—“There has been a total failure of the smart and rich people running our corporations to have any sense of trying to help proles by improving their future-time-orientation. Instead, they just try to rip them off and brainwash them into mindless consumerism. They completely lack what the French called noblesse oblige.”—
Source date (UTC): 2015-05-21 13:03:00 UTC
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature14419.htmlHOW SOME CULTURES SOLVE THE SOCIAL PROBLEM WTH MARRIAGE AND THE LONG TERM PROBLEM OF DYSGENIA – AND HOW OTHER CULTURES DON’T
(profound) (#hbd)(marriage)
Marriage (monogamy and pairing off), is not an evolutionary advantage unless at the same time we limit the reproduction of the lower classes (which at this point begins at 95, but I think will soon more visibly occur at 105 or so. ) So the reason for the rapid rates of western evolutionary progress despite their distance from the source of civilization, is (a) selection by attraction / women’s liberty (b)manorialism – which delays reproduction, increases the skills of women, and suppressed the lower class reproduction. Warmer climates must rely upon war and disease for selection, and the competition between so many eurasiatic tribes creates incentives for inbreeding. What it DOES select for is aggression.
So marriage is a good thing, iff and only iff, it is accompanied by reproductive suppression of the lower classes, and penalties for the upper classes for not reproducing. Every other possible scenario is dysgenic.
We don’t need to engage in evil medicine. We can simply redistribute only to those with one child who cannot produce, and heavily tax those who produce but do not reproduce. In four generations – one century – your civilization dramatically increases its potential far more than any other technological or social advantage.
—-Here we test this theory experimentally by comparing whether populations with histories of strong versus weak sexual selection purge mutation load and resist extinction differently…..Lineages from populations that had previously experienced strong sexual selection were resilient to extinction and maintained fitness under inbreeding, with some families continuing to survive after 20 generations of sib × sib mating. By contrast, lineages derived from populations that experienced weak or non-existent sexual selection showed rapid fitness declines under inbreeding, and all were extinct after generation 10.—-
Source date (UTC): 2015-05-20 04:15:00 UTC
http://wber.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/05/12/wber.lhv001.abstractNO. CORRUPTION DOESN”T GREASE THE WHEELS. IT”S RUST.
—Whether demands for bribes for particular government services are associated with expedited or delayed policy implementation underlies debates around the role of corruption in private sector development. The “grease the wheels” hypothesis, which contends that bribes act as speed money, implies three testable predictions. First, on average, bribe requests should be negatively correlated with wait times. Second, this relationship should vary across firms, with those with the highest opportunity cost of waiting being more likely to pay and facing shorter delays. Third, the role of grease should vary across countries, with benefits larger where regulatory burdens are greatest. The data are inconsistent with all three predictions. According to the preferred specifications, ceteris paribus, firms confronted with demands for bribes take approximately 1.5 times longer to get a construction permit, operating license, or electrical connection than firms that did not have to pay bribes and, respectively, 1.2 and 1.4 times longer to clear customs when exporting and importing. The results are robust to controlling for firm fixed effects and at odds with the notion that corruption enhances efficiency.—
Source date (UTC): 2015-05-19 21:27:00 UTC
(profound) [I]’ve been arguing for two decades that we have had 500 years of ‘unusual’ as we spread the voluntary organization of production around the world (often by force), and conquered and exploited two new continents. And that what we see is the new normal. There aren’t enough asymmetries to exploit any longer to maintain the prior asymmetry of wealth.
Source: Curt Doolittle
(profound) [I]’ve been arguing for two decades that we have had 500 years of ‘unusual’ as we spread the voluntary organization of production around the world (often by force), and conquered and exploited two new continents. And that what we see is the new normal. There aren’t enough asymmetries to exploit any longer to maintain the prior asymmetry of wealth.
Source: Curt Doolittle
http://aeon.co/magazine/society/how-rising-inequality-is-changing-marriage/ROMAN SKASKIW ON GENDER RATIO THEORY
Gender ratio theory: http://aeon.co/…/how-rising-inequality-is-changing-marriage/
Societies seem to work better (and more people get married) when men outnumber and have to compete for women. This seems to have a lot of explanatory power:
-the sustained marriage rate of top 10% income earning women
-university hook up culture
-communities with high incarceration
-even stories about ancient Spartan vs Athenian women.
#hbd_chick #propertarianism
Source date (UTC): 2015-05-18 05:20:00 UTC
[A]ll Social, economic and political orders require:
(1) The suppression of predation and parasitism,
(2) the establishment of an allocation of property,
(3) a construction of a means of resolving disputes, and;
(4) a means by of organization of production.
Totalitarian: It can be organized involuntarily: the elimination of private property, planning and slavery in many of its forms.
Capitalist: It can be organized voluntarily by the use of private property, money, and prices.
Mixed: It can be organized by a mix of private property, money, and prices, and the totalitarian construction of commons. (Which is what we do today).
A market forms under any condition in which goods are constructed for the purpose of exchange.
[A]ll Social, economic and political orders require:
(1) The suppression of predation and parasitism,
(2) the establishment of an allocation of property,
(3) a construction of a means of resolving disputes, and;
(4) a means by of organization of production.
Totalitarian: It can be organized involuntarily: the elimination of private property, planning and slavery in many of its forms.
Capitalist: It can be organized voluntarily by the use of private property, money, and prices.
Mixed: It can be organized by a mix of private property, money, and prices, and the totalitarian construction of commons. (Which is what we do today).
A market forms under any condition in which goods are constructed for the purpose of exchange.
NEEDS
The institutional needs of individuals, families and tribes at different levels of maturity, differ. We do not mature at the same rates (as individuals) and we have not matured at the same rates as tribes, nations and races. For the simple reason that we encountered different geographic pressures.
I am not sure why this is so complicated. High attention parenting, high investment parenting and their opposites, produce different results. Western methods of child-raising are a trade off. But we are also born with different impulses, and we can measure them, and have measured them.
Equal rights to life and property, do not require that we mature at identical rates.
Source date (UTC): 2015-05-10 11:51:00 UTC
https://mobile.twitter.com/narmno/status/595057396638187520ON PRIVACY
Privacy is a legal, normative, and moral construct: we are bound to pay the cost of morals, norms, and legal codification of them when we enter in to the commons. What occurs in our homes is only relevant if it causes externalities. And what is in our minds is ungovernable. This is a vast subject which I won’t go into further, but privacy exists iff and only if we preserve the objectively moral and the normative and legal observation of if. What has changed is only that with vast increases in our exposure to information about one another, two outcomes are produced: (a) a reduction in the LOCAL influence of any of our actions, and (b) a realization that we are all open to the same errors, make the same errors, and mature out of those errors with experience; and (c) the lowering of the impact of negatives on our reputations if our errors are unselfish and merely ignorant in nature. All three of these factors REDUCE the impact of foolish human actions on the moral, normative, and legal commons. As such privacy is less valuable and useful than it WAS in the past – at least in matters of COGNITION and OPINION, if not crime.
ON LEANING – IN
Still thinking about this.
There is no material value to women’s entry into the work force. The value is in that women are not PROHIBITED from entering the work force, and are therefore less dependent on marriage for sustenance, satisfaction, and reproduction. However, women abused their entry into the franchise by parasitically obtaining through the state, the income of marriage without providing the care-taking, sex, and compromise of marriage. So for men, adding women to the franchise merely expanded the state, made them slaves of the state, decreased the value of taking ownership for and paying the cost of the commons (society), caused rapid expansion of dysgenia, insured their poverty and loneliness in old age, and led a large number to suicide. Women destroyed the compromise. Without women’s votes the left would never obtained power in any country, and used it to destroy western civilization. I see similar effects in Japan. But I have the disadvantage of limited on the ground experience, and must work entirely from data.
Source date (UTC): 2015-05-09 03:25:00 UTC