Comments on: How Do You Like Them Apples(tm)? http://c4ss.org/content/1290 building awareness of the market anarchist alternative Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:02:45 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: planetaryjim http://c4ss.org/content/1290/comment-page-1#comment-939 planetaryjim Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:23:05 +0000 http://c4ss.org/?p=1290#comment-939 In 1946 an ounce of gold was $35. Today's price shows about $1058.50. Today's price is 30.24 times the 1946 price, so a reasonable standard would say that $500,000 in 1946 would now be worth $15.12 million. Be careful of government issued figures on monetary inflation. I prefer a market standard. (Using silver, instead, I get $6.8 million.) For 1976, the price went above and below $125. Picking that as a mean value, I get $5,645 for the computer in today's dollars. What you are writing about is a set of excellent arguments in favor of agorism. It doesn't work at all with anti-propertarian anarchism. The government actively interferes with and in many instances forbids innovations in rocketry and space travel. Those of us who have tried to break out into the space frontier with the same types of innovative thinking have been shut down hard. Orphans of Apollo tracks Walt Anderson's particular experiences with Mir Corp. Some think that I got off easy with Space Travel Services. Given the new level of police state at the airports, it seems clear that the masters don't want the slaves to fly. In 1946 an ounce of gold was $35. Today’s price shows about $1058.50. Today’s price is 30.24 times the 1946 price, so a reasonable standard would say that $500,000 in 1946 would now be worth $15.12 million. Be careful of government issued figures on monetary inflation. I prefer a market standard.

(Using silver, instead, I get $6.8 million.)

For 1976, the price went above and below $125. Picking that as a mean value, I get $5,645 for the computer in today’s dollars.

What you are writing about is a set of excellent arguments in favor of agorism. It doesn’t work at all with anti-propertarian anarchism.

The government actively interferes with and in many instances forbids innovations in rocketry and space travel. Those of us who have tried to break out into the space frontier with the same types of innovative thinking have been shut down hard. Orphans of Apollo tracks Walt Anderson’s particular experiences with Mir Corp. Some think that I got off easy with Space Travel Services.

Given the new level of police state at the airports, it seems clear that the masters don’t want the slaves to fly.

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