#self-ownership

[themotherofrevelation]

Unrepentant ownership of self is the holiest sacrament of wholeness.

[beinglibertarian]

Social Contract: Nobody Owes You Anything! - Red Dirt Liberty Report

Social Contract: Nobody Owes You Anything! – Red Dirt Liberty Report

The notion that there exists a ‘contract’ that obligates us to abide by laws and compulsory payments that we never agreed to persists to this day. It’s a common excuse for many people to justify infringements and say that we have accepted them by virtue of simply being born into an area where these obligations exist. The only option stated to opt out in such a social contract is that you must…

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[witchpunkboy]

To the libertarians (or others) going about telling people that they own themselves, you are more than likely making false statements. For the vast majority of the population, self-ownership is an end goal and not a present reality. For the many who are content with a lack of total freedom, it's not even a goal.

Most people don’t own a house - they probably rent an apartment.

Most people don’t really control their income - their boss does.

Most people don’t control their food source - they buy from a store.

I could go on.

Stop telling people they own themselves and start teaching them how to.

[plotinuslovemachine]

We have all heard of the sign above the Temple at Delphi, "Know thyself." One must begin this process by owning oneself. Claim self-ownership and deny the dominion of any master whether they be male, female or institution. If you cannot own yourself then you will never know your true nature. Throughout history, there have been many slaves who owned themselves completely despite the cruelty of law. This isn't an argument for slavery - it is abominable in every way - but an argument against wanting to live a privileged life if you wish to be spiritually free. Too many privileges lays waste to the vibrancy of life.  Persecution and oppression are hardships, yes, but can be necessary for progress. Again not an argument for, but a motivation for freedom.

PlotinusLoveMachine

[chen-qi-ang]

Why left libertarianism is not enough for equality - G.A. Cohen

"I shall call the bourgeois thought structure from which, so I claim, Marxism has failed to distinguish itself (sufficiently thoroughly) 'left-wing libertarianism'. ... A libertarian, in the present sense, is one who affirms the principle of self-ownership, which occupies a prominent place in the ideology of capitalism. The principle says ... that every person is morally entitled to full private property in his own person and powers, [i.e. ...], I do not own myself fully, if I am required, on pain of coercive penalty, and without my having contracted to do so, this lend my assistance to anyone else, or to transfer (part of) what I produce to anyone else. ... The libertarian principle of self-ownership has been put to both progressive and reactionary use in different historical periods. It was put to progressive use when it served as a weapon against the non-contractual claims of feudal lords to the labour of their serfs. By contrast it is, in our own time, put to reactionary use, by those who argue that the welfare state unjustifiably enforces assistance to the needy. ...

Libertarianism, as I have defined it, can be combined with contrasting principles with respect to ... the substances and powers of nature. [Thus,] libertarianism comes in both right and left wing versions. Right-wing libertarianism ... adds that self-owning persons can acquire unlimited original rights in virtually unrestricted unequal amounts of external natural resources. Left-wing libertarianism is, by contrast, egalitarian with respect to initial shares in external resources. ...

When social democrats (or liberals, in the American sense of the term) call for state intervention on behalf of the less well off, they are demanding that the better off lend them assistance -- they are accordingly, rejecting the thesis of self-ownership. The political rhetoric of Marxists is quite different. Marxists do not, in their critique of capitalist injustice, demand that the well off assist the badly off. In the Marxist focus, the badly off people under capitalism are the proletariat, and they are badly off not because they are (merely) unlucky, but because... well off people, or their forbears, have dispossessed them... [they] suffer injustice in the left libertarian sense that they do not get their share of the external world.

Now, the Marxist posture of non-opposition to left libertarianism ... cannot be sustained. What Marxists regard as exploitation - the appropriation, without recompense of surplus product - will indeed result when people are denied the external means of producing their existence. But such forced dispossession, while assuredly a sufficient causal condition of ... exploitation, is not also a necessary condition of it. For if all means of production were distributed equally across the population, and people retained self-ownership, then differences in talent and time-preference and degrees of willingness to take risk would bring about differential prosperity which would, in due course, enable some to hire others on terms that Marxists would regard as exploitative. ... [For example], if all means of production were socially owned and leased (renewable) to workers' co-operatives for finite periods, then differences other than ones in initial resource endowments could lead to indefinitely large degrees of inequality of position and, from there, to exploitation, with some co-ops in effect exploiting others.

Marxists have, then, exaggerated the extent to which what they consider exploitation depends on an initial inequality of rights in worldly assets. The story about the dispossession of the peasants from the soil does not impugn capitalism as such. It impugns only capitalisms with one sort of (dirty) pre-history. Libertarians, both left and right, would condemn capitalisms with that sort of prehistory, but Marxists are against capitalism as such, and they must therefore condemn a capitalism in which the exploitation of workers comes from the deft use by the exploiters of their self-owned powers on the basis of no special advantage in external resources. Libertarians could not call that exploitative, but Marxists must, and so, to prevent what they consider exploitation, an initial equal distribution of external resources is not enough. .... To block the generation of the exploitation characteristic of capitalism, people have to have claims on the fruits of the powers of other people, the claims which left-wing libertarianism denies."

- G. A. Cohen, "Self-ownership, communism, and equality"

[themotherofrevelation]

Unrepentant ownership of self is the best nostrum for heartbreak.

[beinglibertarian]

Misconceptions of Being Morally Right & Factually Correct

Misconceptions of Being Morally Right & Factually Correct

Last week, a quote from Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) appearance on 60 Minutes went viral. During the interview, Anderson Cooper mentioned the criticism she’s received for misstating statistics and “fuzzy math,” to which she replied, “I think that there’s a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right.”

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[christinemonk]

Unpacking the Notions of Self-ownership for Practical Application

The Mindset Transition: From Fixed to Growth

Your mindset creates your perception. If you create a positive one, you will positively see the world. A fixed mindset will be one where we’re trapped in our identity. Whereas a growth mindset is allowing us to be open to other options to keep exploring the person.

The Joy of Being Human

Live your life every moment. Make a sincere attempt to find meaning in everything that you’re doing. Apart from finding meaning in everything that you do, there is no other meaning to life. Being Unstuck from the Existential Crisis

The joy of being human is to make meaning where we find it. Discovering the Uncommon Sense Learning is about discovering new things, discovering new forms of behaviour, discovering new truths. And these are new truths Uncommon Sense. Sense because they’re true, Uncommon because we’re unique in knowing these truths. So that was the object of the exercise to write about competitive strategy as a kind of learning for strategy.

We can attach different kinds of meaning to life but the most important is being courageous.

These are existential moments in people’s life where they start to ask much deeper questions of themselves. I think that if we were to clarify the impediment, what’s holding us back, the barrier, almost certainly only in our mind. Confronting those questions, possibly in conversations, I think we’re much more likely to make the jump. And give ourselves the right to try something completely different.