Curt Doolittle

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  • Why Is It Called The Free Market When The Poor Have No Choice But To Sell Their Labor So They Don’t Starve?

    Because that’s a free market. That is all a free market promises: you will not be legally or institutionally denied access, nor legally nor institutionally granted privilege.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-is-it-called-the-free-market-when-the-poor-have-no-choice-but-to-sell-their-labor-so-they-dont-starve

  • What Are Some Criticisms Of The Austrian School Of Economic Thought?

    It depends upon which Austrian school you’re asking about.

    1) the Christian Austrians, including Menger and the Marginalists whose work has been fully integrated into mainstream economics with the exception of their certainty of the influence of the business cycle.

    or

    2) the Jewish Austrians, including Mises alone, and perhaps Rothbard, who stumbled upon Operationalism in economics, but instead of comprehending that a truthful proposition must be BOTH externally correspondent, and existentially possible to construct via a series of rationally testable operations, attempted to somehow conflate Jewish Law, and Mathematical Logic and instead, created the pseudoscience of ‘praxeology’ under which they claim all economics must be produced by a sequence of operations.

    This left Mises respected but a laughing stock without a position. Unfortunately he did not understand what he had stumbled upon, and he could have reformed economics. But he failed. He failed because he was committed to his dogma, and committed to his error.

    The only reason we discuss mises at all is because the Mises Institute copied the techniques of the marxists of (a) heaping undue praise, (b) creating long lists of straw man arguments by which to criticize empirical science but never producing anything more than amateurish justificationary pseudo-scientific arguments, (c) using the new medium of the internet as an inexpensive propaganda device, (d) marketing to the well intentioned fools (the young males), and entrepreneurs who, because of their success in the market, overrate their comprehension of political economy.

    So why doesn’t anyone take ‘Austrian Economics’ seriously? They do. They take mengerian economics seriously: marginalism. They take the austrian project seriously: an attempt to develop a social science of political economy by which we remove obstacles to cooperation – NOT as the chicago school has done, a science of MONETARY economy, to insure against shocks to cooperation, and NOT as the saltwater (Jewish Left) school has done, which is a science of the maximum interference that is possible such that the maximum consumption is pursued, so that the maximum capital is moving, and the minimum capital is held in reserve against the most severe of shocks.

    If you understand these few paragraphs you know more about the problems of the economics profession than most professors will ever dream of.

    https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-criticisms-of-the-Austrian-school-of-economic-thought

  • What Are The Best Things To Do On Weekends As A Student At The University Of Hartford?

    Go home. Hartford is one of America’s poorest cities and only shortly behind Detroit in lifecycle. It is a city of nihilism and despair with only the crude business of insurance to provide tax revenues.

    The University of Hartford had an opportunity in the 70’s to develop into a meaningful institution of science, technology, mathematics, economics, and law, on is rather gorgeous campus, but embraced the popular trend of postmodernists and is now just a mediocre waypoint for the underperforming middle classes from long island and new jersey, and the desperate few who seek to extend their adult skills and remain in the Hartford area rather than take flight to a state that is not in decline and bankruptcy due to the combination of anglo puritanism and jewish cosmopolitanism that have made the state a pariah for education, engineering, and technology.

    Let the last person with an IQ over 80 more than five miles north of the connecticut shoreline, turn out the lights.

    U of H is like the malls of New Jersey. It just hasn’t gone out of business yet.

    https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-things-to-do-on-weekends-as-a-student-at-the-University-of-Hartford

  • What Do You Know About National Human Rights Commission?

    It is a meddlesome Marxist Institution advocating parasitism by the underclasses against the productive middle classes.

    The only possible human rights are property rights to your life, your body, your thoughts, your actions, that which you have obtained in trade.

    There exist no other possible rights, since the only rights universally possible are those that we are universally capable of delivering to one another. If we cannot universally deliver it cannot be a human right. Ergo, the only rights possible are non-interference and non imposition against the life, body, thoughts, actions, and possessions and interests obtained in trade.

    So our ‘rights’ mirror our obligations. We cannot claim a right without declaring it our obligation, and we cannot claim a right or obligation that we cannot act upon. Therefore the only rights and obligations that are possible are to NOT DO SOMETHING.

    The primary right and obligation that we have not imposed is the right to bear children only that we can afford, and the obligation to bear children only that we can afford, and to NOT bear children we cannot afford.

    This is the one remaining human right that we must struggle produce. Because at present thi sis the cause of the violation of every other human right: creating a moral hazard by violating the rights of others, by producing offspring you cannot provide for, thereby requiring subsidy from those others who can.

    The human obligation not to bear offspring we cannot afford is the cause of poverty.

    But women will never tolerate this law, and this is the purpose of the Human RIghts Commission: to prevent the imposition of the only missing human right and obligation.

    Do you understand?

    That woman and that man, who create children that they cannot provide for are the people who must be punished if we are to obtain human rights for all.

    https://www.quora.com/What-do-you-know-about-National-Human-Rights-Commission

  • How Many Ethnic Groups Are There In The Whole World?

    I’ll give you the best answer I can, having spent some time on this question myself.

    1. Nation states and empires attempt to crush local identities, or deny them. (china and mongols the most obvious). Governments have incentives to be dishonest. All government data is suspect. Unfortunately the Academy is a co conspirator to government because it is cheaper to use government data than to conduct genetic and cultural research.
    2. During the time of nation states, most europeans lost their local identities, although our ‘tribes’ at last at the macro level are still ascertainable in many cases. Even today, despite the fact that northeastern, northern, central, and southern descendants in the united states all come from different regions and tribes, and still practice those cultural differences, the government suppresses those differences.
    3. So when we say ‘ethnicity’ are we saying nation state, or race, sub-race, tribe, and clan, using the identity with which they identify themselves? For example, the french speak french, but and parisians are culturally parisian, but the french countryside is identifiably germanic and has retained those cultural tendencies. American whites are primarily german, but speak english. Southern italians are ethnically greek, and northern ethnically german. They know this, but data just groups them together.
    4. For these politicized reasons, I tend to think the only honest means of judging ethnicity is genetic, cultural, and linguistic in that order, which is how people tend to describe themselves if they have an ethnic identity that is important to them. For those that it isn’t there is usually a reason to avoid it and choose some else less ‘truthful’.
    5. Using that method of categorization, As far as I know there are four major races(with austrailasians earning their own category), nine or so subraces (separating out the various indo europeans in particular), over 100 minor races and a vast number tribes and unmeasurable number of clans.
    6. But the truth is that genetics is going to solve this for us within the next few decades and governments will no longer be able to play their games with us.

    https://www.quora.com/How-many-ethnic-groups-are-there-in-the-whole-world

  • Do Highly Academically Accomplished People Often Deliberately Make Themselves Non-open Because Too Much Openness Would Distract Them?

    I will give you the honest answer, but you won’t like it.

    The problem is that the answer to most questions that people would ask is:

    —-”I have a limited amount of time and I try to spend it wisely, and that would be a poor use of my time”—-

    or

    —-”That question is so trivial, and so readily available on google, that I can’t believe you are so lazy that you’re asking me instead”—-

    or

    —-“You are far to ignorant and stupid to comprehend the answer to your question in the amount of time I can afford to donate to you.”—-

    Rather than tell you those honest bits of truth they stay silent.

    (Myself, I use the public as experimental subjects, but my category of work allows me to do that. Mostly, though, honestly – most questions are too costly to answer. So I publish everything I write and hope that people just ‘read along’ for a while, and it works.)

    https://www.quora.com/Do-highly-academically-accomplished-people-often-deliberately-make-themselves-non-open-because-too-much-openness-would-distract-them

  • Why Is The U.s Thought Of So Negatively By Many?

    Why should people in the USA care about being considered negatively by some, when so many people demonstrably want to move here, and stay here, demonstrated preference is a superior scientific test than expressed opinion.

    The weak always criticize the strong. Those with less criticise those with more. The unimportant always criticize the unimportant.

    You probably can’t imagine how little americans think about you or care what you think.

    Because you are irrelevant to them. Becaus your opinion is irrelevant to them. And because they would largely attribute your opinion to weakness, relative poverty, or relative ignorance and unimportance.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-U-S-thought-of-so-negatively-by-many

  • Why Are Women Less Distracted By Attractive Men Than Men Being Distracted By A Beautiful Woman?

    Men: Search for biological fitness in a woman.
    Women: Search for status fitness in a man.

    It’s not complicated. She’s a hot body, and you’re a hot wallet.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-are-women-less-distracted-by-attractive-men-than-men-being-distracted-by-a-beautiful-woman

  • Why Is The U.s Thought Of So Negatively By Many?

    Why should people in the USA care about being considered negatively by some, when so many people demonstrably want to move here, and stay here, demonstrated preference is a superior scientific test than expressed opinion.

    The weak always criticize the strong. Those with less criticise those with more. The unimportant always criticize the unimportant.

    You probably can’t imagine how little americans think about you or care what you think.

    Because you are irrelevant to them. Becaus your opinion is irrelevant to them. And because they would largely attribute your opinion to weakness, relative poverty, or relative ignorance and unimportance.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-U-S-thought-of-so-negatively-by-many

  • Why Are Women Less Distracted By Attractive Men Than Men Being Distracted By A Beautiful Woman?

    Men: Search for biological fitness in a woman.
    Women: Search for status fitness in a man.

    It’s not complicated. She’s a hot body, and you’re a hot wallet.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-are-women-less-distracted-by-attractive-men-than-men-being-distracted-by-a-beautiful-woman