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Anyone who wants to understand the real relationship of debtor and creditor and how it is the foundation of civilization needs to read this. Everything else is just superficial blather. http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/Nietzsche/genealogy2.htm

Yes, I don't put a huge amount of stock on the idea of 30 samples, just mentioning it as one suggested number where you start to get away from purely random outcomes. I am starting to think that once one gets beyond the filtering value and up through to the maximum value, the outcomes are...

Obviously. The markets aren't open and there are only so many Manhattan sluts one can screw.

The problem with your conclusion is that we weren't originally taking about debt incurred for the purposes of starting a business, but debt incurred for the purposes of consumption. Do you understand the difference? If not, you might want to think about doing so, although, yes, I think that...

Hey, I'm just along for the ride. To paraphrase Billy Joel, "I didn't start the thread".

They may not know what they are doing, but they know less what they are doing than the remainder of society. But, like Groucho, I am disgusted that the 1% would accept me as a member. Nearly every time I run through Central Park, my thoughts go to what I will do once I buy it to save NYC from...

Hey, man, why don't you go study up on the concept of "marginal" and then get back to me. Here's a hint. If your business is dependent upon "weather" maybe it's not a business in the modern sense of the word, but it's actually a farm (or a weather forecasting consultancy) masquerading as a...

Uh, I've already "made it" in Boston, Chicago and NYC. That tends to happen when your IQ is in the top 1% of the country. That's not me saying that, that's the standardized testing industry saying it. My biggest challenge is the boredom of having to deal with you unevolved allegedly "human"...

Dude, it isn't just me saying that, it's Old Blue Eyes. You gonna argue with Frank? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqlJl1LfDP4 Personally, I'm actually indifferent to Manhattan, but, yes, I do happen to live here. I went for a run in Central Park today, as a matter of fact. I can take it...

Yeah, everyone's a primitivist until he gets pneumonia and needs some antibiotics or his wife's uterus isn't up to the task and she needs fertility treatments. Spare me the Iron John bullshit, please. It insults both of our intelligences.

As I pointed out a couple of pages ago, I know. The discussion then turned to the idea of putting people in prison for debts they try to avoid. If you could keep up, that'd be great.

Hmm...grass hut on one hand, air conditioned skyscraper on the other. Yeah, I'm going to go with the air conditioned skyscraper as evidence of the more advanced society. Jeez, Rousseau really got to you people with that whole "noble savage" thing, didn't he? There's a reason my ancestors...

Yeah, well, maybe if you were more intelligent, you'd realize that beyond a certain point, nothing is "blindingly obvious". Maybe using rhetorical tricks like calling one's position "blindingly obvious" works with the crowd you usually interact with, but I'm generally indifferent to such...

One could just as easily say the West has gotten richer despite those laws, due to the exponential growth in overall productivity created by the various technological revolutions and that had the laws in place prior to the 19th century remained in place, it would have been richer still. But...

How would jail time be a disincentive to an entrepreneur who actually was bringing something of value to the market? It would only be a disincentive to the marginal (as I said in my original response) entrepreneur who was unlikely to succeed. Those entrepreneurs would self-select against...

Sorry I'm not some pussified wimp with a soft spot for every sob story that comes down the pike and that I'm actually the kind of man who built this thing we call "Western civilization", starting in ancient Greece, which losers and parasites are now tearing down all around me. So, even though...

You're going to have to be more explicit about the connection between the Biblical precedents you're citing and the current-day situation. I'm not stupid enough to understand the point you're trying to make.

I actually did catch that she was put in jail for contempt of court. Even if she had been put in jail for the debt itself, I wouldn't mind. What is it the jackasses who support abortion always say, "Don't support abortion? Don't have one!" Well, that works for this as well. "Don't support...

I worry about everything. It's genetic. :) Seriously, though, it's because I don't like to take on more risk than I think I'm taking on. If I don't curve-fit, I think that I have a fairly accurate estimate of how much risk I am taking on, whereas if I do curve-fit, I am highly likely to be...