Curt Doolittle

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  • Libertarians

    Mar 23, 2020, 3:29 PM by Gearóid Walsh It’s sort of like the masculine adolescence period before the arising of paternal feelings for the commons. But there is some feminine baked in there too.

    1) Naive true belief in whatever social myth of the given one grows up with ->

    2) Individualist, anarchist rebellion, criticism of authoritarianism ->

    3) Paternalistic reconstruction and recovery of all the above, engagement with it despite its pitfalls (revealed through the anarchist “thought experiment”) We can allow people their developmental phase but we need elders to limit the externalities and snap people out of it as quickly as possible.

  • Conscientiousness always wins. IQ sometimes wins.

    Mar 23, 2020, 3:30 PM … Conscientiousness always wins.  IQ sometimes wins. … … The Academic ‘race’ was for positions in the bureaucracy. … … … To limit error and corruption. … … … … This is why we pay bureaucrats. … … … … … This is the french method.

  • Conscientiousness always wins. IQ sometimes wins.

    Mar 23, 2020, 3:30 PM … Conscientiousness always wins.  IQ sometimes wins. … … The Academic ‘race’ was for positions in the bureaucracy. … … … To limit error and corruption. … … … … This is why we pay bureaucrats. … … … … … This is the french method.

  • The Law on Gouging and Hoarding

    Mar 23, 2020, 3:35 PM You may profit from superior achievement in seizing opportunities made possible in the commons we call the market. You may not profit from harm that circumvents the market. Ergo the prohibition on gouging(offense) and hoarding(defense).

    You can clear inventory (rapidly sell out) at normal rates and prices. You can limit sales at normal rates and prices. People owe you the debt regardless of their ability to pay in the moment. But in times of war, plague, crisis, catastrophe, you may not profit from other’s hardship.

    (Reciprocity)Some instinctual immoralities are true.

  • The Law on Gouging and Hoarding

    Mar 23, 2020, 3:35 PM You may profit from superior achievement in seizing opportunities made possible in the commons we call the market. You may not profit from harm that circumvents the market. Ergo the prohibition on gouging(offense) and hoarding(defense).

    You can clear inventory (rapidly sell out) at normal rates and prices. You can limit sales at normal rates and prices. People owe you the debt regardless of their ability to pay in the moment. But in times of war, plague, crisis, catastrophe, you may not profit from other’s hardship.

    (Reciprocity)Some instinctual immoralities are true.

  • Everything libertarians wrote was in pursuit of unearned gains

    Mar 23, 2020, 5:00 PM

    Mises wrote logic of commodities. Learn Hayekian curves instead. Companies don’t need price signals to produce more. They need opportunity to sell more at currently imputed prices.

    Everything libertarians wrote was in pursuit of unearned gains: parasitism by plausible deniability, as a means of avoiding productivity. Why? Well, if you follow me, then you know why.

  • Everything libertarians wrote was in pursuit of unearned gains

    Mar 23, 2020, 5:00 PM

    Mises wrote logic of commodities. Learn Hayekian curves instead. Companies don’t need price signals to produce more. They need opportunity to sell more at currently imputed prices.

    Everything libertarians wrote was in pursuit of unearned gains: parasitism by plausible deniability, as a means of avoiding productivity. Why? Well, if you follow me, then you know why.

  • What Are They Trying to Steal?

    Mar 23, 2020, 5:02 PM IT DOESN’T TAKE MUCH. WHAT ARE THEY TRYING TO STEAL? Start with any progressive or libertarian premise and try to figure out what they’re trying to steal. It doesn’t take much. Start with any conservative premise and try to figure out what they’re trying to stop people from stealing. It doesn’t take much. THat’s it.

  • What Are They Trying to Steal?

    Mar 23, 2020, 5:02 PM IT DOESN’T TAKE MUCH. WHAT ARE THEY TRYING TO STEAL? Start with any progressive or libertarian premise and try to figure out what they’re trying to steal. It doesn’t take much. Start with any conservative premise and try to figure out what they’re trying to stop people from stealing. It doesn’t take much. THat’s it.

  • Criticizing Conservative vs Libertarian Thinkers

    Mar 23, 2020, 5:19 PM Why can’t we criticize conservative thinkers? Because they’re either jurists who didn’t solve the underlying problem, historians that don’t propose any meaningful solutions, moralists that have failed to defeat the false promises of the left, theologians who do nothing but change seats on the sinking ship. It’s easier to criticize libertarianism because they’re less wrong in analysis, even if they’re more wrong in presumptions of man and possible solutions. You don’t learn much from saying ‘you said nothing actionable’. You learn more from saying ‘you said something only half actionable’.