Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • Funny. Enough aspies master Propertarianism and we have political Mentats. 🙂

    Funny. Enough aspies master Propertarianism and we have political Mentats. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-15 04:00:00 UTC

  • ECONOMICS OF HUGS Ukrainian women are amazing. So it’s a good thing that hugs ar

    ECONOMICS OF HUGS

    Ukrainian women are amazing. So it’s a good thing that hugs are inexpensive to produce. Otherwise I would live in poverty.

    🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-15 03:54:00 UTC

  • LAW: CROWDFUNDING – YOU’RE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MONEY (virtue of common law)

    http://www.businesspundit.com/ftc-decides-failed-crowdfunding-companies-are-responsible-for-paying-back-customers/NEW LAW: CROWDFUNDING – YOU’RE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MONEY

    (virtue of common law)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-15 03:21:00 UTC

  • CITIES IN THEMSELVES ARE TEMPORARY SPATIAL INFRASTRUCTURE Ever play the computer

    CITIES IN THEMSELVES ARE TEMPORARY SPATIAL INFRASTRUCTURE

    Ever play the computer simulation ‘life’? what happens as the rate increases? Patterns emerge that were previously imperceptible. Cities themselves are temporary infrastructure.

    —-“the U.S consists of old and new cities. New cities such as Las Vegas have less “crumbling infrastructure” because the capital stock was built in the last 30 years. Older cities such as Detroit and Cleveland and even Los Angeles have an older public capital stock (roads, sewer pipes, airports). As more people move to new cities, the old cities have fewer Congressmen representing them and this leads to less pork flowing to such places. Spatial cross-city political economy is an important subfield that political scientists should be working on.”—- ibid

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-15 03:18:00 UTC

  • IS A SUBURBAN NATION (WE ARE WEALTHY) —“we are a suburban nation. If suburbani

    http://greeneconomics.blogspot.com/2015/06/durable-but-crumbling-urban.htmlAMERICA IS A SUBURBAN NATION (WE ARE WEALTHY)

    —“we are a suburban nation. If suburbanites pay the bulk of the taxes but the but bulk of the infrastructure is located in the crumbling center cities, then do suburbanites view these investments as spatial redistribution? I realize that suburbanites do travel to center cities but more and more suburbanites live and work in the suburbs and have little contact with the center city. Read Glaeser and Kahn 2004. “—

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-15 03:16:00 UTC

  • CHRISTIANITY AND NEO-PURITANISM(SECULAR CHRISTIANITY) ARE AN EVOLUTIONARY DISADV

    CHRISTIANITY AND NEO-PURITANISM(SECULAR CHRISTIANITY) ARE AN EVOLUTIONARY DISADVANTAGE – SUICIDAL

    Kinship extension is inferior to aggression.

    Expand or die.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-15 03:12:00 UTC

  • WHY DOESN’T CHRISTIANITY ALWAYS WORK EVERYWHERE? Well it does really. You can se

    WHY DOESN’T CHRISTIANITY ALWAYS WORK EVERYWHERE?

    Well it does really. You can see that everywhere it’s adopted. You will get a better economy. Period. When Christians leave, the economy will get worse. Period.

    But incentives are incentives are incentives. So non-european countries have serious impediments to high trust.

    1) Authoritarian political orders evolved from dispute resolution such as the irrigation areas of Egypt, Mesopotamia and China.

    2) Lack of advanced economies promoting ‘everyone is a customer’ – often in the same places.

    4) Diversity and competition too great to overcome. (Levant, Central Asia, Arabia.)

    3) Inbreeding and tribal marriage inhibit development of ‘everyone a potential mate, and everyone a potential customer’.

    5) Genetic predisposition that evolved under higher selection pressures (group selection rather than individual selection via mating).

    (h/t paul)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-15 03:09:00 UTC

  • THE CHRISTIAN IDEA The Christian idea is to create high trust by extending kinsh

    THE CHRISTIAN IDEA

    The Christian idea is to create high trust by extending kinship ‘love’ to non-kin, by ignoring our animal impulses evolved for status competition and accumulation, thereby reducing the friction of familism, clannishness and tribalism, and increasing the velocity of cooperation.

    By attributing status to extension of kinship love to non-kin, Christian groups eliminate status by ‘cheating’ in favor of the family or tribe. Although this means that many Mediterranean Catholics practice low trust chirstianity by retaining familial insurance and kin selection. While protestant Christians eliminate even familial insurance via the absolute nuclear family.

    This behavior is necessary for the development of an advanced economy. And it separates the west and Japan from the rest.

    This behavior is also the opposite of the Levantine religions which advocate dualist, polylogical ethics by exacerbating kin selection at the tribal level even while eliminating it at the familial level. So we can see lowest-trust Islam, next-lowest trust Judaism, low trust catholicism, and high trust protestantism. And when we order them this way we see that this order reflects the number of territorial competitors.

    It is also (probably) true that westerners are less genetically biased against outsiders (due to more circumpolar hunter-gatherer evolutionary pressures) and less aggressive (lower testosterone) and more able to take advantage of it (higher average verbal IQ).

    But all that means is that westerners are more fertile genetic ground for extension of kinship love to non-kin.

    The church outlawing cousin marriage in order to break up the great families was equally influential.

    So it is one thing to acknowledge the central subtle principle of Christianity, and to grasp its dramatic economic and political benefits, and quite another to conflate the dogma, rules and justifications as other than primitive law.

    Cheers

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-15 02:48:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2015-06-07/trade-and-trouble?utm_content=buffer787f5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-15 02:19:00 UTC

  • Where Does The American ‘obsession’ With The Constitution Come From?

    BECAUSE OF THE PRINCIPLE OF “Rule of Law“

    The U.S. Constitution sets limits upon what a people in a government can do, and what people in the citizenry can do, that cannot be modified. Under democracy, the ‘rule of law’ has been intentionally modified via propaganda to mean ‘rule by law we agree upon’ so that the government can enact any law that it desires. The american system was designed to make it HARD to pass laws, so that the government could do as little as possible.  And presidents, especially since Franklin D. Roosevelt, have undermined that constitution whenever possible.

    Americans historically operate under the anglo saxon principle of voluntary order: “I will allow the government certain actions for our common good, and disallow the government all other actions. If the government violates those actions I will replace it with a government that does not.”

    https://www.quora.com/Where-does-the-American-obsession-with-the-constitution-come-from