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I keep mentioning this because countries that have the largest levels of economic freedom are among the poorest, i.e. many 3rd world countries. no state interference stops the poor fisherman in the philippines or the farmer in the arid brasilian north-east from starting enterprises. They don't...

are you talking about websites that you own/have access to the html? in that case you could use google analytics or some comparable service. Easy to use and comprehensive.

I don't see how dodgy blogs are trustworthy sources. and why should the free market be able to reflect this? Yes, i agree, the most free economies, those in the poor third world, are also having the lowest GDP, whereas huge statemanaged economies like that of the US (just look at the size of...

According to which definition of fairness? The market reflects the preferences of the most powerful. the (democratic) government -- at least in theory -- represents some kind of average over the whole population.

I don't believe these figures. More precisely, i don't believe that 20% of the US population account for 80% of the individual taxes. I don't know exactly how federal and state taxes break up there. This would be because you say so? Having lived in scandinavia and the US, I don't believe...

Moreover, the use of "gay" in this context is often followed by "s and lesbians". and prefixed by "if you don't like"

I know that, but that just beggs the question. You said: Hence what you are saying really is this: What people deserve is what "the intersection of supply and demand" pays them. So you in effect equate one's due with one's factual income, aka Norms = facts. Why should "the intersection of...

If there is the possibility of taking money somewhere else, it is nto really taxed off. Not so fast. tax structure can be such that there is some wage differentiation but not too much. In primary school I wanted to be the best pupil, despite there being only six degrees of differentiation...

This statement suggests that you have an objective measure of how much a worker deserves. Can you explain this measure to me please?

The point is that the rich have a tendency to invest their wealth in non-productive ways: yachts private planes fast cars, champagne. If that money was taxed off, it could be spent more productively, in infrastructure, research, develpment aid, education.

I didn't say it was. But (1) gate's financial success is dependent on IBM's early 80s decision to sell their PC with MS-DOS, and MS-DOS was a crap rip-off, (2) the subsequent versions of MS-DOS/Windows have mostly been inferior to to offers of the competition. Only recently MS has been putting...

Windows was not a novel technology when it was developed. It was a rather crappy rip-off of other existing operating systems. According to almost any measure you like: stability, speed, ease of use, security, software structure ... Yes it was a standard, but any other choice would have been a...

Clearly there is a very strong positive correlation between parental income and educational levels. There is an even stronger correlation between parental educational level and the academic achievements of their children. Japan is a very interesting country to look at if you want to see a very...

Which technology has BG developed? As far as i am aware none. Until recently, the software Microsoft has developed has been inferior to that of the competition in most respects. BG/MS is a really bad choice for showing of the virtues of unrestraint wage differentiation.

Once, i fixed my shoelaces in a staircase. When i stood up, George Clinton stood next to me, green dreadlocks and all! I shook his and and thanked him for all his amazing music. My uncle is a direct (and illegitimate) descendent of a french queen.

Similarly, it cannot be brushed away by suggesting that after the revolution and after money is abolished, the problem is no longer relevant. Whatever the merits of relative vs. absolute poverty, there is no reason to believe that libertarian economic organisation is particularly congenial to...

But there's no particularly strong reason to believe that the universe is a system of the kind that thermodynamics applies to.

That's not really logic. it's semantics. If you assume that a "rule" means some if-then kind of construct that does not admit exceptions, then it's analytically true that rules have no exceptions. but that's not how the term "rule" is used in everyday language. in praxi, one always leaves...

Not sure you are joking, but the point of "you have reached ..." messages is to avoid situations where somebody accidentally dials a wrong number and leaves a message, that will not go to its intended recipient, without the caller realising that (s)he has dialled the wrong number ... Happened to...

What's wrong with fashion statements?