Her it is capitalism is over and the greater good needs to be provided by the government planners, because history showed they always have been more efficient and slefless than the greedy capitalists that suck the lifeblood out of our societies.[:'(]
Willem Buiter professor of economy at the London School of economy in FT on September 17. 2008
In the begining there was nothing, and it exploded.
Terry Pratchett (on the big bang theory)
We need to make a website, where we expose all of these guys, and make fun of them while refuting their arguments. Surely they have big egos, and such attacks on their credibility will agitate them. Because they really, really agitate me with their lies and ignorance.
cool idea, we could name it "fed.com" (fun on economic dorks) :-)
I seem to be to busy right now to contribute to such an endeavor, but I think about it seriously. At least I might provide space and a domain for that.
cheers :-)
nhaag: cool idea, we could name it "fed.com" (fun on economic dorks) :-) I seem to be to busy right now to contribute to such an endeavor, but I think about it seriously. At least I might provide space and a domain for that. cheers :-)
I think we should label it something that those affected will worry about - a blacklist. I could easily see a general domain name being registered (perhaps, libertyblacklist.com or the BFL [Blacklist for Liberty] .com, etc. etc.), where columns sorted into economics, political anlysis, etc. and sites are listed with user submitted explanations as to why they blacklist (i.e. do not support, read, or promote) said sites/ person's/organizations, etc. As for fed.com, lolfed.com is already registered, so I'm not sure if that might be a conflict or not...
"Look at me, I'm quoting another user to show how wrong I think they are, out of arrogance of my own position. Wait, this is my own quote, oh shi-" ~ Nitroadict
well, the fed.com thing was more of a joke, i know these domain names are all taken by now. But I like the blacklist idea.
Maybe a Wiki style website would be working for such a list. People could start doing it by themselves.
I could use my website freecitizen.info (ok the main site is in German, but this does not mean a subdomain has to be in German too).
We only have to come up with a good subdomain name, like blacklist.freecitizen.info or trustme.freecitizen.info or takemyword.freecitizen.info.
Any brainstorming is welcome.
Good comment to the tripe that so-called economist spewed out. I can't understand where they get their ideas from. Then again I am a CS Major that focuses on AI, which means I have to study other sorts of 'things' along the way to get a basic grasp of my mountains-on-top-of-mountains goal. Anyways, from my own 'expertise' many so-called economists don't know what they're talking about because they seem to think their mathematics trump the critters they're trying to apply them onto. This sort of top-down thinking often leads to the belief that top-down management is best. Too bad for them that it is not the case that top-down management works when you're looking at natural systems. :P
"The power of liberty going forward is in decentralization. Not in leaders, but in decentralized activism. In a market process." -- liberty student
I'd be into a project like this, if there is a bit of serious support for it. I can't afford to take on new stuff on my own right now.
As far as a domain and hosting, I have resources in that area.
Should we start a Mises group for this?
I think we should. I might be a bit busy next week but will keep up with this too
> Her it is capitalism is over and the greater good needs to be> provided by the government planners, because history> showed they always have been more efficient and slefless> than the greedy capitalists that suck the lifeblood out of our > societies.
I am disappointed in this perspective. Consider that the capitalism we have experienced, for at least the past 50 years, has not existed in a truly free-and-open market.
Government oversight and intervention has warped the true spirit and progress of capitalism.
Additionally, the text linked to by the OP expressed a polar opposite view. I guess I'm confused as to what the OP was trying to say.
An excerpt from the OP's link:
> The failure however is not the free market or capitalism, but > the fallacy that the state must regulate anything in the > market. What fails now, and I think that we have not seen the > end yet, it will get worse to a point worse than the great > depression, what fails is the central banking system in whole.
Sorry, the whole thing was meant as a sarcasm. I am aware that there has never been a free market ever :-)
Have a great time
Gary North is planning to do something like this. I will start a new thread about it.
Great let me know what topic you start
Here it is
http://mises.org/Community/forums/t/3897.aspx
> Sorry, the whole thing was meant as a sarcasm.
Oops. Appears my sarcasm-meter is broken. Carry on...