wh, AoA 1. Positive, universal, consistent and flexible meta-system.

[Senna Jawa]

This article is a continuation of wh, AoA. Introduction.

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wh, AoA 1.
Positive, universal, consistent and flexible meta-system.
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Among others, ancient Chinese anarchists, then European anarchists, then some American libertarian, in particular

Milton Friedman, Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, Larry Elder, Dinesh D'Souza
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believed in the commandment:

do not impose​

Nevertheless, the commandment hardly ever prevailed. It didn't prevail under the known economy systems (but remember about yin&yang):

• classical (mostly ancient) slavery;
• classical feudalism;
• modern feudalism, e.g.Western Democracy;
• modern slavery, e.g. communism.

In short, under slavery, you virtually don't have money, and under feudalism -- a big chunk of your earned money is taken by the feudal (e.g. government or church or landowner). (In a reply below I'll write a bit more). All these systems were/are unethical!

The natural system -- the free market economy, existed only very partially here and there. When it did, even partially, it was outstandingly successful economically while slavery and feudalism was just the opposite.

REMARK. Capitalism is attached only to a certain period of time, it is not an economy system The political/economy phrases, discussions or claims about capitalism are illogical and false. Such nonsensical "discussions" may look more or less like this: person C says that capitalism is good, meaning that the free market economy is good; and person D says that capitalism is bad, meaning that monopolies are bad. However, monopolies are close cousins of government and communism -- all of them are the opposite of free-market economy.

The anarchists and libertarians know the human nature, the drawbacks of slavery+feudalism, ... and they still didn't arrive at a positive, universal, consistent and flexible system. This is because it'd be impossible. The very word system already sounds contradictory to the commandment. Instead, what is superior and practical is a meta-system that is positive, universal, consistent and flexible. Such a meta-system would be wonderfully practical but often

the utmost practical solutions are the least realistic (wh)​

I'll let you think about it.

 

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Soviet slavery

• Soviet farmers had to apply to their local government to obtain permission to leave their sovkhoz (government farm; there were but government-run farms only) to visit a town or city; once you were attached to a sovkhoz then but for rare exceptions, you had to be attached to your sovkhoz forever;
• once you worked at a mine (there, in the USSR) you had to work there forever, you couldn't switch to another job (say, to be a salesman); the conditions in a Soviet mine were extremely harsh, the miner's life-span was short);
• regular folks paid virtually no tax -- they earned next to nothing anyway, there was hardly enough to go on; often, the shortage of food was so dramatic that you couldn't buy food as you wanted but only using government food-coupons; this is what I mean that money virtually didn't exist for most of the Soviet citizens. From time to time, millions of Soviets were dying from hunger;
• virtually nobody was able to travel abroad;
• not only newspapers were censored but it was also illegal to possess many of the books, including literary works; you could be arrested for bringing to the USSR Bible from abroad; you'd be arrested if they learned that you are storing newspapers for years; it was illegal to send a newspaper from the USSR abroad (in Moscow, in 1967, I packed children toys using a newspaper, to send it to my children in Poland -- the post office ruined my packing effort, they repacked the toys using plain paper; BTW, plain paper was not easily found thus I used for packing what was at my disposal, a newspaper);
  [*}for years, genetics and Theory of Relativity were forbidden (I know that during WWII, talented and capable Soviet engineers never heard about Einstein).
• during my 1-year visit to MGU (Moscow State University; it had the strongest mathematical department in the world at the time), I would have to apply to MGU or somewhere to visit any place outside Moscow; actually, I did twice, by train, without bothering to apply since my Russian was about as good as that of any Soviet Georgian).