Curt Doolittle

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  • Do We Really “own” Anything In A Capitalist Society?

    CORRECT ANSWER

    These rights we can observe humans demonstrate:

    Constituo (homesteading / creation)
    Transitus (crossing)
    Observo (observation)
    Usus (use of 3d space)
    Fructus (consume the fruits of)
    Mancipio (sale and transfer)
    Abusus (destruction / conversion)

    When we say ‘ownership’ we mean some subset of these properties.  The limit on ownership is externalities. In other words, your use of a thing cannot harm another. 

    In almost no cases to we grant Abusus to land, water, air, knowledge, art, monument, norm and tradition. Even under slavery you can rarely kill a slave.   Why?  Because these things create externalities that affect others.

    So most of the time when people say their ownership is limited, it is not the property that is limited but the consequences of use of that property.

    All creatures that can move and remember tend to create and defend property: that which they have expended effort to acquire.

    Property rights however are a product of organized cooperation.  The purpose of property RIGHTS is this:
    To reduce transaction costs in determining use. (reduce conflict)
    To eliminate rent seeking from efforts at creating productivity.
    To provide incentives to those who have local knowledge to make use of it in the service of others, through production and trade.
    To provide constant punishment to free riders who are ever-present.
    In other words, to create cooperation at scale in a division of labor in which none can seek rents and all must earn returns.

    In order to accelerate consumption we borrow.  In order to borrow others retain an interest.  You are generally prohibited from Abusus, and your Mancipio is limited.  And if you fail to pay off the lender you will gain back your rights of Mancipio.  But rarely Abusus.

    At all times you possess some subset of rights.  in very few cases do you posssess all rights.

    The current intellectual debate is whether it makes any sense at all to charge interest on home loans since this seems to be one of the the primary causes of inflation. Worse, it is such an important part of the american economy that most economists feel terror at the thought of interfering with it.

    To say that the american economy is a house of cards, for this reason, is not too far off. Our primary source of wealth and our primary industry for two hundred years has been selling off the continent that we conquered to new generations and new immigrants.

    This is our dirty little secret of how the american way of life is really funded.

    https://www.quora.com/Do-we-really-own-anything-in-a-capitalist-society

  • What Is The History Of Bellevue, Wa?

    1. Coal mines, lumber, swamps. scandinavians.
    2. War era manufacturing on the lakes.
    3. Bridge = cheap land, ‘the sticks’. suburbia. very white.
    4. Tech boom (Microsoft), ‘ bizarre economy’, extreme wealth.
    5. Best city to live in in america because no viable underclass, highly educated upper middle class. too expensive for lower classes to move in. no underclass means of employment.
    6. Microsoft people are extremely dysfunctional because of the corporate culture and it leads to very strange social order that permeates the region.

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-history-of-Bellevue-WA

  • What Is Libertarian Communism?

    Like “meritocratic communism” it is either an impossibility, or a lie. Most likely a lie to cover an impossibility. Most such lies are created in order to perpetuate fraud by political means by making false moral appeals in an effort to avoid exchanging behavioral limitations for material rewards.

    Libertarianism: universal individual ownership of property, and voluntarily constructed commons.

    Socialism: Universal state ownership of property, and the involuntarily constructed commons, where bureaucratic or authoritarian leaders determine the assignments of work and the distribution of proceeds from the work – (which usually don’t end up existing)  Socialism is a failed experiment.

    Mixed economy: Involuntary organization of the production of commons using representatives who appropriate the proceeds of production.  Plus the voluntary organization of production of goods and services which generates the proceeds that are later redistributed as commons. This is in practice the western model since voters demonstrably do not vote for policy but ideology.

    Direct Economic/market Democracy: The voluntary organization of the production of commons by voting for desired commons with the contributions that one has produced.  Combined with the voluntary organization of production of goods and services which generates the proceeds some portion of which are used to produce commons.  In this model competitive commons are possible, and no monopoly commons are necessary.  But competitive commons are class-weighted.  This is an unlikely experiment except in small, very wealthy communities.

    Direct Redistributive/Shareholder Democracy:  The voluntary organization of the production of commons by voting a SHARE of the proceeds from a mixed economy. Combined with the voluntary organization of production of goods and services, which generates the proceeds some portino of which are used to produce commons.  This means meritocratic contribution to commons but egalitarian decision  of commons. In this model competitive commons are possible, and no monopoly commons are necessary. This is a likely next generation of Government since it eliminates the unnecessary conflcit of monopoly commons and eliminates the existence of politicians who engage in corruption.

    We must organize cooperation (morality)
    We must organize reproduction (family)
    We must organize production (market)
    We must organize commons (government)
    We must organize a monopoly with which to hold our territory (military)

    If you aren’t using these terms then you’re probably engaged in error or lie.

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-libertarian-communism

  • Why Is Russia Leaving Syria?

    Putin has established a military base in the region.  This was his intention.  No other expenditure of effort is necessary.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Russia-leaving-Syria

  • Is Socialism Dangerous?

    Isn’t 100 Million dead in one century because of a pseudoscientific economic and political system propagated by tyrants from the underclasses enough evidence? Isn’t India’s continued problem with ever-present corruption evidence?

    How do you price the damage done by the soviets, the chinese, the southeast asians, the south americans, the hindus from these experiments with socialism?

    The most capitalist societies provide the greatest benefits by redistribution.

    The most socialist societies provide the worse benefits by redistribution.

    THE ONLY PEOPLE TAUGHT ANYTHING ABOUT SOCIALISM?

    Are liberal arts, and ‘extended high school’ students who are not smart enough to get into STEM classes.  The kind of people who can learn by reading  100-120 IQ) but who are not smart enough to manage science (abstract empiricism).   THe people who follow these mere literary believers in the sub-100 IQ space cannot be blamed. They cannot grasp these matters anyway.  They imitate those that they understand.

    Think of Socialism and Communism as a literary equivalent of Science Fiction and Fantasy (which constitute a libertarian movement).  They are both nonsense extremes.  The arose in nearly the same fashion at nearly the same times, as the myths of the new age.  Socialism and communism the restatement of peasant christianity, and science fiction and fantasy the restatement of pagan aristocracy.

    Rule of law under the common law under natural law, with which we suppress parasitism and free riding;  the credit society under which our behavior is regulated more so by credit and job than by law and religion;  and macro economics in which we attempt to stimulate production sufficiently to keep all employed; and finally genetic and cognitive science – are relatively scientific disciplines.  They are not literary fantasies of socialism or  science fiction.

    Communism, socialism, and the myth of the horrid worker who chose the factory happily, willingly, and enthusiastically, over the subsistence of the farm, are all literary inventions.  None of it is real. None of it happened.

    Utopias always fail.  Socialism and communism were the second attempt to spread a new religion – this time by pseudoscientific literature.  The first time by religious mysticism in ancient era’s version of literature – myth.

    Both have had nothing but evil consequences. 

    Why?  Because only very stupid people believe them, and very stupid people can be led by them.  Unfortunately, very stupid people make up more than half of the living population. In many countries they make up three to four fifths of the population.

    We all seek justification of our reproductive strategies.  The problem for the undesirable, unintelligent, and unproductive is that they are aware of their incompetence but must seek lies to justify their existences.    It must be someone else’s fault. It cannot be that they are human waste products the result of dysgenic over reproduction, and the only reason they live is that we have petroleum products to keep them warm and feed them in winter…  (ouch)

    Curt Doolittle
    The Propertarian Institute
    Kiev, Ukraine.

    https://www.quora.com/Is-socialism-dangerous

  • What Is A Word For Someone Who Disrespects On Grounds Of Culture/race? (besides Racist)?

    A scientist?

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-word-for-someone-who-disrespects-on-grounds-of-culture-race-besides-racist

  • What Are The Key Differences Between Nordic Socialism And Other Flavors Of Socialism, And Is There An Example Of Nation That Has Prospered Under It?

    Nordics do not practice socialism but very high levels of taxation and redistribution. They are highly capitalist economies.  The reasons that they can achieve this state are that

    1. Northern europeans have been selectively eliminating the troublesome lower part of the gene pool for thousands of years (impulsivity and IQ under 80.)  Cold weather, short summers, darkness, manorialism, lots of hanging, no immigration from north Africa, Levant,  central Asia, steppe, or Asia to damage the gene pool.)
    2. These are very small countries.
    3. They have no diversity to create political conflict over redistributed wealth.
    4. They have no competitors on their borders to meaningfully defend against.
    5. They are bordered by near kin who have similar values and are not competitors.
    6. They are educated protestants exposed to Hanseatic and pre-Hansa cultures for many centuries.
    7. Northern european women have been able to use property and breed late for centuries.

    (BTW: I get very tired of these fake questions dreamed up by paid workers in india in order to generate clicks.)

    https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-key-differences-between-Nordic-socialism-and-other-flavors-of-socialism-and-is-there-an-example-of-nation-that-has-prospered-under-it

  • What Do White People Need To Understand About Racism?

    That it’s natural.  That all human groups act in the interests of their kin.  That people vote racially.  They work in racial groups. They live in racial groups. They mate and marry in racial groups.  They speak in racial groups.

    All racial groups convey status because some groups are more desirable than others.  That all those capable of escaping the lower classes of their racial groups rationally want to join in white culture so that they can have a better life, and that as such they want to limit racial discrimination.  And that white middle and lower classes want to preserve their privileges by preserving the status of their elites from competition. 

    That race, religion, culture, tribe, gender are a part of life because they are meaningful differences because people act to their advantage at all times, and race, religion, culture, tribe and gender convey different advantages.

    NO MORE LIES. 

    The century of pseudoscience and lying is over.

    Kant, Boaz, Freud, Marx, Cantor, Mises, Frankfurt School, Rothbard, and the Postmoderns are just liars and pseudoscientists creating mythology of secular christianity that is the literary equivalent of science fiction and fantasy that provide the myth of pagan aristocracy.

    It’s not complicated.  Silly people in the ancient world believed in holy books. Silly people in the modern world believe in pseudoscientific books.  But they’re both nonsense. Both lies.

    The difference is that pagans and aristocracy know that science fiction and fantasy are just literature. The secular christians thought that mysticism was real. They think pseudoscience is real. They love propaganda. They love political correctness. They police speech that exposes their lies.

    The fact that women are and the underclasses are vectors for mysticism and  pseudoscience, and men and the middle classes are vectors for commerce, technology, and warfare shouldn’t be surprising.

    Women and slaves spread the lies of mysticism in the ancient world. Women and the ‘slaves’  or underclasses spread the lies of pseudoscience in the modern world.

    There is nothing even the least bit difficult to understand.

    Wishful thinking is fertile ground for lies.

    Lies are lies no matter how well you wrap them in story.

    Stories are the perfect method for telling lies.

    Why?  Women invented gossip: stories. Men invented history.

    https://www.quora.com/What-do-white-people-need-to-understand-about-racism

  • Is Tech The Only Or Rather Biggest Way To Make A “dent In The Universe” Today? What Are Problems In The World That Need More Than Tech To Solve?

    Tech is useful because at present the cost of creating change requires the least capital of all other available options.  Tech is still extremely disruptive.  However, the desktop appears to have somewhat peaked, and the value of new handheld software appears to be close to peaking.  The next disruption is when Apple must seek new revenue sources and must pursue the reformation of the desktop given the decades of failure by microsoft to do so.  It appears very unlikely that the innovation that we anticipate: talking to machines, is anywhere on the horizon, despite drivel by the pop press.

    https://www.quora.com/Is-tech-the-only-or-rather-biggest-way-to-make-a-dent-in-the-universe-today-What-are-problems-in-the-world-that-need-more-than-tech-to-solve

  • Why Do Some People Say That Former Eastern Block Countries Had A State Capitalist System And Not A Socialist One?

    They’re wrong.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-people-say-that-former-eastern-block-countries-had-a-state-capitalist-system-and-not-a-socialist-one