Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • Efficiency and equality are dirty words. Break up the eurozone. That’s what shou

    Efficiency and equality are dirty words.

    Break up the eurozone. That’s what should be done.

    Why create another even more totalitarian bureaucracy that abuses our freedoms in europe to match the one in the USA?

    THe west is special because no one was unable to consolidate power, and had to rely upon the balance of powers, specialization and trade.

    China solidified, the muslims and ottomans solidified, the hindus solidified at least somewhat, and look what happened. The west, despite being poor and backward invented the industrial revolution TWICE. No one else invented it even once.

    The balance of power and freedom are more important to us and to humanity than efficiency and equality.

    “Efficiency and equality are dirty words.”

    Source date (UTC): 2011-11-24 16:41:00 UTC

  • The learning curves and forgetting curves of individuals in society, are shorter

    The learning curves and forgetting curves of individuals in society, are shorter than the learning curves and the forgetting curves of money in society. … fiat money makes it far too easy to boil the frog.

    🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2011-11-19 16:36:00 UTC

  • “Capitalism without failure is like Christianity without Hell. You have to have

    “Capitalism without failure is like Christianity without Hell. You have to have atonement for ridiculous levels of spending both the US and Europe have gone through. The spending idiocy of the world is going to catch up to itself. And that’s where we are today.” — Kyle Bass, Hayman Capital

    Source date (UTC): 2011-11-19 07:55:00 UTC

  • Ask Men is conducting it’s annual top 99 survey. But you can’t nominate anyone.

    Ask Men is conducting it’s annual top 99 survey. But you can’t nominate anyone. Sure, you can vote for the obvious Nicole Kidman and Ann Hathaway. But what good is a survey without Emily De Ravin and Sienna Miller, or even Gwyneth Paltrow? (And what is Pippa doing on that list?) I’ve been working on a long essay on beauty for the past couple of years, on and off. (Did you know people are actually getting better looking?) But like fashion, beauty is becoming a domain of the lower classes, just as have become the arts. Sigh. More vulgar and sexual than representative of human excellence, perfection and grace. … I follow The Sartorialist daily. (Everyone who loves fashion should.) But he captures, better than anyone, the reality that it is a product all too often of the lower middle, and proletarian classes. On the other hand, Ralph Lauren and Gucci pretty much have a creative monopoly on influencing elegance. Fashion is signaling. And from an economic perspective, it’s fascinating.

    Source date (UTC): 2011-11-18 20:50:00 UTC

  • are the first class citizens now. The rest of us, we’re all the n-word

    http://www.libertarianstandard.com/2010/04/18/the-new-slave-masters/Police are the first class citizens now. The rest of us, we’re all the n-word.

    Source date (UTC): 2011-11-18 13:48:00 UTC

  • to this study, the more you swear, the less effective it becomes at reducing pai

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22078790According to this study, the more you swear, the less effective it becomes at reducing pain.

    That’s not really material though is it. I just use “F__K” as many times as I need to. It may require a lot of them. but they’re infinitely cheap, and in infinite supply. 🙂 – The economics of cursing.

    Source date (UTC): 2011-11-17 19:24:00 UTC

  • Paul has illustrated that libertarians have grown sufficiently to constitute 10

    http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2012/election_2012_presidential_election/iowa/2012_iowa_republican_caucusRon Paul has illustrated that libertarians have grown sufficiently to constitute 10 to 15% of the electorate. However, the country is heavily conservative, and where it is not conservative, it favors the republican economic program. It’s impressive that the libertarians have made so much progress. It’s unfortunate that it’s unlikely to make greater progress — without enfranchising conservatives on geopolitical strategy.

    Source date (UTC): 2011-11-17 16:56:00 UTC

  • Is The US Any More Or Less Redistributive Than Europe?

    On the Economist’s View, a Dr Why, a commenter says

    In the United States, countercyclical fiscal and monetary policies redistribute income mainly from the rich to the poor, which is politically acceptable. In Europe, countercyclical policies also redistribute income from the German pensioners to the Greek civil servants and the Italian Mafia, which is much less acceptable. Eventually, Germany will probably have to capitulate, since it needs the euro more than anyone else; but for now German politicians have no choice but to play this game of chicken in order to get the best possible deal for their voters.

    This is true ideologically but not not in practice. The resistance we see in the states is driven by a redistribution from white to non-white. Today’s poll numbers, divided along racial lines, illustrate natural human tribal sentiments. And that any concept of ‘fair’ is governed by the transfer of status signals in exchange for money. This means that groups with different status signals will never permit monetary transfers. And since racial groups contain different status signals, they will, at least under duress, fail to be charitable with their money. The status signal economy provides all human incentives because it determines access to mates and experiences. THe status signal economy is as real an equilibrium as are supply and demand or IS-MP curves. It is unscientific to believe otherwise.

  • Is The US Any More Or Less Redistributive Than Europe?

    On the Economist’s View, a Dr Why, a commenter says

    In the United States, countercyclical fiscal and monetary policies redistribute income mainly from the rich to the poor, which is politically acceptable. In Europe, countercyclical policies also redistribute income from the German pensioners to the Greek civil servants and the Italian Mafia, which is much less acceptable. Eventually, Germany will probably have to capitulate, since it needs the euro more than anyone else; but for now German politicians have no choice but to play this game of chicken in order to get the best possible deal for their voters.

    This is true ideologically but not not in practice. The resistance we see in the states is driven by a redistribution from white to non-white. Today’s poll numbers, divided along racial lines, illustrate natural human tribal sentiments. And that any concept of ‘fair’ is governed by the transfer of status signals in exchange for money. This means that groups with different status signals will never permit monetary transfers. And since racial groups contain different status signals, they will, at least under duress, fail to be charitable with their money. The status signal economy provides all human incentives because it determines access to mates and experiences. THe status signal economy is as real an equilibrium as are supply and demand or IS-MP curves. It is unscientific to believe otherwise.

  • Curt, You posted once that archaeological digs of dead civilizations show poorer

    Curt, You posted once that archaeological digs of dead civilizations show poorer food near the surface than deep down (where the golden-age relics are found). So. . . I saw this in the Seattle Times today:

    Source date (UTC): 2011-11-15 20:16:00 UTC