House of Paine

shameless commerce

  this is# 1 
of  a loose 
  open form series 
 that bite by bite 
 reviews 
  commodity economies
past present and future

there are 
 two fantasy post rev beam ups

to

1) state -less - ness 

and

 2)market -less-ness 

this covers in a trifling 
every which way but straight

beam up fantasy # 2 

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shameless commerce 

" Observe the tradesman
 how he studies the passions of his customers
 not to correct
 but to pamper them
 the vileness of his flattery 
and 
the systematical constancy
 with which he exaggerates
 the merit of his commodities"
                senior godwin
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  commerce is what you get
 with markets
and all commerce ends 
              in shameless-ness 

 note well 
here before we plunge ahead 

capitalism 
 with its serpentine 
 exploitation of wagelabor 
          for private profit 
is only 
a proper subset of commerce

 commodity production 
any where you find it
implies commerce 
but 
not capitalism 

socialism may be
either in part or whole
 commercial too
as it was
 in part 
inside feudalism and classical  slavery  
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 lite or dark markets 

we battle the products and services 
markets  blandish 

thru 
legality  and illegality 

 markets persist thrive triumph  

all too clearly 
the need market met
proves 
laws are as  feeble 
as the peeble who make and obey them not  
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prohibitions purges 
artificial famines 
scurges 
sack cloth
hand chops 
 strenuous exercise 
fasts 
all sorts and rash 
 plinges into
virtue building
 nope
these lifter uppers 
 like the substances and actions
they abjure

despite the fine starts


tend to feel good 
 only for a while

till the back slide kicks in 

 folks 
 often
 righteously self loathing

like  burgerlers
stealing away their own strength 

seeing the self 's weakness
only in others
clamp on the markets seductions 

they are trying 
to escape beyond their own temptations
beyond themselves

in a fit of
 social klean uppery 
sometimes it works
 " like man
 with the flower drop outs "
 right 
a periodic  cry out 
 for a final  end 

 to all this shameless commerce
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 often they’ll  hit out at money 
  as the heart of commerce 

 hoping  thru money bans 
to get a choker on  markets

the old crack about
 repealing newtons laws 
so we can fly 
gives the real 
if not obvious 
   follyfalls
   waiting up  ahead 
for  bans of this sort 

 airplanes 
were not an act of congress 

well its not surprising folks 
confuse postivistic
 laws of states
 with the spontaneous 
laws of society 
and you are a fool 

unlike physical laws
the actions of  
volitional beings 
may seem amenible
 to legality in combo 
with
well swallowed morality
 
but let cleo show 
 its 
markets uber alles

cause like it or lump it 
markets in one shade or other 
 are still 
the devils due 
of commodity based societies 
and if there are other kinds 
 of now possible society wide 
  systems 
besides commodity societies
that can get  beyond year 5
 I ‘ll
eat my dick 

( remember 
 thats comin from 
pol pots official 
north American 
 english language 
head theoretician
 for the year IV  )

 below find a few notes
 on aspects of the market 

OK I'LL be 
 up front wid ya

most f thiz shit’s 
 in some ways too
 drift  woody 
and powdery to the touch 

bare with it 
or fuck off
i've got clinically established

A.D.D.

so i can't hell
skippin and scattin' 
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 from bright to dark
and back again 

 what pol pot taught me 


dark markets are fringy 

in a market uber alles society
like we all shop  about in
if not love about in 

  Mr Pol pot’s laws of markets 

“    prohibition of commodity exchange
 in general
 is less successful
 then any subsets prohibition ”
    
“ money will always re appear 
  if like spirits it remains banned
 it  regenerates
itself in some
 bootleg form  or other ”

“ markets are the mine shafts 
where the money  dragons 
 live 
but people will dig 
  mine shafts whether
    it s legal or not 
 cause they dig out
  personal  happiness 
 that way ”
  
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planocracy 

what uncle joe 
never lived to knew   

  administering with smart prices 
  is the only way 

stupid prices
kill off smart plans


  the task of planners 
  in a commodity society 
   is first and fore most 
“best guess”
the outcomes 
under various scenarios

  try watch
 try watch
  push pull 
 at the margins
  see what flies and what falls 

  state planning 
should be 
 the experimental method
 applied to society as a whole 

  local caution tales 

  public control freaks
     those dreaming of tall hats
 that come to a point 
  should look at the war on drugs
 really really carefully 

  prohibition Vs prescription 
  
    cigarettes
 show the range of the possible 
old ecoman 
 adage 
 “  tax sin don’t prohibit it ”

  tax markets
and at a rate
 that keeps them bright
  out in the open in living color
  on the credit card 

 make taxes 
  too high then
  segments one after the other 
 start to trade in the dark 
   till the light has mostly failed
   currency exchange 
 with a silly high official rate

   butlers law
   “ prohibition has 2 champions
     the parsons and the pirates ”


  if a law has failled
 but persists
be sure 
someone powerful benefits from its failure

take currency again 
fixed exchange rates
 the fix is  in all right

corruption is another name 
for dark markets

 dim
is better 
 no moral smegma
 gets hid out that way 

   rationing
 long lines and other waits
secondary bright markets
 

 all markets are 
incomplete markets
but they also all strive to complete themselves
  at least up to the sensible amoral 
 spontaneous specs
 of   people in all their 
 unbanable diversity 
 
Billy Blake said 
“ one law for the ox and lion is tyranny ”
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  the dynamic of social adjustment

  society  will adjust to any regime over time 
   
  the consequences of a policy 
have a definite time profile

hyper inflation as the result 
of nimbling  learning curves
 
expectation adjustment
 and 
     the rule of ingenuity 
 applies
 when people figure out how to adjust 
whats up goes down
and whats down goes up 

it ain’y as silly as commanding the tides 

but the contradiction between unit wills
and systemic laws 
well
  like that cabbage junker 
 bismark said
 “   state  force 
is nice but
      it ain’t god ”
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 planners limits 
 and humble pie 

  beware mad science 
beware Rotwang 

yes experiment is necessary 
for progress 
but fuck comrades 
 planners  just don’t
 know enough
 a lot of the time
  even about themselves
  so 
“ wouldn’t it be nice 
grand leaps need vetting ”

 letting a crack unit of mad planners 
try out
  just any damn thing
 probably
  costs too much 

 preempt the sirens call
     some times    


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    firm to firm transactions ( f to f ) (T)
   SUB TYPE A   F TO F (T)( M)
  SUB TYPE B     F TO F(T)(NM) 


if f to f  T’S are of a planned product flow type
  I.E. NON MARKET ( NM)
   in time the system will either
 mimic market results
  or fail  

how badly?

well obviously
it depends on the size of the  differences
  between official plan exchange rates
 and dark market shadow  rates
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next time 
sub market pricing 

rationing by waiting lists 
not coupon product equality