Curt Doolittle

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  • Market Production of Commons?

    –“I’m confused about the market production of commons”–
    I use the term market government, and market production of commons do describe the fact that commons may be produced by at least three means: 1 – private production of commons via the usual market process 2 – use of the house of ‘parliament’ to negotiate the voluntary production of a common (which may not be imposed upon) 3 – use of the houses of parliament to negotiate a trade between classes for the exchange of monetary and non-monetary goods, services, and behavior, to product commons that may or may not be physically constructed, and may instead be normatively or behaviorally constructed. The problem of circumventing market demand for legislation is answered by providing options 2 and 3 in lieu of monopoly rule.

  • Business Terminology, Scale.

    ESTABLISHMENT (small/craft) An establishment is a single physical location where business is conducted or where services or industrial operations are performed. FIRM (regional/industry): A firm is a business organization consisting of one or more domestic establishments in the same state and industry under common ownership or control.

    ENTERPRISE(National/Federation) An enterprise is a business organization consisting of one or more domestic establishments under common ownership or control. —VS— SIZE Very small businesses Fewer than 20 employees Small businesses 20 to 99 employees Medium businesses 100 to 499 employees Large businesses 500 or more employees THEREFORE: THIS GRAPH …………………Establishment -> Firm -> Enterprise Large >500 ^ Medium >100 ^ Small >20 ^ Very Small >0 WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE? It looks like half of the people are employed by LARGE organizations, the majority of the rest by Small and very small. I look at it like this: Given Median Family Income: 50K: 500*50K=25M * 4 = 100M+ 100*50K=5M * 4 = 20M+ 20*50K=1M * 4 = ~5M+ 1*50K=50K * 4 = 200K+ WHY? Revenue per employee goes up with scale. Ratio of employee to equipment costs balances out. As an average we tend to use 30%. (Since I’ve largely been in technology, I have never run a business where it is that low). If we use the median income, and multiply by four that seems to produce a fairly good “rule of thumb”. WHATS THE HIGHEST PAID OCCUPATION IN AMERICA? Management of companies and enterprises . . ..104,041 ..Enterprises with fewer than 500 employees . . . 76,484 ..Very small enterprises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155,557 ..Small enterprises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 70,065 ..Medium enterprises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 74,717 ..Large enterprises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 108,057 The organization of production distribution and trade is the highest paying sector in america. Entrepreneurship rules.

  • Business Terminology, Scale.

    ESTABLISHMENT (small/craft) An establishment is a single physical location where business is conducted or where services or industrial operations are performed. FIRM (regional/industry): A firm is a business organization consisting of one or more domestic establishments in the same state and industry under common ownership or control.

    ENTERPRISE(National/Federation) An enterprise is a business organization consisting of one or more domestic establishments under common ownership or control. —VS— SIZE Very small businesses Fewer than 20 employees Small businesses 20 to 99 employees Medium businesses 100 to 499 employees Large businesses 500 or more employees THEREFORE: THIS GRAPH …………………Establishment -> Firm -> Enterprise Large >500 ^ Medium >100 ^ Small >20 ^ Very Small >0 WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE? It looks like half of the people are employed by LARGE organizations, the majority of the rest by Small and very small. I look at it like this: Given Median Family Income: 50K: 500*50K=25M * 4 = 100M+ 100*50K=5M * 4 = 20M+ 20*50K=1M * 4 = ~5M+ 1*50K=50K * 4 = 200K+ WHY? Revenue per employee goes up with scale. Ratio of employee to equipment costs balances out. As an average we tend to use 30%. (Since I’ve largely been in technology, I have never run a business where it is that low). If we use the median income, and multiply by four that seems to produce a fairly good “rule of thumb”. WHATS THE HIGHEST PAID OCCUPATION IN AMERICA? Management of companies and enterprises . . ..104,041 ..Enterprises with fewer than 500 employees . . . 76,484 ..Very small enterprises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155,557 ..Small enterprises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 70,065 ..Medium enterprises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 74,717 ..Large enterprises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 108,057 The organization of production distribution and trade is the highest paying sector in america. Entrepreneurship rules.

  • Why Study Philosophy? Well. Don’t.

    October 3 at 9:24am ·
    If by philosophy we refer to fantasy literature as an extension of The Novel, Fictional histories, Mythology, Detective Stories, Fantasy, and Science Fiction, then the study of philosophy is equivalent to a world-of-warcraft or Game of Thrones wiki. It’s just entertainment. It’s no different from collecting any other kind of useless thing: bottle caps, beer cans, antique toys. If we are to make a list of existential problems that remain unsolved, and we eliminate those problems that are but word games that overload our meager minds, by proposing inarticulate deceptions masquerading as meaningful problems, then we are stuck with a small number of meaningful problems, and the vast literature of philosophy is a little other than attempt to create a religion by more elaborate deception than the original versions. Now, we could, on the other hand, look at the catalog of philosophical positions as the evolution of (a) correspondence with reality, and (b) deceptions that seek to avoid it. Or the evolution of (a) true propositions, and (b) false propositions. And rather than empathize with the vast catalog of bad ideas we attempted to criticize and discover the motives of those thinkers and the methods of deceit that they employed, then that might be interesting. It might also be humiliating.

  • Why Study Philosophy? Well. Don’t.

    October 3 at 9:24am ·
    If by philosophy we refer to fantasy literature as an extension of The Novel, Fictional histories, Mythology, Detective Stories, Fantasy, and Science Fiction, then the study of philosophy is equivalent to a world-of-warcraft or Game of Thrones wiki. It’s just entertainment. It’s no different from collecting any other kind of useless thing: bottle caps, beer cans, antique toys. If we are to make a list of existential problems that remain unsolved, and we eliminate those problems that are but word games that overload our meager minds, by proposing inarticulate deceptions masquerading as meaningful problems, then we are stuck with a small number of meaningful problems, and the vast literature of philosophy is a little other than attempt to create a religion by more elaborate deception than the original versions. Now, we could, on the other hand, look at the catalog of philosophical positions as the evolution of (a) correspondence with reality, and (b) deceptions that seek to avoid it. Or the evolution of (a) true propositions, and (b) false propositions. And rather than empathize with the vast catalog of bad ideas we attempted to criticize and discover the motives of those thinkers and the methods of deceit that they employed, then that might be interesting. It might also be humiliating.

  • The Intellectual Catastrophe Of Specialization And The Cure For It In Education

    Outside of the top 5% in all disciplines: – Physicists are often ridiculous because either they don’t understand their own subject, or because they lack the philosophical training to know the difference between general rules of the discipline (dogma) and the epistemological necessity that these general rules provide a shortcut for. – Economists are often ridiculous because either they don’t understand the limits of mathematics, the limits of statistics, and the limits of human cognitive bias, but most importantly, the epistemology that places that their models, methods, explanatory and predictive power that seems to evade them – and is now being supplied by experimental psychology and cognitive science. – Philosophers are almost universally ridiculous becasue either they ignore what we have learned about epistemology from physics, economics, and cognitive science, or they do not understand the difference between meaning(map) and existence(territory), or because they are subject of dogmas (sets, internal consistency without external correspondence), but most importantly because they do not account for costs on the one hand and rely on a false intuitionistic definition of the good on the other. – Mathematicians are only slightly ridiculous since their field is the easiest to test, but they seem to ignore the fact that mathematics functions by removing properties from reality, but that all mathematics in application is bound by reality that it ignores. As such we see them confuse the reductio logic of mathematics with mathematical platonism. They confuse the determinism of all axiomatic declarations with mystery rather than the limits of human comprehension that mathematics assists us in extending through symbols and constant relations. They confuse the rate at which operations will produce members of a collection in any period of time, or over so many operations, with the size of the set itself which must always be bound by some limit. They confuse the name of a positional number with the name of a function upon positional numbers that produces a ratio. They seem to have lost sight of the fact that their discipline can either be treated as a science of measurement, or a logic disconnected from reality, or ideal fantasy no different from philosophical and literary adventurism. I could go on at length here with ease. THERE IS ONLY ONE FIELD: TRUTH (TESTIMONY) What differs is the instruments we require to inspect. We have invented both methods of inspection (and they’re reductio in almost all cases), and methods of measurement, and methods of decidability. WE INVESTIGATE: 1 – Reason, Logic, Mathematics, (Reason) 2 – Physics, Chemistry, Biology, (Existence) 3 – Psychology, Sociology, Politics, History, Economy, Law (Cooperation) WE MEASURE 1 – Categories, properties, and relations 2 – Logic of comparisons and transformations 3 – Empirical measurements of existential reality 4 – Moral measurements of cooperation – WITH – 5 – Operational language to articulate all of the above free of error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, obscurantism, pseudoscience, and deceit. – AND – 6 – Full Accounting, Limits, and Parsimony To protect Against Our cherry picking by error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, obscurantism, pseudoscience, and deceit. THIS IS HOW WE MUST TEACH HUMANS IN MODERNITY 1 – Strength, Fitness, Sport, Defense, War, Strategy 2 – Mythology, Story, Biography, History, Essay, Diary, Criticism 3 – Self, Friendship, Employment, Partnership, Marriage, Parenting, Managing, Commanding, Ruling 4 – Property, Manners, Ethics, Morals, Natural Law, Evolutionary Strategies 5 – Psychology, Sociology, Economics, Politics, Conflict(War/Crime) 6 – Vocabulary, Grammar, Logic,Testimony(Truth), Rhetoric, Judgement 7 – Reading, Writing, Programming, Strictly Constructed Law 8 – Arithmetic, Accounting, Algebra, Geometry, Statistics, Calculus, (Mathematics of Mind/Cognition <–Note!) 9 – Empiricism(observation and measurement), Physics, Chemistry, Biology, (Sentience <–Note!) 10 – Monuments, Architecture, Arts, Decoration, Music, Plays, (the discipline of creativity: knowledge and free association.) This curriculum produces skills in all areas of life. If a student can make it through the first half of each, he or she will be adequately prepared for life in modernity. SORTITION Rolling three years in each class Boys and Girls In separate classes Children start by maturity level, not age, with delay preferable to early entry. Emphasis should be given to rate of maturity and individual needs so that boys with high testosterone and rapid maturity are given more exercise and those with less and lower more drills. IMHO Pass Fail, or % is all that is needed, since they will be exposed to the same information repeatedly. I don’t like ‘grades’. As far as I can tell most grades are a reflection of the relationship between the intelligence and maturity of an individual and the artificial standard of the industrial classroom.

  • The Intellectual Catastrophe Of Specialization And The Cure For It In Education

    Outside of the top 5% in all disciplines: – Physicists are often ridiculous because either they don’t understand their own subject, or because they lack the philosophical training to know the difference between general rules of the discipline (dogma) and the epistemological necessity that these general rules provide a shortcut for. – Economists are often ridiculous because either they don’t understand the limits of mathematics, the limits of statistics, and the limits of human cognitive bias, but most importantly, the epistemology that places that their models, methods, explanatory and predictive power that seems to evade them – and is now being supplied by experimental psychology and cognitive science. – Philosophers are almost universally ridiculous becasue either they ignore what we have learned about epistemology from physics, economics, and cognitive science, or they do not understand the difference between meaning(map) and existence(territory), or because they are subject of dogmas (sets, internal consistency without external correspondence), but most importantly because they do not account for costs on the one hand and rely on a false intuitionistic definition of the good on the other. – Mathematicians are only slightly ridiculous since their field is the easiest to test, but they seem to ignore the fact that mathematics functions by removing properties from reality, but that all mathematics in application is bound by reality that it ignores. As such we see them confuse the reductio logic of mathematics with mathematical platonism. They confuse the determinism of all axiomatic declarations with mystery rather than the limits of human comprehension that mathematics assists us in extending through symbols and constant relations. They confuse the rate at which operations will produce members of a collection in any period of time, or over so many operations, with the size of the set itself which must always be bound by some limit. They confuse the name of a positional number with the name of a function upon positional numbers that produces a ratio. They seem to have lost sight of the fact that their discipline can either be treated as a science of measurement, or a logic disconnected from reality, or ideal fantasy no different from philosophical and literary adventurism. I could go on at length here with ease. THERE IS ONLY ONE FIELD: TRUTH (TESTIMONY) What differs is the instruments we require to inspect. We have invented both methods of inspection (and they’re reductio in almost all cases), and methods of measurement, and methods of decidability. WE INVESTIGATE: 1 – Reason, Logic, Mathematics, (Reason) 2 – Physics, Chemistry, Biology, (Existence) 3 – Psychology, Sociology, Politics, History, Economy, Law (Cooperation) WE MEASURE 1 – Categories, properties, and relations 2 – Logic of comparisons and transformations 3 – Empirical measurements of existential reality 4 – Moral measurements of cooperation – WITH – 5 – Operational language to articulate all of the above free of error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, obscurantism, pseudoscience, and deceit. – AND – 6 – Full Accounting, Limits, and Parsimony To protect Against Our cherry picking by error, bias, wishful thinking, suggestion, obscurantism, pseudoscience, and deceit. THIS IS HOW WE MUST TEACH HUMANS IN MODERNITY 1 – Strength, Fitness, Sport, Defense, War, Strategy 2 – Mythology, Story, Biography, History, Essay, Diary, Criticism 3 – Self, Friendship, Employment, Partnership, Marriage, Parenting, Managing, Commanding, Ruling 4 – Property, Manners, Ethics, Morals, Natural Law, Evolutionary Strategies 5 – Psychology, Sociology, Economics, Politics, Conflict(War/Crime) 6 – Vocabulary, Grammar, Logic,Testimony(Truth), Rhetoric, Judgement 7 – Reading, Writing, Programming, Strictly Constructed Law 8 – Arithmetic, Accounting, Algebra, Geometry, Statistics, Calculus, (Mathematics of Mind/Cognition <–Note!) 9 – Empiricism(observation and measurement), Physics, Chemistry, Biology, (Sentience <–Note!) 10 – Monuments, Architecture, Arts, Decoration, Music, Plays, (the discipline of creativity: knowledge and free association.) This curriculum produces skills in all areas of life. If a student can make it through the first half of each, he or she will be adequately prepared for life in modernity. SORTITION Rolling three years in each class Boys and Girls In separate classes Children start by maturity level, not age, with delay preferable to early entry. Emphasis should be given to rate of maturity and individual needs so that boys with high testosterone and rapid maturity are given more exercise and those with less and lower more drills. IMHO Pass Fail, or % is all that is needed, since they will be exposed to the same information repeatedly. I don’t like ‘grades’. As far as I can tell most grades are a reflection of the relationship between the intelligence and maturity of an individual and the artificial standard of the industrial classroom.

  • Sovereignty Not Liberty

    Libertarians desire liberty. Aristocracy desires sovereignty. Sovereignty requires rule. Reciprocal sovereignty requires rule of natural law. Liberty results from sovereignty, natural law, and enfranchisement into both. Liberty and Freedom are beggarly terms for sovereignty unearned.

  • Sovereignty Not Liberty

    Libertarians desire liberty. Aristocracy desires sovereignty. Sovereignty requires rule. Reciprocal sovereignty requires rule of natural law. Liberty results from sovereignty, natural law, and enfranchisement into both. Liberty and Freedom are beggarly terms for sovereignty unearned.

  • What Do You Consider Yourself?

    DO YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF A CLASSICAL LIBERAL? Maybe. In the sense that we can use the increase in proceeds from the agrarian, industrial, petrochemical, technological, information, and biological revolutions to construct commons by exchanges between houses, then yes. In the sense that we should extend the franchise to those who have not demonstrated ability to decide in favor of the commons, then no. DO YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF A LIBERTARIAN? Probably.Although I have come to understand that  we use various terms for “Liberty”: Sovereignty for the martial class, Liberty for the middle class, Freedom for the labor class, and “Positive Freedom” (charity) for the underclasses. And that all of us mean something quite different by it.  As such “Liberty” is a middle class ambition, and I do not consider myself first a member of the middle class, but of the lower (martial) aristocracy. DO YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF ALT-RIGHT?No. I consider myself New Right. Alt right is a resistance movement not a revolutionary one. Complaints not solutions. I do solutions. DO YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF A WHITE NATIONALIST?No. I take the position that familism, tribalism, nationalism, under natural law will produce the best outcomes for each family, tribe, nation, and race. And as such all can transcend the animal we call man.

    DO YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF A NATIONAL SOCIALIST? No. Although I do feel that despite its terrible economics that it was one of the greatest and most beautiful ambitions ever created by man – until they adopted propaganda, pseudoscience, and outright lying. WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF? I consider myself  Sovereign: An advocate for Aristocracy. Or what we might call a “Conservative Libertarian”. Even if that label tells us almost nothing useful.