I like all of the above :-D
And I think their teachings are about 99% compatible in practice
He wrote in French, and it translates poorly.
Benjamin Tucker and Kevin Amos Carson cover a lot of the same ground in English.
^ 100% this.
Proudhon would have said Bourbon France was not much better, but quantitatively I think our States are larger, more controlling and less fragile
He would be delighted to learn his clickbait is still working. His real position was far more nuanced.
Proudhon was born into a level of State-induced poverty neither I nor anyone reading this can comprehend. But as an entrepreneur, he built a successful publishing business, whilst being an outspoken critic of the suffocating bureaucracy of late-Bourbon France.
Proudhon was never a Communist of any sort, and was never an advocate of state control of anything. He did advocate voluntary member-benefit mutuals at one point, which I regard with grave suspicion.
Proudhon was an outspoken critic of the various top-down innovations in "property rights" in his era. Like Machiavelli, he was a master troll and fond of pithy clickbait overstatements of his more nuanced positions.
Anarcho-Communism is just regular Communism, but where Commissars are allowed to smoke weed :-p
I'm an #anarchist, in Piere-Joseph Proudhon's sense of the word. Because #corporations, IRL, are just #socialism writ small.
#ubi, ultimately, is as anathema to me as to you, but tactically I see it as a wonderful opportunity to subvert the legitimation of the welfare/warfare state (to use the late Justin Raimondo's term).
And destroy (with fire) the elaborate patrimonial vote-getting machines that are the public service.
Agree, but the problems are linked. You have to tackle both ends of the problem, organised vested interests will not cancel themselves
Petty bureaucratic tyrants had a rough time when the Roman Empire fell. When Han Dynasty China fell.
Parasites can't survive without a vulnerable host population. Less government = less easy blood to suck.
I'm not suggesting #ubi is something a healthy society should do. But sit down with your government's budget and a list of departments, programs and agencies, and rule a line through each that could be replaced with #ubi.
Its not just the #fiat money saved, its the scorched-earth destruction of organised vested interests.
The bureaucrats will never support #ubi. In any form.
#ubi is a tactic for me, not a strategy. Its an advance, but not a final objective.
Fully agree on your solution.
But that "dual economy" is what we have right now, and money printing goes brrrr without a #ubi in sight, just wars, cronyism, censorship and bailouts
The poor have this now, bro.
I personally would suffer little if my #ubi were limited to buying at a particular government-linked chain. But the poor who are kept that way now suffer a serious loss of optionality.
We need to abolish petty bureaucratic tyrants, and #ubi is a path to a better position on that.
The root cause is almost always... #government!
There are many, many people who take a lot and contribute nothing.
But the guy smoking weed on his couch costs me far less than the capricious bureaucrat at a desk deciding who deserves to receive some business permit and who deserves to be fobbed off. Or the lobbyist working to have #market #competition banned. Or the CEO playing golf with the senator and discussing grants, subsidies and bailouts.
Government by #laws not by #men is the answer, and #protocols not (govt) #programs. #ubi is a protocol.
Its a kludgy patch on a broken ecosystem, but still a major advance.
Dude, we have that now - byzantine bureaucratic hells that shovel resources to blue-haired petty tyrants in the name of the poor (intended to keep them poor - but grateful).
#ubi leaves the poor in the same position as they are now, just with more time and less deliberate humiliation.
#ubi redistributes from the bureaucrats to We The People. That's why its worth doing, and why there is so much insincere opposition from #experts
You can run sufficiently-tiny Stable Diffusion models on a modern CPU, but they really suck, don't. GPU for sure.
But, but these are blue-haired church ladies who can't bake! And they're not just ignoring the tolerance, forgiveness and redemption parts of their death cult scripture, they never had them to begin with...
Also, well done!
That means you have two problems (well, many more than two).
Here our law enforcement "greenlight" drug dealers who also happen to be informers. These stay in business as long as they provide a steady stream of warm bodies to the prison system (smaller, junior dealers), and until they get rich enough for law enforcement to rob.
That's not quite the same as Crack-For-Contras, but its a lot closer than most ppl admit.
True. But an imperfect solution is far better than the status quo. (Except for those benefiting from the dysfunction, but f--- those guys)
In Britain, between about 1920 and 1971, #heroin was available on prescription. It is CHEAP to manufacture, $1 / hit. The junkies held down jobs, lived at least to middle age, and didn't bother anyone.
Make illegal drugs a prescription drug problem. Expand who can prescribe. Overdose deaths will still be sad, but they won't cause second- and third-order problems like the WoD does...
I'm conflicted about this.
In a past life, I volunteered as a crisis counselor. There are a f---ton of taxpayer funded services available, but most are undiscoverable without inside help, and all are very hostile, obstructive and bureaucratic.
So they hire university-educated social workers to navigate the paperwork maze, at least for those needy persons with a high-enough diversity score.
Some homeless people aren't diverse enough. Some are, but don't have the patience. Some are, and have the patience, but what they actually want is drugs not a roof and a paid friend to talk to.
If we can't yet abolish #government, at least we should abolish the toxic "social welfare" bureaucracy. #ubi now! Also #legalisealldrugs to starve a few more human-hostile bureaucracies.
