Curt Doolittle

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  • No good man wishes to rule. Rule attracts the evil. Good men wish to prevent oth

    No good man wishes to rule. Rule attracts the evil. Good men wish to prevent others from ruling. Only a population of such good men denies rulership to all. And as a consequence, we are in practice forbidden rule by evil men. So the question of who should rule is itself a deceit. The only answer is that none should rule, and as such, all men rule by preventing rule. And all that is required is a priesthood of the one law of property-en-toto to mitigate differences, rather than to rule.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-03-21 06:39:00 UTC

  • It is EXTREMELY difficult to write without appealing to intuition. I work at it

    It is EXTREMELY difficult to write without appealing to intuition. I work at it constantly – to require all statements to be reducible to propertarian incentives. And it’s still hard to do.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-03-21 03:43:00 UTC

  • STATING THE OBVIOUS: WHO TO HIRE FOR MIDDLE MANAGEMENT I advocate project-based

    STATING THE OBVIOUS: WHO TO HIRE FOR MIDDLE MANAGEMENT

    I advocate project-based business organizations (dynamic teams), not department based organizations (bureaucracies). Project organizations produce a market for good behavior internally. Bureaucracies produce a market for bad behavior.

    A departmental manager (a monitor) is always inferior to a project manager(who has concrete objectives in a finite time period.).

    Unfortunately project organization requires constant learning and adaptation, and there are vast portions of the population who must learn by doing – and some very slowly.

    Internal project managers with emphasis on customer service, hire women who have played sports in school.

    External project managers with emphasis on customer service, hire women who have experience in sales, and who are attractive, and know how to employ it.

    External project managers with emphasis on risk mitigation, hire men who have even just a little sports experience, and some sales experience.

    Women without a feminist chip on their shoulders generally improve the work place.

    Gay men without a chip on their shoulders, generally improve the work place as much or more so than women.

    The more I work on propertarianism the more I see humans as a distribution of sense-perception systems that transmit information by voluntary exchanges. And the more useful I see various perceptions, as long as the customer satisfaction, profitability, and individual responsibility take precedence over personal interest.

    Even from someone who was not serious about team sports (wrestling is pretty individualistic), it is obvious that if you do not play some sport or other, you are very likely an incomplete person.

    The military is a man’s best team sport. Football is a decent substitute. You get hurt if people don’t hold up their end. Scoring goals in soccer is not a substitute for being tackled. And in business, and in life, we are all hurt when others don’t hold up their end.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-03-21 03:31:00 UTC

  • I agree to cooperate, even if it is to my detriment, as long as cooperation does

    I agree to cooperate, even if it is to my detriment, as long as cooperation does not devolve into justification for parasitism.

    The moment that we are no longer cooperating, but you are engaging in parasitism, and particularly when the state is engaging in parasitism, then I no longer agree to cooperate.

    But what does that mean? “I no longer agree to cooperate?” It can only mean two things.

    The first, is that I boycott opportunities for cooperation. The second is that I return to predation.

    Boycott is the only choice available to the weak.

    Predation is the choice available to the strong.

    My name is legion. We are many. And we are strong.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-03-21 03:08:00 UTC

  • WHAT IS MORALITY? (from elsewhere) Cooperation is extremely beneficial. As we ev

    WHAT IS MORALITY?

    (from elsewhere)

    Cooperation is extremely beneficial. As we evolved cooperation, we evolve instincts to prefer it. But Cooperation opens the door to parasitism, which negates the value of cooperation. So we evolved moral instincts that inform us to punish parasites and parasitism. In economics this parasitism is referred to more gently as ‘free riding’.

    That which is moral is that which is productive non-parasitic, and provides incentives to cooperate. That which is immoral is that which is unproductive, parasitic, and reduces incentives for cooperation.

    Most groups develop tolerances for, and reward for, mutual insurance. Insurance is not parasitic as long as it is not a form of dependency. Tolerance for paying this insurance normally decreases with kinship distance. Few cultures develop insurance regardless of kinship difference.

    Westerners were successful in both outbreeding (eliminating cousin marriage), and in generating widespread trade. And western culture for ancient reasons, uniquely favors truth-telling. The (protestant) west developed high trust, breaking the kinship barrier to insurance.

    So the (protestant) west was able to (in *fact*) produce the most moral society: the greatest restraint of parasitism, and therefore by consequence, the greatest economic output by systematically suppressing all free riding (parasitism).

    Whereupon, as a result of political inclusion during the enlightenment, the marxists, socialists and feminists via the novelty of democracy, systematically worked to use their newfound influence in government to circumvent the suppression of parasitism, and they institutionalized parasitism via the state – despite it’s eradication from institutionalization in norms.

    As limits to parasitism, and the fragility of parasitism , and the accumulated malincentives of parasitism became visible, the western state evolved however, into a vast insurance company. And the general principle it operates by is Rawlsian: “produce the greatest parasitism that does not kill the incentives of the host”.

    The question is, whether this general rule produces a society that is sustainable or not. Progressives advance it because they have faith in technology, conservatives resist it because they have little faith in the nature of man.

    Conservatives are correct in their understanding of man. Progressives correct in the (temporary) benefit of tolerating parasitism.

    But, the American experience as misinformed the world: the sale of cheap land is our equivalent of the ‘curse of oil’.

    The oil producers do not evolve advanced economies because of the malincenives of oil. Westerners destroy their high trust society because of the malincentives of selling cheap land to immigrating members of low trust societies without forcibly indoctrinating them into high trust western cultural norms.

    We are only as moral as we can get away with avoiding. Morality evolved AFTER self interest. And most of us seek parasitism wherever possible, whenever we will not be punished for it.

    Curt Doolittle

    Source date (UTC): 2015-03-21 02:21:00 UTC

  • “The Greatest Generation? They voted for Fratricide to make the world safe for B

    “The Greatest Generation? They voted for Fratricide to make the world safe for Bolsheviks.” – James Santagata

    Source date (UTC): 2015-03-20 10:58:00 UTC

  • Progressivism as algorithm: what is the greatest amount of parasitism that does

    Progressivism as algorithm: what is the greatest amount of parasitism that does not kill the host?

    Source date (UTC): 2015-03-20 04:58:00 UTC

  • Each of us who chooses liberty, is his own legislator. There is but one law. It

    Each of us who chooses liberty, is his own legislator. There is but one law. It requires little interpretation.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-03-20 03:25:00 UTC

  • I have a lot of non-verbal relationships with people in Ukraine. And, you know,

    I have a lot of non-verbal relationships with people in Ukraine. And, you know, non-verbal relationships require that you are every physically expressive with your communications. But also – its far harder to pitch status signals. Fascinating.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-03-20 01:45:00 UTC

  • Biz. Unfortunately, I cannot rush understanding. It proceeds apace. It is done w

    Biz.

    Unfortunately, I cannot rush understanding. It proceeds apace. It is done when it is done.

    Producing deliverables in a timely fashion that satisfy requirements but which are not correct is not something I have ever been able to do.

    And, supplying information is not he same as supplying insight.

    So we soldier on.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-03-20 00:42:00 UTC