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mircea_popescu: the end result of a failure is not indicative of
the absence of a plan more
than of
the poor quality of a present plan
tho.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 how'd you know if
there was ? plans are usually secret.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and
then how much do you pay haliburton
to clean up and run
the platforms ?
Duffer1: i'm pretty sure
they didn't intend
to do any better,
there was no plan other
than 'go
there'
mircea_popescu: they simply did not have
the ability
to do any better.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you're very much mistaken.
this is
the us army propaganda as
to why
they failed.
mircea_popescu: the only place where
that works is fuckland, and fuckland a) doesn't care and b) is
tougher
than you and will fuck you.
mircea_popescu: they rely on some very convenient separations
that are no longer factual.
mircea_popescu: said weapons (if you mean
the atomic bomb) are already useless.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but
the direct
transfer system has infinite population growth baked right in
mircea_popescu: if yo uget
them rare enough courtier chicks will start adding mole stickers
to
their cleavage
mircea_popescu: "It may be clear
to us
that fuffles must be eradicated." < ha! you can't eradicate
these any more
than you can eradicate moles
mircea_popescu: i mean i guess it's proper in
the sense of "proper fucked"
mircea_popescu: but no, he said
the converse : unlike a fluffy casino, where
they let you play, a proper casino
takes your clothes and
then makes you put out a show for
their porn franchise.
mircea_popescu: obviously
the consumer
thinks so, clearly visible i nthings such as "bitcoin must be a sort of supermarket payment option
to really exist"
mircea_popescu: haha, i wouldn't go as far as
to say
that
the litmus for "working economy" is "consumer sector"
tbh
Duffer1: "Ideally,
the initial
transaction serves as
the basis of a permanent arrangement, with
the victim roped into an installment plan, which keeps
the payments flowing even after
the fuffle itself has crumbled into a pile of dust"
mircea_popescu: except
the politburo spent from
the
tontine all
the damn
time.
mircea_popescu: s not less broken. in
the russian crisis of
the 90s pensioneers bore most of
the burden
mircea_popescu: no, he says "transfer a percentage of earnings from working-age people directly
to retirees"
mircea_popescu: the question is, what sort of a fool contemplates
the notion
that direct
transfer better, let alone proper.
mircea_popescu: look i know how 401k/iras etc work. after all, we wouldn't have our friendly second market without
them
mircea_popescu: no but
the other end. a proper system is bismarck's ponzi ?!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "Unlike proper retirement systems, which
transfer a percentage of earnings from working-age people directly
to retirees,
this fuffled scheme
takes
these earnings and invests
them in some fuffles" << do explain ?!
mircea_popescu: in
the end, money is an expression of culture.
the chase for money in se is not much unlike
the making of worthless paintings as a "commercial venture".
mircea_popescu: no
three ring binder or company policy can help you
there.
mircea_popescu: that part is important. you have
to understand your story well enough
to be able
to contextualize it in different contexts.
benkay: contrast
this with people who write jokes once for
twitter and are forever doomed
to hear "oh yeah i read
that on your social whatever" when
they want
to iterate and improve.
benkay: avoiding social media of all sorts has made me a better conversationalist by giving me
the opportunity
to
tell and retell a story or a pitch, refining it on based on each recipient.
mircea_popescu: it makes me realise
that in becoming very able
to preserve
through application of
technology, we are losing
the incentive
to re-write and recall, which probably explains why we suck.
mircea_popescu: however, i've retold
this joke dozens of
times, and it seems
to have gotten better every
time.
mircea_popescu: intellectually,
the main reason my blog exists is
that i hate repeating myself.
mircea_popescu: you must be careful however,
the lynchpin of
this story is
mircea_popescu: quoth
the distraught brothers "that stupid girl. and what great business we had with
that painting"
mircea_popescu: until one day, a young girl one has hired for
the purpose of cleanning
the house in between polishing
the cock
pizzaman1337: MP's stories always have me on
the edge of my seat
mircea_popescu: the painting moves back and forth at ever increasing nominal values among
the families, as
their capital needs dictate
mircea_popescu: and
then in a couple months when he was building a new stable, his brother buys
the painting back from him, at yet a heftier premium
mircea_popescu: returning
the call, itzhak buys
the painting back a few weeks later,
mircea_popescu: the next week, hirsz is beating down itzhak's door. for he must have
the painting, it is keeping it up at night
that his older brother in
the pooer neighbourhood should have
the piece of art!
mircea_popescu: itzhak
tells him
the exorbitant sum he has paid, and some
theory about its artistic value.
mircea_popescu: he notes
the shitty painting, and asks his brother wherefore.
mircea_popescu: his younger brother hirsz, a respectable moneylender in
the slightly larger small neighbourhood of Sucker's Lament visits one day
mircea_popescu: so as
to not agress
the public morals, itzhak upon living her house picks up a worthless old smoked over painting, and declares it
to be
the payment for
the debt.
mircea_popescu: one day an attractive young widdow
that can't repay her husband's debts agrees
to put out, like every other day, except with different girls.
mircea_popescu: Itzhak is a respectable moneylender in
the small neighbourhood of Fool's Crossing.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the old jew joke, which is why
trilema has been making
the point since
the naughts.
mircea_popescu: this is a better model,
they're not so much into socialism per se