Curt Doolittle

Source: Original Site Post

  • 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 And How Do Free Markets Work?

    People come into proximity with one another to decrease opportunity costs (concentrate opportunities and decrease the cost of each opportunity). This is the reason productivity increases with population density: we save time and expense, increase the division of knowledge and labor, and increase the velocity of trades, so we make the cost of pursuing opportunities cheaper.

    But when we come into proximity and decrease the costs of opportunities, we also increase the number of competitors both for consumption of goods, services, and information, and for the production of goods, services, and information.

    So the only means of pursuing those opportunities is to reduce the cost or improve the product, service, or information. Innovators force all other producers to improve the cost and quality and diversity of their products. Unfortunately it is usually much harder to improve the quality of labor, than it is to improve goods, services, and information.

    This cycle of competition and innovation keeps prices down and quality up, at the cost of forcing everyone to work harder, think harder, and spend more time working, leaving some people by the wayside because they cannot adapt themselves or their goods, services, or information fast enough to serve the interests of buyers given the available competition.

    A free market refers to the territorial, political, and juridical conditions under which anyone can engage in the negotiation and voluntary trade of attention, effort, labor, goods, services, information, promises and obligations, assuming that which he trades was obtained by him by the same means.

    Where one of the following sets of conditions applies:

    The government does not interfere with prices or conditions of the transaction and only enforces common laws of contract and tort. (this is an ok thing)

    or

    The government does not interfere with prices conditions of the transactions, but forces all parties to warranty for performance, and against fraud. (This is better thing)

    or

    The government does not interfere with prices conditions of the transactions, but forces all parties to warranty for performance, for fully informed consent, and against fraud, and that the exchange is reciprocally productive (This is an even better thing)

    or

    The government does not interfere with prices, conditions of the transactions, forces involuntary warranties for performance and fully informed consent, and against fraud, and that the exchange is reciprocally productive, but prevents externalization of costs to the commons by the socialization of losses, the privatization of commons, or the consumption of a common resource without compensation to the polity. (an even better thing.)

    or

    The government does not interfere with prices, conditions of the transactions, forces involuntary warranties for performance and fully informed consent, and against fraud, and that the exchange is reciprocally productive, but prevents externalization of costs to the commons by the socialization of losses, the privatization of commons, or the consumption of a common resource without compensation to the polity, and that no conspiracy exists to create an artificial shortage in order to increase prices without increasing the content of the product, service, or good (an even better thing.)

    A free market, may describe any of those different conditions. But only the last of those, I have listed is in fact a MORAL free market.

    Free markets are too often used as an excuse to conduct parasitism rather than productivity, under the ruse of moral pretense.

    Curt Doolittle
    The Propertarian Institute
    Kiev, Ukraine

    https://www.quora.com/Why-and-how-do-free-markets-work

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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