UserWiki:Ninjack-Aus

Political Compass Test
Center Left Economics: -3.38

Very Libertarian: -7.28



Sapply Values
Center Left Economics: -2

Reasonably Libertarian: -5.68

Extremely Progressive: 8.25



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64.4% Equality / 35.6% Markets 22.2% Nation / 77.8% Globe 80.5% Liberty / 19.5% Authority 18.8% Tradition / 81.2% Progress Social Libertarianism

[[File:DvIcon.png]]Dozen Values[[File:DvIcon.png]]
Credit Quark 67.73% Equality / 32.7% Property 39.1% Coordination / 60.9% Market 36.5% Dominion / 63.5% Anarchy 76.9% Permission / 24.1% Restriction 76% Inclusive / 24% Supremacy 32.7% Heritage / 67.3% Novelty Social Georgism

[[File:ML.png]]Vanguard Values[[File:ML.png]]
31.3% Demagogue / 68.7% Technocrat Advised 6.3% Planned / 93.7% Market Laissez Faire 28.1% One Country / 71.9% Global International 43.8% Military / 56.2% Peace Peaceful 56.3% Proletarian / 43.7% Peasant Worker 23.8% Uniformal / 76.2% Tolerant Liberal 34.4% Traditional / 65.6% Neoteric Reformist 68.8% Populist / 31.2% Elitist Appealing Socialism With a Human Face

My Personal Understanding on Markets, Labour and Capitalism's Problems
Any functional market is ran for and by the people, every single person in the world is a consumer. The consumption of goods and services for consumers is the sole reason to produce them.

Baseline Definitions
Goods and services are produced by an individuals labour, aided by an enterprise and the enterprises capital like a piece of machinery used for manufacturing a good or the land the manufacturing takes place, which can either be neccesary or merely assistive.

A laborer may be their own enterprise in the form of the self-employed, and enterprise isn't just a capitalist term. Many forms of socialist enterprises exist be they co-ops, state ran or mutuals. An enterprise is a catch all term for entities designed to produce goods and services.

Markets in the world use what is for all intents and purposes a barter system of valuified labour (money), to be exchanged for the mutual trade of the production / consumption of a good or service for an individual to consume.

The value of labour is directly equal to the goods and services produced this means that the value of money and how much a person can recieve for their production of a good or service is equal to the supplied demand / how much paid for the good or service.

Problems with Social Democractic & Keynesian Thinking (I still love keyne though)
The "invisible hand of the free market" is a flawed, resource inefficent and unethical system which inevitably prioritizes the wealth of monopoly enterprises and the ultra-wealthy - however it provides the goods and services we need succesfully and consistently and should be maintained.

Social Democrats and other welfarist / ethical capitalists seek to establish government intervention in the negative situations caused by the free market, like poverty, unemployment, homelessness and social inequality among many others.

This government intervention is done through directly subsidising / paying the inable an extremely limited wage or supplement to an existing income alongside manipulating with policies like minimum wage, rent controls and maternal leave.

Another common, but non-routine way is to directly subsidise enterprise or set up government funded jobs despite the lack of sufficent demand to justify enterprise for a certain good or service in an area. The government intervenes in the perceived root of the high amount of poverty and unemployment - the employing enterprises.

The laborers creating the goods and services are paid less for their labour as their goods and services produced by their labour are worth less due to not sufficent demand for supply, lowering prices.

Thusly, make work devalues a laborers wage and worth and means they can purchase less with the same effort and have a lower quality of life.

Problems with Crony Capitalism, AKA: Greed, Monopolization & Complacency
It's a common belief among capitalists and libertarians that competition breeds innovation and the freer the market, the freer the people. This is partially true, however it is also paradoxical to some extent.

Whilst capitalist societys undeniably have constant innovation in buisness, it is rarely to stay ahead of competition but to further the monpoly of the scarce few mass employing companies. You might think only big tech and some superstores like amazon are monopolistic, but they are merely the directly public companies.

I'd like to show an infographic you might've seen before. This might not seem to be a monopoly, but it is not conspiracist to believe that they in any way communicate with eachother for mutual gain. How many of these products and companys can you identify? Can you name any food product in your fridge which isn't produced by the food monopoly?

When an enterprise achieves a monopoly, they both completely control the exchange of labour for all except the most unionized work forces, and more importantly they completely control the supply of goods and services.

The economic parable of the broken window explains how that whilst a window maker may profit from a window being accidentally broken, the wealth used to repair the window would be spent on other economic activites regardless. If the only thing that happens between point A and point C is that some of the window owner's money now belongs to the window maker then it is just theft. Nothing of value happened due to the breaking of the window, for isn't the window being fine of intrinsic value itself?

In any reasonable market, supply and demand equalizes prices so that it's possible for a company to afford production whilst being affordable to the level of want, IE an umbrella is "wanted" less than food. When an enterprise has monopoly it can force any price. If BreadCo owns or is co-operating with all other bread producers in your local area and decides to raise prices to the maximum you can afford, then you most likely wouldn't purchase bread. However, if BreadCo decided to control or co-operate with all food producers at the supermarkets in your area (god I hate superstores) than you have no choice but to buy (they wouldn't raise the price so high that you cant buy).

To combine both previous paragraphs, the only thing that happens when a monpoly price gouges is the increased transition of wealth from consumers to the monopolistic producers with no added value, which is not just immoral but uneconomical.

This price gouging IS "make work" for crony corpotocracy assuming that there is intrinsic different value in goods and services due to the expansion of utilization, in the same way that a hug is intrinsicaly good if it is wanted and people feeling good is good.

Not only does this makework devalue the monopolized products but it also hinders consumers from consuming ALL products as they have less wealth from both being price gouged and having both intentional / accidental wage devaluation.

Economic Statiscians consider these megacorporations good even though negative economic value is experienced to the economy from the existence of them. Whilst they do create many jobs (of far lower wages and production quality) and the specially designed gross domestic product is higher for a while due to the exploitation; the common masses lose in the short and long term with far lower quality of life.

Crony capitalism is just welfare for crony capitalists, except that welfare is undeniably ethical despite it's few faults.

Civic Rights + My Economic Policies
I consider myself a progressive and believe all individuals are intrinsically equal regardless of ethnicity, sex or any other attributes.

LGBT
LGBT rights should be enshrinend in constitution or law with legal same-sex marriage, same-sex adoption, sex transition and anti-discrimination laws. However these anti-discrimination laws should be somewhat limited as to prevent counter discrimination and there shouldn't be a diversity quota at all.

Abortion
Many countries and federal territories in the world cap abortion at less than a half-dozen of weeks if not outright banning it. However most progressive abortion legislation caps at 20 weeks, which is ideal, but I wouldn't object to raising it further.

The main reason for preventing abortion is due to cultural morality, which isn't a reason to force women to give up their body autonomy and personal liberty for a year of pregnancy and most likely their career and personal life during the later stages.

There is less than a 0.05 percent chance of major complications from surgical abortion in the first and second trimester (~20 weeks), meaning it is an eleventh as deadly as conception and any regards to safety are invalid, atleast until the latest stages of pregnancy.

National & Local Democracy
I love democracy, I support the unfettered freedom of political and economic choice aslong as it is not anti-democratic itself and I prefer centrist ideologies (tolerant centrism, so only ideologies like national-bolshevism) and dislike populist ideologies for subverting popular will to corrupt ends.

Whilst I like representative democracy, I would unquestionably support a transition to direct democracy so each policy could be voted on by all citizens of a country and not just elected representives.

I also support heightened federalization of both policy and budgetary kinds.

Govermental Income
First off, I support raising taxes on the rich and large enterprises through any kind of tax policy (I'd also support enviromental taxes, but thats in the enviroment heading later). There has been little to no proof that raising taxes on the wealthy cause any decrease in economic activity or living standars... with a few caveats.