Theme: Incentives

  • Judgment: The Purpose of The Postmodern Revolution

    The purpose of the postmodern revolution was to relieve the infantilized mind of the pressures of competition in modernity when freed of the excuse that they were just poor. Unfortunately, the poor were poor deservedly, and the postmodern underclasses are still underclasses that can just spend money because their betters have made all consumer goods and services infinitely cheaper.

  • There Are No Better Angels of Our Nature.

    Nov 21, 2019, 11:00 AM Man is just a rational actor, and physical crime has become less rewarding because assets are largely intangible, consumption is absurdly cheap – especially foods, there are many more means of entertainment (yes crime is also a form of entertainment).

  • There Are No Better Angels of Our Nature.

    Nov 21, 2019, 11:00 AM Man is just a rational actor, and physical crime has become less rewarding because assets are largely intangible, consumption is absurdly cheap – especially foods, there are many more means of entertainment (yes crime is also a form of entertainment).

  • The Error of Wealth Envy – Fixing the Real Problem

    Nov 22, 2019, 12:20 PM Let’s say you have 10m in assets. 1M in a home, 100k liquid 60k in cars. What do you suppose the rest of that money is doing? You see, that’s all the separates us by income. People with more money have more investments and spend a bit more on food, clothing, cars, home, and entertainment. It’s all status signaling. The rest of that money is out ‘working’ for them. But, what’s it doing? Organizing research, investment, financing, organizing, producing, distributing, and trading. The result of which is lower-priced goods, services, and information, so that the totality of what you consume is cheaper in costs of time and ‘body wear and tear’ than it was in the past. Now, what do you suppose separates poor countries from wealthy countries? It’s how much money is out there researching, investing, financing, organizing, producing, distributing, and trading. People don’t CONSUME much differently. It’s all status signaling. We have some pretty bad behavior (obesity, bad food, lack of exercise, lack of sufficient socialization). Wat’s the biggest problem? We can’t segregate by race, ethnicity, and class so that the average Christian with high investment children can have both a cheap house, a decent community, and a good school, without the ‘underclass riff-raff’ problem that is the unspoken falsehood of our age. Fix the forced integration problem and restore voluntary disassociation, and we will have cheap decent white neighborhoods free of the alien underclasses who are biologically and cognitively and therefore socially different. I can, we can, fix (a) the cost of housing in good neighborhoods and schools, and (b) the cost of education, and (c) the cost of money (credit, interest) very easily. Then high investment parents (whites) will separate from low investment parents (non-whites) and we will have far less conflict because we will have far fewer interactions. As a consequence, the less evolved (domesticated) peoples to put lower investment into their families and children (because it won’t matter anyway) will restore their drive to conformity in order to gain access to shared benefits. At present they simply destroy our incentive to produce shared benefits.

  • The Error of Wealth Envy – Fixing the Real Problem

    Nov 22, 2019, 12:20 PM Let’s say you have 10m in assets. 1M in a home, 100k liquid 60k in cars. What do you suppose the rest of that money is doing? You see, that’s all the separates us by income. People with more money have more investments and spend a bit more on food, clothing, cars, home, and entertainment. It’s all status signaling. The rest of that money is out ‘working’ for them. But, what’s it doing? Organizing research, investment, financing, organizing, producing, distributing, and trading. The result of which is lower-priced goods, services, and information, so that the totality of what you consume is cheaper in costs of time and ‘body wear and tear’ than it was in the past. Now, what do you suppose separates poor countries from wealthy countries? It’s how much money is out there researching, investing, financing, organizing, producing, distributing, and trading. People don’t CONSUME much differently. It’s all status signaling. We have some pretty bad behavior (obesity, bad food, lack of exercise, lack of sufficient socialization). Wat’s the biggest problem? We can’t segregate by race, ethnicity, and class so that the average Christian with high investment children can have both a cheap house, a decent community, and a good school, without the ‘underclass riff-raff’ problem that is the unspoken falsehood of our age. Fix the forced integration problem and restore voluntary disassociation, and we will have cheap decent white neighborhoods free of the alien underclasses who are biologically and cognitively and therefore socially different. I can, we can, fix (a) the cost of housing in good neighborhoods and schools, and (b) the cost of education, and (c) the cost of money (credit, interest) very easily. Then high investment parents (whites) will separate from low investment parents (non-whites) and we will have far less conflict because we will have far fewer interactions. As a consequence, the less evolved (domesticated) peoples to put lower investment into their families and children (because it won’t matter anyway) will restore their drive to conformity in order to gain access to shared benefits. At present they simply destroy our incentive to produce shared benefits.

  • Economic Language Is Always Superior in Psychology and Sociology

    Economic Language Is Always Superior in Psychology and Sociology https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/30/economic-language-is-always-superior-in-psychology-and-sociology/


    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-30 23:52:58 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1266880311620702208

  • Economic Language Is Always Superior in Psychology and Sociology

    Economic Language Is Always Superior in Psychology and Sociology https://t.co/EbjWqB1CCe

  • Economic Language Is Always Superior in Psychology and Sociology

    Nov 23, 2019, 8:58 AM We empathize (imitate emotions) We sympathize (imitate mind) We (must) negotiate (offer, acquire). We habituate negotiating strategies. We negotiate in a market. Markets evolve superior products as standards of weight and measure. Markets of superior products gradually adapt to one another creating commensurable networks of products with additive returns. Economic language is always superior for psychology and sociology because it unifies behavior w physics. Economic logic (markets) de-emphasizes (un-biases) ‘belief and agency’ and correctly restores the hierarchy between ‘rider(reason) and elephant(intuition)’. We would not require consciousness if not for negotiating cooperation. By using economic logic we gain agency in psychology and sociology as we did in physics.

  • Economic Language Is Always Superior in Psychology and Sociology

    Nov 23, 2019, 8:58 AM We empathize (imitate emotions) We sympathize (imitate mind) We (must) negotiate (offer, acquire). We habituate negotiating strategies. We negotiate in a market. Markets evolve superior products as standards of weight and measure. Markets of superior products gradually adapt to one another creating commensurable networks of products with additive returns. Economic language is always superior for psychology and sociology because it unifies behavior w physics. Economic logic (markets) de-emphasizes (un-biases) ‘belief and agency’ and correctly restores the hierarchy between ‘rider(reason) and elephant(intuition)’. We would not require consciousness if not for negotiating cooperation. By using economic logic we gain agency in psychology and sociology as we did in physics.

  • There are 3 major competing ideas of rationality/irrationality in economic theor

    There are 3 major competing ideas of rationality/irrationality in economic theory. https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/30/there-are-3-major-competing-ideas-of-rationality-irrationality-in-economic-theory/


    Source date (UTC): 2020-05-30 23:45:30 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1266878432274767872