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• Compendium: Solidarity as the Work-Standard Alternative to “Liquidity”

  By Duty and Honor on July 31, 2021 • ( 0 )

  The term ‘Liquidity’ in Liberal Capitalism refers to the rate at which anything can be bought or sold at a given frequency without any changes to its Price. It usually applies for most assets and securities and their subsequent conversion… Read More ›

• Update (29 July 2021)

  By Duty and Honor on July 29, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Yesterday, I had been revisiting and reviewing the earlier entries in the SMP Compendium from over the past two months. I needed to read some of them again in order to brainstorm how I was going to formulate equations for… Read More ›

• All Economic Life stems from a Political and Social Life

  By Duty and Honor on July 27, 2021 • ( 0 )

  To begin, I thought I should confess by stating my field of expertise is not Economics but Political Science, specifically International Relations. My interest in Economics revolves around a recurring problem that I constantly encounter within my own discipline whenever… Read More ›

• On the Topic of Post-Keynesianism

  By Duty and Honor on July 26, 2021 • ( 0 )

  “Post-Keynesianism” has an intriguing pedigree, even by Keynesian standards. Based on what I had researched about that heterodox economic school of thought, Post-Keynesianism strives to transcend the ideological dogmatism inherent within Liberal Capitalism. It is critical of the mainstream variants… Read More ›

• Update (26 July 2021)

  By Duty and Honor on July 26, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Most of the basic fundamentals regarding the specifications of the Work-Standard have already been discussed. There is now enough information regarding how it functions in theory and practice. All that remains at this point is to continue outlining the mathematics… Read More ›

• Compendium: World Reserve Currencies

  By Duty and Honor on July 24, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Even though the Bretton Woods System is dead, the US Dollar still continues to be the “World Reserve Currency.” Everyone knows the Value of the US Dollar within Exchange Rates and everyone outside the Western world clamors for it during… Read More ›

• Compendium: Why Vocations need Geld to contribute Arbeit

  By Duty and Honor on July 23, 2021 • ( 0 )

  As bizarre as this may seem at first, Vocations do require specific amounts of Geld from the State in order to contribute Arbeit to the Life-Energy Reserve. Geld is not just needed for paying the workforce of the Vocational Civil… Read More ›

• Update (22 July 2021)

  By Duty and Honor on July 22, 2021 • ( 0 )

  I have at least two upcoming SMP Compendium entries that needs to be finished. As of late, it remains to be seen whether I should continue working on them or consider writing other entries. The entries in question are related… Read More ›

• Update (21 July 2021)

  By Duty and Honor on July 21, 2021 • ( 0 )

  Everyday perceptions of Technology tend to describe it as being an “instrument” or a “human activity.” While those are understandable and acceptable definitions of Technology, neither properly addresses the true “essence” of Technology. As mentioned in Part VII of the… Read More ›

• Ernst Jünger’s Der Arbeiter (Pt. VII of VII)

  By Duty and Honor on July 21, 2021 • ( 1 )

  The technological changes described in Der Arbeiter later became the topic of immense interest for Martin Heidegger. Heidegger ascertained the possibilities of Technology undermining the Dasein of everyday people as Beings-in-the-World. Whereas Spengler was arriving at his conclusions in Man… Read More ›