| This article is dedicated to:
 
 A man I met, with most of his body heavily burned, simply because he
 was a Chinese during the 1998 May Riot in Indonesia.
 Lots of capitalists that are slaughtered during the cultural evolution.
 Ten thousands of peaceful smugglers that are massacred in Banda island
 by the Dutch for conducting peaceful spice trade and all that are
 similar to them.
 All minority groups and individuals that face discrimination, even
 genocide, for economically contributing too much for their society.
 All customers that have to pay higher products due to protection of
 tariff and trades.
 Productive people that are fined with income tax for the victimless
 crime of making honest money.
 Smart students that are slowed down so not to move too fast.
 Industries that do not get subsidy, or even banned to protect
 unproductive industry and laborers that earn much less due to such
 restrictions.
 Poor starving people that could have been rich had their countries
 choose to embrace free market.
 Women and males that are trapped in unhappy marriage which they have a
 hard time getting out.
 Women and children that have lots of their best choices taken under the
 pretext of protection.
 Immigrants and refuges.
 Is welfare part of capitalism?
 
 In short, no. In consensually, punishing the productive through income
 tax to reward parasitic behavior is the biggest affront against the
 principle of free market. In fact, from many governments intervention
 in economy, the one that proponents of free market often oppose the
 most is welfare.
 
 However, when we look further, capitalism and welfare is not really
 total opposites. Most importantly, properly done, a straight forward
 welfare program can cause less market distortion, and hence an
 efficient replacement to buy votes from losers, than farm subsidies,
 public schools, minimum wage, trades restrictions, tariffs, and sex
 laws. If it's done by taxing wealth, rather than income, the amount of
 market distortion can be minimized further.
 
 Welfare is also cheap. It'll cost $5000/year to a welfare recipient
 in USA, for example. However, we need to remember that the
 recipients' lifestyle worth only $500. The other $4500 goes to
 implicit welfare due to higher living costs. That implicit welfare
 includes minimum wage, immigrations laws, and food subsidy, or
 protections.
 
 If somehow a straight forward explicit welfare program can replace all
 relatively more evil governments' interventions, then capitalists are
 probably better of not opposing welfare so much. Even Milton Friedman
 supports schemes called guaranteed minimum income, which is like
 welfare but with much less market distortion.
 
 That's not where the similarity ends. One of the main creeds of
 capitalism is that consent and competition should be preferred over
 force. Without that consent, anyone can simply make us choose to make
 our self worst of under the pretext that it is for our own good. In
 fact, most laws against consensual acts can be traced down to
 protection of some disgruntled competitors often done under the pretext
 of the consenting parties' own good.
 
 Anti prostitution and anti polygamy laws, for example, is there to
 ration females to poor dumb males under the pretext of protecting the
 consenting women. Of course, all natural resources tend to be rationed
 somewhat proportional to ones' voting power. And that does explain
 why democracy and anti polygamy laws go hand in hand too. One man one
 vote soon leads to one man one wife.
 
 Well, at least Matt Ridley agrees with me and he's a well known
 mainstream scientific researchers. I guess that's also why so many
 uncompetitive people want to ensure that evolution theory is not taught
 in school. You can also read a famous psikiatrist book, "The road less
 traveled," you'll see that life long monogamous marriage is just a trap
 to prevent highly desirable people from being available to those who
 they want more, and romance is just the lure to that trap.
 
 On the women side, anti pornography laws is really meant to prevent
 highly desirable women from advertising her assets and hence protecting
 less pretty women from the higher industry standard a public display of
 superior desirability might cause. Countries that embrace porn tend to
 have prettier women. Where did all the unsexy ones go? They're all
 shifting out of the gene pool, and hence are doing their best to oppose
 porn preaching religious doctrines that men should judge women based on
 any features but beauty, which they can't offer.
 
 Another issue is consent. Welfare program is not consensual; however,
 it's relatively more consensual then civil war. In ancient time, when
 we have different ideological opinions, we end up killing each other to
 proof who are "right." The Catholic would kill the Gnostic, the
 Sunni would kill the Shiah. One King would kill the other. A younger
 prince will argue that the older prince is demon. Might makes right.
 
 Such differences of opinions are of course solved with war, which is a
 very cost inefficient way to know who're "right." However it does
 work in some subjective practical sense. If we look in the past and try
 to figure out whether the Gnostic or the Catholic is the one that's
 heretical or "right" respectively, we need only to see who won. The
 Gnostics are slaughtered, so they must be the heretic, or do they? At
 least I bet there are way more people in the world that think that way
 than the other way around, excluding me actually.
 
 It doesn't matter how many books many institutionalized religions
 burned, how much restrictions of freedom of speech and irrationality
 they embraced, how many witnesses they snuffed outs and all other
 techniques that would not have stand the scrutiny of a peer reviewed
 scientific journal, or even a reasonable jury in the court of law. Too
 many people don't believe who are right and reasonable, they believe
 who are mighty. Right or wrong, the win will always become right
 anyway.
 
 Now, under democratic context, we don't kill those who oppose us,
 rather we try to persuade enough people to join our cause. How do we
 persuade them? By money of course. Welfare program is then a reasonably
 cost efficient method to buy votes.
 
 When too many people are on a side, we will sort of know that going to
 war will hurt the other side; hence we comply anyway with the whim of
 majority avoiding the costly alternatives. While not ideal, this is
 indeed how right and wrong is really decided, proper assessments of
 each sides' bargaining position and mutually cherished compromised line
 of war, plus a bunch of lies covering what's going on to safe each
 sides' face.
 
 No matter how noble the purpose, lies and prejudices lead to
 misunderstanding, that leads to more war. Hence, the best contribution
 is simply to unmask all lies.
 
 All in all, peaceful democracy is indeed a more cost efficient ways to
 measure ones' bargaining position. While democracy often lead to
 decisions opposites of freedom, like popularly supported victimless
 crime, income tax, and welfare, it's indeed relatively more cost
 efficient than civil war.
 
 That's not when the coherency end. Various natural laws restrict
 various possible political outcomes. We can't expect a stone will fly
 to the sky when we drop it as much as we cannot expect a human to be
 generally unselfish. If we want to kill our enemies, we'll do well
 dropping a big stone on top of our enemies head rather than dropping
 the stone on top of our own head expecting the stone to somewhat
 magically fly to the enemies head.
 
 The same way, we can't demand market distortion and expect that the
 best and brightest among us to still magically be a nice tax payer
 rather than dictators and corruptors. In a country where selling porn
 or building a good franchise chain is more difficult and less lucrative
 than becoming a dictator, guess what the smart would end up doing? Ask
 Saddam.
 
 If we want rich and prosperous countries, we must know that it will and
 only will happen when we properly align individuals' interests with
 productivity.
 
 Such coherency tends to make certain things come in package with
 another. We can expect that moving electric field will induce magnetic
 field. The same way, in life, we observe similar things. Communism and
 socialism, for example, always come in package with dictatorship and
 corruptions when smart people realize that being dictators pay more
 than building a business empire.
 
 To the opposite capitalistic countries comes in package with softer
 deals for losers, such as, guess what, welfare.
 
 We know from our economic classes that free market capitalism brings
 prosperity within market mechanism. However, it turns out that the
 prosperity that free market brings also profit the less successful
 beyond market mechanism. Capitalism and the prosperity that come with
 it tend to facilitate ideological changes in ways that benefit the less
 successful. One such ideological change is the popular support for
 losers' benefits. One such benefit is, guess what, welfare.
 
 The most obvious samples of such ideological shifts the free market
 bring are the elimination of slavery in US. What happened? As usual,
 the northern part of America is an industrial country. At that time,
 steel industries are relatively more modern than the farming industry.
 Higher tech industry increase labors' productivity. When labor's
 productivity goes up, entrepreneurs will want to hire as many workers
 as possible. Hence, labors' salary will go up. This will kill of
 industries with less labor's productivity. At the end, the marginal
 productivity of labors in the least productive industry will go up.
 That value is labors' salary.
 
 Under competitive equilibrium, the more productive and efficient a
 person is, the more he benefits everyone in the chain of productivity
 except those similar to him. Hence, an entrepreneurs coming up with
 ways to improve labors' productivity would benefit everyone,
 including workers and consumers, at the expense of other entrepreneurs
 and capitalists. Read that Karl Marx!
 
 Then what? When labors' salary goes up, obviously labors will move to
 the employers that pay them higher. Hence, farm labors in the south
 want to move to the north. They can't do so legally though because
 they were slaves. Hence, the northern capitalists in US want to free
 slaves so they can hire more workers. And then the southern capitalists
 in US want to keep slavery. This then results in war. The bigger the
 labors' productivity, the more intensive capitalists have to free
 slaves. The more supporters there will be on a cause the more likely
 the cause won. Hence, slaves were freed.
 
 Unfortunately, people still want to help losers and buy votes from
 those who are too expensive and too stubborn to switch. That explains
 why the farms in US gets subsidy.
 
 If losing means not as successful as the other, then there will always
 be losers. However, we see how free market shifts the worlds' system
 in ways that benefits the losers too. Unlike the commies' propaganda,
 capitalism does not cause or even enlarge disparity of wealth.
 Capitalism only changes the way such disparity are earned to the
 benefits of all.
 
 At the end of the warring states period in China, the king of Chin,
 Shih Huang Ti, and his prime minister, Li Si were the winner. Within
 one generation they have all their family slaughtered. If that's what
 winning means, what did losing means in pre-capitalistic countries? In
 ancient time, losing meant having all the males slaughtered, enslaved,
 or castrated and all the females raped and winning means risking your
 whole family slaughtered by rebels. In socialists countries the rich
 are corruptors and dictators that slice each other throats while the
 poor are starving.
 
 Now, thanks to the prosperity only free market can bring, losing means
 they can leave on welfare, with plenty of chance to climb back and
 proof their worth, like J. K. Rowling. Now, slaves are so free and
 highly paid thanks to increase in labors' productivity. In fact, when
 slave jobs are moving to China under globalization, slaves in US
 refused to be emancipated and want to keep their slave jobs in US
 rather than evolving into entrepreneurs. So, much for the land of the
 free and the place of the brave. Some people don't mind dying for
 what they believe in but are too scared to start a business. Evolutions
 will fix that I guess.
 
 Free market gives abundances to everyone. The benefits the free market
 brings benefit those less capable from being successful not only within
 the system but also through non market mechanism, like the ending of
 slavery and the start of reverse slavery we call welfare. But how do
 those really work? Is there a general principle?
 
 Each of us is greedy and selfish that we want as many as possible for
 us. Humans' greed and selfishness is an undisputable scientific
 facts, as sure as the sun rise in the east, as sure as a stone will
 fall to the ground pulled by gravity. We're not just greedy and
 selfish. Greed and selfishness doesn't explain all the war,
 suffering, and poverty we face.
 
 In fact, greed is good. Properly aligned, under free market, the
 greatest among us shall be the one productively providing the best
 service to the most customers. Blessed be the productive because
 they'll be rich. This will encourage higher and higher standard of
 living that we are currently enjoying.
 
 Free market allows those who serve more to grow richer. To those who
 have more profit, to those more capital are given. Even kingdom of
 heaven don't mind using this nice positive feedback effect. Who needs
 new deals to break up companies?
 
 Also, women prefer the rich. The next time you watch soap opera, make
 sure it's made in some country with the highest IQ in the world, like
 Hong Kong.
 
 Free sex means richer males will consensually attract and mate with
 more women producing more kids. That's the whole point of getting
 rich by the way. Duh?
 
 In fact, that's what being a living human male is all about:
 
 1. Gain control ship of as much money or power as possible.
 
 2. Attract or in anyway acquire as many females as possible.
 
 3. Make kids.
 
 4. Use that kids as tools to make grand children.
 
 You bet it's right because it's science. Of course, they don't teach
 this important fact in biology class because government interfere in
 education.
 
 Hence, when we're free, without genocide, without war, even with
 humanitarians aids given to appease enemies, the meek will indeed
 inherit the earth.
 
 More than greedy and selfish, some humans are simply not humans because
 they embrace the root of all evil, envy. That explains why we have so
 many laws against mutually beneficial consensual acts and governments
 regulations to protect us from our own choices. The truth is, all those
 laws and restrictions are more often not there to protect stupid people
 from making mistakes. All such laws are there to prevent the smart from
 making the right choices.
 
 That's why, for example, every body has to move equally slowly in
 school, to prevent the smart from moving faster. That's why various
 reproductive techniques are politically incorrect proportional to the
 expected quality of genetic material that will be duplicated. In
 particular, life long monogamous marriage, free sex, prostitution,
 polygamy, and cloning are sequences that both have increasingly
 expected value of genetic quality outcome and politically
 incorrectness.
 
 In Europe and China, the smart monks are encouraged not to get married.
 When some minority groups don't buy the bullshit and hence greatly
 improving their productively earned wealth and genetic quality, such
 minority groups somehow become victims of genocide.
 
 Life is like a real time strategy games. That means when we're not at
 war, we're in a race. That's simply how we evolve. Morality,
 religions, and ideologies, are stuffs created by really smart people to
 persuade us to run backward.
 
 Peace means we're in a race. Freedom means we are in a competition.
 Some people just don't want to compete. Hence, they craft lies and
 prejudices against those who are in front preventing progress to
 prosperity.
 
 I'll tell you the scientific truth. It's from the fruit we knows
 the tree. Anyone opposing free trades and globalization is more evil
 than Hitler or Nazi. If only Japan and German could have acquired
 natural resources through consensual peaceful trade, Nazism wouldn't
 have been popular there and Hitler wouldn't have risen to power. With
 his mass hypnotic skills, he may have ended up as seminar speaker I
 guess.
 
 If only those who had wanted to incite the Second World War see all the
 miracles and prosperity the free market brings, they would have
 repented and embrace free market. Yet, after all the prosperity and
 wealth the free market is bringing to all of us, still many people
 choose to oppose competition, and hence, miss-properly align our
 interests from productivity. That is the cause of all evil in the
 world.
 
 All causes opposing free market can be negotiated and appeased.
 However, if the very thing that a group of people want to prevent is
 the success of the others, then the situation is pretty much kill or be
 killed zero sum game.
 
 How does such situation usually end up? What would be our optimum
 solutions for such situation?
 
 Under normal circumstances, an optimum solution of any business
 decisions is a solution where the marginal revenue equals to the
 marginal costs. Hence, in a zero sum game, each party will try to
 maximize its benefit to that point. Sometimes, the marginal costs have
 a spike. There is a certain point where increasing a resources
 allocation beyond a certain point will create adverse costs. For
 example, increasing the number of labors will increase revenue.
 
 After a certain point, increasing one additional labor will mean buying
 a new machine or building a new factory. We may end up choosing to do
 it, we may not. In either case, discretions are the better part of the
 valor when it comes to that line.
 
 The same way, in most countries, each of us can increase our profits
 using property we own or consensually rent. When we maximize our profit
 that way, the public will, ideally and some times truly, not interfere,
 and defend us from being prevented to enjoy our "rights" by others.
 However, when we start using others' property to maximize our gain,
 say by stealing, public opinions may shift from protecting us to
 against us.
 
 Hence, the choice whether we should steal or not depends on the extra
 costs of crossing the politically correctness line of war. If a person
 sees that the potential gain justifies the increase costs of public
 support shifts, he'll still steal and make a great career out of it.
 Otherwise he'll stop stealing while coming up with a pretext to
 justify his cowardly decisions, such as morality.
 
 But what do the people choose their reaction to a specific act like
 stealing? They do so based on their sense of fairness, justice, and
 right-wrong discernment. How do people get that sense? From ideology.
 The ideology, religions, or whatever, then decides the line of war
 where the rest of us should consider before crossing. But how does the
 line gets drawn? By estimates of bargaining position.
 
 Let's examine an example. Is the King (or Queen?) of England the King
 of France? Don't know. How do we know? In the beginning, a ruling
 class from France went to England and become king of England. Then they
 lost control of France. Hence, king of England wanted to take back the
 controls they have lost. Well, such conflicts are solved by war. In
 this particular case, the war lasted 100 years.
 
 The British attacked France and successfully route knights with long
 bows. Then, the Frances stroke back driving the British back to their
 isolated islands. However, the France cannot move further and go all
 the way to attack British because of the Strait of Dover separating the
 two nations. Finally both sides realized that the straits somehow
 became the sacred line of war. It's not auspicious to cross the line
 of war for either side. The France, having more army and larger
 population would beat up the British on land, and the British being
 stronger at sea can always repulsed France sea invasion. Hence, we got
 peace.
 
 Such natural separators like straits and mountains explain why
 Europeans are divided into many different countries. The Chinese, not
 having that natural line of war, end up getting united all the time.
 
 Now, let's get back to the question whether welfare is part of
 capitalism. If all of us have just enough food, and some people don't
 work, what would we end up doing to those who are not productive?
 
 Humans' basic instincts and preferences lead to gene pool survival.
 When food is scarce, such as when the people demand centralized
 planning, it would serve ones' gene pool survival to slaughter the
 parasites rather than sharing food to them. That's because sharing
 food to those who do not earn it means starving ones own self. In fact,
 humans will kill each other to literally eat each other when food is
 scarce. Such is what happened in China and Rusia when centralized
 planning, governments' intervention in economy, and prejudices
 against successful capitalists became the norm.
 
 However, when food and money are abundance, such as when the people
 embrace free market, fighting the parasites might cause more gene pool
 survival lost than feeding them. On the other hand, simply giving and
 yielding toward threaten will motivate people to keep pushing us
 around. Moreover, giving in to those who can use force against us will
 motivate countries to build arms rather than say, better video games.
 
 Hence, one possible strategy to minimize open war while still properly
 aligning ones interest with other individuals around them is to give to
 those who ask nicely and ask less. As free market brings a lot of
 abundance, those who are needy can be appeased much more cheaply than
 those who are envy, and hence, we got welfare program.
 
 To be frank, I'd rather see the unproductive people have bigger TV
 rather than letting them make more kids. It's more humane, and
 cheaper. Guess what? Most people that know they're not very capable
 either would rather have that too.
 
 Back to the France vs British. If only both sides have realized the
 true bargaining positions of each, they wouldn't have to resort to
 such expensive 100 years war right? The thing is, the 100 years war are
 the most credible and accurate ways to measure ones' bargaining
 position. War shows which one is stronger, and hence leads to a mutual
 understanding of where the line of war might be.
 
 If only we can wave our gun and scare the enemies, it'll be great.
 However, the only threats that are credible are those actually done.
 
 How do we know a cause's bargaining position? Democracy might give
 some light by counting the number of those who are in favor or against
 what we consider lesser evil. However, number counting can be
 deceiving. We hold this truth with plenty of evidences, that humans are
 inherently different.
 
 We have difference capability and preferences, and hence different
 choices and outcome. It's useless to lay net in front of anything
 with wings. Those who are genetically predestined to be successful will
 get rich anyway whether through honest capitalistic means or through
 dictatorship.
 
 Those who are small in numbers can hence be quite strong. Preventing
 the smart from making money honestly will then turn them into
 corruptors and dictators. When the Chileans demand to prosecute their
 entrepreneurs, they end up getting a dictator, the way any country that
 demand slavery over freedom deserves. Fortunately, Pinochet are
 relatively benign compared to others dictator and embrace free market
 giving the miraculous prosperity that the Chilean now enjoy.
 
 Now, US government arrested his daughter for a crime of tax evasion. An
 act that wouldn't have been a crime if making honest money is free.
 The miracle of Chili becomes the model of China's moving to free
 market. It also helps to end communism all over the world peacefully.
 If capitalists fail to show thanks to Pinochet family, I don't know
 what would happen to all of us.
 
 So, beyond number counting, the more accurate ways are then through
 skirmishes. When people cross the public's opinion line of war and we
 don't strike back, the line of war will shift against the coward by
 precedence. By fighting back, we'll then have a more accurate
 knowledge of which one the public would agree with.
 
 Hence, it's very important to retaliate to what others do to us,
 either good or bad. It's a pleasure to serve my friends, it's also
 a pleasure to wipe out envy enemies that are on our ways, should my
 friends wish or don't mind.
 
 When a fraudster tricks my brother over $3,900, my main concern is not
 to get my money back. My main concern is to get the fraudster to jail
 even if that will costs far more money than the $3,900. When a thief
 steals my money on 2001, my concern is also not to get my property
 back. What's just is to encourage the whole world to post any thieves
 conviction records on the net to prevent further larcenies.
 
 It makes me wonder though. Why people consider it cruel to damage a
 thief or a fraudster' reputation? The mere acts of making honest
 money are punishable by income tax. When Everett O. Lasher makes an
 argument in court, the case leads to $5000 fine, and understandably, a
 suicide. The mere acts of successfully fending of ones' home from
 thieves lead to a life long jail term for Tony Martin. Thousands would
 march against WTO demanding harsh laws to punish those exercising
 consensual trades. In Iran, the mere acts of switching religions can
 lead to death penalty.
 
 In Indonesia, new laws are being drafted giving years in prison for
 kissing in public. Of course, public rape during May riot are still far
 from being punished.
 
 This while murderers of Vincent Chin went free without jail term.
 Thousands would march to end death penalty against murderers. In
 Indonesia, religious fundamentalists can come to a house and destroy
 properties from houses providing consensual entertainment with polices
 watching. Those people often get away or lightly punish.
 
 If consensual productive acts are punished while damaging inconsensual
 forces are not, soon, all highly productive people would end up in gas
 chamber after the next Cultural Revolution, or what ever. Those who are
 left are those smart enough to be dictators enslaving the rest of us.
 
 Prejudices reminds me of an envy old hag that's so determined to ruin
 my reputation for being friendly to her and her friends, after her own
 friendly communication. I never intended to fraud anyone or steal her
 money yet I got my reputation ruined. I am very disappointed to see
 that there are people in the world that want to bring me down more than
 they want to bring down a thief.
 
 I have tried to resolve the issue privately by suggesting to that thing
 that she's really not important enough for anyone to pretend to be her
 friend. Moreover, I didn't need her as a friend. All this was just a
 damage-less misunderstanding caused by her own friendly communication
 which I could simply publicly straighten out. At least, it used to be.
 
 However, that vermin really wished to get the issue public telling lies
 that she never communicated with me, possibly to boost that things'
 feeling of importance her genes deny her. Well, if she got so mad over
 a few friendly introductions, I can only wonder what that thing would
 do when it finds out that her true envy natures are revealed to 55000
 newsgroups several times. It'll happen again and again whenever I
 feel like.
 
 Hence, just look for "envy vermin" on the net to find out what's
 really going on including what she said privatedly. Let the public
 decide who are more honest, rational, scientific, and straightforward.
 Let the market decides which one are worthy and who are worthless.
 It's a great mistake to ever consider such thing as a friend, a
 mistake no body should do. It's her kind that turns people of from
 making money productively.
 
 Hopefully we can undermine public opinions against all form of envy
 motivated lies and prejudices. At the end, we'll greatly weaken laws
 against victimless crime and easily out compete all envy people out of
 the gene pool. That'll ensure that the free fair market competition
 would reign over war when all lies and prejudices against those more
 successful are gone.
 
 Now that being said, I want to move all jobs that can be done online to
 Asia, especially, copy writers. Take advantage of the value difference
 and leverage like hell is how we all make money in any system. Who's
 with me?
 
 Free market is all merciful and all compassionate. At the end, even
 those that oppose free market will benefits from free trades.
 
 
 
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