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0476 Chapter one is titled, “The Goldman Rule”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At first, I thought, “He can’t be talking about a gold man<\/em>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or maybe, he refers to a god man<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0477 The title calls to mind some ancient civilization, who has a king, blessed by a god with a particular trait.  Everything that he touches turns to gold.  Such a story is easy to debunk as scientifically impossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, one lesson, “He who has the gold makes the rules.”, is not so easy to refute, and leads to an awkward corollary, “He who makes the rules gets the gold.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0478 The same type of circularity<\/em> is on display at the heart of the psychometric sciences<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He who controls the financial exchanges2H<\/sub>,<\/em> makes the organizational objectives2V<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He who makes the organizational objectives2V<\/sub>,<\/em> will get to control financial exchange2H<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0479 By the way, have you heard about the value2b<\/sub> of central-bank digital currency?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just asking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0480 Through the hybridization of capitalist and socialist expertise, reformatted into an image of empirio-schematic science, the market3H<\/sub> can manifest the potential of righteousness1V<\/sub>, not directly, but indirectly, through value2b<\/sub>. Similarly, sovereign power can potentiate order1V<\/sub> capable of nudging prices1H<\/sub>, not directly, but indirectly, through value2b<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That means that the capitalist gold man<\/em> and the socialist god man<\/em> find opportunity1c<\/sub> in modeling values2b<\/sub> that lead to actionable judgments2c<\/sub> for the one of scientism3c<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0481 Here is a picture of an empirio-normative judgment<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The specialized disciplinary languages of experts on capitalism and socialism<\/em> (relation,<\/em> thirdness) brings a normative narrative, exhibiting the intelligibility of value from the psychometric sciences<\/em> (what ought to be,<\/em> secondness), into relation with observations of a universality in what people say, corresponding to phenomena salient to the psychometric sciences<\/em> (what is,<\/em> firstness).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0482 Two crucial qualifiers are depicted in red.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The psychometric model, the normative narrative, and what ought to be<\/em> need to exhibit intelligibility<\/em>.  Since this element is imbued with secondness, it should be intelligible enough to enter the slot for actuality2<\/sub><\/em> when the actionable judgment<\/em>unfolds into a category-based nested form<\/em>.  Intelligibility must seem real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Observations and measurements of phenomena of what people say,<\/em> corresponding to what is,<\/em> need to seem universal,<\/em>rather than biased, selective or conjured out of thin air.  No scientist would dare say, “I made up the phenomena that I observed and measured.”  Contemporary marketers and journalists take note.  You are experts in the psychometric sciences<\/em>.  You cannot make up what people are saying<\/em> in order to show that your models of value2b<\/sub> are supported by data<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0483 For the scientismist one3c<\/sub>, the empirio-normative judgment2c<\/sub> offers the opportunity1c<\/sub> to broadcast an interventional sign-vehicle (SVi<\/sub>) to be received by a sign-interpretant consisting of the reason3a,1a<\/sub> of people on the scrappy-player level (SIi<\/sub>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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0484 The resulting interventional sign-object (SOi<\/sub>) is what people think [that may or may not be objectified as] what people are willing to say<\/em>.  Individuals<\/em> say what they think<\/em>.  Stakeholders <\/em>say what they feel that they are being told to think<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0485 This brings me to the introduction of Ramaswamy’s book<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the very first statement, Vivek Ramaswamy proclaims himself to be a traitor to his class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does this mean?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0486 Ramaswamy is an individual.  Individuals stand before God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His class are stakeholders.  Stakeholders objectify the interventional sign-vehicles<\/em> broadcast by the Forum for Universal Contemporary Knowledge and Unified Practices.<\/em>  Stakeholders stand before the dominating deity of the Fourth Battle of the Enlightenment Gods<\/em> and proclaim, “We submit!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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