Curt Doolittle

Theme: Institution

  • If Republicans Want To Reduce Government Regulations, Then Why Do They Want Government To Be Involved In Social Issues? As A Republican, How Is This Contradicting Or Do You Think The Government Shouldn’t Be Involved In Social Issues Either?

    Republican (Aristocratic) ethics seek to restore the ethics of the intergenerational nuclear family as the central unit of social, economic, and political order. It is not correct to say that they don’t want to pressure social issues. They do. Because they want the families to run the world, not the government. We are all equal as families and we are all unequal in every other capacity.

    https://www.quora.com/If-Republicans-want-to-reduce-government-regulations-then-why-do-they-want-government-to-be-involved-in-social-issues-As-a-Republican-how-is-this-contradicting-or-do-you-think-the-government-shouldn’t-be-involved-in-social-issues-either

  • Why Is Russia, With This Great Potential (140 Million Intelligent People, Large Country With Natural Resources, Great Geography And Climate Etc.) Still Relatively Poor?

    A) Um, all aggregate measurements are misleading. If in a country of 1M people, they make $1 a day and I make $1B a day, the GDP/Population will be 365M + 365B/1M, giving the impression that everyone in the country is making more than $300K per year.
    B) Resources are a curse, because they lead to corruption, rent seeking, subsidy, and a lack of innovation.
    C) Putin does not get credit for his expansion of rule of law. But corruption is pervasive. It is not like corruption in the states – which is invisible – it’s visible. And in some ways that’s more tolerable. But it is very hard to start and keep a business running, and it’s middle class and business that drives a people out of low income.
    B) Russia is a VERY big place. I mean, the USA is big. But Russia is 11 time zones big, and like canada, the population is largely along the borders. Imagine the cost of infrastructure in Belgium or Denmark vs the cost of infrastructure in Russia? For example, I spent some time with the founder and ‘president’ of one of the popular mega sports store chains. And what do you do when you run a business across that many time zones, and telephone, internet, and power, are often unreliable? What do you do when you must pay (bribe) people in the government just to get basic things done – not even privileges, but just to do their job? I tried to buy a company in moscow, and i literally couldn’t find one to buy. Not because there weren’t any. But because you can’t keep ‘legit’ books and survive. And it’s never clear who owns anything. Until the past few years it was difficult to trust the courts so contracts were difficult, and cash rather than credit slows the economy. So all of these ‘frictions’ add up.
    C) Moscow is a VERY expensive city (I wish I lived there, I love it and I love russian people). But people outside the major cities are still quite poor. (And Belarus and Ukraine are even worse.)
    D) Russians were virtually slaves 150 years ago. Under the soviets it varied quite a bit from murderous, to horrible to comfortable, to exceptionally good. And then they had a catastrophic event (collapse), and then dragged themselves out of it.

    The only difference I have found between ‘white’ russians and ‘white’ americans is that americans are foolishly optimistic and trusting, and russians are foolishly pessimistic and untrusting. The rest of the western world has turned effeminate in the french(postmodern) and jewish(marxist) and outside of Australians, White americans, and White Russians, Christendom is in a catastrophe.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Russia-with-this-great-potential-140-million-intelligent-people-large-country-with-natural-resources-great-geography-and-climate-etc-still-relatively-poor

  • You Have Complete Control Of The Federal Republic Of Nigeria For 20 Years. What Would You Do To Better The Country Across All Sectors (e.g. Education, Economy, Military, National Unity)?

    I’ve looked into this, and the answer is the same for any developing country: if you can produce a judiciary, police force, and military that will enforce property rights, moral (reciprocal) contracts, and where bureaucrats are open to suit by anyone for corruption, then eventually you will prosper.

    Nigeria and Ghana at the very least have nothing but time holding them from becoming an advanced society. There are, in both countries, upper middle class (professionals), and those people are the ones who matter.

    https://www.quora.com/You-have-complete-control-of-the-Federal-Republic-of-Nigeria-for-20-years-What-would-you-do-to-better-the-country-across-all-sectors-e-g-education-economy-military-national-unity

  • Is There Any Country In The Industrialized World That Has More Students (per Capita) Whose Parents Have Been In The Criminal Justice System As Does The Us?

    Dishonest (Postmodern) question in my opinion.

    The USA prosecutes many more minor offenses than does any other nation which accounts for our ability to leave our doors unlocked, and not fence in our yards, or put bars or grids over our windows as does the rest of the world. The only places where we must act like the rest of the world is in our immigrant cities.

    We have far less ‘petty crime’ than other nations (except japan for example). We have far less ‘observable’ corruption. We have a huge drug issue and many people in the system for it.

    And we have (I will get the usual Quora punishment for truth speaking for saying this) but heterogeneous societies degrade trust, degrade norms, and increase crime. For the simple reason that homogenous and wealthy peoples are marginally indifferent and redistributive and heterogeneous and poor peoples are marginally different and resist redistribution (in either direction).

    If you compare ethnic groups they have the same crime rates in america as they do in their home countries. The reasons for this are finally fairly well understood (see Emmanuel Todd’s work on europe for example, or the recent books on the wealth of nations being dependent upon the size of the underclasses, or even Trust by Fukuyama. )

    These are just painful truths that are counter to both secular and supernatural religions, as well as marxist postmodernist pseudoscience of the 19th and 20th centuries.

    https://www.quora.com/Is-there-any-country-in-the-industrialized-world-that-has-more-students-per-capita-whose-parents-have-been-in-the-criminal-justice-system-as-does-the-US

  • Why Is Russia, With This Great Potential (140 Million Intelligent People, Large Country With Natural Resources, Great Geography And Climate Etc.) Still Relatively Poor?

    A) Um, all aggregate measurements are misleading. If in a country of 1M people, they make $1 a day and I make $1B a day, the GDP/Population will be 365M + 365B/1M, giving the impression that everyone in the country is making more than $300K per year.
    B) Resources are a curse, because they lead to corruption, rent seeking, subsidy, and a lack of innovation.
    C) Putin does not get credit for his expansion of rule of law. But corruption is pervasive. It is not like corruption in the states – which is invisible – it’s visible. And in some ways that’s more tolerable. But it is very hard to start and keep a business running, and it’s middle class and business that drives a people out of low income.
    B) Russia is a VERY big place. I mean, the USA is big. But Russia is 11 time zones big, and like canada, the population is largely along the borders. Imagine the cost of infrastructure in Belgium or Denmark vs the cost of infrastructure in Russia? For example, I spent some time with the founder and ‘president’ of one of the popular mega sports store chains. And what do you do when you run a business across that many time zones, and telephone, internet, and power, are often unreliable? What do you do when you must pay (bribe) people in the government just to get basic things done – not even privileges, but just to do their job? I tried to buy a company in moscow, and i literally couldn’t find one to buy. Not because there weren’t any. But because you can’t keep ‘legit’ books and survive. And it’s never clear who owns anything. Until the past few years it was difficult to trust the courts so contracts were difficult, and cash rather than credit slows the economy. So all of these ‘frictions’ add up.
    C) Moscow is a VERY expensive city (I wish I lived there, I love it and I love russian people). But people outside the major cities are still quite poor. (And Belarus and Ukraine are even worse.)
    D) Russians were virtually slaves 150 years ago. Under the soviets it varied quite a bit from murderous, to horrible to comfortable, to exceptionally good. And then they had a catastrophic event (collapse), and then dragged themselves out of it.

    The only difference I have found between ‘white’ russians and ‘white’ americans is that americans are foolishly optimistic and trusting, and russians are foolishly pessimistic and untrusting. The rest of the western world has turned effeminate in the french(postmodern) and jewish(marxist) and outside of Australians, White americans, and White Russians, Christendom is in a catastrophe.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Russia-with-this-great-potential-140-million-intelligent-people-large-country-with-natural-resources-great-geography-and-climate-etc-still-relatively-poor

  • Is There Any Country In The Industrialized World That Has More Students (per Capita) Whose Parents Have Been In The Criminal Justice System As Does The Us?

    Dishonest (Postmodern) question in my opinion.

    The USA prosecutes many more minor offenses than does any other nation which accounts for our ability to leave our doors unlocked, and not fence in our yards, or put bars or grids over our windows as does the rest of the world. The only places where we must act like the rest of the world is in our immigrant cities.

    We have far less ‘petty crime’ than other nations (except japan for example). We have far less ‘observable’ corruption. We have a huge drug issue and many people in the system for it.

    And we have (I will get the usual Quora punishment for truth speaking for saying this) but heterogeneous societies degrade trust, degrade norms, and increase crime. For the simple reason that homogenous and wealthy peoples are marginally indifferent and redistributive and heterogeneous and poor peoples are marginally different and resist redistribution (in either direction).

    If you compare ethnic groups they have the same crime rates in america as they do in their home countries. The reasons for this are finally fairly well understood (see Emmanuel Todd’s work on europe for example, or the recent books on the wealth of nations being dependent upon the size of the underclasses, or even Trust by Fukuyama. )

    These are just painful truths that are counter to both secular and supernatural religions, as well as marxist postmodernist pseudoscience of the 19th and 20th centuries.

    https://www.quora.com/Is-there-any-country-in-the-industrialized-world-that-has-more-students-per-capita-whose-parents-have-been-in-the-criminal-justice-system-as-does-the-US

  • Is Trump Intentionally €œdumbing Down” Federal Agencies With Unqualified Appointments To Better Exert Personal Control Over Them?

    Trump was ‘hired’ to gut the federal bureaucracy – especially that bureaucracy built under clinton/obama that was attempting to use the USA to finance and force a ‘single world government’ or what is colloquially called ‘globalism’. This is the dream of the communist/socialist/postmodern left. By eliminating competing states, they eliminate competition, and eliminate choice.

    https://www.quora.com/Is-Trump-intentionally-“dumbing-down”-federal-agencies-with-unqualified-appointments-to-better-exert-personal-control-over-them

  • Is Trump Intentionally €œdumbing Down” Federal Agencies With Unqualified Appointments To Better Exert Personal Control Over Them?

    Trump was ‘hired’ to gut the federal bureaucracy – especially that bureaucracy built under clinton/obama that was attempting to use the USA to finance and force a ‘single world government’ or what is colloquially called ‘globalism’. This is the dream of the communist/socialist/postmodern left. By eliminating competing states, they eliminate competition, and eliminate choice.

    https://www.quora.com/Is-Trump-intentionally-“dumbing-down”-federal-agencies-with-unqualified-appointments-to-better-exert-personal-control-over-them

  • My opinion is that w/o NN we will pay for major internet sites like Netflix,Yout

    My opinion is that w/o NN we will pay for major internet sites like Netflix,Youtube and Facebook, on a per-site basis (this is already happening in other countries). Cable/Telco’s have the lowest customer sat in the country. It’s a bad idea to reverse NN and further empower them.

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  • Do Americans Tend To Trust Big Business More Or Less Than Their Government?

    I think the data says that:

    1. by and large we trust the military most.
    2. by and large we trust one another.
    3. by and large we trust big business less.
    4. by and large we trust the supreme court less.
    5. by and large we trust the media less.
    6. by and large we trust the government a lot less.

    https://www.quora.com/Do-Americans-tend-to-trust-big-business-more-or-less-than-their-government