PRay TeLL, Dr. Hash

<p>Everybody wants more money, let's review how they expect to get it:</p> <ol> <li> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Basic Income is the idea that no one has to work if they don't want to.</p> </li> <li> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Everyone is expecting someone else to pay for Basic Income.</p> </li> <li>...

<p>Once the robots have all the jobs, and all the superfluous people are on Basic Income to survive, working only two hours a day, surfing, smoking dope & “doing something meaningful,” what are the basics they need to survive? Cheap staples like clothes, food, healthcare & housing, maybe a cubical or pod living which included utilities, like Japanese tube hotels. Next, a public d...

<p>For all the mystery, curiosity & appeal of androids, human-appearing robots that could do most work that people do now, the secondary thought that soon pops into most people's minds is: if robots are doing all the work, what are people going to do? The sheer amount of time consumed worrying about such flights-of-fantasy is amazing in its own right, and the fact that the simple answer...

<p>Few topics are outrageous & sanctimonious at the same time, but any discussion of tipping certainly is. The idea that there is undeclared additional expense on a purchase is not only championed by every Living Wage scold, but also contrary to Contract law. It's certainly counter egalitarian, not to mention the tax issues. To think that the person with direct customer access can exploi...

<p>I grew up with the seniority system, where someone, usually older, was paid more than me but we were ranked together, and did the same work. This is actually considered unethical by accountants, but the irony is, hypocrisy really, of the feminist slogan, equal-pay-for-equal-work, is that it doesn't include the most egregious example of unequal pay, seniority-based pay, because men are aff...

<p>There is no proper compensation. Who's to say what a job is worth? The biased business owners? The biased people who do the job? Someone-who-knows-better-n-you? How much is a High School graduate with good dexterity skills worth per hour? How much is it worth to pick trash off of the street in front of the park, or wash dirty dishes? Markets & wages can't be controlled, and they can't...

<p><font color="#333333"><span lang="en"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Emergent Order, self-organization, Market Forces, and all the other ways to describe Chaos Theory, is the only way to model complex systems. There's plenty of evidence that this is the case in physics & in economics. Salaries are a prime example of a complex system:...

<p>It seems obvious that people who agree to start a society share some kind of universal Work Ethic because how long can any society exist that consumes more than it produces? A person who needs money must do something to earn it. Any job is better than no job but forcing people to dig-holes-fill-them-in-again would backfire, we must create jobs that serve the dual-purpose of having an end-...

<p>Basic Income is the idea that everyone should get enough money to live on so they can pursue what they want in life without having to work for it: a Right to free money. Money comes from taxes or government prints it. If it's simply newly printed money then it doesn't necessarily violate anybody's liberty, but I can't see that lasting for long: a $trillion a year with nothing in return is...

<p>Basic Income is redistribution of wealth, which is a good thing, and the receivers of Basic Income, everybody presumably, are the correct recipients of the largess, but the question remains: who is providing the money? The most common strategy is that all other forms of Welfare would be discontinued with Basic Income taking its place, but most people don't receive Welfare but would receiv...

<p>Basic Income is the idea that everyone pays everyone else to set home doing nothing. It's the perpetual motion machine of politics coming to life through democracy, for as long as it lasts anyway... Even the most basic questions about Basic Income generate basic questions: Who decides how much? Do people with more needs get more, for example, people who live in more expensive areas? Do we...

<p>No topic causes more conflict than religion, let's review:</p> <ol> <li> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The intelligence that is paying attention to everything you do, that's you.</p> </li> <li> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;">Science is the opposite of faith.</p> </li>...

<p>The debate often rages on whether animals have souls, or that farm animals are anything more than food. I like my dog, but I like my iPhone better. Animals are robots, programmed by some unknown mechanism called instinct, but personalities that can be easily reproduced by a computer program. If you are of the opinion that the Turing Challenge will soon be accomplished, thinking the voice...

<p>Sanctimonious posturing gets in the way of many debates, often totally obscuring whatever valid points are trying to be made. The worst of the worst of these conversation-killers is invoking the “saves lives” trope. Anyone need only to look around them to see that lives, even children's lives, are subject to other priorities; riding in cars, for example, kills 10s of thousands of peop...

<p>A living cell perfectly fits the definition of being a von Neumann Machine, the kind of computer we use today, including I/O & memory. For example; the CPU is the ribosome, the ROM is DNA, hormones are input, and the RAM is a number of things: methylation, proliferation, promoters. Ribosomes take the DNA as a sequential input which they process according to their 3-bit instruction set...

<p>Polygamy works many ways: one woman-multiple guys, all guys, all women, or any combination. Anybody can live in a polygamous relationship but heaven forbid they want to be recognized by our government. Prohibition of polygamy comes from preconceptions in religion, customs & tradition. Whatever practical reasons there are against polygamy, there's no reason to outlaw it, people can mak...

<p>Puritanism is best described by H.L. Mencken's famous quote, "The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." However, Puritanism did give rise to modern industrialization: they were a discriminated against Christian denomination in England that gravitated towards science & education. Since then, Puritanism has come to represent all moral-based forms of government...

<p>Liberty is constrained by three things: opportunity, impinging on the liberty of others, and the need for allies. Part of living peacefully with other people is the implied Treaty we have with them, most important of which is showing them respect in public, whether or not you respect them in private. In public the rules of liberty are very strict, especially in the market: you, the vendor...

<p>In a liberty society where everyone has to show at least outward respect to the other people around them, if someone or some group is acting in a manner that abuses our sensibilities or feelings of appropriateness or righteousness, what can we do to discourage such behavior? What is the Line? Can we disrupt their life in any way we see possible, or is it just their livelihood we can threa...

<p>Who determines public morals? What must we all do to"save children's lives, "keep God in the classroom," "eat healthy," "prevent discrimination," or whatever. Some States burden cigarettes & alcohol with high taxes, others outlaw gambling & fireworks. Making abortion difficult is high on the list, and Sanctuary Cities are another way of virtue...

<p>No one knows better-n-me about what I believe, and The Courts can't tell me otherwise. Unfortunately, in April 2016, a federal judge ruled against my religion, The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, aka Pastafarianism, which is a legally recognized religion in Poland, The Netherlands & New Zealand. Among its tenets is that a midget was the first human created. As a youth, I belie...

<p>Back-in-the-day, in the initial stages of the formation of our country, science took a back seat to faith, and the supposed Separation of Church & State in America was intended to allow religious freedom so that particular sects could infect their young with their unique brand of magical thinking without interference from facts. The whole science verses faith debate is fascinating bec...

<p>People like company. It's a rare individual that embraces loneliness, most of us want to talk about ourselves to someone; nothing is more interesting to yourself than you. Close friends to whom you can divulge all aspects of your inner life to are too infrequent for the endless stream of consciousness that you would like to share, hence, your psyche invents an invisible friend that pays a...

<p>Taxes are rife with misconceptions, let's review:</p> <ol> <li> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Meritocracy is a cover word used by prideful & greedy people to camouflage their luck.</p> </li> <li> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The Middle Class must be enlarged at the expense of The Rich.</p> </li> <li&...

<p>Under the right circumstances, governments don't have to collect any taxes yet can still continue to spend even more money. This sounds pretty amazing, how come you never hear about it? I wonder about that myself: I think it's because almost everyone conflates economics with accounting, and can't imagine anything other than debits & credits. You do hear how expansion of the economy is...