When I want to buy an overpriced company I open locations or offices or sales teams at its fringes. Most companies cannot tolerate a 20% decline in sales. If you can cause a 20% decline in sales you can cause an 80% decline in purchase price. Mostly because talented people will flee to you. This is why you want free capital, and not to create too much debt or take too much profit. Most companies extract rents and profits and debt to the point where you can’t use capital to extract high ratio wins through acquisitions of people, operations, and customers at windfall discounts. The number of long established companies I have bought this way would astound you.
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Lesson of Rome
( I can’t afford to “woo” women without getting myself in trouble one way or another. So I am just complimentary with all of them – as my mother taught me to be. And following her advice, “Find something nice to say” is pretty much good advice all the way around. It’s just absolutely necessary for women and merely helpful for men. 😉 )
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
Studying legal papers and theory you quickly learn that law is ignorant of economics and scale. You learn that the problems lawyers and the courts face are problems of economics and scale. You learn that they are trying to solve a social science problem with a crude instrument that changes slowly. Jurist and Lawyers have seen the atomic but not the aggregate. and so it creates a kind of disciplinary blindness. The problem with the profession is that while we have common and continental law, we have lost or only just discovered natural tort law, which solves problems of juridical decision making, where conflating the law with legislation and regulation and to some degree command, create all those problems of interpretation.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
In working through a strategy, which I usually do while just walking around, driving, listening to others, or writing, I do not shy from unethical and immoral options any more than I do moral or costly options. Once you find a solution the problem lies only in finding a solution that is not UNETHICAL or IMMORAL. This is the problem with moralizm. You limit yoru scope of conception. Or, you are too weak of character to eliminate the unethical and immoral choices until you find an amoral or moral means of achieving the same end.
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Curt Doolittle updated his status.
(FB 1541861477 Timestamp) The difference is, that because I look for negative externalities, frauds, thefts, exchanges, positive transfers, and positive externalities I CALCULATE that an action is immoral, amoral, or moral, and you INTUIT it. I have the AGENCY to consider all possibilities and choose the moral, amoral, or the immoral as required. This is the lesson of sun tzu, machiavelli, and aristotle – as well as every other general: morals are not truths but utilities, not knowledge but habits. The great books of wisdom and strategy are written so that we do not make the mistakes of christians and allow ourselves to be conquered, for having forgotten how to fight. They are written to ensure that we are civilized by reason not by habit.. I have agency. I am not an animal. My intuitions provide information only. My reason rules my decisions. Moral, amoral, immoral, as needed.
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hard labor, child mortality, early death, disease, suffering, superstition ignor
… hard labor, child mortality, early death, disease, suffering, superstition ignorance, tyranny and the vicissitudes of nature. Yes, thank you Western Civilization for dragging humanity kicking and screaming into modernity against their will, and hating you every day for it.
Source date (UTC): 2018-11-09 22:38:49 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1061025344369684480
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In 1820, 94% of the world’s population lived in extreme poverty. In 1990, 34.8%, and in 2015, just 9.6%. https://t.co/mN2Z7uE0oa
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I am not trying to be scary but to speak in actionable terms. it is a mistake to
I am not trying to be scary but to speak in actionable terms. it is a mistake to think that this coming revolution will be fought as the civil rights movements and the french-revolution through the 20th century movements have been fought.
Those were fights of classes using gunpowder against people. The current era is all against all, eroding the economy and infrastructure, and letting the ‘population load’ of modernity crash into chaos.
I mean, look at history, but, the reason the chinese ended up with 100x the fatalities in war was population load.
Source date (UTC): 2018-11-09 15:08:00 UTC
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Well her era of undermining the constitution as a statement of natural law, and
Well her era of undermining the constitution as a statement of natural law, and circumventing it through the court, is almost over. And we will finally restore that constitution once again…. thankfully
Source date (UTC): 2018-11-09 14:30:06 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1060902356123049984
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If you can’t be Batman, be Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. We are the People. https://t.co/23GpCfjJoB
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