Curt Doolittle

Theme: Crisis

  • Why Are Americans So Scared Of Socialism And Communism?

    Because communists were responsible for the world wars and 100M dead, and socialism has empirically failed everywhere it was tried.

    really.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-are-Americans-so-scared-of-socialism-and-communism

  • Is It Theoretically Possible To Cause The Bitcoin Crash With A Small Coordinated Group. What Steps Might They Take?

    Use periods of low volume to spike the price.
    Sell in periods of high volume purchases.
    Repeat to boost the price to extremes.
    Sell repeatedly at low volume lows to cause panic.
    Start rumors of miners or agents causing threats.
    Produce believable reports that on a given date a large government will seize certain miners and prohibit all future transaction.

    repeat until people lose interest.

    just how its done in the stock market today.

    https://www.quora.com/Is-it-theoretically-possible-to-cause-the-bitcoin-crash-with-a-small-coordinated-group-What-steps-might-they-take

  • My answer to How likely is it that Toronto will suffer a recession considering h

    My answer to How likely is it that Toronto will suffer a recession considering house prices and the consumer debt c… https://www.quora.com/How-likely-is-it-that-Toronto-will-suffer-a-recession-considering-house-prices-and-the-consumer-debt-continues-to-rise-at-a-very-fast-rate-and-the-wages-do-not-rise/answer/Curt-Doolittle?share=c22e918c

    Source date (UTC): 2017-12-16 02:40:59 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/941860680776511488

  • Do You Think That Brazil Can Be In The Same Position That The U.s. Occupies Now? What Is The Future Of Brazil?

    Demographically and economically that looks impossible. It is much more likely that the USA will decline to the same condition as we find in Brazil. Why? Demographics.

    It doesn’t matter how good your ‘best’ classes are, because your worst classes are far more destructive than your best classes can compensate for. (Really).

    The size of the underclass in central and southern america is simply too large for the upper middle and upper classes to compensate for. And by pursuing socialism in the catholic countries, they missed the opportunity to build more advanced economies before the rest of the world neutralized all competitive advantage of having european traditions.

    So I see the USA turning into brazil, and brazil turning into India.

    Ad the Japanese and Koreans are the only ones working to prevent the same from happening to them.

    https://www.quora.com/Do-you-think-that-Brazil-can-be-in-the-same-position-that-the-U-S-occupies-now-What-is-the-future-of-Brazil

  • How Can Americans (finally) Bridge The Political €˜culture War’ Between Conservatives And Liberal Leaning Ideals?

    It’s not possible becasue the two goals are incompatible. The answer is to reverse the mistake of the civil war, and separate the ‘coasts’ from the ‘core’.

    https://www.quora.com/How-can-Americans-finally-bridge-the-political-‘culture-war’-between-conservatives-and-liberal-leaning-ideals

  • If Someone Wanted To, What Would They Need To Realistically Do In Order To Topple All Current World Governments?

    Invent a germ that rapidly kills rice and wheat. (Yes, there are people who think of how to do these things.) Or the equivalent that ‘eats’ hydrocarbons (petroleum products). In both cases, all governments and all civilizations would fall rather rapidly, and population would return to agrarian levels. In particular, a germ that would kill rice would kill billions cheaply and quickly, which would drive governments to revolt and war.

    https://www.quora.com/If-someone-wanted-to-what-would-they-need-to-realistically-do-in-order-to-topple-all-current-world-governments

  • Is China Stronger Than America?

    China is a very poor country. But it has more population than the Western world, more population than the African world, about the same or more than the Indian world, less population than the Muslim world, and perhaps most importantly, greater racial and cultural homogeneity than any other people other than the japanese – and that’s coupled with a ‘self righteous’ military, a history and culture of monolithic bureaucracy; no history whatsoever of what we call ‘rule of law’ or individual rights (sovereignty), or peerage; And a severe ‘chip on its shoulder’ for having been backward, and the loser of modern wars, and the poor choice of communism, which is contrary to the Chinese cultural ‘mythos’ that china is the ‘Center of the World’.

    So while it is easy for china to ‘catch up from behind’ using authoritarianism, it is very hard to produce a constantly competitive, and constantly evolving economy given ‘chinese characteristics’. (WHich I won’t go into)

    Can china use her central bureaucracy to concentrate capital in industry and military to achieve by threat, bribery, and obstruction, that which the west achieved by technical innovation, economic expansion, and ‘dragging the world out of ignorance, superstition, tyranny, poverty, and disease?’

    Of course she can.

    And there are more nations in this world that do not want meritocracy than do so. And china, russia, and islam, seem poised to conflict with the west, india, and christian africa.

    I think the period of the west’s ideals has ended and the future belongs to non-market nations.

    Democracy, Liberty, Innovation, Individualism, are western if not scandinavian (english) preoccupations.

    The north sea people are, quite honestly, sons of cattle raiders, pirates, vikings, and warriors. It’s a materialistic heritage.

    Most people had no such luxury.

    https://www.quora.com/Is-China-stronger-than-America

  • How Valid Is The Claim That We’re On The Verge Of Economic Collapse Due To The Vanishing Supply Of Cheap Conventional Oil And The Declining Energy Return On Investment (eroi)?

    There is no validity to the crisis. There is a great deal of validity to the EROI.

    The problem is population.

    There are too many at the bottom.

    https://www.quora.com/How-valid-is-the-claim-that-were-on-the-verge-of-economic-collapse-due-to-the-vanishing-supply-of-cheap-conventional-oil-and-the-declining-energy-return-on-investment-EROI

  • What Is The Biggest Mistake Ever Made By The American People?

    Participation in the World Wars. German was in the right both times. If we did anything at all, it should have been to fight alongside the germans to defeat the Russians, and to defeat the Chinese. Pretty much, the USA is always wrong. Always has been. Puritanism, social democracy, and Communism share the same origins.

    https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-biggest-mistake-ever-made-by-the-American-people

  • Do You Think That Brazil Can Be In The Same Position That The U.s. Occupies Now? What Is The Future Of Brazil?

    Demographically and economically that looks impossible. It is much more likely that the USA will decline to the same condition as we find in Brazil. Why? Demographics.

    It doesn’t matter how good your ‘best’ classes are, because your worst classes are far more destructive than your best classes can compensate for. (Really).

    The size of the underclass in central and southern america is simply too large for the upper middle and upper classes to compensate for. And by pursuing socialism in the catholic countries, they missed the opportunity to build more advanced economies before the rest of the world neutralized all competitive advantage of having european traditions.

    So I see the USA turning into brazil, and brazil turning into India.

    Ad the Japanese and Koreans are the only ones working to prevent the same from happening to them.

    https://www.quora.com/Do-you-think-that-Brazil-can-be-in-the-same-position-that-the-U-S-occupies-now-What-is-the-future-of-Brazil