Convince me to be an anarchist I'm not an anarchist, yet. I _am_ already bought in fully to massively limited government and hard currency separated from that government. But I've yet to wrap my head around how the core roles of government as defined in the US constitution (like national defense, judicial system, etc.) would work without any government at all. I'm totally opened to being convinced, and would love to either hear from others or get recommendations on reading material on the subject. So far, when I've asked, I've been pointed to general Austrian economics writings, which are great, but haven't yet given me a vision for a fully anarchist world.

A first trial short story in a #scifi universe I've been concocting with @Michael Snoyman #Bitcoin fans may find some easter eggs. View article →

For the record, I'm the midwit in this meme. #bitcoin #memes #memestr #economics

Womp womp. Though probably a fake story. Make Degeneracy Repugnant Again

Many of us were raised to believe that looking out for your own self interest is bad. That selfishness is evil. Altruism and thinking about the good of all is superior. This is wrong. You'll never accurately know what's good for others. You'll never be able to rely on others making decisions that will benefit you over them. And amazingly, by each person worrying about their own self interest, the world overall becomes a better place, each person improving it in ways that benefit them.

GM Nostr! Who else is loving watching the swamp get drained in real time? #memes #memestr

Public sector unions should be illegal

Lol #memes #memestr #davidhogg

GM Nostr #memes #memestr

Dude, the only reason any of us remember your name is so we can look up clips of you and laugh. @Miriam Snoyman and I were talking about you and the only thing she could describe you as was “the fake news guy.” Though I’m personally a fan of Dollar Store George Clooney.

When I was 15, I made some good friends in a new high school, and we decided to work on an open source video game. We never finished it, but I learned a bunch about coding, open source communications, and a lot more. This school year, @Miriam Snoyman and I transferred our 14 year old daughter to a new high school. She tested into the gifted program, met some new friends... and they recruited her to join their video game project. She learned 3D modeling in Blender, some coding, and how to communicate with a distributed dev team. She just told me that the newest international competition at school is going to require 3D modeling skills in Blender, and she's excited. Really wonderful seeing our kids thriving.

FBI is in disarray? FBI agents are worried about keeping their jobs? Good

I've seen a lot of people discussing Trump's tariffs, especially on X. One thing I was surprised by was the lack of general understanding of how taxes influence equilibrium price. I decided to write up an explanation of how this works, hopefully accessible to people with no economics background. Topics covered: marginal benefit, marginal cost, equilibrium, inefficiencies caused by government, and a bit more. View article →

GM Nostr! #memes #memestr

Most of us, as children, were taught the value of planning for, working for, and saving for the future. As a result, low time preference behavior (put money in the bank, but frivolously spend) is what we intuitively know is "good." That's why it's so important that the other side portray low time preference behavior as _evil_ (because it slows down the economy... yes it's a stupid argument) and, at the same time, point to their own version of "investment": putting money into wars, "climate" protection, and other things that don't benefit us directly, but show that we're good people. Low time preference and making the best decisions for you, personally, will be better for you _and_ the overall human species.

It's not that I don't believe in feminism. I think feminism achieved its goals, which were on the whole the right goals: rights for women. I appreciate the fact that society made those strides. In that view, seeing someone today say "I'm a feminist" is like hearing someone say "I'm pro-electricity." And if you say "I think we have electricity pretty well established as a good thing today" they say "what, have you never dreamt of going off for a weekend and living in a log cabin? See, you've got internalized Amish!"

Real economics (Austrian) examines the behavior of individuals. If we know that a group of people tend to always buy car tires and whipped cream together, we treat these as complimentary goods. If the price of tires goes us, all else being equal, the price of whipped cream goes down. Psychology examines why an individual behaves in a certain way. It can explain why a group of people buy tires and whipped cream together. Economists don’t care why, because understanding the economy doesn’t require that level of individual introspection. Fake Keynesian economics would observe an overall poetic increase in the transportation sector and drop in luxury food items and recommend going short on restaurants. #economics #psychology