Curt Doolittle

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  • Does China Actually Care About North Korea?

    China cares about damaging american power, maintaining the power of the party so that they can prevent the fragmentation of the Chinese (Han) Empire, and restoring her position as ‘center of the world’, in order to gain economic, political and military advantage.


    North Korea helps and hurts this strategy.

    https://www.quora.com/Does-China-actually-care-about-North-Korea

  • Would The Poor Have Better Standards Of Living In A Perfect Free Market Economy?

    A perfect free market economy is no more possible than a perfectly managed economy.   That is because people at a material disadvantage use collective bargaining (the government) to gain advantage.

    https://www.quora.com/Would-the-poor-have-better-standards-of-living-in-a-perfect-free-market-economy

  • Is Leninism A Different Form Of Capitalism?

    Capitalism: The voluntary organization of production, distribution, trade, and consumption.
    Socialism: The involuntary organization of production, distribution, trade, and consumption.


    The difference is in incentives.  Capitalism works and people work in it.  Socialism doesn’t work, and people don’t work in it. 

    https://www.quora.com/Is-Leninism-a-different-form-of-capitalism

  • Is Keynsian Economics Better For America Than Austrian Economics?

    THIS IS THE MOST ACCURATE FRAMING OF THE ECONOMIC MOVEMENTS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE TO US.

    1 – Austrian economics seeks to eliminate asymmetries of knowledge so that people can cooperate voluntarily under the optimum possible conditions.  So as a movement, Austrian economics was a social science.  In other words, they want to improve our information.

    2 – American (Chicago) economics seeks to identify rule of law, so that economics can be constructed as a formula under rule of law – eliminating discretionary toying with the economy, just as rule of law eliminates discretionary toying with the polity.  In other words, they want to manipulate information as little as possible.


    3 – Saltwater (New York/California) economics seeks to identify the maximum disinformation that the government can insert into the economy with which to farm taxes, consume, and redistribute them, while preserving the incentive to keep working and risking capital (the hamster wheel), and to create sufficient knowledge of how to use disinformation that policy makers have full discretion.


    https://www.quora.com/Is-Keynsian-economics-better-for-America-than-Austrian-economics

  • How Can The Government Fix The Systematic Racism Problem In America?

    Stop forcing integration, restore voluntary disassociation, and provide separate houses of government for different races.

    https://www.quora.com/How-can-the-government-fix-the-systematic-racism-problem-in-America

  • Is The United States A Rogue State?

    The problem with american policy is that it’s policy is utopian. 

    1. The postwar consensus was that states needed to focus internally on capitalism and human rights, and stay within their borders, so that we don’t have another civil war. Unfortunately americans promote democracy AND consumer capitalism instead of consumer capitalism regardless of political order.
    2. Democracy is a bad idea. Its not a cause of prosperity. It is a luxury good – a conspicuous consumption for wealthy societies, and creates chaos and suffering elsewhere.
    3. American postwar policy says ‘choose the government you want”.  what we don’t say is “but if you choose badly we will send you back to the stone age”.  Unfortunately, human instinct is parasitic: people choose badly.  Why? no enlightenment, no chivalry, no high trust, no prohibition on cousin marriage, and unfortunately, a full standard deviation in lower median IQ.
    4. People are not oppressed so much as parasites that need domestication.
    5. The west is better off than the rest not because of our virtues, but because for one thousand years we hung 1/2 to 1% of the underclass every year, controlled access to farm land, delayed childbirth, prohibited cousin marriage, and starved the rest.  SO most of the west is decendent from the middle class.  The rest of the world hasn’t done this (other than china and Japan) and so they are disproporionately impuslive, aggressive, and of lower intelligence than westerners.
    6. Europe failed in its colonial efforts to national detriments.  We have colonized Europe to its detriment.  Ottoman colonies are the source of world conflict.  The germans were probably right in the first world war, and we should have stayed out of it.  We tend to be wrong a lot. Other than the war on communism – we tend to be wrong a lot.

      Is that uncomfortable? It’s true.

    https://www.quora.com/Is-the-United-States-a-Rogue-State

  • Why Is Neoliberalism So Prevalent In The U.s.?

    Women voters, and the profitability of selling education that appeals to future women voters.  And the profitability of selling consumption to women voters in their role as consumers. 


    Really.  That’s the reason.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-is-neoliberalism-so-prevalent-in-the-U-S

  • Is Donald Trump Doing A Good Job At Bringing Conservatives And Liberals Together?

    The country has been engaging in ‘the big sort’ for decades now. 
    The Republican party represents whites and married women.
    The Democratic party represents non-whites and unmarried women.

    All economics and politics are merely demographic: Race, Culture, Class, Age, and maritial status.   We blither a lot about politics under the assumption that people change. They don’t. 

    https://www.quora.com/Is-Donald-Trump-doing-a-good-job-at-bringing-Conservatives-and-Liberals-together

  • What Is The Difference Between Economic Liberalism And Political Liberalism In The Context Of International Relations?

    The difference is that political liberalism produces more honest negotiations but less consistent policy. 


    For this reason political liberalism is a luxury, not a utility.

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-economic-liberalism-and-political-liberalism-in-the-context-of-international-relations

  • Does China Actually Care About North Korea?

    China cares about damaging american power, maintaining the power of the party so that they can prevent the fragmentation of the Chinese (Han) Empire, and restoring her position as ‘center of the world’, in order to gain economic, political and military advantage.


    North Korea helps and hurts this strategy.

    https://www.quora.com/Does-China-actually-care-about-North-Korea