THE FACTS OF EVERYTHING MANKIND. REALITY. TRUTH. LIFE.

SOCIETY

• Before society there are only individuals. 
• Society is merely individuals as strangers who form association through property for mutual benefit of trade, self-interest and self-expression. 
• A society of property is the only kind of society that can arise among strangers, each who pursue self-interested goals.
• Property means right of ownership in things of matter, in things expressed from the mind and body, and in action to be done in future. Property does not mean the things owned. 
• Property is a bundle of rights  — right for possession (Jus Possidendi), right for using (Jus Utendi), right for destroying, alienating (Jus Abutendi), right for recovery when found in the wrongful possession of another (Jus Vindicandi).

TRADE

• Trade is about trading property for profit and nothing else.
• Only when property gets created, can trade arise between two persons. 
• The name for property put to making stuff is called capital.
• The name of property created by capital and yet to be sold in a purchase and sale is stock (inventory).
• The name for property put to purchase and sale for cash and credit is wealth.
• The name for property that can be sold to satisfy debts is asset.
• The name for property pledged against a debt is collateral.
• Buying power is the means by which anyone can acquire the wealth wanted after selling away wealth produced in surplus and not wanted, whether that wealth is embodied in a finished product or work through time.
• Profit is the name of sales at prices set by winning bidders less the outlay spent to acquire property for those sales.
• Profit signals potential return to increasing capitalization to gain efficiency and thus higher profit, lest competitors come to the party with better capitalization.
• Profit is the source of earned buying power.
• The Law of Prices governs prices.
• The Axiom of Profit governs producers. 
• The Law of Prices holds the winning bids of purchase and sale in the face of what is on offer sets the price.
• The Axiom of Profit holds the sum of sales on winning bids must at least equal the cost of production otherwise the producer goes to ruin.
• Trading wealth as property in cash and credit in a purchase and sale for wealth as property in things determines the extent of markets. 
• A trade is a purchase and sale for cash or credit, which can be settled by cash.
• No one has money as money is coined metal by weight and fineness and can exist without banking or government.
• Money does not exist anymore and hasn't for decades.
• In the days of money, money extinguished both cash and credit.
• Everyone trades with bank credit in purchases and sales.
• Today, because of the legal tender designation for cash, cash lets anyone settle contracts straightaway.
• Bank credits and cash constitute buying power.
• Bank credit consists of deposits and cash, which are evidences of deposits circulating in perpetuity.
• Cash is printed, circulating bank credits. 
• Cash consists of banknotes issued by a centralized authority.
• Cash stands as a money substitute.
• Cash exists as a money substitute precisely because politicians have decreed legal tender status for cash.
• Cash cannot exist without banking.
• Legal tender cash cannot exist without government.
• Gresham's Law reveals why cash has crowded out money.
• Without doubt, doing the work of money does not make something money. 
• Credit does the work of money and no one would ever say credit is money.
• Anyone who possesses cash has bearer negotiability, also said as currency.
• Bearer negotiability means the right of ownership in a thing gets passed along with honest possession in every sale or every exchange, that is, the property and the possession are inseparable.
• Inflation is a rise of bank credit beyond trade needs.
• Inflation happens first, and then deflation thereafter, always. 
• The damaging effects of inflation become revealed when the growth of credit outstrips the growth of output owing to credit being priced too cheap.
• Inflation leads to the profit squeeze when the sum of sales on extant prices set by winning bidders is below the outlay for production. When many awaken to their lacking the means to pay bills, this leads to crisis and subsequent collapse of trade. This collapse all know as recession or depression.
• Banking crises always happen at peak inflation right in the midst of prosperity.
• Labor is the working man's capital. 
• Work done is the working man's wealth, which she or he trades for wages, most often in the form of bank credits and less so for cash. 
• Wages paid is wealth traded away to hire work.
• Labor makes property. Capital makes property efficiently.
• Labor absent capital is living at bare subsistence. 
• It is to capital that profit can arise owing to efficiency of surplus output. 
• Wages and capital are interlinked.
• True wages move in lockstep with true capital spending per capita of prime age working adults (25-54).
• Only in proportion as labor becomes pricier that it becomes profitable to use cheaper methods (capital) to amplify labor.
• Increasing returns to capital arise when true wages go up. 
• There are no means by which living standards can better that do not involve the increase in wealth per capita of prime age workers.
• The reward for overcoming loss with property at-risk is profit. 
• It is a way for a people to ensure resources are being used properly and products being made that those who are efficient want.
• Price is an objective ratio that expresses a rate of trade of a trade quantity for cash or credit denominated in cash. 
• Value is an objective ratio of exchange in swap, which most know as barter. 
• Price and value arise from the same concept, except one has cash as one economic quantity for another. 
• Both are rates of trade, of exchange.
• By objective, we mean that someone not a party to a trade can observe the swap. 
• There isn't anything subjective about it. 
• Prices get set by double auctions, an English auction and Dutch auction happening at the same time.
• In an English auction, the highest bidder wins.
• In a Dutch auction, the lowest bidder wins.
• In most job markets, inter-employer competition has employers engage in English auctions (highest bidder wins) for workers, while inter-worker competition has workers engage in Dutch auctions (lowest bidder wins) for jobs.
• Where the winning bidders of employers and winning bidders of work seekers intersect, that is the clearing price, which, when it involves work, we call it a wage.
• In credit-as-capital markets, inter-lender competition has lenders engage in Dutch auctions (lowest bidder wins) for borrowers, while inter-borrower competition has borrowers engage in English auctions (highest bidder wins) for jobs.
• Where the winning bidders of lending and winning bidders of borrowing intersect, that is the clearing price, which, when it involves credit, we call it a interest.
• Both rent and interest to the capitalist are shares of profit paid in parts as a hedge against loss. 
• Trade, or commerce, or real economics has correspondence with both practical and theoretical civil jurisprudence as well as accounting.

PROGRESS

• Capitalism means living by using property that yield goods during production to produce a surplus of another product and hoping to sell that surplus for a price such that the sum of sales exceeds the cost to gain those sales.
• Said another way, Capitalism means living by using capital in pursuit of ongoing exchange of buying power.
• Poverty is the default starting status for all humans.
• Bare subsistence means consuming as fast as producing.
• Tribalists the earth over, whether in history or in contemporary times live by bare subsistence precisely because they believe in communal ownership and reject property.
• All progress, which is the moving away from bare subsistence, which is another way of saying poverty, has come from shifting away from the tribe and toward the individual and specifically through property, which is the right of ownership and never the thing owned.
• The entire progress of people from the savage state of tribalism to clans and from clans to feudalism and from feudalism to burghers / bourgeois and thus individualism has been the advent of property (right of ownership) moving from all to the individual. And once property of the individual has been established, the furtherance of progress has arisen solely from the diminution and mitigation of uncertainty in the face of risk.
• Competitive commercialism has raised all of mankind through all time above bare subsistence.
• True progress comes from enlightened self-interest.

PROSPERITY

• People escape poverty and enter into authentic prosperity through efficiency of wanted production. 
• It is through efficiency that leads to surplus and surplus that creates credit that leads to exchange, lifting others to specialize and become efficient, which sows the seed for forever ongoing prosperity.

GOVERNMENT

• Government evolves from society. 
• Government springs forth to enlarge the circle of strangers in society of property.
• Never does society evolve from government. 
• Before government there is society. 
• As a creation of strangers of a society of property, government is supposed to exist only for protection and certification of property so that men can engage in trade, which is the purchase and sale of property, rather than war among each other. 
• Government is supposed to exist to protect any individual at random and his property from a mob, whether foreign or domestic, who seek to dispossess him from his property unjustly either through the of force stealing or through rhetoric.
• Government is supposed to exist to certify claims about property to ensure truth about property. 
• The necessity of government arises because of rogues who feign willing participation in society, a society of property.
• Defensive governance, the kind whereby men come into harmony to protect property and thus echo the goodness of nature, is the only justification for governance of any kind.
• Legit government is about the administration of justice. Justice arises in maintaining right and redressing wrongs.
• Laws are unneeded for justice. 
• Law is secondary and unessential.
• Men of government through law impose duties and rights upon strangers in society of property and well as themselves acting as the government.
• Some of those duties include paying income taxes. 
• Some of those rights include fulfilling greedy desires. 
• Through liability, anyone is free to pursue right of action in civil fraud. 
• Men of government reserve to themselves right of prosecution in criminal fraud.
• Liberties and rights are not the same. 
• Right and power are not the same. 
• These words are not synonyms under law. 
• Liberties are acts of doing what one pleases, acts one can do without being prevented by law. 
• The sphere of legal liberty is that sphere of activity within which law is content to leave oneself alone.
• Liberty is when the law allows to one's will a sphere of unrestrained activity. 
• Liberty is the absence of duty imposed upon oneself. 
• Liberty is what you may do innocently.
• Right is when law limits the liberty of others on one's behalf. 
• Right is what others must do on your behalf, that is, their duty.
• Power is what you can do effectively. 
• Power is when law assists one actively in making one's will effective.
• You use your liberties without protest from the law. 
• You enjoy your rights through law by controlling the acts of others for your behalf. 
• You use your powers with active assistance from the law in making itself the instrument of your will.  
• One with disability lacks power to determine the legal relations of others (authority) or the ability to determine one's own (capacity). 
• When politicians don't establish law giving themselves authority (power) to do X and then do X against anyone, they have violated your civil liberty.
• Customary rights deals with customary law, which is any rule of action to which men voluntarily conform their action. It involves de facto observance. 
• Customary rights of customary law do not have the nature of civil law since the essence of civil law is recognition of a state in the administration of justice.
• The absence of law in the presence of government is liberty, not anarchy. 
• Anarchy means no government at all. It means without (a) an overlord (archy). 

POLITICS

• Politics is the art of using rhetoric to steal property.
• All political doctrines are doctrines of control. 
• The spectrum of political doctrine looks like this, from Left to Right:Communism ↔ Socialism ↔ Syndicalism ↔ Oligopolism ↔ Fascism
• There is no room for individualism on that spectrum.
• The debate of political doctrines is debate about which property should be impaired or stolen, who must suffer the consequences and who gets to do the the stealing and impairing.

POLITICIANS

• Politicians and bureaucrats get their property by confiscating it from others.
• Politicians can only take by implied force from the efficient and dole to the inefficient.
• Never in the history of humans have politicians lifted people from poverty. 
• When the day comes that all others rid themselves of politicians is the day that mankind shall enter into Utopia.

RETROGRESSION

• Greed is wanting property in stuff without having to trade for such fairly. 
• It is greedy for anyone to seek buying power without producing wealth in surplus that others are willing to trade to get in a purchase and sale, under condition of honest dealing.
• The picture perfect definition of greed is striving to get something for nothing from someone else, without giving up something wanted in honest exchange or in honest trade of purchase and sale. 
• Getting welfare, getting subsidy, swindling people by fraud — all accurately express the concept of greed. 
• Welfare takers, subsidy takers, fraudsters, all share one driving trait, a trait that nullifies character within them. They are all greedy to the core.
• Today, government, the creature, has superseded its creators. 
• Illegitimate government usurps power and starts shuffling people's property against their wants for the sole purpose of maintaining power over all.
• Men of government through law grant rights to fulfill greedy desires as a means to secure and enlarge their grip on power.
• Expressions of right in fulfilling greedy desires include welfare taking and subsidy taking. 
• The more who are dependent on welfare and subsidy for their livelihood, the more support they give to those holding power.
• Specific examples of the greedy include recipients of TANF, SNAP, Section 8, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, farm subsidies, Pell Grants, all workers of agencies engaged in doling the former as well as all workers in agencies regulating industries, which inhibit new entrants through inhibition of capital formation. Such agencies include the FDA, SEC, FAA, FCC.
• Men of government through law impose liability for those who operate outside the framework of subsidy and welfare to fulfill their greedy demands. 
• In all forms of illegitimate government you see socialistic, bureaucratic welfare, which, immorally retards man's progress as it inhibits individuals who receive such welfare from discovering who they are and what are their talents. 
• All problems arise when some usurp power through government to advance themselves by stealing or impairing the property of others, rendering government no better than rogues.
• Through the power of specific welfare Crony Politics, Crony Governance and Crony Regulatory Capture arise.
• To overcome the Axiom of Profit, politicians give subsidy to politically-connected producers or give welfare in the form of buying power to some consumers.
• Without property, the bundle of rights that include possession, use, destruction, transfer and recovery from wrongful possession, there cannot can not be liberty.
• Activist governance, the kind whereby politicians can dictate what one can do with property, reduces property to mere privilege. 
• At bedrock, activist governance is what is wrong with American life today.

IGNORING THE FOREGOING

• Without learning that wages are prices, that profits provide surplus buying power to buy anything else, that prices provide signals for potential return to increasing capitalization to gain efficiency and higher profit, that capital is the property of production and that wealth is the property of purchase and sale, no one can profit.
• Without trade, no one can know about money and credit and how central bank action affects the measure of their contracts as well as their saved buying power. 
• Without trade and theoretical civil jurisprudence, no one can know how taxation-provided welfare violates the social compact. 
• Without trade and history, no one can can know how welfare is the source of power, which lets politicians wage foreign wars of weapons and domestic wars of law against citizens.

IN THE END

• Mankind advances through individuals, property and the drive to hedge against loss and that alone. 
• Mankind falls into retrogression when reverting to neo-tribalism in whatever form, such as self-conceit, pseudo-scientific socialism or totalitarian socialism, which all know as communism.

YOU

• By accepting what others have told you as your beliefs, whether they had innocent or sinister motivation, you have lost all reign over yourself. 
• These beliefs that your imagination has inspired with power over yourself are ghosts who haunt you and control your soul, your self, your being.
• Being indoctrinated has been called the false self by many sages over time.
• When you take public opinions as your own, you let the world live within you. You stop living for yourself.
• You becomes possessed by others.
• Duty is faux virtue. 
• Conduct undertaken for show never could be virtue.
• Taking what another says is your shame if you reject doing what they claim is your duty is to enslave your free will.
• It is to stop living for yourself.
• There are many who claim they know what is your duty better than what you know for yourself to be true.
• You lack duty to fight the wrongful wars started by politicians.
• You lack duty to pay the bills of others.
• You must buck the crowd and do what others are not doing.
• Never should you imitate anyone.
• Imitation forces you to be self-conscious, fretting over whether or not you are imitating right.
• You must come to see the Bizarro Theater all around you.
• When you are dominated, when you let yourself get controlled by outside influences, you have lost the way. 
• You have become a zombie.
• An exorcism rids you of specters, shadowy tempters, ghosts of control, demons which haunt you.
• You can start over.
• You can make yourself anew.
• You can rescue yourself from errors of thought and action.
• You can trade your lesser motives for an all-encompassing motive.
• You must rise up and gain your independence.
• You gain independence by believing from your beliefs rather than trying to believe from thoughts given to you from others, their thoughts trying to masquerade as your beliefs.
• You must reject prevailing opinions, prevailing customs, conventionality. 
• You must reject the pull to adhere to the ethos. 
• You must reject conformity.
• You must become loyal to yourself.
• You must become a crypto-independent. 

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THE GREEDY ARE THE ONLY PROBLEM THE WHOLE EARTH OVER

Everyone is free to read these facts that I present, facts interconnected in accuracy and defensible through bulletproof logic. 

Those who accept these 15 points understand adult life and much of what adult life entails — power, control, politics, governance, property, property as capital, property as wealth, work, trade and profit. Those who fight against these 15 points above suffer from cognitive dissonance and thus likely try to defend false beliefs inculcated into their hyper-indoctrinated minds.

1. Society consists of strangers who engage in trade of property.
2. A society of property is the only kind of society that can arise among strangers, each who pursue self-interested goals.
3. Property means right of ownership in things and not things owned. Property is a bundle of rights  — Jus Possidendi (right for possession), Jus Utendi (right for using), Jus Abutendi (right for destroying, alienating), Jus Vindicandi (right for recovery when found in the wrongful possession of another.
4. When property gets put to use to make more property, the name for such property put to use is capital.
5. When property made from capital gets traded in purchases and sales, most often for cash and credit, the name for such property is wealth.
6. Labor is the working man's capital. Work done is the working man's wealth, which she or he trades for wages, most often in the form of bank credits and less so for cash. Wages paid is wealth traded away to hire work.
7. Bank credits and cash constitute buying power.
8. Buying power is the means by which anyone can acquire the wealth wanted after selling away wealth produced in surplus and not wanted, whether that wealth is embodied in a finished product or work through time.
9. It is greedy for anyone to seek buying power without producing wealth in surplus that others are willing to trade to get in a purchase and sale, under condition of honest dealing.
10. As a creation of strangers of a society of property, government is supposed to exist only to protect any individual at random and his property from a mob, whether foreign or domestic, from stealing his property unjustly. 
11. Today, government, the creature, has superseded its creators. Men of government through law impose duties and rights upon strangers in society of property and well as themselves acting as the government.
12. Some of those duties include paying income taxes. Some of those rights include fulfilling greedy desires. 
13. Men of government through law grant rights to fulfill greedy desires as a means to secure and enlarge their grip on power. The more who are dependent on welfare and subsidy for their livelihood, the more support they give to those holding power.
14. Expressions of right in fulfilling greedy desires include welfare taking and subsidy taking. Specific examples include recipients of TANF, SNAP, Section 8, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, farm subsidies, Pell Grants, all workers of agencies engaged in doling the former as well as all workers in agencies regulating industries, which inhibit new entrants through inhibition of capital formation. Such agencies include the FDA, SEC, FAA, FCC.
15. Men of government through law impose liability for those who operate outside the framework of subsidy and welfare to fulfill their greedy demands. Thus, through liability, anyone is free to pursue right of action in civil fraud. Men of government reserve to themselves right of prosecution in criminal fraud.

Every right minded, straight dealing person knows that to get property, which is the right of ownership and never the thing owned, in anything, a person ought to acquire such in a purchase and sale with the current holder of property by trading cash or credit for property in whatever is being traded.

Everyone who has a sense of right and wrong knows that it is wrong to try to get something for nothing. And that is what the greedy do. 

That is the picture perfect definition of greed — striving to get something for nothing from someone else, without giving up something wanted in honest exchange or in honest trade of purchase and sale. Greed is wanting property in stuff without having to trade for such fairly. Greed is striving to get something without giving up something wanted by someone else in an honest exchange.

The word greed came into English about 1600, making it word of a Middle English. It is a back formation from the West Saxon word greedy, which makes that an Old English word.

Greedy is the Old English word meaning covetous. The word was used for the Greek philargyros meaning money loving in Christian religious translation tradition.

A covetous person would be one who is painfully desirous over another's advantages. Such one would seek any means to acquire those advantages without having earned those advantages honestly.

Being greedy is being envious of others who are rich and successful and driven by that envy, striving to get something, often buying power — cash, bank credits — for nothing — doing no work or not doing legitimate work. Every right-minded, straight-thinker of sound mental health would agree.

Getting welfare, getting subsidy, swindling people by fraud — all accurately express the concept of greed. Welfare takers, subsidy takers, fraudsters, all share one driving trait, a trait that nullifies character within them. They are all greedy to the core.

Seeking welfare instead of work, accepting welfare and then never paying back for that welfare is greed. Welfare collectees, subsidy seekers, fraudsters — all are greedy.

Bernie Madoff was greedy. He swindled people of their bank credit, technically, so he could get rich without having to give up in trade, honest services of earning profits trading stock.

Madoff committed fraud because he was greedy, which is another way of saying Madoff wanted something — other people's cash and credit — without trading for it — selling them stock portfolio services that would lead to honest profits.

Welfare collectees are the same as Bernie Madoff. They want free rent and free food for their entire lives without working. The common denominator between Madoff and welfare collectees is that both are greedy — they both want something — buying power — without giving up anything in honest trade — work.

When do you see welfare collectees quit welfare, work and pay back taxpayers for welfare they collected? Those who aren't greedy would do so. Anyone who gets off welfare and gets a job, paying income taxes fails to pay back for past greedy welfare collecting. Instead, they pay forward for future greedy welfare collectees.

Work is the honest trading of skills through time, of course.

Those who live by capitalism in an honest manner never are greedy. There is no greed in honest capitalism. Never is there greed in authentic capitalism.

Capitalism means living by putting property to use, which is capital, to produce property for trade, which is wealth. 

Producers deploy automation questing for efficiency. Efficiency can let producers accept lower winning bids for what is on offer while maintaining profit margin.

Whether produced with automation or not, products traded for cash or bank credits is still honest trade. Producers who use automation are not getting something — buying power in the form of cash and credit — for nothing — not selling product.

Wealth only arises from trade, of trading one kind of wealth, often cash or credit, for another kind of wealth, property in a product arising from property in production, which is capital.

Those knowingly who make shoddy products selling such products without revealing defects to trusting ones are greedy.

Freedom is the realm where a man or woman is self-sovereign. In freedom, anyone has liberty. Liberty requires government. 

Anyone has duty, in truth, only to those that one brings forth among the world. Strangers have no duty to each other and no stranger has an inherent right to anything from anyone else that doesn't arise from mutual consent.

Forcing people to surrender their living for others is mere savagery regardless of how self-deceiving the rhetoric is. As long as people demand that persons get forced to pay income taxes or face imprisonment to pay for welfare and subsidy, no one can be free. 

In representative democracies, without power, politicians couldn't cause all their wars and all of the mass murder that goes on with their wars. In representative democracies, politicians only can gain power by doling out welfare and subsidy to the greedy who surrender their individual power and sovereignty to politicians in exchange for unearned buying power.

[ See: 20th Century Murder by Government Democide ]

Greedy welfare takers and greedy subsidy takers are the problem. The problems are Crony Politics, Crony Governance and Crony Regulatory Capture. The problem rests in politics and governance rather than people in pursuit providing wanted products efficiently.


When trade is not hampered by artificial restriction of supply, nor inflated by artificial giving of buying power, the righteousness of free markets prevails. Only through markets free from Crony Politics, Crony Governance and Crony Regulatory Capture can all benefit owing to efficiency.

Peace and prosperity come to a society of strangers when each one gains self-enlightenment, self-actualization, by rejecting greediness in oneself and by rejecting calls by the mob to use forced against anyone as the means to satisfy the greediness of those of the mob.

To help you more, read these fast reads:

• LAW VS JUSTICE. GOVERNMENT VS SOCIETY. POLITICS VS YOU
• CAPITALISM. BECAUSE WITHOUT IT, YOU WOULD BE LIVING AS A BARE SUBSISTENCE SAVAGE
• WHY GOVERNMENT AT ALL YOU ASK?
• REAPING DAY APPROACHES. THE REAPER COMES TO REAP YOU. ANOTHER TAX DAY IN AMERICA COMES
• CAN YOU BELIEVE THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE?
• TAKE THE PATH TO SELF-BETTERING THROUGH PROPERTY
• WALK LEFT SIDE, SAFE. WALK RIGHT SIDE, SAFE. WALK MIDDLE, SOONER OR LATER GET SQUISH JUST LIKE GRAPE.
• TYRANTS BIG AND SMALL. DYSTOPIAN UTOPIANS AND FORCING SOCIAL COMPACTS UPON YOU WHETHER OR NOT YOU LIKE IT
• CASHING IN THE BILL OF RIGHTS. TRUTH, JUSTICE AND THE AMERICAN WAY.

• WHY IS THE ECONOMY SO HORRIBLE? BECAUSE ACADEMIA ECONOMICS IS FAKE.
• MIKE "MISH" SHEDLOCK vs MICHAEL PETTIS, OR THE UNREALITY OF SAVINGS, INCOME INEQUALITY AND ECONOMICS
• BUT I SPENT 150 HOURS HANDCRAFTING THAT OIL ON CANVAS! OR THE LABORER'S SILLY THEORY OF VALUE.
• GREEDY CAPITALIST COMPLAINS ABOUT UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE EXPENSE AND QUITS HIS BUSINESS
• SAME AS IT EVER WAS IN THE LAND OF GLUTTONY AND SLOTH
• HOW IS THAT HIGH-PAYING WELFARE GIG WORKING OUT FOR YOU, GOVERNMENT "WORKER"?

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WE WANT TO BE FREE. UKRAINIANS WANT WHAT IS RIGHT. FREEDOM.

I am the Ukrainian, the native of Kiev ... I want you to know why thousands of people all over my country are on the streets. 

There is only one reason. We want to be free from a dictatorship. We want to be free from the politicians who only work for themselves, who are ready to shoot, to beat, to injure people just for saving their money, just for saving their houses, just to save their power.

We are civilized people, but our government are barbarians. We want our courts not to be corrupted. 

We want to be free.

I know that maybe tomorrow we'll have no phone, no Internet connection and we will be alone here. And maybe policemen will murder us, one after another, when it will be dark here.

We have this freedom in our hearts. We have this freedom in our minds.

Two maps reveal that Ukraine is two countries, not one and thus should break up. However why can't a break up happen in a civil way?

It's not so much about territory. It's about people. The political establishment hates losing people because they hate losing the ability to control property of others and thus the ability to scoop up taxes, which are an unearned share of profits taken by force if necessary.

As I explained in LAW VS JUSTICE. GOVERNMENT VS SOCIETY. POLITICS VS YOU, the only legit reason for government is to protect the individual and his property from a mob and to certify claims about property when in a society of property so that men can engage in trade, which is the purchase and sale of property, rather than war among each other.

Government evolves from society. However, society does not evolve from government. Before government there is society. Before society there are only individuals.

Society isn't built. Society is individuals as strangers merely who form a society of property for mutual benefit of trade, self-interest and self-expression. The only society in which strangers can live is a society of property. Government springs forth to enlarge the circle of strangers.

However, when government, the created creature, becomes the master over those who created it, the created, that is, those of government, imposes all kinds of evil upon the creator, the people in society of property.

The story of Ukrainians is the story everyone. It's the story of Catalonians who long to be free. The Ukrainian story is the story of Basques, the story of the Flemish, the Bretons in France, the story of many in Europe. Millions of people living in Europe want to be free from arbitrary borders imposed upon them from treaties imposed after world wars. 

The story of Ukainians also is the story of Americans whose federal government has become an uncontrollable monster of epic proportion.

Arguably, everyone of the world would be safer if everyone could assert his or her right of self-determination. With no countries of scale, it would be hard for massive armies to form. It is hard to see there could be a want to marshal resources into making weapons of mass-scale murder and destruction rather than the want to make property for trade.

Contrary to what most believe, the European Union needs to break up. European countries need to break up. The United Nations needs to disband. Even the USA needs to break up.

Commerce and merchant law needs to rule the earth over. 

No people can claim the crown of enlightenment, championing democracy if in their democracies, they force thousands and tens of thousands of people to live under their rule.

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WHY GOVERNMENT AT ALL YOU ASK?

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LAW VS JUSTICE. GOVERNMENT VS SOCIETY. POLITICS VS YOU.

The only legit reasons for government are to protect the individual and his property from a mob and to certify claims about property when in a society of property so that men can engage in trade, which is the purchase and sale of property, rather than war among each other. 

As always, the reason behind a society of strangers, which is what we have, is a society in property. Society of strangers arises because of one thing — property, which  means right of ownership and never the thing owned. The purpose of strangers banding together in society of property is to trade freely their right of ownership, their property, for money, which is the measure of contract, of human relations, in pursuit of profit.

All too often, too many believe the reason for government is to define laws. Yet, legit government does not exist for enforcement of law,  good or otherwise. Legit government is about the administration of justice. Justice arises in maintaining right and redressing wrongs.

Laws are unneeded for justice. Law is secondary and unessential. Customs are fine enough for justice. Custom is to society what law is to government. Each expresses the measure of men's insight of the principle of right and justice. 

Law helps to impart uniformity and certainty to the administration of justice. Law helps to protect the administration of justice from disturbing influence of improper motives of those entrusted to impart justice. Law helps to protect the administration of justice from errors of impartial judgment. However, the existence of law is optional and not obligatory.

Government evolves from society. Never does society evolve from government. Before government there is society. Before society there are only individuals. 

Society isn't built. Society is merely individuals as strangers who form association through property for mutual benefit of trade, self-interest and self-expression. The only society in which strangers can live is a society of property. Government springs forth to enlarge the circle of strangers.

The necessity of government arises because of rogues who feign willing participation in society, a society of property. Government must exist only to protect the individual from a mob who seek to dispossess him from his property. Government must exist to ensure truth claims about property. 

Illegitimate government usurps power and starts shuffling people's property against their wants for the sole purpose of maintaining power over all. So in all forms of illegitimate government you see socialistic, bureaucratic welfare, which, immorally retards man's progress as it inhibits individuals who receive such welfare from discovering who they are and what are their talents. 

All problems arise when some usurp power through government to advance themselves by stealing or impairing the property of others, rendering government no better than rogues.

The moving away from bare subsistence, which is poverty, is progress. All progress of humans through all time has been advanced by property put to use as capital to produce property traded as wealth along with the mitigation of risk in the production of ever more property, which means right of ownership and never the thing owned. 

The reward for overcoming loss with property at-risk is profit. It is a way for a people to ensure resources are being used properly and products being made that those who are efficient want.

Politics is the art of using rhetoric to steal property. Politicians and bureaucrats get their property by confiscating it from others. Politicians and their Agent Smiths who inject themselves into the process cause dislocation in resources  and products creation. Retrogression happens under illegitimate government. 

Mankind advances through individuals, property and the drive to hedge against prices and that alone. Mankind falls into retrogression when reverting to neo-tribalism in whatever form, such as self-conceit, pseudo-scientific socialism or totalitarian socialism, which all know as communism.


Americans live in society of property as the basis for a society of strangers is a society of property. The purpose of government is to protect the individual and his or her property from the mob and rogues. When government becomes the mob and rogues, it's over. 

The true debate is individualism and property or power and dictate. When confronting  the true debate, in short, reality — individualism and property or power and dictate — all get forced to see that those on the right are on the same spectrum as those on the left.

All political doctrines are doctrines of control. The spectrum of political doctrine looks like this, from Left to Right:

Communism ↔ Socialism ↔ Syndicalism ↔ Oligopolism ↔ Fascism

The debate of political doctrines is debate about which property should be impaired or stolen, who must suffer the consequences and who gets to do the the stealing and impairing  There is no room for individualism on that spectrum. The winning move, of course, is to jump off that spectrum.

In the USA, governments at all levels have become mob and rogues. Americans have fallen into serious retrogression over the last 153 years, with the majority of it coming in the last 85 or so.

Specific welfare — paying for food and medicine for individuals by impairing property of others — rather than general welfare — ports, roads, bridges — is what has done it, along with legal tender cash.

Through the power of specific welfare Crony Politics, Crony Governance and Crony Regulatory Capture arise. Yet, through rhetorical appeals of envy and jealousy, capitalism gets blamed being misspoken as crony capitalism. Parroting the misguided phrase spoken from ignorance — crony capitalism — fails to do service to anyone. The horrible, wrong label — crony capitalism — implies there is something wrong with capitalism, when never there is. 

Capitalism is the doctrine of property (right of ownership) used to create wealth (things that have buying power in trade). Capitalism means living by using property to produce a surplus of more property and hoping to sell that surplus for a price such that the sum of sales exceeds the cost to gain those sales.

Without capitalism, there isn't an economy. It's impossible to have an economy without capitalism. Capitalism has nothing to do with politics. 

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