Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Jacking the Gulls

It's a comment by me.
Vox has a longstanding policy of censoring anyone smarter than he is.
Roughly, I said,
The price of overregulation, you mean. Shockingly, when something like half a firm's cost per employee is regulatory overhead, they can't compete with non-nanny-state workers. Similarly, if USG jacked oil taxes to 100% while still allowing in foreign oil, domestic oil production would go down. A bit. 
Regulation is growing faster than the market can adapt. Tariffs would actually make it worse. These firms are becoming unprofitable; the jobs are going away regardless. The only question is whether Americans, with their new, lower wages, will still be able to afford the products at all.
To fix this means hunting down the responsible party and neutralizing them. Problem: Original Sin is to blame.

If USG jacked taxes on domestic oil to 100%, the oil lobby would scream, and they would reverse course in under a week. Regular labour is getting jacked because they don't have an interest group. Dumbasses.

If USG rammed the oil tax through anyway, then Americans would use foreign oil at slightly higher-than-present prices. If USG applied an equalizing tariff, then nobody would be able to afford to drive to work anymore; cars per se would go out of style. Equalizing tariffs on labour would have a similar effect, albeit less drastic. Sound familiar? Maybe you've heard it called 'stagnation'?

But wait, if labour did have an interest group, they would agitate for protectionism. The metaphorical car would go out of style. Voters are just too stupid to protect themselves. Notably elites would just cheat and route around the protectionism, so voters would only be screwing themselves.



A funny thing about SJW is their claims of wide-scale permanent victimhood are true, but they've misidentified the victims and the perpetrators. The victims are basically everyone with IQs lower than 125, and the perpetrators are the obvious parasite class, e.g. SJWs.

SJWs will never admit a victim can stop being a victim. This is also true. Voters can't protect themselves and nobody is genuinely interested in protecting them. The question, assuming your IQ is high enough above 125, is whether you farm them or your enemies farm them.

Don't like it? Tough. Gnon laughs.

2 comments:

baduin said...

Vox Populi is engaged in rhetoric ie propaganda fights. He is entertaining, and sometimes very insightful - his description of SJW is a good basis for true psychological analysis. Therefore, it make sense to read him.

However, by the nature of his enterprise he is arguing to win, not to learn. Therefore, trying to argue with him or comment at his site is useless, unless you want to applaud him or to serve as a straight man for his jokes.

As for your claim it is quite true. The overregulation is pushing jobs out of USA. You are quite right that it is easy and natural for administration to overregulate. But it is equally easy for politicians to get elected by promising to deregulate. In USA Republicans promised and delivered deregulation in many areas - but never when it could help industrial workers, or small business workers.

In fact the whole modern Leftism is directed against industrial workers: women, blacks, homosexuals etc have one thing in common - they do not work in a factory.


http://stevemoxon.co.uk/identitypoliticsandpc.php

THE ORIGIN OF 'IDENTITY POLITICS'

& 'POLITICAL CORRECTNESS'

Not Consideration for Minorities but Hatred for the Mass of Ordinary People; Specifically 'the Workers' -- Tracing the Roots of Why and How it Arose and Developed Reveals the Greatest Political Fraud in History

Steve Moxon, 2014. Sheffield, UK.stevemoxon3@talktalk.net

Published on the stevemoxon.co.uk website on August 17, 2014.

A Creative Commons copyright applies.

[An edited version appears in The Quarterly Review as 'Dworkin's Dangerous Idea: Steve Moxon Deconstructs Identity Politics'. http://www.quarterly-review.org/?p=2954]. More fully, it appears as part of Moxon SP (2014) Partner violence as female-specific in aetiology. New Male Studies 3(3) 69-93]


The reason for this is quite simple: the industrial workers are a revolutionary class. Peasants used to mutiny and massacre local noblemen, but were too disorganized to ever win.

Officials and "service" people (bankers, waiters etc) do not rebel. At the moment I do not remember the title of the book which describes this.

Alrenous said...

He is entertaining, and sometimes very insightful - his description of SJW is a good basis for true psychological analysis. Therefore, it make sense to read him.

However, by the nature of his enterprise he is arguing to win, not to learn. Therefore, trying to argue with him or comment at his site is useless, unless you want to applaud him or to serve as a straight man for his jokes.


Coming to agreement is pleasant.

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I'm skeptical of deregulation. I expect regulations to make sense only in light of past regulations, meaning de-regulation can make things worse, by removing pillars that later regulation rely on. Perhaps it's another case of the second-best economic theorem. If you have free healthcare, you often need breadlines and other protections to deter frivolous overuse. 'De-regulation' is then making the healthcare for-profit but not removing the queues. Now you have to wait in line and pay at the end.

Officials and servers not rebelling sounds highly plausible to me.

It is extremely plausible to suppose that the productive class is the most likely to get violently upset about the parasite classes. I will certainly study your link when I get a chance.