You can make a little on a lot of things, or a lot on a few things, and everything in between. But mostly, you will do neither because you will fail to make anything on any number of things. But it’s a lottery effect, which is why capitalism works: you can’t win if you don’t play.
Source date (UTC): 2015-11-24 07:55:00 UTC
(Didn’t know until today that the Paris Theatre attacked was owned by jews and was a popular venue for jewish events. more planning than I’d thought.)
Source date (UTC): 2015-11-24 07:53:00 UTC
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/scientists-reveal-being-lonely-increases-6887390WHY WHITE MEN ARE DYING: THE DEATH OF THE FAMILY DISPROPORTIONATELY AFFECTS MEN
(i am very concerned for me and my class of men really)
Source date (UTC): 2015-11-24 07:51:00 UTC
Never Turn The Other Cheek when presented with an opportunity for paternalism. Suppress free riding. Suppress signaling of free riders.
Source date (UTC): 2015-11-24 07:03:00 UTC
Employees vastly overestimate the profitability of any business. They have no idea how hard it is to defeat the rate of inflation. Its very hard to create an organization that produces sustainable profitability across cyclical booms and busts, as well as ordinary competition. They are intentionally made ignorant by the socialist ambitions of the members of the educational system and academy.
In some businesses, like professional services, it is relatively easy to attribute both revenue and expenses to the individuals in the organization. But what about the overhead staff who generate no revenue?
Just as in economics, the only measure of anything is the number of hours of effort individuals must work (in each economic class) to pay for the cost of a good. (Any statement of price differences is not only nonsense, but very likely misleading, unless expressed in this metric: hours of work needed to purchase the good or service.) Time is the human currency. By using the division of knowledge and labor, money and prices, credit and interest, we are able to concentrate our efforts and produce far more per moment than we could on our own. In this sense we are not wealthier than cave men. we have merely used the division of labor to make everything almost infinitely cheaper.
The way to do that is to distribute all costs and expenses to all employees by one algorithm or another – showing them their total loaded cost (at least EBITDA). The way to determine how much an employee contributes or costs, is to determine the amount of time it takes the people who produce revenue to pay for the salaries of those who perform indirect functions.
Most people who are raised in our left-wing education system simply have no idea how little money is actually present at any given time: our “cash flow”.
Or that when a company says it does X million dollars in revenue, that it’s lucky to hit triple the rate of inflation in profits.
My experience is that trust increases rapidly with education in the work place. For years I have given ‘the money talk’ that is the only material exposure to the operation of business in the world that most students have ever had.
Source date (UTC): 2015-11-24 06:59:00 UTC
Q&A: “Curt, Why do you spend time supporting (x class of people).”
Yeah. I’m supportive. No I’m not picky about it. I am supportive of any attempt to construct amoral arguments in social science using the language of incentives, voluntary exchange, and truth. And conversely, what do you expect me to do? While I don’t have a bunch of classrooms to use as a sounding board, do you know how awesome it is NOT to hold a professorship where you are trying to preserve your status, trying to defend your department’s position on x or y, trying not to offend potential ‘customers’, and not get into trouble with the politically correct bureaucracy? I’m privileged as hell. So I share it. And in exchange I get people to help me understand what I don’t yet understand. Its awesome. We’re all stumbling in the dark. We all help each other. Humans are awesome.
And yes, there is a class of lightly autistic fellow that argues what he understands and WANTS to be true, because learning what he doesn’t is hard for him. That’s ok. Show compassion to them. Over time they learn too.
Never tolerate the rallying and shaming or ad hominems though. I don’t and you shouldn’t. It’s intellectual cancer. Lying to silence the truth.
Source date (UTC): 2015-11-24 06:48:00 UTC
LEARNING ABOUT RUSSIAN HUMOR
(sketch)
They don’t have the tradition of slapstick, and so pain isn’t funny – it’s a form of hyperbole. And they don’t generally engage in hyperbole either. (hyperbole is a universal component of american humor.) They don’t think being stupid is funny.And rather than finding humor in the violation of manners that is so common in western humor, people find humor in the violation of the principle of usefulness: futility.
But, they do think inebriated behavior is funny. And, the theme of ‘cognitive impairment’ is what ties together the most intellectual joke, and the most base: cognitive impairment of ignorance, bias, experience, ego, rule following, or whatever other source can be imagined.
To some degree this mirrors old english teasing, riddle, trickery, and pranking (my tradition). Although trickery in english humor is a criticism for not paying attention, not a criticism of inescapable and ever-present human stupidity.
I actually can’t watch american humor because of its slapstick. I don’t find it funny. Worse, it’s stupid and annoying. But most russian humor contains bitter insight into the human condition. And I pretty much always find it funny. Even if it always seems a bit sad or fatalistic.
Source date (UTC): 2015-11-24 06:17:00 UTC
The Snowflake Generation.
Source date (UTC): 2015-11-23 16:02:00 UTC
(You know, that if you work in a university you can’t even speak the truth, let alone call some internet-loser an effeminate douchebag just for the joy of it because… you can. lol I have no problem slumming. It’s, well, character building. lol)
Source date (UTC): 2015-11-23 15:18:00 UTC
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