Curt Doolittle

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  • September 12th, 2018 6:14 PM by Skye Stewart Dig a little most lefties don’t int

    September 12th, 2018 6:14 PM by Skye Stewart

    Dig a little most lefties don’t intuitively grasp Econ 101. So rich people qualitatively are those who have taken from others. Of course, opponents, forgetting there is no ‘pure’free market, often forget many rich people have their positions due precisely to unearned political rents to some degree. So some naturally get pissed off when they see economic inequality, and are sometimes wrong in their assumptions about its causal nature, while others do not get pissed off though they should be since it was unearned, at least economically.

  • September 12th, 2018 5:19 PM by Skye Stewart [T]he french originated socialism a

    September 12th, 2018 5:19 PM by Skye Stewart [T]he french originated socialism as national socialism. Both Marx’s international communism and international socialism are, in a sense ‘national socialism’ made international. Many on the alt-right and many conservatives who want to venerate their people and provide for them, all loathe to spread the benefits too far. But it’s the same sentiments involved. 1) Conservatives ‘narrow the circle’ to nationalism. 2) Lefties just expand the circle. 3) Vegans and Jainists push the circle further to include all sentient life. In that sense the difference is only in ‘who pays and how much?’.

  • I Don’t Empathize with the Leftist Mind

    September 12th, 2018 3:52 PM [I] just don’t understand the envy of the leftist mind. I mean, I am not tall enough to play major sports, or run a fortune 500 company for that matter. I have a touch of autism that prevents me from doing many things. I’ve been severely ill for large parts of my life. But I never really envy anyone other than the ordinary middle class guy who finds entertainment and joy in life’s simple pleasures, family and friends. I mean I looked up to people and tried to imitate them. I tried to learn from many people. I worked far harder than most people can imagine. But envy? What is wrong with the ‘equalitarian’ mind?

  • September 12th, 2018 4:15 PM —“The cost of parasitism has been crashing for de

    September 12th, 2018 4:15 PM

    —“The cost of parasitism has been crashing for decades.”— Richard Nikoley

  • September 12th, 2018 10:50 AM —“The middle class didn’t care when it was the u

    September 12th, 2018 10:50 AM

    —“The middle class didn’t care when it was the underclass being culled. But our elites have conspired with a hostile outgroup to profit in the destruction of the middle also. Individualism in markets, but collectivism in government to impose the ban on free riding, fraud, and moral hazard to restore the relative profitability of the benevolent elite again compared to the industries of genocidal traitors.”—Joseph Smith

  • September 12th, 2018 10:48 AM —“There are too many examples of how the short-s

    September 12th, 2018 10:48 AM

    —“There are too many examples of how the short-sighted, or medium-sighted, values of our commercial elite conflict with the long-term values of the genetic and cultural group. This isn’t a new phenomenon but its effects have been amplified since the industrial revolution and our defenses have not kept pace with or adequately utilized the technological advances of the day. The influence of the commercial sector is vast and restraints on it are ineffective. An additional problem is that since the death of god and the disintegration of our religious institutions, we perceive profit in wholly materialistic terms. I think your emphasis on an expanded appreciation of property may be an antidote to this aspect of the problem.”— Tim Spillane

    Commercialism (Unregulated Capitalism) = Universalism at the expense of the people who make such commerce possible.

  • September 12th, 2018 10:33 AM [C]onstitutional Quote: –“So we pray you take hee

    September 12th, 2018 10:33 AM [C]onstitutional Quote:

    –“So we pray you take heed. Do not dismiss our entreaty. Our demands are right, just, possible and in the interests of our peoples. And if demanding fails we shall compel. And if we compel, we will make the Horrors of the French Revolution turn so feeble, that men will remember our prosecution of you for ten thousand years. For when all our ancestors that have been before, and all our descendants that have yet to be, demand our lives in their honor, we will not shirk our duty to them. And we will have no mercy in our execution.”—

  • Apprenticeships

    September 12th, 2018 7:28 PM

    —“The idea of apprenticeships was admirable: for a fixed term, usually seven years, a master or mistress of a trade would train a young person so that he could earn his living at that trade. The master kept the apprentice in board, lodging and clothes, but had no duty to pay him, although many did in the final years of the term, when the apprentice had learned enough to be helpful. The system applied throughout society. Prosperous merchants, goldsmiths and bankers made tidy sums from the premiums paid by the parents of hopeful apprentices. The members of the Company of Watermen and Lightermen of the River Thames, who had a monopoly of river traffic, had 2,140 apprentices in 1858. Poor masters could profit from the unpaid labour of children taken from the parish workhouse”—-

  • September 12th, 2018 10:32 AM [I]n the absence of the talent of empathy for othe

    September 12th, 2018 10:32 AM

    [I]n the absence of the talent of empathy for others one can only rely on empathy with the self. in the absence of education in natural law we are forced to rely on empathy. As in all things intuition does not scale beyond the trivial.

  • Compulsory Labor and Compensation in England

    September 12th, 2018 7:24 PM  

    —“The Statute of Artificers (usually called the Statute of Apprentices) was passed in 1563 and remained on the Statute Book until 1819; the Poor Law Act of 1601 – which provided for much else besides poor relief – remained largely operative until the 20th c. Between them, these Acts attempted `to banish idleness, to advance husbandry and to yield to the hired person, both in times of scarcity and in times of plenty, a convenient proportion of wages’. They controlled entry into the class of skilled workmen by providing a compulsory seven years’ apprenticeship; they reserved the superior trades for the sons of the better off; they assumed a universal duty to work on all the able-bodied; and empowered justices to require unemployed artificers to work in husbandry; they required permission for a workman to transfer from one employer to another; they severely restricted the freedom of movement of the poor by enabling a person without means to be removed, by order of the justices, to his original parish or last place of settlement; and they empowered justices to fix wage rates for virtually all classes of workmen.” —-