Curt Doolittle

Theme: Incentives

  • EVERONE STEALS BUT CONSERVATIVES – THEY JUST CONSTRAIN. Marxists want to steal e

    EVERONE STEALS BUT CONSERVATIVES – THEY JUST CONSTRAIN.

    Marxists want to steal everything and tell you what to do with it. Social Democrats want to steal the proceeds of your risk taking and tell you what they will do with it. Libertarians want to steal from the commons and tell you that you can’t have any. And conservatives want to prevent not only stealing but whatever consumption they can, and to direct it to investment in family and commons.

    It’s not complicated. Children are costly, women redistribute, nest, and consume locally at all costs. Libertarians want to keep everything they produce because they’re undervalued in cooperation in large groups. And conservatives try to concentrate capital in the empirically demonstrated productive family, community, nation, and it’s capital.

    The universe operates by simple rules. Humans are simple creatures. It’s the vast network of excuses, justifications, wishful thinkings, falsehoods, and lies we tell that create the appearance of complexity.

    We acquire, and we justify the means of our acquisition. yet some of us are better at stealing and some better at rent-seeking, and some better at free-riding, and some better at producing, and some better at saving and defending.

    And we all claim our method is better rather than a necessary function in a division of intergenerational reproduction.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Cult of Sovereignty.

    The Philosophy of Aristocracy

    The Social Science of Western Civilization

    The Propertarian Institute, Kiev, Ukraine.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-05 11:28:00 UTC

  • If we look at where the tax revenue comes from it’s trivial to transfer the taxe

    If we look at where the tax revenue comes from it’s trivial to transfer the taxes to financial transactions.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-04 01:30:35 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/794351101604675597

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  • The problem with most attempts at state intervention is that they have mistakenl

    The problem with most attempts at state intervention is that they have mistakenly attempted to manipulate and control prices – the obvious thing. Rather than attempted to constrain the impact of trade on externalities: the commons. Most insidious has been the doctrine of laissez fair in which the common good is assumed to be the product of reduced prices and increased consumption rather than the accumulation of future-competitive capital.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-03 20:44:00 UTC

  • LOVE THAT THE WEB ALLOWS US TO PAY FOR ‘BASIC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT’ OF PRODU

    https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/232193852/font-awesome-5?ref=intercomI LOVE THAT THE WEB ALLOWS US TO PAY FOR ‘BASIC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT’ OF PRODUCTS THAT HAVE SMALL MARKETS.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-10-28 12:01:00 UTC

  • This is true if and only if the resource and investment valued with equal emotio

    This is true if and only if the resource and investment valued with equal emotion by all. But it isn’t.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-10-25 11:45:58 UTC

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  • RULE PROFITABLY OR BE RULED BY OTHERS (good stuff) The Dead are less costly than

    RULE PROFITABLY OR BE RULED BY OTHERS

    (good stuff)

    The Dead are less costly than Competitors – rule by competition.

    Competitors are less costly than criminals – rule by predation.

    Criminals are less costly than slaves – rule by crime

    Slaves are less profitable than Serfs – rule by force.

    Serfs are less profitable than Employees – rule by law.

    Employees are less profitable than Debtors – rule by credit

    Debtors are less profitable than Followers – rule by religion, pseudoscience, and deceit.

    Followers are less profitable than Sovereigns – rule by reciprocity

    Sovereigns are less profitable than Rule – rule by all of the above.

    Rule is always profitable.

    Therefore, Rule profitably. Rule unprofitably. Or be ruled by others at your own expense.

    All that changes is the number of people in each group.

    As we gain wealth by incremental suppression of opportunity for parasitism, the median of the distribution advances in profitability.

    But make no mistake: there are no conditions under which this hierarchy doesn’t exist.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2016-10-25 08:24:00 UTC

  • THE LOTTERY EFFECT HAS DEVOLVED AGRARIAN DEMOCRACY. One of the undesirable conse

    THE LOTTERY EFFECT HAS DEVOLVED AGRARIAN DEMOCRACY.

    One of the undesirable consequences of consumer capitalism, is that it dramatically increases the lottery effect – meaning that great wealth is not necessarily produced immorally (although in finance it can be), but that it is often produced without extraordinary merit: the disciplined accumulation of wealth by small amounts, rather than speculation and windfalls.

    This results in a government whose members are not by any stretch, our best.

    We are not even that careful with the judiciary. But it seems to me that our houses would be better staffed with members of the judiciary, and the presidency by the military, at one extreme, or people of property, randomly selected by lot, than the current democratic process by which well-off, well-meaning fools spend economies-worth-of-wealth getting elected and held in place by donors and special interests.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-10-21 19:42:00 UTC

  • I will propose the third angle: That property rights increase incentives, ideati

    http://johnquiggin.com/2016/10/16/locke-nozick-locke/#comment-274067John

    I will propose the third angle:

    That property rights increase incentives, ideation, productivity, risk tolerance, opportunity creation, monetary and economic velocity. And as a consequence produce higher returns ( commissions or taxes ) for the minority who imposed property rights over the objections of the rent seeking majority. And as a consequence upward distribution of returns slowly domesticates ( reduces the reproduction of ) the lower classes, further accelerating cooperation.

    This is in fact the process that occurred in Europe.

    Painful truths are still truths.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-10-16 14:04:00 UTC

  • Strategies – Not Steady States

    STRATEGIES NOT STEADY STATES Communism …. (lower class – short term – consumption – r-selection ) …. (mandatory consumption) …. (reproductive offense – distribution of assets ) …. (strength in numbers) Market Government …. (middle class – medium term – production) …. (mandatory exchange) …. (productive offense – market exchange of assets) …. (strength in adaptation/evolution) Fascism …. (upper class – long term – preservation – K-selection) …. (mandatory production/contribution) …. (organizational offense – concentration of assets) …. (strength in ability[resources])
    Innovative < —————- > Defensive …. …. …. Communism (universalism) (impossible) …. …. Socialism (competitively impossible) …. Social Democracy (possible as long as competitive) Market Government (Trade) …. Anarchism (impossible) ….Classical-Liberalism, (competitively possible) …. ….Christian Monarchism (competitively possible) …. …. ….Fascism (particularism) We alter between these strategies as our prosperity allows. —Curt

  • Strategies – Not Steady States

    STRATEGIES NOT STEADY STATES Communism …. (lower class – short term – consumption – r-selection ) …. (mandatory consumption) …. (reproductive offense – distribution of assets ) …. (strength in numbers) Market Government …. (middle class – medium term – production) …. (mandatory exchange) …. (productive offense – market exchange of assets) …. (strength in adaptation/evolution) Fascism …. (upper class – long term – preservation – K-selection) …. (mandatory production/contribution) …. (organizational offense – concentration of assets) …. (strength in ability[resources])
    Innovative < —————- > Defensive …. …. …. Communism (universalism) (impossible) …. …. Socialism (competitively impossible) …. Social Democracy (possible as long as competitive) Market Government (Trade) …. Anarchism (impossible) ….Classical-Liberalism, (competitively possible) …. ….Christian Monarchism (competitively possible) …. …. ….Fascism (particularism) We alter between these strategies as our prosperity allows. —Curt