Curt Doolittle

Theme: Institution

  • Apprenticeships

    September 12th, 2018 7:28 PM

    —“The idea of apprenticeships was admirable: for a fixed term, usually seven years, a master or mistress of a trade would train a young person so that he could earn his living at that trade. The master kept the apprentice in board, lodging and clothes, but had no duty to pay him, although many did in the final years of the term, when the apprentice had learned enough to be helpful. The system applied throughout society. Prosperous merchants, goldsmiths and bankers made tidy sums from the premiums paid by the parents of hopeful apprentices. The members of the Company of Watermen and Lightermen of the River Thames, who had a monopoly of river traffic, had 2,140 apprentices in 1858. Poor masters could profit from the unpaid labour of children taken from the parish workhouse”—-

  • Compulsory Labor and Compensation in England

    September 12th, 2018 7:24 PM  

    —“The Statute of Artificers (usually called the Statute of Apprentices) was passed in 1563 and remained on the Statute Book until 1819; the Poor Law Act of 1601 – which provided for much else besides poor relief – remained largely operative until the 20th c. Between them, these Acts attempted `to banish idleness, to advance husbandry and to yield to the hired person, both in times of scarcity and in times of plenty, a convenient proportion of wages’. They controlled entry into the class of skilled workmen by providing a compulsory seven years’ apprenticeship; they reserved the superior trades for the sons of the better off; they assumed a universal duty to work on all the able-bodied; and empowered justices to require unemployed artificers to work in husbandry; they required permission for a workman to transfer from one employer to another; they severely restricted the freedom of movement of the poor by enabling a person without means to be removed, by order of the justices, to his original parish or last place of settlement; and they empowered justices to fix wage rates for virtually all classes of workmen.” —-

  • Apprenticeships

    September 12th, 2018 7:28 PM

    —“The idea of apprenticeships was admirable: for a fixed term, usually seven years, a master or mistress of a trade would train a young person so that he could earn his living at that trade. The master kept the apprentice in board, lodging and clothes, but had no duty to pay him, although many did in the final years of the term, when the apprentice had learned enough to be helpful. The system applied throughout society. Prosperous merchants, goldsmiths and bankers made tidy sums from the premiums paid by the parents of hopeful apprentices. The members of the Company of Watermen and Lightermen of the River Thames, who had a monopoly of river traffic, had 2,140 apprentices in 1858. Poor masters could profit from the unpaid labour of children taken from the parish workhouse”—-

  • Compulsory Labor and Compensation in England

    September 12th, 2018 7:24 PM  

    —“The Statute of Artificers (usually called the Statute of Apprentices) was passed in 1563 and remained on the Statute Book until 1819; the Poor Law Act of 1601 – which provided for much else besides poor relief – remained largely operative until the 20th c. Between them, these Acts attempted `to banish idleness, to advance husbandry and to yield to the hired person, both in times of scarcity and in times of plenty, a convenient proportion of wages’. They controlled entry into the class of skilled workmen by providing a compulsory seven years’ apprenticeship; they reserved the superior trades for the sons of the better off; they assumed a universal duty to work on all the able-bodied; and empowered justices to require unemployed artificers to work in husbandry; they required permission for a workman to transfer from one employer to another; they severely restricted the freedom of movement of the poor by enabling a person without means to be removed, by order of the justices, to his original parish or last place of settlement; and they empowered justices to fix wage rates for virtually all classes of workmen.” —-

  • EU INFRASTRUCTURE VS USA Europe is only different in that the population density

    EU INFRASTRUCTURE VS USA

    Europe is only different in that the population density of Netherlands (505) UK (271), DEU (236), FRA(122), is just far higher than the USA (35), meaning that it is… https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=292615891335308&id=100017606988153

    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-11 01:07:40 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1039319530038874116

  • EU INFRASTRUCTURE VS USA Europe is only different in that the population density

    EU INFRASTRUCTURE VS USA

    Europe is only different in that the population density of Netherlands (505) UK (271), DEU (236), FRA(122), is just far higher than the USA (35), meaning that it is almost impossible to concentrate forces on the american population, and relatively easy for revolutionaries to concentrate attacks on american infrastructure.(edited)

    The change (and panic) that will be brought about by even limited civil disobedience in the USA will rock the world economy, and invite world ‘instability’ (meaning opportunism).

    The primary vulnerability of the US infrastructure is power.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-10 21:07:00 UTC

  • NOTE: FRIEND REQUESTS We are issuing Friend Requests to Curt Doolittle’s Friends

    NOTE: FRIEND REQUESTS

    We are issuing Friend Requests to Curt Doolittle’s Friends and Followers. This creates redundancy for the Propertarian Institute.

    Thanks.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-09 10:25:00 UTC

  • Professor Who Coined Term ‘Net Neutrality’ Thinks It’s Time To Break Up Facebook

    Professor Who Coined Term ‘Net Neutrality’ Thinks It’s Time To Break Up Facebook (http://theverge.com)

    Best known for coining the phrase “net neutrality” and his book The Master Switch: The Rise… https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=291276058135958&id=100017606988153

    Source date (UTC): 2018-09-07 03:46:36 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1037909975295827969

  • Try Writing It Down.

    Everyone thinks they have a brilliant understanding of the optimum political order until you sit down and write a constitution, and the institutions, processes, and regulations for every one of the ‘markets’. It’s like anything else. You think you know what you’re taking or thinking about until you write it down.

  • Try Writing It Down.

    Everyone thinks they have a brilliant understanding of the optimum political order until you sit down and write a constitution, and the institutions, processes, and regulations for every one of the ‘markets’. It’s like anything else. You think you know what you’re taking or thinking about until you write it down.