Free Market Forever

February 14, 2012

Why Talibans Will go Extinct if Feminists are Not Helping Them

Say you are a regular customer of Talibcomp, the only computer suppliers in your country. Say you used to pay $100k for a punch card computer.

The rest of the world have move on to faster computers that can do far more for far less.

Femintard, a consumer advocacy advocate, says that your supplier should change their culture. Punch card computers are outdated and is way below industry standard.

However, quite frustratingly and unsurprisingly, Talibcomp does not have the incentive or the mean to change. Their technology is simply too low. They believe that their computer manufacturing technology is sacred as given to them by their great inventor thousands of years ago. Most importantly why should they improve what they offer if you keep buying from them anyway?

But why would you keep buying from Talibcomp? Why not just import computers from others? Well the thing is Talibcomb prohibit all other computer stores from coming. Talibcomp even go so far prohibiting all alternative to their computer, like Sempoa, paper, pencils. Quite often, mere living under Talibcomp’s sphere of influence means you can ended up being forced to buy punch card computers under pain of death.

Well that’s fine. Why not just go to other countries and buy computers there?

Here’s the thing.

Other countries are governed by another computer regulator called Femintard. Femintard argues that because the deal you got is so bad, it’s not really a choice. Hence, ALL alternative choices are not really consensual irrelevant of whether the consumer consent or not.

Anyone helping consenting consumers to buy better computers in better countries are guilty of consumer trafficking. Consent is not a defense against consumer trafficking charge because customers don’t really consent due to the badness of their original deal.

Also because other suppliers supply your computer out of selfish interest rather than altruistically trying to help you, unlike what Femintard claims, they are exploiting you. Other computer suppliers like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Gateway, are then jailed for trying to exploit customers like you.

All their distributors are also jailed for assisting exploitation through pimping consumers to suppliers that consumers do prefer.

What about if you go out to another country first, hang out for a year, and see if other computers are indeed better. Then there should be no doubt that you consensually pick better computers or not. Should you prefer Talibcomp computers instead, you can always go back to Talibland and be customer of Talibcomp again.

The thing is Talibcomp have harsh terms against those that go outside for better computers and then coming back. They pretty much have harsh terms against anything actually and their customer service always get mad for who knows what.

Simply put, Talibcomp will kill such customers. Hence, once you go out and buy better computers, you can’t really go back.

So Femintard argues that precisely because Talibcomp is such an asshole, your choice of other computers is not consensual. Hence, the whole business of helping customers to go outside Talibcomp sphere of influence and buy better computers is not consensual and should be prohibited as any customer trafficking should be.

And that’s how you keep ended up buying expensive punch card computers even though all other consumers are already getting far better deals light years ahead.  And that’s also why some people keep producing punch card computers.

Now, replace Talibcomp with Taliban and Femintard with anti consensual women trafficking feminists. See if the analogy make sense.

March 16, 2011

Why Competence, Talent, and IQ Tests Will Replace Degrees

There is mainly one reason why people want degrees, to have a job. There is mainly one reason why employers want to look at ones’ degree. To guess whether this person can do the job or not.

A degree signals that a person is capable to do a job. Also, most degree granting institution provide courses that makes people capable to do jobs.

As anything in economy, the most efficient ways to accomplish things tend to proliferate. Say I am buying a pencil. Say a pencil producers insist on mixing the lead in the pencil with gold. The process will make their pencils more expensive. To stay in biz, the producers will need to raise the price of that pencil. That will deter consumers from buying pencils.

The point is somebody got to pay for that doodad. If the producers pay that, then the producers will go bankrupt. The consumers pay that, then consumers will choose not to buy and producers will go bankrupt too.

What about if governments pay for the doodad? I’ll come back to that latter. In fact, that’s the main way anything inefficient flourish in our world. Government pays for the doodad or prohibits alternatives.

Is getting a degree efficient?

One thing for sure is it’s expensive. Decent international or national plus schools cost around $5k per year. People need to be in school for 18 years before getting a degree. If you spend $5k for education at degrees for 18 years, and you can turn $1 in your pocket into $1.2 latter, your bank accounts would have been reduced by $640k.

If you invest that $640k at 20% return per year, you would have gotten $128k per year. Indonesian typical entry level salary for programmer is $300 per month or $3600 per year.

Why 18 years? Because government says so. It’s difficult to cut of those years.

Do schools teach their students efficiently?

My physic teacher told me about how government conduct a seminar to train Math teachers. The teachers have to sign that they attend the seminar for 7 days even though the seminars are only 3 days. Those who do not attend or do not sign up will have their teaching license revoked.

The reason is obvious. Whoever makes that seminar will claim a 7 days expenditure while spending only for 3 days.

It costs government a lot of money to make those 7 days seminars. It’s inefficient. Under normal free market mechanism, anything inefficient will not be done. Why pay 7 days if the seminar is only 3 days? Also why attend seminars you do not want to attend? But because governments pay for the seminar, inefficiency flourish.

Is this happening only on corrupt countries like Indonesia? Not really.

I still remember when I study programming in UW Madison. I was so afraid of getting a bad grade that I did my homework early. Because I did my homework early, I had to learn the material to make the program much earlier than the lecture.

So why the hell should I attend the lecture if without lectures I could already understand the material, as shown by the fact that my homework was done?

If we divide schools’ teaching component, it’s pretty obvious that lectures are the most expensive part. Yet many people learn from books by themselves efficiently. People that can do that are actually better workers than those who cannot, and hence employers would prefer to hire them. I know. As an employer that’s what I would do.

Many parents put their kids to study oversea to avoid indoctrination. However, normal schools always have indoctrination courses because governments’ say so. So here, quite obviously this type of system is not going to prevail under free market. Recently there are cracks in the system.

An institution can teach students without mandatory indoctrination content if they do not claim to be an educational institution. Great. I’ll put my student there then. Also even Indonesian government allows people getting high school degrees by taking tests. Unfortunately that’s only open for students above 18 years old. But still it’ll be a great alternatives many would try instead.

Not claiming to be an educational institution means the student do not get a degree that Indonesian government acknowledge. Big deal. We can buy degrees. Some employers hire based on IQ anyway.

And what about the fact that degrees signals capability? Well, for some jobs, like programming, a 10 years old high IQ is can be more productive than a low IQ graduate students. A lot of what contemporary jobs need are common mathematical sense. And IQ signals that more than degrees.

And what’s the cost of a reliable IQ tests? Mensa provided that for a mere Rp. 100k. It’s $10.

Now, if people can study programming by themselves, and then solve IQ tests or google jam, then they would get MOST of what schools offer at much cheaper price.

Not doing that would be like sprinkling gold in our pencil leads. Somebody will have to pay the extra costs.

It could be the parents, which mean such parents will go bankrupt and produce less kids. It could be the employers that will indirectly pay for the extra costs. But they’re less elastic. Then there is another circumstances. Government pays for the extra costs.

However, under globalization, democracy, and freedom of speech, the people realize more and more that government’s expenditure sucks. No longer any countries can invest so much money on inefficiencies. Too much money on education means higher tax that will drive business away.

In addition, jobs nowadays are different than jobs before. Information change rapidly. To think that you can go to school, learn stuff, and be educated for the whole of your life is just insane. People look at capability to learn new tricks more than tricks you already know. That’s where IQ tests trample degrees once more.

More and more countries are letting free market govern their education. Those who don’t will keep losing their best and brightest overseas turning their countries into hell holes.

The cheap mensa test is a no brainer for anyone needing job as programmers, at least for the smart.

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January 6, 2010

Who Wants What?

That is precisely correct

Want of freedom is universal among those who can give better offer, more competitive, and hence want consumers to be free to choose.

Just like want of meritocracy is universal, among the productive.

The same way, want of sacrifice is also universal among those who want to sacrifice others. Want of control is universal among those who want to enslave others. Want of socialism is universal, among parasites. Want of religion is universal among those who want to blame others based on nonsense.

Quote from: roguespammer on January 05, 2010, 09:51:33 pm
Quote from: perkiset on January 04, 2010, 02:04:51 pm
I do not think you understand the concept of a military objective.

LOL … perhaps you misunderstand what SHOULD be a military objective and what shouldn’t.

There is no reason Vietnamese could not live in a democracy.  Vietnam could have easily transitioned from an Authoritarian Developmental Regime to a Developmental Democracy. That’s like Jackie Chan saying Chinese people are not ready to live in a democracy and need to be controlled.

That’s about as stupidly Western as it gets. “There’s really no reason at all why you should not understand that this is wrong.” See how well that works?

The military does not choose the objective, and I have been talking strictly in a military perspective, so what should be a military objective is a good talking point, but not what we were discussing. The thought is not Western, want of Freedom is universal. We could go on forever like you said earlier.

September 28, 2009

Who are the victim of victimless crime?

Easy answer is none by definition.

But let’s look at reality for a while.

When I was young I was forced to take so many classes that I do not think are useful. In one point of view, the classes are useless. Students, however, took those classes anyway because they are forced to take those classes where they memorize dates and names of irrelevant events.

That’s one point of view. Another way to easily see that is to see courses taught by private sectors in private tutoring industry. While many parents send their kids to learn more Math and English, no body send their kids to learn national ideology or history. In no private tutoring courses students have to memorize dates and names. That shows that most parents, as informed consumers, do not think those mandatory classes are useful. Case close.

Here is another point of view by the way. The classes are useful. If it weren’t useful, it wouldn’t have been taught. Think it this way. It took enough political will to force millions of people to do something. It must be useful…. To somebody… with enough political cloud to make it happen.

All classes that are taught in school, public and private, are useful for the curriculum makers.

Will those that are useful for the curriculum makers useful for students? It depends. Under free market, students’, which are consumers’, best interests are properly aligned to the interest of the producers, including the curriculum makers. When governments can “regulate” curriculum, all bets are off.

The same way, who are the victim of victimless crime?

In one point of view, none.

But wait. If there is really no victim, it wouldn’t have been a crime. Think about it. It takes enough political will and power to prohibits many from doing a certain thing. Somebody must have had their interests, not right, hurt by those criminalized acts.

Who?

Simple. Competitors.

If porn are legal, many males would rather watch porn, rather than mate with ugly women. That means extinction for ugly women. It’s no wonder that many feminists insist that all women should become soldiers, astronauts, or anything where beauty matters little. Those are ugly feminists. They complaint that women shouldn’t be a sex object. Why? Because they aren’t.

Who are the victim of women trafficking? The women being trafficked? Think again. Many of those trafficking are consensual. If you live in a country where males want to cut your clits, wouldn’t you rather be a prostitute or porn star in richer countries? Women prefer the rich. It’s natural that women from poor countries want to move to richer countries so they can mate with richer males. I am not arguing that all women prefer the rich. I am arguing that it is very reasonable that such movement CAN be VERY consensual.

But when feminists argue that women trafficking hurt women, they are correct too. Not the women being trafficked mainly, especially if the act is fully consensual. Women trafficking from poor countries to rich countries hurts two kind of people. It hurts ugly women in rich countries that do not want to compete with women from poorer countries that ask for less and are often prettier. Women trafficking also hurt the poor males in poor countries, that see now that their prettiest girls move to richer countries instead.

Hei. I am from a poor countries and I too was sad that the prettiest girls from my high school are all in US and Europe. However, it just motivates me to make more money so I can import their replacement from China. Most males would simply choose to prohibits such trafficking.

What else?

Free sex. Does it hurt somebody? Of course. Free sex, like free trade means free competition. It of course hurts those who are not competitive.

What else? Protection of minor? From porn? I remember a story about kids that are grown inside a vase so that their body ended up like the vases. It’s not good for the kids, but good for the kids’ raiser that want to sell the kids to circus. That’s what public education and anti porn regulation really is all about. They want to grow kids in their vases, till it’s too late to reverse the damage.

Years we learn biology in school, not once we are told that women prefer the rich and males prefer the pretty. Yet we have to memorize so many other facts that are irrelevant to our lives. Why? So we grow exactly the way the vase makers do.

Rather than thinking that porn is dangerous from minor, wouldn’t it make sense to think that censorship is the one that we should protect our children from? Imagine if you’re aware that somebody kidnapped your child and grow her in a vase. Wouldn’t you want to break the vase (and kill the kidnappers) rather than agreeing that your kids should be protected from non vase influences?

What’s interesting with all these criminalization is that for some reason, most of us, quite reasonably, do not believe that competition has victim. Most of us believe that it’s part of the game and that’s the way it should be. Competition is the main, if not sole, reason why humans want to do better than others for others. Hence, people that want to promote criminalization of victimless acts need to LIE.

There goes all form of nonsense arguments. Sometimes what they said is simply vague. Some feminists may argue that porn “demean” women. It’s vague accusation. What does demean mean? Which women? Is having more freedom demeaning? Is having more power to decide what to do with your life when you all consensual acts are legal demeaning? Is not having to agree with bigots and slave owners but free to choose demeaning? Arguable. Hard to say. It’s vague.

Other bigots will resort to religions based on faith. It’s hard to argue against fairy tales as we all agree.

Most people will not get married if all alternatives are legal. What kind of stores would demand that you can only buy from that store only if you agree to some form of exclusivity agreement and be loyal customer till death do you part? Some stores might do that but most simply don’t.

Perhaps promoting science and evolution theory will help shed light to what’s the real issue is. Books like “Selfish Gene” or “The Red Queen” have pretty much becoming mainstream and help cornering religious bigotry.

Only time will tell.

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