of anyone else may be due to his own defects -- his laziness, incompetence, improvidence, or stupidity.

Henry Hazlitt

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Peak Oil

We were wrong on peak oil. There's enough to fry us all:

The facts have changed, now we must change too. For the past 10 years an unlikely coalition of geologists, oil drillers, bankers, military strategists and environmentalists has been warning that peak oil – the decline of global supplies – is just around the corner. We had some strong reasons for doing so: production had slowed, the price had risen sharply, depletion was widespread and appeared to be escalating. The first of the great resource crunches seemed about to strike.

Some of us made vague predictions, others were more specific. In all cases we were wrong .. Peak oil hasn't happened, and it's unlikely to happen for a very long time.

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Tragedy of The Commons

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Socialist Nirvana Fallacy vs. Anarchist Hell Fallacy

Reflexão de Robert Higgs:

Back in 1969, Harold Demsetz introduced the idea of the Nirvana Fallacy in the evaluation of economic outcomes and policies. In neoclassical economics, the conditions that describe a so-called perfectly competitive general equilibrium -- an utterly unattainable situation that, even now, many economists continue to use as a standard for assessing real-world situations and policies -- misleads mainstream economists into urging that the government intervene even when no one has any realistic basis for assuming that it can actually improve on the existing state of affairs.

Discussions of anarchism serve as magnets for what amounts to the mirror image of this fallacy. Let us call it the Anarchistic Hell Fallacy. Presented with incontrovertible evidence of the state's monstrous actions -- in every age, in every part of the world, and among many different ethnic and national groups -- supporters of the state assert, with only conjecture to support their claim, that if the state were eliminated and anarchism prevailed, even greater horrors would occur, and civilized life would become impossible. How do they know? In fact, they don't know, and they can't know. Except in olden days, in small-group situations, and in wholly unrepresentative places (e.g., Somalia), the experiment has not been performed. The presumption of certain knowledge about modern life without the state is a form of invalid argument, the Anarchistic Hell Fallacy.

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Citação Liberal do Dia

De novo trazida pelo Dan Boudreaux — Frank Chodorov:

Perhaps it is an inner need that impels the socialist to his ideology, for I have never met an advocate of government intervention who did not admit, inadvertently, his own capacity for commissariat functions. He always has a plan, to which others must submit, and his certainty that the plan will produce the contemplated results does not permit him to brook criticism. Always he is the fanatic. If you disagree with him it is not because you are in error; it is because you are sinful.

A Nation of Moochers

No seguimento de The Parasites on the Left Are Stealing too Much,


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State vs. Society

No seguimento de Going Galt, What is the State? What is Society? por Wendy McElroy:

Definitions may seem to be dusty things but they offer the incalculable benefit of clarifying your thoughts so that you better understand the ideas that deeply impact your life. Defining “the state” and “society” allows you to know where the line is drawn that separates one from the other.

The state uses the political means — in other words, it uses force — to acquire wealth and power. It neither produces wealth nor trades for it on the marketplace. Instead, it takes wealth from the productive people who constitute society. It takes riches directly through such means as taxation and indirectly through such means as regulation. The ultimate source of the state’s power is the use or threatened use of force.

By contrast, society uses the economic means — in other words, it creates and cooperates — to produce wealth and social dynamics. Any power acquired by those within society is the result of earned wealth or reputation.

An effective path to personal freedom is to withdraw from the state as much as possible while continuing to live in and embrace society .. Why not just leave and “gulch” instead of “going galt”? ..

And, yet it is possible to imagine a society from which some people would gladly flee into solitude; for example, in antebellum South, slaves fled from plantations. The point at which reasonable people flee is when the state is so totalitarian that being within society no longer maximizes their choices but minimizes them. They can no longer benefit by trading with others because the trade is taxed too highly or choked by regulations. Their life savings is stolen by currency inflation, bailouts for miscreants, senseless bureaucracy and projects, or by wars and policies that affront their morality.

It takes a great deal of theft and corruption by the state to outweigh the extraordinary benefits of society .. the state has not yet succeeded ..

The American Man's Burden

America’s Secret Wars in Africa:

una tierra un poco mejor

Carta a un joven chileno sobre Che Guevara:

Esto fue lo que entendí un día, pero lo entendí no como un problema de otros o de una categoría especial de seres singularmente malos, sino como un problema mío y de los seres humanos en general. Vi todo ese potencial de hacer el mal que todos, de una u otra manera, llevamos dentro y vi cómo se desarrollaba, cómo me transformaba en un ser absolutamente inmoral y despiadado respecto del aquí y el ahora con el pretexto de un más allá y un mañana gloriosos. Y vi en mí al criminal político perfecto del que nos habló Albert Camus, aquel que mata sin el menor remordímiento y sin límites ya que cree hacerlo a nombre de la razón y del bien. Y vi que yo no era esencialmente distinto de los grandes verdugos del idealismo desbocado, de los Lenin, Stalin, Mao o Pol Pot, pero también (...) de los Hitler y los totalitarios de todos los tiempos. Y me asusté de mí mismo y me fui a refugiar en el pedestre liberalismo que nos invita a la libertad pero no a la liberación, que defiende los derechos del individuo contra la coacción de los colectivos, que no nos ofrece el paraíso en la tierra sino una tierra un poco mejor, que no nos libera de nuestra responsabilidad moral sino que nos la impone, cada día y en cada elección que hacemos.

Ser liberal no es pertenecer a los buenos o a los absolutamente inmunes a las tentaciones liberticidas, sino simplemente entender la dualidad del ser humano y la brutalidad que potencialmente se alberga incluso en las almas más admirables. El ser humano, como Kant dijese una vez, está hecho de un leño torcido del cual nada puede forjarse que sea del todo recto. El liberalismo no es una manera de enderezar aquella naturaleza precaria y torcida sino de contener sus instintos más dañinos, especialmente cuando se esconden tras el manto de la bondad absoluta o se ven propulsados por los destellos encandiladores de la utopía.

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Experts on Caring

Experts on Caring about the Environment:

The Experts on Caring .. go out and flood politicians and bureaucrats with questions about the environment. What will you do about this or that new catastrophe? Overpopulation, global famine, pesticide induced cancer epidemics, desert expansion, nuclear fallout, ebola, swine flu, mad cow disease, pandemics, acid rain, oil spills, resource depletion, falling sperm counts, genetically modified killer foods, sea level rise: what will “we” do? Those who ignore such calls are labeled as “anti-science”–if only they understood the science.

But knowledge of a problem gives you no conception of the relative risk it poses. As Matt Ridley points out: “The Four Horsemen of the human apocalypse, which cause the most premature and avoidable death in poor countries, are and will be for many years the same: hunger, dirty water, indoor smoke and malaria, which kill respectively about seven, three, three, and two people per minute.” The level of human suffering these problems cause is not slightly more significant, but rather several dozen orders of magnitude more significant than global warming.

Creating Experts on Caring does science a disservice–it emotionalizes the issues from the outset. Worse, it ranks these problems as more important a priori–that is, (ironically) without any empirical or scientific support ..

This blind caring about “scientific” issues has another perverse consequence. Since the Experts on Caring aren’t really experts, they simply demand action NOW (always in capitals) without any real understanding of the consequences ..

.. The Expert on Caring trying to become a real expert must overcome a huge psychological hurdle thrust on him by Sagan and many others—that these issues are of vital importance to the survival of our species. It’s no surprise then that the Experts on Caring only lend credence to alarming research. They care—that must mean the issue is important.