Curt Doolittle

Theme: Incentives

  • What would happen if we prevented renting in cities the way we prevent renting i

    What would happen if we prevented renting in cities the way we prevent renting in suburbs?

    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-19 09:35:00 UTC

  • International trade is almost entirely capitalist, and reciprocal – they have no

    International trade is almost entirely capitalist, and reciprocal – they have no choice.

    Contrary to propaganda, all states are largely social democratic – they have no choice.

    Contrary to image, businesses are largely socialist internally – they have no choice.

    As expected, all families are communist – they have no choice.

    Because each demands what is necessary to maintain the balance between available information, possible incentives, probable means and desired ends.

    However when we try to misapply decidability from one condition to the other, we do so in opposition to the available information, available incentives, possible means, and desired ends.

    This is not alterable.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-19 09:29:00 UTC

  • THE “PROBLEM” OF CORPORATIONS Actually, the corporation was produced and remains

    THE “PROBLEM” OF CORPORATIONS

    Actually, the corporation was produced and remains, a means of insuring risk takers such that their losses are limited to their shared investments in the experiment.

    The problem with corporations is that they, much like the government bureaucracy and politicians, are insulated from tort (universal standing) so that we cannot correct behavior of organizations for their harm to the commons.

    Class actions are too hard to pursue, and we cannot sue in defense of the commons. The government prevents us from doing so.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-19 08:53:00 UTC

  • Incentives of Individualists

    —“My collectivism and ethnocentrism is ultimately founded upon individualism. Individual incentives and self interests lead individuals into groups, because they can obtain more in groups than they can on their own. Kinship just happens to be a sensible criterion around which to organize a group, for a variety of evolutionary reasons. Individual incentives also lead people to group others into groups and consider them in terms of statistical, rather than individual, criteria. People will consider each other as individuals when they have individual information at hand. But sometimes, in light of statistical data, the cost of obtaining the individual information, or the risk of getting it wrong, do not outweigh the expected benefit from doing so.”— Ely Harman

  • Incentives of Individualists

    —“My collectivism and ethnocentrism is ultimately founded upon individualism. Individual incentives and self interests lead individuals into groups, because they can obtain more in groups than they can on their own. Kinship just happens to be a sensible criterion around which to organize a group, for a variety of evolutionary reasons. Individual incentives also lead people to group others into groups and consider them in terms of statistical, rather than individual, criteria. People will consider each other as individuals when they have individual information at hand. But sometimes, in light of statistical data, the cost of obtaining the individual information, or the risk of getting it wrong, do not outweigh the expected benefit from doing so.”— Ely Harman

  • The french have learned quite a bit from subsidy of their farm sector, and while

    The french have learned quite a bit from subsidy of their farm sector, and while I am loathe to find any semblance of virtue in anything french whatsoever, I can’t disagree with this form of redistribution in contrast to competing forms of redistribution.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-18 13:19:26 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/986595058320396288

    Reply addressees: @Heritage

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/986594446392332288

    IN REPLY TO:

    @Heritage

    Congress should make major changes to subsidies in the farm bill and should ask: Do subsidies provide a true safety net or has the system become a crony scheme? https://t.co/uDv8ltJN0F

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/986594446392332288

  • INCENTIVES OF INDIVIDUALISTS —“My collectivism and ethnocentrism is ultimately

    INCENTIVES OF INDIVIDUALISTS

    —“My collectivism and ethnocentrism is ultimately founded upon individualism. Individual incentives and self interests lead individuals into groups, because they can obtain more in groups than they can on their own. Kinship just happens to be a sensible criterion around which to organize a group, for a variety of evolutionary reasons. Individual incentives also lead people to group others into groups and consider them in terms of statistical, rather than individual, criteria. People will consider each other as individuals when they have individual information at hand. But sometimes, in light of statistical data, the cost of obtaining the individual information, or the risk of getting it wrong, do not outweigh the expected benefit from doing so.”— Ely Harman

    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-18 11:05:00 UTC

  • Governments destroy cash with all debt that they issue (inflation), commodities

    Governments destroy cash with all debt that they issue (inflation), commodities require constant attention and rotation, stocks are volatile and one cannot generally defeat the indexes, and by and large, assets depreciate. But as long as population is increasing property will rise in value. Hence … put your money in property and fine arts.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-17 14:33:00 UTC

  • “The alt-right is currently the only ideology actually participating in the mark

    —“The alt-right is currently the only ideology actually participating in the market. The rest are all still theory crafting, doing “market research”, trying to get it perfect rather than get it started.

    Are there natsoc organized protests? Has “Clerical fascism even been mentioned inside the overton window? Has there been a Propertarian spokespersons on national TV? TradMon Marches anywhere?

    The alt-right is the only idea (good, bad or ugly) on the right with actual skin in the game.”— Luke Weinhagen

    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-17 11:23:00 UTC

  • is very hard to train an army without real combat that does not cause them to fa

    http://disq.us/p/1rsyqhmit is very hard to train an army without real combat that does not cause them to fail. Putin is simply creating a nation out of ukraine by giving men incentives to fight, military men opportunity to learn from fighting, the government incentives to rebuild the military production chain, and foreign governments to provide subsidy and supply.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-04-16 12:55:00 UTC