Curt Doolittle

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  • GUEST POST: KRISTINA ON UKRAINIAN GENDER ROLES (edited) Curt, RE: You explained

    GUEST POST: KRISTINA ON UKRAINIAN GENDER ROLES

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    Curt,

    RE: https://www.facebook.com/curt.doolittle/posts/10153668125062264

    You explained this perfectly but I wouldn’t [describe Ukrainian women] as “broken.”

    Throughout the Soviet Union, the terms of masculine and feminine have always been quite defined. Compromising has never been much of an option and is never viewed as optional.

    Acts of service or kindness are often seen as manipulation due to the fact that they often are. I look at it as a duty coming from my end but will always be suspicious if it were coming from a man just in case if he is expectant of something in return.

    “Demanding” is how Ukrainian men ask. If men are not tough enough then the women will overrule the entire relationship/marriage. I don’t see how “turning the other cheek,” is not considered a sign of weakness. How can you not be passionate enough to fight and defend something or someone you believe in?

    Too often Ukrainian women have to do the duties of both a male and female. It is nearly impossible to survive on one income. Therefore, women have to be loving wives, raise children, grow food in a village, work, and of course, do all the housework. Maybe, because of this set lifestyle, we have higher expectations and are distant to any “standards” outside of our own.

    Perhaps, I’ll never be capable of understanding of how to be affectionate. It never came naturally and I’ve never considered it much of a necessity. Moving to the states after living in Ukraine is a transition that I’ll never be able to make in an emotional and cultural sense; too many differences in the perception of not only gender but of everything.

    — Kristina Protsenko

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-06 09:46:00 UTC

  • DEAL DESTROYERS AMONG US!!! Yeah. Common catastrophe: failure to research the in

    DEAL DESTROYERS AMONG US!!!

    Yeah. Common catastrophe: failure to research the interests of every decision maker on the other side. (Ignorance) usually caused by Selfishness. Laziness. Wishful Thinking. (and outright lack of intellectual capacity.)

    Lawyers are the WORST at f__king up deals by the opposite means. On the scale of risk protect us from likely scenarios, but do not burden us with constraints. This is unwise. Stop them.

    Middle (and senior) management folks are too often enthusiastic imbeciles trying to stroke their egos and careers and get attention by demonstrating their ‘value’. This is unwise. Stop them.

    Most of the time ignore your lawyer, and listen to your finance guy (assuming he’s skeptical). Your finance guy will try to show his cunning by seeking extra profit somehow. This is unwise. Stop him.

    Ask your sales people (not marketing). Even though they are largely blabber-mouths, sales people are in the business of determining incentives.

    Learn basic Austrian economics (incentives of rational choice: marginalism, subjective value) and micro-economics, as well as finance and the first two years of basic accounting.

    Learn how to write your own contracts. It’s just like programming really. There are design patterns, functions, objects, etc. “Simple-er is better-er”. Give lawyers your draft to start from. Try to cut everything they add unless they can justify it to you.

    In a business deal, if you do not want it on the front page of the NYT, then don’t do it. It will f__king haunt you, and you deserve it. My position is to hold the moral high ground no matter what. We all screw up. But there is no down side to doing the right thing.

    EMPHASIS ON M&A DEALS:

    Furthermore the secret to M&A deals:

    (a) companies have no objective value – none. Numbers are meaningless.

    (b) the price of a business is what it requires to tip the decision makers.

    (c) very often that price is lower if liquid, higher if not, and more often money is a secondary concern.

    (d) the cost is determined by the impact of the effort to merge the business cultures and processes.

    (e) use relationship building, time to comfortably adapt, and abstract goals to do it rather than micro management and detailed top down planning.

    (f) every manager’s opinion of staff is the opposite of factual value, since managers are mostly dead weight and rely on staff for upward processing of information. Mergers are good opportunity to give hidden talent room to innovate. Look for it.

    (g) a low end venture capitalist is looking to create addicts. They will very often burn shareholders, staff, management and founders. You are a ‘drug user’ they are trying to hook while you are in startup mode. Once you have value you are a debtor (addict). They will treat you like one the moment they prefer to exit. (No, not the big players, which is why you want them, but many of the rest. Selling money in an investment hierarchy and selling drugs in a distribution hierarchy are similar business models. )

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-06 09:39:00 UTC

  • PETITION TO FIX AUTHENTIC NAME POLICY I have no problem requiring that you regis

    https://act.eff.org/action/dear-facebook-authentic-names-are-authentically-dangerous-for-your-usersSIGN PETITION TO FIX AUTHENTIC NAME POLICY

    I have no problem requiring that you register your account with a real name, as long as its not visible to other users, and Facebook provides the ability to use an alias, and that aliases are ‘flagged’ as aliases. (not that most of us need such things).

    But requiring people to use real names in public opens non-conformists to violence, harassment, intimidation and employment persecution and bias.

    And so I am against the real name policy and in favor of the ‘nickname’ policy.

    I use my real name everywhere. But I am successful and independent; I live free of western government oppression; and my arguments are also scientific. And scientific arguments are very different from ideological arguments, and gossip (criticism).

    So I suggest you sign this on behalf of the people who are victims of the less savory elements of our society. (the left)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-06 06:06:00 UTC

  • Human tribes are no more equal than breeds of dogs are equal. Sorry. Just how it

    Human tribes are no more equal than breeds of dogs are equal. Sorry. Just how it is (ladies).

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-06 05:40:00 UTC

  • Freudian psychology is just an instance of critique

    Freudian psychology is just an instance of critique.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-06 04:40:00 UTC

  • (surprised. hmmm. we are winning the argument that the problem is mental illness

    (surprised. hmmm. we are winning the argument that the problem is mental illness, not guns. it’s working. this cause however violates the female reproductive strategy seeking to avoid the need to aggress against dangers by justification and gossip, and it also avoids the female reproductive strategy of defending unworthy, and dangerous children because they are female gene vectors.)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-06 03:55:00 UTC

  • THE IRS FINALLY BROKE MY LOVE OF COUNTRY I just didn’t enjoy living in America a

    THE IRS FINALLY BROKE MY LOVE OF COUNTRY

    I just didn’t enjoy living in America any longer. I felt it was an anti-white-male culture. I felt punished for success. But it took one unjust prosecution, where the IRS owed me a lot of money, but they froze all my assets, and nearly ruined me. That act of class hatred by lowlife made me an enemy of the american government forever, and determined to end it forever.

    Liberty in our lifetimes.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-06 03:46:00 UTC

  • CAPITALISM IN EVERYTHING —“According to The Economist,… the number of porn s

    CAPITALISM IN EVERYTHING

    —“According to The Economist,… the number of porn studios in America is now down from over 200 to 20. Performers who used to make $1,500 an hour, now get $500 and before the launch of porn tubes, the industry’s estimated revenue was $40 billion to $50 billion, which is believed to have fallen by at least three-quarters since [to $10B]”—

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-06 02:57:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared a post

    Curt Doolittle shared a post.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-06 02:56:00 UTC

  • SIMPLEST THEORY OF LEFT AND RIGHT Brian, As you say, evolutionary biology provid

    http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2015/10/my_simplistic_t.htmlTHE SIMPLEST THEORY OF LEFT AND RIGHT

    Brian,

    As you say, evolutionary biology provides greatest explanatory power.

    REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGIES

    (1) FEMALE: The female reproductive strategy is to bear children at will and to place responsibility for their sustenance on the tribe. The female’s interest is to secure a future for her offspring regardless of merit. Her interest is in consumption regardless of externality.

    (2) MALE: The male reproductive strategy is to form alliances of near relations of males (brothers) into the strongest possible tribe and to secure their territory against (parasitic) competition. The male’s interest is to secure the competitive persistence of his kin (tribe) which depends upon merit. His interest is in capital accumulation.

    Human males evolved to kill off males in opposing groups and collect females. And that females evolved to place greater emphasis on children and females than the tribe (males).

    CLASSES

    Social Classes are sorted by reproductive desirability. Economic classes largely reflect social classes. Rotation is limited out of economic classes for this reason. And the lower classes increasingly vote the female reproductive strategy for the same reason females do.

    WEAPONS OF INFLUENCE

    There are only three weapons of influence :

    (1) Violence (ostracism, punishment, death)

    (2) Remuneration (compensation, trade)

    (3) Gossip (rallying and shaming – threats of deprivation from association, cooperation, affection, and sex)

    MORAL INTUITIONS AS PROPERTY RIGHTS

    Of Haidt’s evolutionary origins of moral intuitions, three can be expressed as individual property rights:

    1. Care/harm for others, protecting them from harm. (The asset of life and body.)

    2. Proportionality/cheating, Justice, treating others in proportion to their actions. (The asset of goods.)

    3. Liberty/Oppression, characterizes judgments in terms of whether subjects are tyrannized. (The asset of time, opportunity.)

    And three others can be expressed as community property rights covering social capital. Which obviously enough, have been, and continue to be, mirrored in corporate shareholder agreements.

    4. In-Group Loyalty/In-Group Betrayal to/of your group, family, nation, polity.

    5. Respect/Authority/Subversion for tradition and legitimate authority.

    6. Purity/Sanctity/Degradation/Disgust, avoiding disgusting things, foods, actions.

    SUMMARY

    Conservatives represent the more reproductively desirable and masculine spectrum. Leftists represent the more reproductively undesirable and feminine spectrum.

    IN THE DATA

    This explains the voting data in which white males and married females vote predominantly RED(tribe), while single females and minorities vote left(Self).

    The south’s anti-republicanism from the civil war obscured this trend, but the end of that divide led to the increasing polarization of the electorate.

    WE NEGOTIATE ON BEHALF OF OUR GENES

    And we use Violence, Remuneration, and Gossip to acquire resources on our gene’s behalf. Everything we say is the result of our reproductive strategy.

    That’s the simple answer.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-05 16:37:00 UTC