Curt Doolittle

Theme: Class

  • STARTUP COSTS A Car (50K) A Home. (350K) A Business (500K) A Portfolio. (50-500K

    STARTUP COSTS

    A Car (50K)

    A Home. (350K)

    A Business (500K)

    A Portfolio. (50-500K)

    An Education (70K)

    A Woman (750k-1.2M)

    A Child (300-700K)

    You don’t have the opportunity to choose whether you operate your life as a business or not. You only have the opportunity to choose how you distribute your portfolio. The most expensive investment you can possibly make is a wife. Invest wisely.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-11-24 12:24:00 UTC

  • Startup Costs

    A Car (50K) A Home. (350K) A Business (500K) A Portfolio. (50-500K) An Education (70K) A Woman (750k-1.2M) A Child (300-700K) You don’t have the opportunity to choose whether you operate your life as a business or not. You only have the opportunity to choose how you distribute your portfolio. The most expensive investment you can possibly make is a wife. Invest wisely.

  • Definition: “Intellectual”

    DEFINITION: “INTELLECTUAL” (Idea Worker, Seller of Ideas) —“Curt, define the term ‘intellectual’ pls.”— Francesco Principi “Idea-workers that exercise influence on policy makers and public opinion, but are not directly accountable for the results.” “Those whose careers are built on the creation and dissemination of ideas have played a role in many societies out of all proportion to their numbers. Whether that role has, on balance, made those around them better off or worse off is one of the key questions of our times.” Empirically speaking it is very hard to argue that intellectuals in the 20th c have produced more harm than good. See Thomas Sowell’s “Intellectuals and Society”.

  • DEFINITION: “INTELLECTUAL” (Idea Worker, Seller of Ideas) —“Curt, define the t

    DEFINITION: “INTELLECTUAL” (Idea Worker, Seller of Ideas)

    —“Curt, define the term ‘intellectual’ pls.”— Francesco Principi

    “Idea-workers that exercise influence on policy makers and public opinion, but are not directly accountable for the results.”

    “Those whose careers are built on the creation and dissemination of ideas have played a role in many societies out of all proportion to their numbers. Whether that role has, on balance, made those around them better off or worse off is one of the key questions of our times.”

    Empirically speaking it is very hard to argue that intellectuals in the 20th c have produced more harm than good.

    See Thomas Sowell’s “Intellectuals and Society”.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-11-23 12:10:00 UTC

  • Definition: “Intellectual”

    DEFINITION: “INTELLECTUAL” (Idea Worker, Seller of Ideas) —“Curt, define the term ‘intellectual’ pls.”— Francesco Principi “Idea-workers that exercise influence on policy makers and public opinion, but are not directly accountable for the results.” “Those whose careers are built on the creation and dissemination of ideas have played a role in many societies out of all proportion to their numbers. Whether that role has, on balance, made those around them better off or worse off is one of the key questions of our times.” Empirically speaking it is very hard to argue that intellectuals in the 20th c have produced more harm than good. See Thomas Sowell’s “Intellectuals and Society”.

  • Communism(Envy) And Ponzi(Greed) Schemes

    “Why Won’t The Nightmare Dream Of Communism Die?” A century of Communism achieved four main results: poverty, oppression, war, and mass death. So why does anybody still think collectivism is ‘idealistic’? Glenn Reynolds has, I think, the right answer: “For the same reason Ponzi schemes won’t stop. It’s an effective con that zeroes in on human weaknesses. Ponzi schemes capitalize on greed. Communism capitalizes on envy, which is why it’s largely sustained by intellectuals, in whose personalities envy tends to be a particularly powerful component.”

  • COMMUNISM(ENVY) AND PONZI(GREED) SCHEMES “Why Won’t The Nightmare Dream Of Commu

    COMMUNISM(ENVY) AND PONZI(GREED) SCHEMES

    “Why Won’t The Nightmare Dream Of Communism Die?”

    A century of Communism achieved four main results: poverty, oppression, war, and mass death. So why does anybody still think collectivism is ‘idealistic’?

    Glenn Reynolds has, I think, the right answer:

    “For the same reason Ponzi schemes won’t stop. It’s an effective con that zeroes in on human weaknesses. Ponzi schemes capitalize on greed. Communism capitalizes on envy, which is why it’s largely sustained by intellectuals, in whose personalities envy tends to be a particularly powerful component.”

    Source date (UTC): 2017-11-22 19:39:00 UTC

  • Communism(Envy) And Ponzi(Greed) Schemes

    “Why Won’t The Nightmare Dream Of Communism Die?” A century of Communism achieved four main results: poverty, oppression, war, and mass death. So why does anybody still think collectivism is ‘idealistic’? Glenn Reynolds has, I think, the right answer: “For the same reason Ponzi schemes won’t stop. It’s an effective con that zeroes in on human weaknesses. Ponzi schemes capitalize on greed. Communism capitalizes on envy, which is why it’s largely sustained by intellectuals, in whose personalities envy tends to be a particularly powerful component.”

  • “Discomfort has always been the strongest utility; no worthy expectation was eve

    —“Discomfort has always been the strongest utility; no worthy expectation was ever achieved without it. A cost the achiever gladly bears. For the perpetual lower class it works differently, it’s their external incentive for restraint and internal incentive to not act.”— William L. Benge

  • “Discomfort has always been the strongest utility; no worthy expectation was eve

    —“Discomfort has always been the strongest utility; no worthy expectation was ever achieved without it. A cost the achiever gladly bears. For the perpetual lower class it works differently, it’s their external incentive for restraint and internal incentive to not act.”— William L. Benge

    Source date (UTC): 2017-11-21 21:57:00 UTC