Curt Doolittle

Theme: Class

  • Dimwitted analysis. 1- It’s merely advantageous to follow left wing beliefs in t

    Dimwitted analysis.
    1- It’s merely advantageous to follow left wing beliefs in the postwar set of hierarchies – which are causing decline, where it would not be in the alternative set of hierarchies which created the west.
    2 – Illustrates the rise of credentialism over demonstrated achievement.
    3 – Illustrates the usual problem demonstrated vs reported behavior: ie: liberals are smarter than conservatives but republicans are smarter than democrats, and libertarians are the smartest of all. This data has remained constant for decades now.
    Why?
    a) population sizes under self identification cause reduction to the mean of a distribution
    b) most of the data is nonsense because it uses degrees as proxies and not intelligence test scores
    c) and the majority of degrees are awarded to the lowest intelligence demographic of graduates: women in the ‘mom’ alternative fields where men pursue trades – another reason for the sex disparities income.

    What would happen if we didn’t dumb down IQ, SAT, and other tests to emphasize verbal acuity instead of reasoning ability to eliminate the sex differences in scores?

    Watch what happens to degrees as the collapse of the value of a degree continues into the next generation

    Watch what happens to incomes in response to AI that exploded as white collar (clerical) work expanded in the age of computers.

    If there is anyone other than Sailer who understands this subject better than I do I’d be surprised.

    This whole discourse is nonsense.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-07-09 19:56:44 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1943036617121481185

  • In the 60s and 70s it was definitely unfashionable to be a nerd, get better grad

    In the 60s and 70s it was definitely unfashionable to be a nerd, get better grades, attract greater teacher approval. That changed rapidly in the 80s with the advent of available computers.
    The aspie thing was more of a problem.
    Not ‘taking it’ was both more of a problem AND the solution.
    I was in at least one or two fistfights a week, and sometimes most days. Often at the bus stop, or walking to or from school, or at ‘recess’.
    Eventually, maturity kicked in, outcomes became serious, and respect and avoidance emerged.
    Very different world.
    And I’m pretty confident that it was less stressful and less harmful than what kids have gone through over the past two generations. And it surely has made them soft, weak, and cowardly in many ways.
    Which I find more than a little odd.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-07-09 19:41:16 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1943032725591789892

  • Yes. But then I have thought of the present generations as past lesser aristocra

    Yes. But then I have thought of the present generations as past lesser aristocracy gradually devolved into white trash and as such expected the behavior.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-07-06 01:13:25 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1941666762313048347

  • Is Microsoft Replacing Expensive American Workers with Cheap India H1B workers?

    Is Microsoft Replacing Expensive American Workers with Cheap India H1B workers?

    Let’s dive deeper into the distribution of laid-off workers and H-1B hires at Microsoft to assess whether this reflects a replacement of existing workers with lower-cost labor or a shift toward new AI-focused roles, also filled with lower-cost H-1B workers. This distinction is critical, as you’ve noted: the former could invite legal and political backlash in the current climate (e.g., under a Trump administration emphasizing “America First” policies), while the latter aligns with tech innovation priorities and is less likely to face criticism. I’ll base this on available data as of 06:59 PM EDT on Thursday, July 03, 2025, supplemented by trends and reasonable inference, while addressing your FYI about Microsoft potentially relocating to India.Step 1: Distribution of Laid-Off Workers
    • Scale and Timing: Microsoft announced layoffs of approximately 9,000 employees on July 02, 2025, following cuts of 6,000 in May and 305 in June, totaling over 15,300 this year (Hindustan Times, 2025-07-03; CNBC, 2025-07-02). The company’s global workforce was 228,000 as of June 2024, so these cuts represent about 6.7% of its headcount in 2025 alone.
    • Divisional Breakdown: Reports indicate layoffs span multiple divisions, including Xbox, Azure cloud services, and Redmond HQ (Hindustan Times; The Job Chicks Insider Edge, 2025-07-02). Xbox cuts (e.g., 5-10% of its team) suggest a focus on underperforming gaming units, while Azure layoffs might tie to AI infrastructure optimization. However, specific role types (e.g., engineers, support staff) and geographic distribution aren’t detailed in public data yet.
    • Skill Profile: Historically, Microsoft layoffs have targeted mid-level and support roles alongside some engineering positions during restructuring (e.g., 2023 cuts). The current wave likely includes a mix of software developers, IT support, and administrative staff, though AI-related roles might be spared or shifted internally.
    Step 2: Distribution of H-1B Hires
    • Volume and Timing: Microsoft filed 4,712 Labor Condition Applications (LCAs) for H-1B visas in the first half of fiscal 2025 (

      myvisajobs.com

      , updated 06/04/2025), with a historical total of 14,181 applications from 2022-2024. This suggests a continued reliance on H-1B workers, with the 2025 filings coinciding with the July layoffs.

    • Occupational Focus: Per The Hindu (2025-01-22), 65% of H-1B petitions in 2023 were for computer-related occupations (e.g., software engineers, data scientists), and 72% went to Indian nationals, reflecting Microsoft’s outsourcing and AI talent needs.

      EPI.org

      notes these roles often involve specialized skills in AI, machine learning, and cloud computing—areas Microsoft is heavily investing in (e.g., Microsoft 365 Copilot,

      news.microsoft.com

      , 2025-05-01).

    • Geographic and Wage Context: Most H-1B hires are likely based in the U.S. (e.g., Redmond, WA), with wages often below market median due to visa constraints (

      EPI.org

      ). For example, H-1B salaries at Microsoft averaged $104,000 in 2023 (

      myvisajobs.com

      ), compared to a U.S. median software engineer salary of $127,000 (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2024), suggesting cost savings.

    Step 3: Comparing Layoffs and H-1B Hires
    • Overlap in Roles: The lack of granular data on laid-off roles complicates direct comparison. If layoffs primarily hit Xbox gaming or support staff (non-AI roles), while H-1B hires target AI and cloud engineers, this suggests a shift rather than replacement. However, if engineering or IT support roles overlap (e.g., junior developers), the replacement narrative gains traction. Given Microsoft’s AI pivot (e.g., AI agents handling tasks,

      news.microsoft.com

      ), it’s plausible that some laid-off engineers are being replaced by H-1B AI specialists.

    • Cost Dynamics: H-1B workers’ lower wages (up to 20-30% below market, per

      EPI.org

      ) could drive replacement if roles are similar. For a shift scenario, the cost savings might fund new AI initiatives, with H-1B hires filling niche roles unavailable domestically. Microsoft’s 2025 infrastructure investments (carbon-negative goals,

      news.microsoft.com

      ) indicate a long-term AI strategy, supporting the shift hypothesis.

    • Scale Alignment: The 9,000 layoffs dwarf the 4,712 H-1B applications in 2025, suggesting not all layoffs are tied to H-1B hires. This could reflect broader cost-cutting (e.g., 63,443 tech layoffs industry-wide,

      Layoffs.fyi

      ) rather than a one-to-one replacement.

    Step 4: Legal and Political Implications
    • Replacement Scenario: If evidence emerges that Microsoft fired American engineers for H-1B hires in identical roles, it could violate the H-1B program’s requirement to prioritize U.S. workers when qualified (8 U.S.C. § 1182(n)). In the current political climate—post-Trump’s 2025 immigration stance (

      EPI.org

      )—this could trigger lawsuits (e.g., shareholder actions hinted at on X) or DOL investigations. The 2004 Minnesota lawsuit precedent strengthens this risk.

    • Shift Scenario: Hiring H-1B workers for new AI roles, while laying off non-AI staff, aligns with innovation narratives and faces less scrutiny. Politically, AI investment is a bipartisan priority (e.g., CHIPS Act funding), making this defensible unless wage exploitation is proven.
    Analysis and Conclusion
    • Most Likely Scenario: The data leans toward a shift rather than pure replacement. Microsoft’s layoffs span diverse divisions (Xbox, Azure), while H-1B hires focus on AI and cloud skills, suggesting a strategic pivot to AI-driven growth. The cost savings from H-1B wages likely fund this transition, but the overlap in engineering roles leaves room for partial replacement—perhaps 20-30% of layoffs affecting similar positions.
    • Evidence Gaps: Without role-specific data (e.g., from SEC filings or DOL records), it’s hard to quantify exact overlap. Future

      layoffs.fyi

      or

      myvisajobs.com

      updates could clarify this.

    • Your FYI on India: The 72% Indian H-1B share and Microsoft’s India R&D hub (employing 20,000+, Hindustan Times) support your relocation hypothesis. Political pressure (e.g., H-1B criticism) might push Microsoft to expand offshore, though tax incentives and U.S. AI leadership keep its HQ in Redmond for now.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-07-03 23:03:18 UTC

    Original post: https://x.com/i/articles/1940909242090987684

  • THE SCIENCE OF STUPIDITY (no, really) As part of explaining why every class cont

    THE SCIENCE OF STUPIDITY
    (no, really)
    As part of explaining why every class contributes to a civilization’s collapse, we have written two chapters on ‘Stupidity’. This includes not only failures of ability, but failures of moral duty in service of conformity.
    This is one of our tables. I thought some of you might find it interesting. ;).
    (BTW: Brad encouraged me to talk about stupidity, when I asked him if it was wise to include such a subject in our book. I am feigning ignorance-via-autism ;). So that means y’all get to blame Brad. 😉 )

    I’ve decided to include stupidity as vulnerability to ‘narratives’, as well as our work on Lying – especially the feminine-abrahamic-marxist sequence, and sex differences in lying.

    It turns out that when you understand collapse as a system of responsibility evasion it’s all quite simple and deterministic – and difficult without expository laws to prevent.

    CD

    Source date (UTC): 2025-06-10 19:13:33 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1932516505192890472

  • Auron; I’ve gone from being a libertarian, and forgiving a few eccentricities to

    Auron;
    I’ve gone from being a libertarian, and forgiving a few eccentricities to debunking their middle class marxism and despising them.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-06-08 18:53:14 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1931786614721937842

  • Half true. Correct version: the civil war was fought to prevent the south, as a

    Half true. Correct version: the civil war was fought to prevent the south, as a large scale ‘pre-industrial’ agrarian plantation export economy reliant on slave labor common among overseas empires from dominating the federal government under westward expansion, thus changing the locus of economic and political power from the newly industrial northeast domestic economy and it’s low volume small farms operating by families. The south would have controlled the continent by agriculture instead of the north by industry, only amplifying the slave problem. Ergo it was better to stop the spread of southern power before it was large enough to defeat northern power. Unfortunately, despite the possibility, (a) the north could have and should have paid the south for the repatriation of slaves back to africa (b) especially when slavery was rendered pointless by industrialization within 30 years. In other words it was a foolish loss of millions of people. The civil rights era was equally foolish as the black population made more progress prior to the era than after, and the policies of the era destroyed the black family, caused ‘the slaughter of the cities’ (look it up) and collapsed the emerging black upper middle and upper classes who defected and joined the ‘white’ classes.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-05-24 02:31:34 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1926103751405781040

  • James Lindsay is one of those upper proletarians who finds self image and status

    James Lindsay is one of those upper proletarians who finds self image and status in the pretense of morality and insight, when instead he’s just another attention seeking practitioner of feminine marxist critique, and the female means of adversarial undermining (“GSRRM”), simply applied to the more radical wing of his left biased demographic of pseudo intellectuals.
    As a critical book reviewer explaining the radical’s thoughts, he’s shown capability and we must give credit where credit is due. But ss someone with personal knowledge wisdom and character sufficient to compose arguments, recommendations, and solutions – rather than feminine Gossiping Shaming Ridicule, Rallying and Moralizing in lieu of rational debate, he’s an utter failure by every measure. The left and women’s mass institutionalization of GSRRM has so normalized the technique we no longer view it as the fraud that it is.
    The Woke-Right nonsense he’s propagating is merely another feminine abrahamic marxist-sequence technique of “distraction-by-rolling-accusation” to evade the great difference between the rebellion of left and right. The left and right like the female status seeking and male status seeking consist of the left search for unearned consumption, irresponsibility and unaccountability and the right search for earned capitalization, responsibility and accountability that they cannot achieve in the current social, economic, and political order.
    These problems are solvable through (a) reciprocity – exchanges, (a) truthful speech, (b) transparent argument and debate (c) rational policy modifications.
    The feminine always fears being left behind or missing out. The masculine fears being unable to demonstrate competency and value, and inability to form or participate in a tribe capable of securing mates.
    It’s not complicated.
    James is just another ‘Fictionalist” using the feminine abrahamic marxist sequence of verbal mythicism which we call one of the four fictionalisms:
    1) Imaginary: occult to mythology to theology to secular theology.
    2) Verbal: sophistry to idealism to ideology
    3) Physical: magic to alchemy to pseudoscience
    4) Operational: divination to fortune telling to innumeracy.
    and Critique:
    5)
    A fictionalist at best is guilty of the pretense of knowledge, on the average guilty of deception, and when it involves the manipulation of the organis of the state, it’s just another category of fraud.Snake oil for the Nitwittery advanced by the Midwittery.

    So yes, our good friend Josh Lisec is correct – in spades.

    Cheers
    Curt Doolittle
    The Natural Law Institute.

    Reply addressees: @JoshuaLisec

    Source date (UTC): 2025-05-13 19:06:58 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1922367984921935874

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1922093708624724342

    IN REPLY TO:

    @JoshuaLisec

    Christians, you’ve got to stop platforming James Lindsay.

    He’s only here to divide and conquer. https://t.co/gsaxdqUktN

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1922093708624724342

  • Q:Curt: “Would you agree that de-industrialization (outsourcing manufacturing) c

    –Q:Curt: “Would you agree that de-industrialization (outsourcing manufacturing) creates a sort of a gap between low-skill and high-skill (abstract) work, forcing everyone not interested or capable of the latter to work in the former, reducing their prospects for development and earnings?”–

    Well of course. I would also add that the rapid increase in administrative jobs made possible by the advent of desktop computers will have been the equivalent of the postwar increase and collapse of manufacturing.
    So while men were rendered unemployed by outsource of manufacturing women are going to be rendered unemployed by outsource of clerical work to AI.
    But the real reason (somehow lost in time) is that unions drove manufacturing offshore. And the conservatives advanced it because of the alliance between unions and the democrat (communist) party.
    Now, it’s the conservatives who have taken in labor as a means of repatriating industry now that unions are decimated, and the democratic (communist) party is disavowed.
    Why? Responsibility. Right = Responsibility, Left = Irresponsibility.

    Reply addressees: @slenchy

    Source date (UTC): 2025-05-13 18:00:52 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1922351353109872640

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1922331666632081458

    IN REPLY TO:

    @slenchy

    @curtdoolittle Would you agree that de-industrialization (outsourcing manufacturing) creates a sort of a gap between low-skill and high-skill (abstract) work, forcing everyone not interested or capable of the latter to work in the former, reducing their prospects for development and earnings?

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1922331666632081458

  • Whose Fault? The marxist sequence from class marxism through race marxism, but m

    Whose Fault?
    The marxist sequence from class marxism through race marxism, but mostly the institutional dominance of and expression of the cognitive, moral, and emotional bias of women – who favor infantilism to match their empathizing at the expense of systematizing combined with the extreme suppression of masculininty, and perhaps most importantly masculine competition and physical normative discipline.

    Reply addressees: @jimbobf2002 @philbak1

    Source date (UTC): 2025-05-13 16:32:34 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1922329132366757888

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1922213693284143417

    IN REPLY TO:

    @jimbobf2002

    @curtdoolittle @philbak1 And whose fault is that then?

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1922213693284143417