Curt Doolittle

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  • What Do You Learn When Majoring In Political Economy?

    Formal Institutions matter a lot. In particular, the production of legislation and regulation matter a lot. Informal Institutions matter a lot. Particularly religions (mostly bad if not universally bad), Trust in one another to adhere to promises, Marriage age, marriage with inbreeding, and inheritance structures. Sizes of the different Classes matter a lot. The general problem for any people is creating a non-parasitic middle class out of any available underutilized human capital. Demographics matter a lot. As uncomfortable as it is, class structures are genetic in origin, and the more people you have below 100 (the lower your average IQ) the more difficult it will be to produce. Resources are generally a curse, not a benefit. The central problem is corruption, and only northern europeans have managed to eliminate it – and it looks like elsewhere it’s impossible.

    What you won’t learn is that (a) democracy has largely been a catastrophe. (b) the european constitutional monarchies were probably the best governments ever invented. (c) modern governments are luxuries of the low hanging fruit of industrial revolution and petroleum, and will end within the next lifetime or two. (d) modern macro economics consists largely of ‘how much can we deceive people so that they keep spending money they don’t have and can’t recover’.

    Yeah. It’s really like that.

    Cheers.

    https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-learn-when-majoring-in-political-economy

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    Cc Eric Danelaw

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  • Why Hasn’t America Stopped White Supremacy?

    Why should it? Really?

    https://www.quora.com/Why-hasnt-America-stopped-white-supremacy

  • Why Do Most Americans Hate Anchovies?

    We still have laws on the books in some regions that a woman can reject a man from her bed if he has eaten anchovies. (really).

    Americans are fussy about what they consider ‘peasant’ food.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-do-most-Americans-hate-anchovies

  • What Color/race Would You Have Rather Been Born? Why?

    Its pretty hard to argue against the utility of being white and germanic. Although being Japanese is about as good as it gets otherwise.

    https://www.quora.com/What-color-race-would-you-have-rather-been-born-Why

  • Why Are White People So Much More Sociopathic-leaning (not Sociopathic) Than Asian People?

    Westerners have evolved and selected for greater detachment than others – including low context language and thought – at least in the north. And it certainly appears that this behavior predates the indo european expansion. (really). There are a number of arguments why, which all make sense but we need more research. All we know is that at present it appears to be true. My suspicion is that it was an existing trait that was reinforced by metalsmithing (the first western myth), western battle tactics, upward distribution of reproduction, and the near replacement of conquered peoples by those with such tendencies. Asian branched earlier, and westerners either later or iteratively. So asian neoteny is farther along, but possibly from earlier “version”. European neoteny is a bit less, and from a later branch. My understanding at the moment is the rather obvious: asian engineers and accountants vs white lawyers and entrepreneurs. We are quite compatible above our working classes.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-are-white-people-so-much-more-sociopathic-leaning-not-sociopathic-than-Asian-people

  • What Color/race Would You Have Rather Been Born? Why?

    Its pretty hard to argue against the utility of being white and germanic. Although being Japanese is about as good as it gets otherwise.

    https://www.quora.com/What-color-race-would-you-have-rather-been-born-Why

  • Why Are White People So Much More Sociopathic-leaning (not Sociopathic) Than Asian People?

    Westerners have evolved and selected for greater detachment than others – including low context language and thought – at least in the north. And it certainly appears that this behavior predates the indo european expansion. (really). There are a number of arguments why, which all make sense but we need more research. All we know is that at present it appears to be true. My suspicion is that it was an existing trait that was reinforced by metalsmithing (the first western myth), western battle tactics, upward distribution of reproduction, and the near replacement of conquered peoples by those with such tendencies. Asian branched earlier, and westerners either later or iteratively. So asian neoteny is farther along, but possibly from earlier “version”. European neoteny is a bit less, and from a later branch. My understanding at the moment is the rather obvious: asian engineers and accountants vs white lawyers and entrepreneurs. We are quite compatible above our working classes.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-are-white-people-so-much-more-sociopathic-leaning-not-sociopathic-than-Asian-people

  • Why Are Libertarians So Quickly And Immediately Dismissed In Common Political Discourse?

    The libertarian assessment of the nature of man is demonstrably adolescent.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-are-libertarians-so-quickly-and-immediately-dismissed-in-common-political-discourse

  • Is It Theoretically Possible To Cause The Bitcoin Crash With A Small Coordinated Group. What Steps Might They Take?

    Use periods of low volume to spike the price.
    Sell in periods of high volume purchases.
    Repeat to boost the price to extremes.
    Sell repeatedly at low volume lows to cause panic.
    Start rumors of miners or agents causing threats.
    Produce believable reports that on a given date a large government will seize certain miners and prohibit all future transaction.

    repeat until people lose interest.

    just how its done in the stock market today.

    https://www.quora.com/Is-it-theoretically-possible-to-cause-the-bitcoin-crash-with-a-small-coordinated-group-What-steps-might-they-take