Curt Doolittle

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  • Should A College Education Be Offered To All People Or To A Certain Group Of People Only?

    “Should” is an interesting question.
    “College Education” is a loose term.
    “Offered” is a questionable term.
    The data suggest we send way too many people to college and way too few people to apprenticeship programs.

    Just statistically speaking, if it takes a 110-115 IQ to complete liberal arts education that means that we should be only educating `10-20% of the population and the rest should get vocational training rather than liberal arts training.

    Now that said, if colleges and universities had to warrantee their products, rather than sell non performing products, say, by getting x% of your payroll for 30 years, then we could drop tuition fees altogether, loans altogether, and let universities borrow to cover float (receiveables) themselves. 

    This would rapidly change the university system from just another parasitic quasi-governmental bureaucracy, to a market driven organization.

    University costs and administrative costs would plummet, and courses woukd be outcome oriented.

    This is the best idea for solving the problem of parasitic but useless university degrees.

    We know now that we learn nothing at university if value.  All they do is sort and filter the population.

    https://www.quora.com/Should-a-college-education-be-offered-to-all-people-or-to-a-certain-group-of-people-only

  • Should A College Education Be Offered To All People Or To A Certain Group Of People Only?

    “Should” is an interesting question.
    “College Education” is a loose term.
    “Offered” is a questionable term.
    The data suggest we send way too many people to college and way too few people to apprenticeship programs.

    Just statistically speaking, if it takes a 110-115 IQ to complete liberal arts education that means that we should be only educating `10-20% of the population and the rest should get vocational training rather than liberal arts training.

    Now that said, if colleges and universities had to warrantee their products, rather than sell non performing products, say, by getting x% of your payroll for 30 years, then we could drop tuition fees altogether, loans altogether, and let universities borrow to cover float (receiveables) themselves. 

    This would rapidly change the university system from just another parasitic quasi-governmental bureaucracy, to a market driven organization.

    University costs and administrative costs would plummet, and courses woukd be outcome oriented.

    This is the best idea for solving the problem of parasitic but useless university degrees.

    We know now that we learn nothing at university if value.  All they do is sort and filter the population.

    https://www.quora.com/Should-a-college-education-be-offered-to-all-people-or-to-a-certain-group-of-people-only

  • Adam, do you know of any (academic and secular) comparisons of buddhist and stoi

    Adam, do you know of any (academic and secular) comparisons of buddhist and stoic thought and practice? Differences in verbal skills required? Perhaps suitability for social classes? Do you have any ideas or opinions on that contrast? -Thanks in advance.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-21 04:54:00 UTC

  • If I haven’t been riding on a motorcycle in many years, do I need a lighter star

    If I haven’t been riding on a motorcycle in many years, do I need a lighter starter bike, or do I just go with a 600-750 bike out of the gate, and trade up after a year?

    Remember. I drive like a grandmother. OK? No open road. No racing. Pure urban street stuff. Naked bikes. The luxury of feeling present in society, of easy social interaction in the city, and easy parking (particularly here in Europe).

    Thanks.

    ( Josh Brantley ? )

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-11 07:35:00 UTC

  • SOLVING THE RIGHT PROBLEM —“As long as there is market demand for statism it w

    SOLVING THE RIGHT PROBLEM

    —“As long as there is market demand for statism it will exist. It doesn’t matter how many bodies you throw into the volcano..”— Jamin.

    What conditions are necessary to eliminate demand for the state?

    Libertarians love to demonize the state while conveniently denying that historically it was a market good – at least in the west, if not center or east.

    The state evolved out of demand, from partnerships, just as corporations evolved from partnerships, for exactly the same reasons.

    Market towns were made.

    To eliminate the state we must eliminate demand for the state.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-10 10:42:00 UTC

  • So, is Operationalism (ethical realism) the natural consequence of the failure o

    So, is Operationalism (ethical realism) the natural consequence of the failure of the analytic movement? Is that the final result of incorporating science and abandoning the pretense of rationalism?

    It is, I guess.

    Interesting.

    Science slowly consumes philosophy.

    If not, it is either error, deception by obscurantism, or deception by mysticism.

    Didn’t really plan on that big a program. lol.

    Oh well. At least I know what I am doing with the rest of my life….. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-09 12:30:00 UTC

  • So, why is the liberty movement moving from the states as the central point if a

    So, why is the liberty movement moving from the states as the central point if advocacy, to the UK?

    (Part of me blames the damage done by MI.)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-09 08:03:00 UTC

  • PROPERTY RIGHTS QUESTION? Can anyone explain to me why we assume that we have a

    PROPERTY RIGHTS QUESTION?

    Can anyone explain to me why we assume that we have a right to anticipated natural rates of interest? In other words, why is non-diluted money-proper (commodity money, private money or fiat money), and the expansion of purchasing power of such money, due to increases in demand, a property right?

    (Smart people only please. ie: no empty moralisms.)

    I might be loopy on asthma meds right now but I am trying to resolve this question once and for all. And I can’t find a reason, stated as property rights, why we have the right to privatize increases in value of money, or to profit from the shortage of money.

    Thanks

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-09 06:27:00 UTC

  • Why Are Russian People Such Bad Drivers?

    It’s not sampling bias. Russians are disproportionately dangerous drivers. Look up the data. There are just many more repressed people taking out their anger on the road than in many other cultures, plus more alcohol,poorly maintained vehicles, wet and icy roads, less consideration. However, if you get to drive in the middle east, it makes Russians look like churchgoing grandmothers by comparison.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-are-Russian-people-such-bad-drivers

  • Is The Cato Institute Libertarian In Political Views? How?

    Technically, Cato, is a classical liberal libertarian institution favoring small government, and the civil society. (Cato does work within the system and has an audience in DC because it works within the system.) The Heritage group also favors traditional society and classical liberalism. The majority of the remaining think tanks (FEI, etc) place more emphasis on economic policy and less on social (normative) rules.  Only the Mises Institute and its network advocates anarchism, and the Property and Freedom Society advocates private government. The Mises Institute takes advantage of the rabidly autistic male population seeking social connection on the internet, which gives them disproportionate presence relative to their nominal if not negative influence on policy and thought.

    https://www.quora.com/Is-the-Cato-Institute-libertarian-in-political-views-How