Curt Doolittle

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  • Everyone wants to be the leader, manager, executive, financier, politician, gene

    Everyone wants to be the leader, manager, executive, financier, politician, general, and king – until they achieve that status. And then they realize that they hold those positions because others want them to, and those that want them to, are customers that they must keep satisfied, or they will find someone else who does treat them as customers.

    Why is it so hard? because all customers have different interests, and all leaders have but one fundamental job: to apply scarce resources behind the best returns. And that includes defense of the organizational capital against members since all organizations consist largely of people who seek rents on that organization.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-02-27 13:43:00 UTC

  • Military service and pensions are, like police service and pensions, the optimum

    Military service and pensions are, like police service and pensions, the optimum lower middle, and working class forms of redistribution. Risk of one’s life and limb is a capital that the less able have to invest – and one that is detrimental to invest for the more able.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-02-27 12:53:00 UTC

  • Animals capable of cooperation and communication evolve a heavy preference for g

    Animals capable of cooperation and communication evolve a heavy preference for gossip as a means of creating equality by preventing advantage in-group. The problem is, in-group equality is to the group’s competitive disadvantage. The Question instead, is how to enable elites to compete for the group. Western civ solved this through heroism and market rotations regardless of impact on the hierarchy.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-02-27 12:51:00 UTC

  • Retweeted James Woods (@RealJamesWoods): Here are the State by State Costs of Il

    Retweeted James Woods (@RealJamesWoods):

    Here are the State by State Costs of Illegal Immigration. This is reflective only of burden borne by states. The federal cost per state is significantly higher, of course. https://t.co/eiFyLAP4In

    Source date (UTC): 2018-02-27 12:47:00 UTC

  • Updated Feb 27, 2018, 6:48 AM

    Updated Feb 27, 2018, 6:48 AM

    Source date (UTC): 2018-02-27 06:48:00 UTC

  • Someone is really stalking me. They found an ancient post. Reported it. And anot

    Someone is really stalking me.

    They found an ancient post.

    Reported it.

    And another 30 days. lol

    OMG

    Well, they are just creating a market – that I’ll filll.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-02-26 16:42:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared a post

    Curt Doolittle shared a post.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-02-26 15:14:00 UTC

  • Great morning statistic: 10% of your lifespan is determined by clinical care. 30

    Great morning statistic:

    10% of your lifespan is determined by clinical care.

    30% by your genetic code.

    40% by your location.

    –CEO of Aetna.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-02-26 08:38:00 UTC

  • “Conflict is too costly to be anything but an absolutely last resort.”— A frie

    —“Conflict is too costly to be anything but an absolutely last resort.”— A friend

    Thats not true. (It’s a common libertarian trope.)

    We have MADE conflict increasingly costly. However, predation is incredibly rewarding and every expansionary empire in history is evidence of it. Hell, american ascendence, and american quality of life is perhaps the best example in history. I can’t think of any condition in history where expansionary conquest wasn’t the most profitable endeavor possible.

    I think we can say that SYMMETRIC conflict is costly, but ASYMMETRIC conflict is extraordinarily rewarding – hence the eternal arms race from the dawn of time.

    Conquest and Rule are THE MOST PROFITABLE INDUSTRIES ever invented by man.

    And we invented it.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-02-26 08:30:00 UTC

  • “Agency does not exist in a vacuum. Aggregate agency of multiple individuals cre

    —“Agency does not exist in a vacuum. Aggregate agency of multiple individuals creates limiting checks and balances, producing a market for cooperative, competitive and pro-social applications of agency.”—Simon Ström

    Although I would be careful to note that pro-social is a term from marxism, psychology and sociology that refers to working to benefit others (altruism) when there is no evidence of altruism in nature – only kin selection and option buying. Mutually beneficial Cooperation (which I think is the appropriate term here) is simply in our self interests, and we feel endorphins rewards for engaging in it – in part to encourage it, and in part to counter the natural fears of interaction with ‘others’ whether kin or non.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-02-26 07:50:00 UTC