Thoughts About The Corporation

I have radical implicit faith in all my friends.  I believe that together we can create Corporation 2.0.

The Story of the Corporation: Once upon a time in good faith we invented a way for property to be held and action to be taken anonymously by a society we have come to call the corporation.  This invention became so successful that it achieved what in other fields we would call The Singularity.  It reached the point at which it took on a life of its own, the point at which the tail began wagging the dog.  It wasn't until it reached The Singularity that certain defects in our invention became obvious.  We began to notice that the device had an unlimited growth mandate, and that it was capable of efficiently pursuing that mandate.  We noticed that the device was wired for short term performance at the expense of long term survival.

I founded NPS Global Engineers in 2017 as an experiment in Corporation 2.0.

What Are The Best Countries on Earth?

This is a 2025 update of my 2014 post about Best Countries. In 2014 took my first impartial look at which countries on earth are doing best at the factors that matter to me. I looked up maps and tables for Income Equality, Corruption, Homicide Rate, World Citizenship, Healthy Average Life Expectancy, Annual Work Hours Per Worker, Abortion Rate, Capital Punishment Rate, Freedom, Economic Freedom. I chose the first of these factors because I thought it would be nice to live in a country where I had lots of free time in health and safety without listening to a lot of griping about the government and the rich.  I added more factors later, some of them by request. If you can think of important factors I omitted, please leave me a comment. Here are the numbers and the countries that are doing best on earth.

NPS Global Engineers - a multi-national corporation conglomerate with no owners - my 30-second pitch

This is my 30-second pitch for NPS Global Engineers, a conglomerate that currently has two member corporations (2021 update: four).

I am a CEO of a multi-national conglomerate who lives in voluntary (relative) poverty. Here's what I'm doing:

Fast with Sam Young for LDS Child Protection

This is a rigorous log of my participation with Sam Young in a fast for LDS Child Protection.

Documenting my Democracy Spring arrests

In 2016 I was arrested three times with Democracy Spring protesting for campaign finance reform (anti-corruption). Here I am documenting videos practicing love while protesting.

Proverbs

1. They had to kick out a coyote to build my condo.
2. Great concentrations of power are dangerous.
3. Who gets to say who
Can do what
About what somebody does
With this?
That is the whole question of human government and conflict.
4. I'm a time traveler. I've traveled to the future and I can tell you that it is not bleak. Americans finally have the Republic which they deserve and they have the ultimate say over every element and decision of society. Be not afraid because in time, all truth will be revealed. It will not be pleasant but it will be necessary in order to obtain true freedom.
I can give you the recipe for free. I must warn you though, it will change your life and redefine your reality so much so that your current reality will cease to exist. If you are ready then here it is....It might seem nonsensical, but I can guarantee you it will work. You must forgive your worst enemies completely, you must have compassion for them. Do something for them and tell them you were wrong and you forgive them. Then you must do several acts of kindness, random acts. Then you must acknowledge the fact that everything you think you know is wrong, and you must accept the fact that you will never know the entire truth. Just let go for you will see that all is not so, and it is simultaneously everything. Just realize that you are nothing and you are everything. Good luck. Although I know luck has nothing to do with it, because I have seen the future. (AnthonyG at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JbCvtJzsVI&lc=UgzcC0OMvE-74TA_bml4AaABAg.8_RLcjyhT9s8b1kyWK6_0O)

Revision of Bastiat's The Law

The Law (Stirling Translation, 1874)
Published by Mises Institute
Revised by Tom Haws 2018 [This is a progress draft. Comments welcome.]
[The original essay was published in French in 1850. This piece was published in English as part of Essays on Political Economy (G.P. Putnams & Sons, 1874) with authoritative translation by British economist Patrick James Stirling, with changes by David Wells. Spellings are American English.]

Blessed Are You

Blessed are you landlords who keep rent affordable instead of fix and flip.
Blessed are you leaders who push budgets local.
Blessed are you who choose work you care about instead of ransack and run.
Blessed are you who see yourself in your opponents and your opponents in yourself.

Early reactions to NPS Global

Early reactions to the progress of NPS Global have been very encouraging.

Why part-time jobs are good and full-time jobs are harmful

In Thursday's debate between Senators Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders, an erroneous bit of conventional wisdom was invoked as usual without challenge. The idea is that 

Part-time jobs are of low quality and full-time jobs are the desired norm. Only the unfortunate work multiple jobs. 

Some of our laws have been written to reinforce this norm. But the evil underbelly of this tenet is the persistent legacy of low wages.

NPS Global 1.0 - My first explanation of where NPS came from and how it became a reality this week

I guess I need to start telling the NPS story: No owners, Part-time freelancers, Small self-managing teams. The t-shirt shown summarizes the NPS values. There is a non-owned corporate account, about 8 people on the first team, and a pretty good history of projects through the pipeline since June 2017. You could hire us, join us, advise us, help us, or copy us. At the moment, what we need most is another P.E. or more.

Introduction to the Real Estate Non-commoditability Market Inefficiency

What I mean by non-commoditability is the inability of some types of merchandise to act like commodities in markets. It's too long a word. Maybe you can tell me the correct word or a better word.

Turn and Drop: A Counter-infiltration Tactic for Non-violent Direct Actions

Arab Spring was yet another example of the irresistible trend of non-violent populist movements toward violence.  Marginal violent actions by infiltrators or violent factions have explosive power to hijack and doom revolutionary movements.  The toolbox of rigorously trained non-violent revolutionaries is incomplete without effective counter-infiltration (counter-hijacking) tactics.  This post presents one: Turn and Drop

Minimum Wage and The Balance of Power -- Labor Market Musing

Minimum wage laws are a Band-Aid. They are harmful because they amount to price-fixing. They are necessary because the balance of power in the labor market disfavors laborers.

Since I am passionate against price-fixing and passionate against systemic imbalances of power, I am passionate about brainstorming labor market reforms that dissolve demands for minimum wage laws by shifting the balance of power toward laborers. So this is a brainstorming post about labor market reforms that may replace minimum wage laws.

The Master's Money Rules v2016

This is the turnstyle that leads to eternal life, and there aren't many who find it. The arched double gate that leads to a living death is where the throngs pass. But you, go find the turnstyle and go in there.

Devise World Peace: Part 1, Consolation Payments

Under the premise that achieving world peace is largely a matter of using greater love to access greater creativity and ingenuity, this post explores the creative idea of using Consolation Payments as a device to create peace in an age of terrorism.

¿Qué es Democracy Spring? Nuestra meta, nuestros cantos

Aquí voy a dar un poco del sentido de nuestra marcha o sea movimiento por sus cantos

1
Una persona
Un voto
Quita el dinero
De los políticos

Dinero no
Votos si
Yo creo que
Ganamos ya

Desde Filly
A DC
Marchamos
Por democracia

Cuando llegamos
A DC
Nos sentaremos
Hasta ganar


2
Oye, Washington, no nos cotorreas.
Los donadores mandan Y tú los obedeces.
A los votadores no has dado caso.
Y nuestra marcha trae el ruido a tu casa


Oye, Washington, no nos cotorreas.
Los donadores mandan Y tú los obedeces.
A los votadores no nos prestas atención.
El ruido te traemos porque no hay otra opción.

3
El dinero no es expresión. S.A. no es una persona.

Que El dinero no es expresión. S.A. no es una persona.

La primavera de democracia una persona un voto

La primera de democracia el movimiento se te viene

What is Democracy Spring? Songs and chants from Washington DC

Chant 1: echo rap
By Andy Argo

Yo, Washington, don't give us no sass!
Y'all been takin' orders from the donor class.
Y'all been ignorin' the people's voice.
So we're marching to Washington to bring the noise.

Yo, Washington, don't give us no sass!
Y'all been takin' orders from the donor class.
Y'all been ignorin' the people's voice.
We're bringin' the noise cuz we got no choice.

Theme song lyrics

( See melody and rhythm at the bottom of this post.)

Spring is coming.
Make some room.
Democracy (justice/freedom) is growing
When Love Is In Bloom.

Chant 2: echo cadence

(I need to straighten this one out a bit, but this is the general gist in at least some sort of order.)

Money ain't speech; corporations aren't people.
(I say) Money ain't speech; corporations aren't people.
Democracy spring: the movement's coming to you.
Democracy spring: the people's voice will be heard.
Democracy spring: stand up! Stand up!
Democracy spring: Sit-in! Sit-in!

One person one vote.

Listen up and take note!

Free and equal,

From coast to coast.

Non-violent action,

The people's hope.

Chant 3: echo yell

This is the most popular chant of the March and of the week.

One person;
One vote.
Money out
Of politics.
Money out!
Voters in!
I believe
That we will win!

Chant 4: echo boot camp

I wrote this one. It has not spread. :-)

Listen, we got a lot to say!
But we don't got a billion bucks to pay.
We been marching every day.
Marched from Philly to have our say.
Big money takes away our choice.
Money out! Give the voters voice.

Theme song melody

(Underscore following solfege indicates octave down.)

mi re do do
sol fa mi
mi do do la la sol_ sol_
sol_ fa_ fa_ sol_ sol_ do

Theme song rhythm

(Comma indicates measure bar line)

half half, eighth double-dotted-half,

half half, dotted-half

quarter, quarter eighth dotted-quarter quarter, eighth eighth-quarter

quarter, quarter quarter, eighth dotted-quarter, whole

This was typed and dictated on a smartphone. I hope to correct and clarify it when I get time on a real computer.

Dear IRS: I Will Not Pay My 2014 Income Tax

Today I sent my first War Tax Resistance letter to the IRS as coordinated by the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee.  As explained below, this is neither a money-saving scheme nor a get-out-of-jail-free scheme.

Sortition: Solving Political Corruption Through Lottery Selection of Legislators

As boring as the subject is, campaign finance corruption is probably the single core obstacle to good governance in the USA.