Cities = Markets = Decreased Opportunity Cost. It’s the ability to communicate that decreases opportunity cost. Opportunity cost = increasing choices. The question is whether increasing choices produces increasing outcomes. For business it does. For genes it does not. This is the fundamental problem. Cities Destroy Genes in exchange for lower opportunity costs of consumption. So we have a choice: (a) continue to bring people to capital at the cost of genes (genetic capital), or (b) bring capital to people to preserve genetic capital. In other words, redistribute the opportunity costs.
Theme: Incentives
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Understanding Cities
Cities = Markets = Decreased Opportunity Cost. It’s the ability to communicate that decreases opportunity cost. Opportunity cost = increasing choices. The question is whether increasing choices produces increasing outcomes. For business it does. For genes it does not. This is the fundamental problem. Cities Destroy Genes in exchange for lower opportunity costs of consumption. So we have a choice: (a) continue to bring people to capital at the cost of genes (genetic capital), or (b) bring capital to people to preserve genetic capital. In other words, redistribute the opportunity costs.
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Taxes and Reproduction
(probably an important set of ideas you need to grasp) The fact that we tax tradesmen and members of bureaucracies at the same rate is counter-progressive (regressive). If you’re going to tax progressively (effectively a sales tax on market participation), employment in or as Laborers, Tradesmen, Professionals, Small Medium Businesses, Industries, Government should be taxed progressively. However the single most detrimental policies have been: (a) inter temporal redistribution and risk propagation (which is incalculable) rather than the Singapore/Texas model of forced savings and redistribution into personal health and retirement accounts (which is calculable – and reinvest-able). (b) The redistribution of middle class reproduction to the underclasses due to (i) inability to self segregate, thereby forcing families to ‘buy their way’ into expensive neighborhoods and schools at the cost of increased female labor, and decreased rates of reproduction. (b) the taxation and burning of reproduction by the middle class to redistribute reproduction to the lower classes (that should either be sterilized or limited to one child.) Because ‘white people’ can live extremely well in high trust high quality well maintained commons by purely voluntary labor, it is possible for ‘whites’ to spend very little on redistribution and commons production, and also work less if they can isolate themselves from less advanced (domesticated) groups. There is zero reason, other than interest rates on home and auto, and the need to buy overpriced housing in overpriced neighborhoods, for more than 10% overhead of GDP. White westerners with small arms, required service, some artillery and nuclear weapons can build extremely low cost per capita high quality commons simply because IT IS IN OUR NATURE. Heterogeneity (diversity) has destroyed western civilization. We let pandora out of her box when we allowed women to vote without first limiting the damage that they could do once loosed in the polity by compensating for their dysgenic impulses. Civilization occured because of paternalism: the use of competition and capital to limit the reproductive damage done by women’s intuitions.
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Taxes and Reproduction
(probably an important set of ideas you need to grasp) The fact that we tax tradesmen and members of bureaucracies at the same rate is counter-progressive (regressive). If you’re going to tax progressively (effectively a sales tax on market participation), employment in or as Laborers, Tradesmen, Professionals, Small Medium Businesses, Industries, Government should be taxed progressively. However the single most detrimental policies have been: (a) inter temporal redistribution and risk propagation (which is incalculable) rather than the Singapore/Texas model of forced savings and redistribution into personal health and retirement accounts (which is calculable – and reinvest-able). (b) The redistribution of middle class reproduction to the underclasses due to (i) inability to self segregate, thereby forcing families to ‘buy their way’ into expensive neighborhoods and schools at the cost of increased female labor, and decreased rates of reproduction. (b) the taxation and burning of reproduction by the middle class to redistribute reproduction to the lower classes (that should either be sterilized or limited to one child.) Because ‘white people’ can live extremely well in high trust high quality well maintained commons by purely voluntary labor, it is possible for ‘whites’ to spend very little on redistribution and commons production, and also work less if they can isolate themselves from less advanced (domesticated) groups. There is zero reason, other than interest rates on home and auto, and the need to buy overpriced housing in overpriced neighborhoods, for more than 10% overhead of GDP. White westerners with small arms, required service, some artillery and nuclear weapons can build extremely low cost per capita high quality commons simply because IT IS IN OUR NATURE. Heterogeneity (diversity) has destroyed western civilization. We let pandora out of her box when we allowed women to vote without first limiting the damage that they could do once loosed in the polity by compensating for their dysgenic impulses. Civilization occured because of paternalism: the use of competition and capital to limit the reproductive damage done by women’s intuitions.
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Humans have very high loss aversion on the one hand, desire attention by cheap m
Humans have very high loss aversion on the one hand, desire attention by cheap means, and jockey for status by means of gossip. As such negative news spreads far faster that opportunity news. Seizing opportunities costs, avoiding losses and buying attention with gossip is cheap.
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Humans have very high loss aversion on the one hand, desire attention by cheap m
Humans have very high loss aversion on the one hand, desire attention by cheap means, and jockey for status by means of gossip. As such negative news spreads far faster that opportunity news. Seizing opportunities costs, avoiding losses and buying attention with gossip is cheap.
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-06 19:12:28 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1004440905082982404
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4) The military incentive always DEFINES the political order. Not the other way
4) The military incentive always DEFINES the political order. Not the other way around. You cannot stop this technology. This tech means greatest manufacturing capacity and engineering capacity will dominate all future wars – and therefore politics and therefore economics.
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-06 17:16:24 UTC
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Humans have very high loss aversion on the one hand, desire attention by cheap m
Humans have very high loss aversion on the one hand, desire attention by cheap means, and jockey for status by means of gossip. As such negative news spreads far faster that opportunity news. Seizing opportunities costs, avoiding losses and buying attention with gossip is cheap.
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-06 15:12:00 UTC
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SUBURBAN MILQUTOAST NATIONALISTS NEED VISION AND REWARD —“These square suburba
SUBURBAN MILQUTOAST NATIONALISTS NEED VISION AND REWARD
—“These square suburban prep nationalists are bit milquetoast for my taste… Milqutoast because they don’t have the oppportunity to be otherwise, nor a reward worthy of it in their visual range.”— A Friend.
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-06 14:18:00 UTC
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One of the cures for “IQ Shredding” is to follow the postwar german example, of
One of the cures for “IQ Shredding” is to follow the postwar german example, of limiting housing in cities to those for families. So that the benefits of low cost of commons (density) are only available to those who produce generations. This is a very simple alternative.
Source date (UTC): 2018-06-06 12:56:00 UTC
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