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And according to libertarian thought, ownership is the basis of ethics. I'm a bit surprised there isn't more of a libertarian backlash against the "you will own

And according to libertarian thought, ownership is the basis of ethics. I'm a bit surprised there isn't more of a libertarian backlash against the "you will own nothing and be happy" trend in our culture.

TeMPOraL 2y ago
I don't have this idea fully fleshed out yet, but I feel that the ownership vs. rent preference is like the difference between resource model in StarCraft vs. Total Annihilation (and their respective descendants). In StarCraft, the focus is on your absolute account balance; you think in terms of having N units of minerals/gas, and spending them on things that cost particular amount of resources to make. In Total Annihilation, the focus is on resource flow - you try to balance how much metal/electricity per second your mines/generators supply, vs. how much metal/electricity per seconds your factories and defenses consume. In my experience, the two approaches are ultimately the same - you could compute the resource flow for a StarCraft game, and you could pay attention to absolute amounts in Total Annihilation - but they yield entirely different game dynamics, and different player mindsets. Personally, my mind thinks more in StarCraft terms, but I imagine finance people think more in Total Annihilation terms, and in those, subscriptions are the natural mode of spending.
rustcleaner 2y ago
An analogy: /pol/ used to be a libertarian board, but once it watched Ron Paul receive two screwjobs and saw that the anti-libertarians are actually militant (even if only covertly), /pol/ realized a militant ideology is the only solution as a bunch of ragtag armed individualists are no match against an organized instrument. Libertarianism will make its greatest advancements in creating software and systems which render groups redundant and/or impotent vs individuals. A homomorphically encrypting, opaque, Monero-like Etherium would threaten the neccessity of certain governmental functions and lock the government out from observing (like Bitcoin) and manipulating (with force) participants. Uncensorable prediction markets, DAOs, the possibilities...

TeMPOraL 2y ago

I don't have this idea fully fleshed out yet, but I feel that the ownership vs. rent preference is like the difference between resource model in StarCraft vs. Total Annihilation (and their respective descendants). In StarCraft, the focus is on your absolute account balance; you think in terms of having N units of minerals/gas, and spending them on things that cost particular amount of resources to make. In Total Annihilation, the focus is on resource flow - you try to balance how much metal/electricity per second your mines/generators supply, vs. how much metal/electricity per seconds your factories and defenses consume. In my experience, the two approaches are ultimately the same - you could compute the resource flow for a StarCraft game, and you could pay attention to absolute amounts in Total Annihilation - but they yield entirely different game dynamics, and different player mindsets. Personally, my mind thinks more in StarCraft terms, but I imagine finance people think more in Total Annihilation terms, and in those, subscriptions are the natural mode of spending.

rustcleaner 2y ago

An analogy: /pol/ used to be a libertarian board, but once it watched Ron Paul receive two screwjobs and saw that the anti-libertarians are actually militant (even if only covertly), /pol/ realized a militant ideology is the only solution as a bunch of ragtag armed individualists are no match against an organized instrument. Libertarianism will make its greatest advancements in creating software and systems which render groups redundant and/or impotent vs individuals. A homomorphically encrypting, opaque, Monero-like Etherium would threaten the neccessity of certain governmental functions and lock the government out from observing (like Bitcoin) and manipulating (with force) participants. Uncensorable prediction markets, DAOs, the possibilities...