Tay Zonday

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Human rights and property rights were treated like the same thing by John Locke and later Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. They both posited a commons where owning space and a right to “be” followed a rationally derived order— and are often credited as early describers of a disembodied “marketplace” that regulates human morality— rather than loyalty to a deity or monarch. “Human rights” partly emerged to describe people being excluded from the rational moral/property commons or marketplace for irrational reasons (race, gender, ethnicity, etc.) Thus, human rights weren’t entirely imagined as “you have a right to not be arbitrarily enslaved” or “you have a right not to be murdered”— but “you have a right to be a rational participant transacting in the meritocratic moral and property marketplace.” Things that deny that right violate your human rights. That’s why the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that unlimited political donations were a human right, just like not being murdered.

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Americans must admit that the endpoint of wealth is to have kids at lower than the population replacement rate. The only way the rich can get richer, anthropologically, is expanding market participants through a steady influx of poor people who DO reproduce above their replacement rate. Anthropologists widely document that the value proposition of childbirth (often related factors like elder care, manual labor, and population survival) is inverse to wealth. This is why Japan and South Korea are desperate for poorer immigrants. Their population is prosperous. This is also why Germany, France, the U.K. and the U.S. have needed poor immigration to expand wealth, contrary to public xenophobia or leader invocations of “sh**hole countries.” Rich residents opposing low-income housing are self-defeating. Developed countries technocratically impoverishing poor ones through currency manipulation, then titrating poverty immigration, is the only way to maintain wealth and capitalist “growth”mythology.

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This is fair criticism. Supply-hoarding and anti-construction hysteria burn the wick at both ends. NIMBY (Not-In-My-Backyard)-ism is complex. For me, apartment construction is not sensory-isolated enough. 20% more construction money should be spent on: +Double-studded walls +Double drywall layers with green glue between +Solid core doors +Mass loaded vinyl between floors +Triple-pane-windows This would massively reduce sound transmission. Terrible, penny-pinching buildings are often why I don’t want to be around other people more than the actual people. There are also many adults aged 18-54 who like peace and quiet, so they’d mix fine with 55+ housing. NIMBY-ism and construction aversion can be reduced by— +Better sorting of the population by high-density residential preference +Better high-density building design People with vocal dogs, children and loud party hosting desires don’t HAVE to mix with seniors and sensitive adults. Sensory segregation is GREAT public policy.

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I try to follow a philosophy that ad-hominem attacks are like nuclear weapons— no first use is best. Mutual assured destruction is pointless. Now, this approach absolutely failed the left electorally. Obama’s response to racist conspiracies and birther lies that began proliferating on social media during his presidency was captured in his wife’s motto— “When they go low, we go high.” Democrats tried to noble-white-knight civility— while the basis of public eloquence became captivating dirty lies to dog-whistle carnal prejudice. This “high ground” lost them ten years of congress and a presidential term. Zoomer leftists traumatized by growing up losing elections now know— when opposition lies about you creepily grooming kids, lie back about them creepily fornicating with couches. The lie is the ticket to organic reach. This is why Biden had to drop out. He could not savage. This being said, I chose to believe @benersing asked about communism in good faith, not as ad-hominem savagery.

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That’s a great question, Ben! No, local jurisdictions poison-pill taxing supply-hoarded, vacant housing is authentically libertarian and actually truer to Adam Smith and other darling “free market” philosophical antecedents. The National Association of Realtors being a multi-decade advocacy project lobbying for state power to enforce market-rigging conditions like closed bidding is “centrally planned”— Private bankers printing public money to later leverage religious (not-gold-backed) fiat currency and encourage unlimited infusions of foreign capital to inflate housing costs in rural Kansas by the global top 1% who mostly build non-USD wealth is “centrally planned”— Citizens behaving as rational market actors and hijacking state power to do so is the freest market imaginable. This assumes we are logical and fix selective amnesia among Ivy League economists and corporate business journalists.

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Since the perpetrator was able to attempt the assassination because America’s founders wrote the words “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, . . .” — my first reaction was to think “THAT ‘militia’ is NOT well-regulated regarding his necessity to free-state security! 😱” This was also my reaction to Uvalde, Sandy Hook and other domestic “security” operations by the same “well-regulated militia” envisioned by our founders according to Supreme Court conservatives. None of this feels “well-regulated” 🤷‍♂️

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The zoomer left is infected with Web 2.0 like a zombie virus that makes them eat their own. They reason words like “capitalism,” “fascism,” “socialism” and “libertarianism” are matches to class-consciousness dynamite is that estrangement is the point of the engagement-optimized web and social media. Google isn’t search-optimization— it’s Balkanization optimization. It MUST contrive differentiation and make users believe it to fill up their intellectual real-estate—for the same reason Crest must invent twelve types of mint toothpaste to fill up shelf real-estate. Zoomers do not realize that words have lost organic meaning beyond being optimized for behavioral estrangement promoted by recommendation engines. They grow up in a lie that their individual agency is decisive movement-building speech when, in most cases, hysteria curation by techno-oligopolists ghost-writes their vocabulary. There are wonderful exceptions where leftist Web 2.0 coalition shines, but co-opting is the norm.

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Quick issues with Marx— Marx was a structuralist. He theorized that permanent structure determines outcomes. Marx’s most important critics are poststructuralist leftists like— Derrida [TLDR- structure can always be repeated differently by an individual] Foucault [TLDR- structure is not permanent but trickles up variably from regulation of sex, sexuality and punishment] Noam Chomsky [TLDR- our brains, as shown by being hardwired for generative grammar, need varying and fluid interventions to maintain state power] Henry Louis Gates Jr [TLDR- European modernity and literary criticism is incomplete and wrong, as critiqued by signification, a sophisticated African tribal intellectual criticism] That list can go on. Leftist takedowns of Marx are much more important to know than right-wing ones. Marx has brilliant and correct critiques— for example, that all value in capitalism is social and therefore arbitrary/theocratic— But his meta-structure is too simple to characterize all struggle.

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This is a valid sentiment. What Harvard Business School and CNBC call “Capitalism” IS in crisis. That being said— My take has always been that calling our present economy “Capitalism” is like calling Fig Newtons “cookies.” I know what a cookie is. That’s not a cookie. Today’s economy is theocratic witchcraft retconned onto John Stuart Mill, Adam Smith, John Locke and Hegel as a placating cosplay. None of those philosophers imagined corporate personhood. None of them imagined private bankers printing public money. None of them imagined fractional reserve banking. None of them imagined fiat trading and manipulation. We cannot surrender to Ivy League goofballs and the CATO institute lying about their own mythos. THEY are the actual anti-capitalists. We have endless receipts. Many functionally humanistic economic policies align with a non-hypocritical read of “capitalist” philosophy. I REJECT the master’s semantics in dismantling the master’s house. Semantic lies melt to truth.

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There is no American “housing crisis”— there’s a supply-hoarding crisis to rig local market prices above the liquidity of local buyer capital. The policy solution is simple: poison-pill tax all non-occupant-owned housing to force immediate sale to local buyers at actual market rates. Allowing unlimited non-local capital to supply-hoard vacant housing is simply anti-resident eugenics. Current residents are too poor, so replace them with richer ones— even if it causes widespread homelessness, forced migration and absurd energy costs for the displaced to commute. It’s as discriminatory as Federal Housing Administration redlining of black neighborhoods in the 1940s.

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Grocery stores do have razor-thin operating margins. 3% is gargantuan. However, there is not a zero-sum relationship between food prices and that margin. Grocery stores are optimized for a KPI of revenue-per-linear-foot, which is why produce is always near the front. As a consumer, my value KPIs are calorie-per-dollar and gross-weight-per-dollar. It is possible that the store earns more from me per-linear-foot with a lower price that is offset by my increased purchase volume. This inflection point is dynamic and changing relative to inventory cost and sale prices to increase purchasing. The POLICY question regarding this inflection point and market manipulation is— are there cases where a grocer would be earning *more* revenue from me per-linear-foot at a lower food price— but chooses a higher price because *collective* supply-hoarding by my limited grocery-acquisition vectors (let’s say, five stores) unfairly creates a closed market where consolidated cartels mute Adam Smith’s “magic hand.”

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Americans ought to be clear that national debt only comes from one thing: anointing private bankers to print public money as an I-O-U. Without enshrining that religious tithe into law, public debt is as real as the Tooth Fairy or Santa Claus.

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“You all communicate as pure heroes or pure villains while living as flawed protagonists. It’s spectacularly stupid.”— That’s what the alien who just abducted me in my dream told me about humankind.

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“User Experience” and “Tyranny” are just points-of-view— Apple and Alphabet might, as phone OS duopolists, say that serial rather than parallel app audio reflects user demand. I demand otherwise, know that parallel app audio would be trivial to implement. I also know it would complicate their behavioral telemetry, and the actual “demand” for the restriction comes from them. It’s a ball-and-chain to make my behavior analytics easy to reconcile by forcing each app to be a totalistic visual-acoustic experience. This is neurologically prejudiced, despicable and, yes, tyrannical. Ashley Shew’s “Against Technoableism” delves deeper into these themes: https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/goGpEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwij1ebfxO2HAxWVGzQIHW8BFvEQ7_IDegQIDxAE

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I should be able to listen to Spotify and watch YouTube at the same time on my phone if I want to— McDonalds can’t ban me from eating a Big Mac alongside Burger King in my own house— unless they commit felony home invasion. The hubris of electron monopolists must end. Our tomorrow begins with their yesterday.

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Most of us never experience loyalty like John Legend— “All of me loves all of you”— We only reach “SOME of me loves SOME of you, and the rest you’d better quit doing that.”

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The REAL problem is I’m a child of boomers. I grew up in a boomer world. We could not be granular and picky about what we consumed due to limitless supply. Therefore, I speak and think broadly. I come from a past where this worked. Today’s youth speak bluntly to narrow the vertical of every concept they express instinctively. Web 2.0 forces them to. Being like me (less targeting in how I communicate) is the same as being silent to them, when it’s actually being *silenced.* They just don’t know there’s a difference. They never lived in a world where personalized content curation was not an act-of-speech by an invisible middleman with an agenda.

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Targeting is my growth problem on every platform. I am not one content vertical. I’m one-hundred. Random segments of these will surface on any feed-based platform, each a non-sequitur to the last. This creates a revolving door where alienation and attraction reach equilibrium and growth stops. The range of interests following me becomes so wide that I am held hostage and only post the most broadly-appealing or likely-viral content. It’s not impossible for today’s machine-learning social media recommendation engines to facilitate more cosmopolitan followings, but it’s too resource intensive. These engines want to maximize user behavior KPIs with minimum CPU usage, which forcing followings into single content verticals facilitates. Humanity is the dog being wagged by the resource-minimizing-machine-learning-recommendation-engine tail. I’m just not that type of dog.

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“Newness” corresponds with SEO trends. Hijacking + piggybacking on SEO engagement traffic is easier than inventing your own SEO. Clout Goblins are to Web 2.0 what Jedi are to Star Wars: franchise heroes who think they’re virtuous while the apocalypse happens under their noses.

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I grew up around mostly-white suburban teens in the 1990s. Punk, grunge and alternative rock felt like rejection of bucolic “Leave It To Beaver” and “Family Ties” prosperity. Many of my peers wanted to jump DOWN social classes. It’s like poverty was a Leni Riefenstahl aesthetic to reclaim denied authenticity.

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