Bcon 300 —
Burkean Economics
Quantum Physics was the New Physics.
It was a new way to see.
Quantum Physics – the New Physics during Oppenheimer's time – saw a world of particles, particles in classes, classes with different powers, e.g., Bosons, Fermions and even Exotic Hadrons. Particles interact in predictable patterns, with others from their same class and with those from other classes.
After scientists saw a world populated by particles, they couldn't unsee it.
(Quantum Mechanics sees particles AND waves, the latter for another day.)
Burkean Economics is the New Economics.
It is a new way to see.
The New Economics sees our very human world as a collection of particles.
There are four classes of Burkean particles: Electrons & three kinds of Nucleons. Similar to the New Physics, the particles in the New Economics interact with each other in understandable ways, both with others from their class and with those from other classes, which may be inferior, peer or superior.
The new way to see the economic world around you is with you at the center. Around you are your fellow Burkean Electrons (families and singles) and various Nucleons, including GovNukes (governmental agencies), Providers (businesses, etc.) and SinSayers (religions, movements and other moral arbiters). People are Electrons in their personal lives, Nucleons at work, or tools of Nucleons at work.
The new way to see is to take note of the Nucleons in your life, along with the control they have over you, and over each other. They exert control via taxing, regulation, mandates, money supply, moralizing and other mechanisms.
(MECHANISMS are very important in Burkean Economics.)
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The more that Nucleons centralize control, the less control you have over your family and finances.
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The more that Nucleons decentralize control, the more control you have over your family and finances.
More4More occurs when Electrons have more control over our families and finances, as the Good Lord intended. Burkean Economics quantifies this.
You don't have to be a scientist to see it, but it helps to know the value of a dollar. Once you do see it, you can't unsee it. It's X-ray vision for Common Sense.
Real Classes vis-à-vis Contrived Classes
Marxist Classes
The term “Classes” in the context of economics immediately conjures Marxist Classes, historically Labor and Capital, the first canonically Oppressed, the second their supposed Oppressors.
That was then. 21st century Social-Marxism focuses first instead on “identity classes", to which gets conferred the sad saintly status of victimhood, for which "equity" is demanded, reparations often expected. Nor do current lefties still think much in terms of Labor and Capital. Instead, they advocate not owning anything, thus setting up ongoing conflict between Owners and Renters. Paradoxically, many Owners aren't affluent, while more than a few Renters are.
Identity Politics advances Marxist Classism and enforces groupthink.
Identity Politics is embraced by Left Wing parties the world over: American Democrats, Canadian Liberals, British Labor, German Social Democrats, Israeli Labor, Venezuelan Chavistas, ad absurdum.
No surprise then that Burkean Classes are entirely unrelated to Marxist Classes.
Burkean Classes
Burkean Classes have no truck with heritage or identity, instead are based on human nature. They model how real people act and interact: person-to-person, institution-to-person and institution-to-institution. In Burkean parlance, those are called electron-to-electron, nucleon-to-electron and nucleon-to-nucleon.
Burkean Classes are real classes.
Marxist Classes are contrived classes.
Another Burkean difference from Marxism is its balanced attention to all the Powers That Be. Social Marxism obsesses on identity groups on one hand, businesses on the other, thereby downplaying governmental agencies (GovNukes) and their Deep State control, let alone the role that religions (SinSayers) have in a polity, especially woke SinSayers like NetZero.
Burkean Classes capture how the world really works, based on how people tick.
The 4 Burkean Classes: Electrons • GovNukes • Providers • SinSayers
No matter your birth heritage, all of us are mere Electrons, albeit first as part of larger electrons, our families, consisting of our mother, father and siblings. Electrons can be measured by the number of households.
The New Physics & the New Economics depend on particle models.
The Burkean Economics particle model is described in eCon 300: The Particle Physics Model of Socionomic Systems.
Total BrainPower = tBP
tBP Formula
tBP = PSP
tBP = P x S(c) x P(f)
Total Brainpower(ΣClasses) = (Class Population, i.e., particle count) x (Class Smartness: Average IQ) x Average Power (Financial, Criminal, Familial, Regulatory, Monetary)
Smart Dollars = S$
Smart Dollars are the UOM for tBP.
Smart Dollars measure the product of financial power times the IQ behind it.
The California Energy Economy can produce a low of S$35 Trillion to a high of S$55 Trillion, from the Left & Right respectively.
On the Left, cCon sucks California dry, producing little more than half the S$ as dCon.
On the Right, dCon pumps California full of money and freedom, producing almost twice the S$ as cCon, to its Left.
BrainPower Adapts
Brainpower adapts to the form that power takes. It focuses on how that power is controlled, also by whom and/or what controls it.
Graphing
[Author's Note: Graphing is TBD, being worked on currently.]
Ratios of Electron tIQ & Power to each class of Nucleon by Left, Right & Center
Power Forms
Control = Power
When Mr. & Mrs. Smith get taxed at lower rates, they have more control over their money, axiomatically. When taxed at higher rates, GovNukes have more control over their money, axiomatically.
Money = Power
Money Honey tickles the tummy. Clothes, cars, cities, all take money. Money is power. Everybody on the street knows that.
Power is best with individual electrons.
Financial Power is measured by the agency electrons have over their own money.
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100% tax rate means they have zero control over their money.
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50% tax rate gives them 50% control over their money.
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30% tax rate means 70% control over their money.
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10% tax rate means 90% control over their money.
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0% tax rate means complete control over their money, and flying pigs.
Parenting = Power
Burkean Economics works beyond the realm of finance. It is equally applicable in the realm of family, especially parenting.
Parenting isn’t a word I like. It erases the fundamental gender roles of Fatherhood & Motherhood. But the power over children must rest with their parents, Mom & Dad, so Parenting it is.
Parental Power is measured by the control parents have over their own family. When GovNukes impede parents with their God-given parental duties, parents have less control over their family. Examples include allowing dysphoric boys in the girls room and strapping young men to compete in women's swimming. Or, not telling the parents that Jack goes by Jill from 9 to 3, or that men in falsies will be reading to their kindergartens. cCon actions like those rob sacred agency from parents.
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Numbering Note
The Burkean Economics particle model is originally described in eCon 300 - The Particle Physics Model of Socionomic Systems. (Yes, eCon 300 should be 301 and this eCon 301 should be 300. Unfortunately, the Particle Physics Model was created a decade prior to this more fulsome overview of Burkean Economics, so odd numbering stays.)