Curt Doolittle

Category: Economics, Finance, and Political Economy

  • Exchanging Opportunity for Parasitism for Opportunity for Homesteading.

    Proximity decreases opportunity costs. We can also argue that as a consequence of reduced opportunity costs we can create opportunities otherwise impossible. And as a consequence, we compete to discover and homestead those opportunities. We make this density possibly by the high cost of forgoing opportunities for imposing costs. Thereby preserving cooperation despite an equal decrease in the opportunity for parasitism. As such we exchange the increased cost of forgoing opportunity for parasitism for the decreased costs of opportunity for homesteading opportunities.

    This concept is missing from the literature. We focus too much upon money that provides numerous additional discounts. And we focus too little operationally on the creation of conditions that make trade and money possible. This oversight is related to the other errors of the enlightenment

  • Market Production of Commons?

    –“I’m confused about the market production of commons”–
    I use the term market government, and market production of commons do describe the fact that commons may be produced by at least three means: 1 – private production of commons via the usual market process 2 – use of the house of ‘parliament’ to negotiate the voluntary production of a common (which may not be imposed upon) 3 – use of the houses of parliament to negotiate a trade between classes for the exchange of monetary and non-monetary goods, services, and behavior, to product commons that may or may not be physically constructed, and may instead be normatively or behaviorally constructed. The problem of circumventing market demand for legislation is answered by providing options 2 and 3 in lieu of monopoly rule.

  • Market Production of Commons?

    –“I’m confused about the market production of commons”–
    I use the term market government, and market production of commons do describe the fact that commons may be produced by at least three means: 1 – private production of commons via the usual market process 2 – use of the house of ‘parliament’ to negotiate the voluntary production of a common (which may not be imposed upon) 3 – use of the houses of parliament to negotiate a trade between classes for the exchange of monetary and non-monetary goods, services, and behavior, to product commons that may or may not be physically constructed, and may instead be normatively or behaviorally constructed. The problem of circumventing market demand for legislation is answered by providing options 2 and 3 in lieu of monopoly rule.

  • Another way to look at compensation is that we are rewarded by our degree of unh

    Another way to look at compensation is that we are rewarded by our degree of unhappiness in the service of others. This is why happiness goes down in most highly compensated jobs. Why people in lower paying helping and service jobs are happier than people in highly compensated competitive jobs. And why there is greater exit from highly paid competitive careers than there is from the lower compensated helpful careers.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-10-07 06:31:00 UTC

  • Your cell phone, cable, electricity, gas, heat in ukraine is about $40 a month.

    Your cell phone, cable, electricity, gas, heat in ukraine is about $40 a month.

    The customer has so few protections against misrepresentation here in the states compared to europe.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-10-05 11:36:00 UTC

  • Maybe Some People Catch On. But Others Don’t: Unity By Trade.

      (important) I have to continue to crush the Rothbardian fallacy just like I have to continue to crush the neocon fallacy, and the postmodern fallacy. The socialist fallacy has been crushed. And we are in the process of crushing the Keynesian fallacy and the democratic fallacy.

    But to unite libertarians both artisanal, bourgeoisie and martial, I have to kill off the competing lies. Why? because the truth is uncomfortable for each of us. But it is only the truth that illustrates our common goals, and the high cost we must each pay to create liberty by the organized use of violence to deny it to others. And in that organization we must understand we must each sacrifice class perfection in order to achieve class maximum good: the artisan, the bourgeoisie, and the martial must limit their gains to that which imposes no cost upon the other two. To be an army we must obey the natural law discovered by warriors: impose no cost upon your brothers. We insure one another’s property. All of it. In every form. That which one expends his life’s efforts upon determines his investment in his property. The scale of that investment is not determined by his efforts, but by its value to others in providing incentives to change state of the universe from the current condition to one more favorable. So between effort and scale we know value exists. But even if we have difficulty measuring it other than by comparison, that value is never zero, and as such must be respected. This is the reciprocal exchange of insurance of property between warriors that creates the institution of property and if sufficiently rigorous, the condition of liberty. And no other means exists by which to construct either. Liberty cannot be obtained by permission, only by construction. Curt Doolittle the Philosophy of Aristocracy The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine

  • Maybe Some People Catch On. But Others Don’t: Unity By Trade.

      (important) I have to continue to crush the Rothbardian fallacy just like I have to continue to crush the neocon fallacy, and the postmodern fallacy. The socialist fallacy has been crushed. And we are in the process of crushing the Keynesian fallacy and the democratic fallacy.

    But to unite libertarians both artisanal, bourgeoisie and martial, I have to kill off the competing lies. Why? because the truth is uncomfortable for each of us. But it is only the truth that illustrates our common goals, and the high cost we must each pay to create liberty by the organized use of violence to deny it to others. And in that organization we must understand we must each sacrifice class perfection in order to achieve class maximum good: the artisan, the bourgeoisie, and the martial must limit their gains to that which imposes no cost upon the other two. To be an army we must obey the natural law discovered by warriors: impose no cost upon your brothers. We insure one another’s property. All of it. In every form. That which one expends his life’s efforts upon determines his investment in his property. The scale of that investment is not determined by his efforts, but by its value to others in providing incentives to change state of the universe from the current condition to one more favorable. So between effort and scale we know value exists. But even if we have difficulty measuring it other than by comparison, that value is never zero, and as such must be respected. This is the reciprocal exchange of insurance of property between warriors that creates the institution of property and if sufficiently rigorous, the condition of liberty. And no other means exists by which to construct either. Liberty cannot be obtained by permission, only by construction. Curt Doolittle the Philosophy of Aristocracy The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine

  • Why Will Fiat Currency Always Exist?

    The truth is that fiat currency is such an advantage that a people cannot compete without it. Competing currencies and commodities exist but they are not anywhere near as price stabilized as fiat money CAN be. So we are always going to have it. Probably digital will replace it and it will have to because the abuse of it has gotten out of hand. What real purpose does government debt serve over simply printing money and paying with it? You pay the price of interest in order to delay the equlibrial neutrality of money working through the economy. In other words, the faster new money moves the faster prices in the existing cycle of production adjust. Fast adjustment is bad if it interferes with production ( planning ) cycles. So instead we pay interest and sell government debt so that we inflate away the interest at about the same rate that prices adjust in the economy.

  • Why Will Fiat Currency Always Exist?

    The truth is that fiat currency is such an advantage that a people cannot compete without it. Competing currencies and commodities exist but they are not anywhere near as price stabilized as fiat money CAN be. So we are always going to have it. Probably digital will replace it and it will have to because the abuse of it has gotten out of hand. What real purpose does government debt serve over simply printing money and paying with it? You pay the price of interest in order to delay the equlibrial neutrality of money working through the economy. In other words, the faster new money moves the faster prices in the existing cycle of production adjust. Fast adjustment is bad if it interferes with production ( planning ) cycles. So instead we pay interest and sell government debt so that we inflate away the interest at about the same rate that prices adjust in the economy.

  • It’s Not Capitalism That’s The Problem

    —capitalism is a failure. It’s like the game monopoly. — Except monopoly is nothing at all like real life. And capitalism is responsible for raising the world out of endemic violence ignorance disease and poverty. The problem isn’t capitalism ( the voluntary organization of production ). It’s that the richer we become, the more talented you need to be to earn a living. When we had unused talent most people could move up. Now we have passed the period where there is *unused* talent and entered the period where we have *unusable* talent. Societies progress just as evolution progresses: by eliminating the failures to produce from the gene pool. So has capitalism failed? Or have we failed to continue to constrain the reproduction of the unproductive?