Theme: Incentives

  • @quantifyqualify FYI: WHY IS WHITENESS SO HARD: BECAUSE IT’S COSTLY. If you make

    @quantifyqualify
    FYI:
    WHY IS WHITENESS SO HARD: BECAUSE IT’S COSTLY.

    If you make a list of every country, and you list every bit of even vaguely useful data about the people in each country in a huge spreadsheet you would learn that there is one number that explains all the rest.

    (a) There were four speciation events as man evolved and spread around the world.
    (b) Each event increased local neoteny (domestication)
    (c) Increases in neoteny exchange aggression and sexual maturity for agency and neural plasticity.
    (e) As a result, the different continental speciation events resulted in different class distributions.
    (d) The result is differences in average of approximately 75, 85, 100, 105 and everything in between, with 100 being European (central).
    (e) In the agrarian age, every civilization developed institutions to assist with social order at scale.
    (f) There are only three means of coercion. So there are only three axes of institutions Social (religion, feminine, non-aggression), reciprocal (trade, contract, law, neutral) and Forceful (state, military, masculine)
    (g) The order of these institutions determines the strongest, next strongest, and weak or failed institution.
    (h) each of these institutions adapts at different speeds.
    (i) Each civilization develops a group strategy, metaphysics, myth, history, a system of logic and argument, and institutions of intergenerational persistence.
    (j) These strategies, institutions, and demographics are self-reinforcing over the millennia. And they are very resistant to change.
    (k) And they demand vastly different responsibilities from each member of each society, and each class or caste.
    So whether genetic, class, or cultural, or some combination thereof, the trust necessary for western high trust civilization seems impossible for others to develop unless they fully integrate and can achieve middle-class status.
    Add that our postwar privilege of being the only civilization left standing, raised laboring and working classes into the lower class, then the 70s ended that privilege, and the 90s exhausted it, and 2010s backtracked it, then you have people in the states (and Europe) who are ‘not happy’ with the responsibility they must bear, given the returns they will no longer obtain.
    Worse, the Marxist-pomo-woke cult that James is disrobing in gory detail consists of little more than promising that this genetic, class, cultural, and economic reality is oppression rather than their unfitness for competition in the new world normal. And worse, they vaguely sense (correctly) that over the next decade or two it’s going to get far, far worse, and the world far, far poorer. Because the USA cannot afford to maintain the global trade system if we must compete with other civilizations that want to end it.

    That’s enough for now
    And no this wasn’t any effort to write. 😉
    And Grammarly largely kept up even if it slowed the keyboard response time. 😉
    -Cheers


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-12 23:50:34 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1635065780785102848

  • You’re confused. It’s ok. It’s normal. You’re referring to disapproval. But disa

    You’re confused. It’s ok. It’s normal. You’re referring to disapproval. But disapproval has no value except in pursuit of exchange. And this isn’t an exchange. It can’t be. You’d (collectively) need something to trade. 😉 I entered a club room by accident. The class of this club is, shall we say, different. Different dress, demeanor, and manners. Beer glasses in stead of scotch. Chips instead of buttered water crackers with caviar and sips of champagne. Disapproval is expected, and, honestly … desired. 😉

    Reply addressees: @SlowNewsDayShow @Napleone @ConceptualJames


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-12 23:00:56 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1635053287484301313

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1635051834057560065

  • You’re confused. It’s ok. It’s normal. You’re referring to disapproval. But disa

    You’re confused. It’s ok. It’s normal. You’re referring to disapproval. But disapproval has no value except in pursuit of exchange. And this isn’t an exchange. It can’t be. You’d (collectively) need something to trade. 😉 I entered a club room by accident. The class of this club is, shall we say, different. Different dress, demeanor, and manners. Beer glasses in stead of scotch. Chips instead of buttered water crackers with caviar and sips of champagne. Disapproval is expected, and, honestly … desired. 😉


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-12 23:00:56 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1635053287576674304

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1635051834057560065

  • Acquisition is always performed with consideration of discounts and trade offs.

    Acquisition is always performed with consideration of discounts and trade offs. Otherwise we wouldn’t even be able to make the most obvious choices.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-12 22:05:13 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1635039266748370945

    Reply addressees: @pointy_elbows @ConceptualJames

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1635038338905411584

  • Hmmm.. The inflation game isn’t going to work. It’ll take down the old folks lik

    Hmmm.. The inflation game isn’t going to work. It’ll take down the old folks like a scythe, and our lower half has no reserves. So they have to use a different strategy. They’ll resist it but the state’s going to have to ‘own’ a lot of anything that carries paper. That said, I don’t see how money won’t fly to the states.

    Can we just close up shop, write it down, sell the US to the the royal demesne, and in doing so kill the dollar and restore the pound and reverse the error of the american revolution? 🙂

    Reply addressees: @Fuchs_David_cz @Max_Stoic @federalreserve


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-12 20:42:44 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1635018507896143874

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1635015119662112768

  • Hmmm.. The inflation game isn’t going to work. It’ll take down the old folks lik

    Hmmm.. The inflation game isn’t going to work. It’ll take down the old folks like a scythe, and our lower half has no reserves. So they have to use a different strategy. They’ll resist it but the state’s going to have to ‘own’ a lot of anything that carries paper. That said, I don’t see how money won’t fly to the states.

    Can we just close up shop, write it down, sell the US to the the royal demesne, and in doing so kill the dollar and restore the pound and reverse the error of the american revolution? 🙂


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-12 20:42:44 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1635018508005171200

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1635015119662112768

  • True. Take it further: given that tolerance for float (before default) varies fr

    True. Take it further: given that tolerance for float (before default) varies from country to country, and wages, and taxes on wages, are the majority of float, I’ve wondered why we pay taxes first, or why, in the extreme, the central banks don’t carry the float. The state (especially UK) is far more concerned about a biz exporting a visible quantifiable loss to the state, than it is about the externalization of an invisible unquantifiable chain of causality into the economy the state taxes? That only sounds a bit odd if you don’t do the math. And the data the state would get from that float movement would provide the best and fastest information on the economy without externalizing the cost of reporting onto every biz in the system.

    Reply addressees: @Max_Stoic


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-12 15:42:35 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1634942972901875712

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  • True. Take it further: given that tolerance for float (before default) varies fr

    True. Take it further: given that tolerance for float (before default) varies from country to country, and wages, and taxes on wages, are the majority of float, I’ve wondered why we pay taxes first, or why, in the extreme, the central banks don’t carry the float. The state (especially UK) is far more concerned about a biz exporting a visible quantifiable loss to the state, than it is about the externalization of an invisible unquantifiable chain of causality into the economy the state taxes? That only sounds a bit odd if you don’t do the math. And the data the state would get from that float movement would provide the best and fastest information on the economy without externalizing the cost of reporting onto every biz in the system.


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-12 15:42:35 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1634942973010911233

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  • Vapid Criticisms The current problem is the intersection of inflation vs interes

    Vapid Criticisms
    The current problem is the intersection of inflation vs interest rates to suppress it, and no possibility of buyback from the treasury on 2% securities that they could then re-issue at 5% at tiny cost to taxpayers.

    This would prevent both SVB failure AND contagion because it was a simple liquidity problem caused by the delta in interest rates due to the killing of the bond market by the treasury by increasing interest rates. I don’t see distortion out there. I see debt out there. But not distortion.

    The government, treasury, and fed must choose a delicate balance of regulation that doesn’t constrain investment, but maybe constrains debt expansion, and maybe just consumer debt expansion, and to do that the treasury would have to bring (almost) ALL credit (credit money) expansion IN HOUSE.

    Because no one is going to run an economy today on 100% reserves unless the want the entire financial sector to move somewhere that doesn’t.

    Cheers


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-12 15:32:50 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1634940518659391489

  • Vapid Criticisms The current problem is the intersection of inflation vs interes

    Vapid Criticisms
    The current problem is the intersection of inflation vs interest rates to suppress it, and no possibility of buyback from the treasury on 2% securities that they could then re-issue at 5% at tiny cost to taxpayers.

    This would prevent both SVB failure AND contagion because it was a simple liquidity problem caused by the delta in interest rates due to the killing of the bond market by the treasury by increasing interest rates. I don’t see distortion out there. I see debt out there. But not distortion.

    The government, treasury, and fed must choose a delicate balance of regulation that doesn’t constrain investment, but maybe constrains debt expansion, and maybe just consumer debt expansion, and to do that the treasury would have to bring (almost) ALL credit (credit money) expansion IN HOUSE.

    Because no one is going to run an economy today on 100% reserves unless the want the entire financial sector to move somewhere that doesn’t.

    Cheers


    Source date (UTC): 2023-03-12 15:32:50 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1634940518781034498