- 29 Dec 2009 21:36
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But you can do this without even having to fiddle about with weights if you use a 2-axis system. Everybody can look at the same chart and immediately know where they would like to live or which party they would like to vote for, rather than having to produce a completely different chart for every person on the planet.
For example (I've guessed at rough levels of behavioural freedom, so don't take the numbers as anything other than a basic illustration)
You can see that Zimbabwe and Denmark have pretty much identical tax rates, but that Zimbabwe places far more personal restrictions on you than Denmark does. Similarly moving from the USA to singapore becomes a tradeoff in personal freedom for financial freedom. Denmark, the UK, and the USA have different levels of taxation with similar levels of personal freedom. Anybody can look at this graph and know which country they would rather live in, based on their own preferences. Looking at your graph, all they would know is which country you would prefer to live in, based on completely unknown preferences that you have applied to different freedoms.
These qualitative differences can be objectively measured, and a single chart produced, which everybody can read easily. That makes it far more appropriate than the utterly facile single-axis chart, which is pretty much just a line of "Stuff DanDaMan likes" v "Stuff DanDaMan doesn't like", and thus of value to nobody else.
My "simplistic" system is by far the best because I can weigh freedoms from country to country and then place them accordingly on the chart.
But you can do this without even having to fiddle about with weights if you use a 2-axis system. Everybody can look at the same chart and immediately know where they would like to live or which party they would like to vote for, rather than having to produce a completely different chart for every person on the planet.
For example (I've guessed at rough levels of behavioural freedom, so don't take the numbers as anything other than a basic illustration)
You can see that Zimbabwe and Denmark have pretty much identical tax rates, but that Zimbabwe places far more personal restrictions on you than Denmark does. Similarly moving from the USA to singapore becomes a tradeoff in personal freedom for financial freedom. Denmark, the UK, and the USA have different levels of taxation with similar levels of personal freedom. Anybody can look at this graph and know which country they would rather live in, based on their own preferences. Looking at your graph, all they would know is which country you would prefer to live in, based on completely unknown preferences that you have applied to different freedoms.
These qualitative differences can be objectively measured, and a single chart produced, which everybody can read easily. That makes it far more appropriate than the utterly facile single-axis chart, which is pretty much just a line of "Stuff DanDaMan likes" v "Stuff DanDaMan doesn't like", and thus of value to nobody else.
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Georgist / Regulated Marketeer / Moderate Civic and Territorial Nationalist / Moderate Anti-Interventionist
Political Compass
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Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.31
Georgist / Regulated Marketeer / Moderate Civic and Territorial Nationalist / Moderate Anti-Interventionist
Political Compass
Economic Left/Right: -0.75
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -4.31
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