Curt Doolittle

Theme: Institution

  • LAST PIECE OF THE PROPERTARIAN PUZZLE Rescuing libertarianism from parasitic Rot

    LAST PIECE OF THE PROPERTARIAN PUZZLE

    Rescuing libertarianism from parasitic Rothbardian ethics, providing an institutional solution to post democratic socialist monopoly bureaucracy, giving conservatives a rational language with which to argue for aristocratic egalitarianism.

    DONE.

    Damn…. That was the last piece of the Propertarian puzzle.

    Took me, what, almost three years?

    Prohibition on Obscurantism, Pooling and Laundering: requirements for Operational language and Calculability.

    I can put this together as an implementable plan that conservatives will readily use to destroy both the government bureaucracy and the financial sector.

    Time to put a fork in it.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-26 10:34:00 UTC

  • It would be very interesting if we sold shares of common stock in corporations l

    It would be very interesting if we sold shares of common stock in corporations like btc, and I’ve considered building an exchange for doing that actually; because it would cut out the major financial houses from the investment process and make it much harder to manipulate stocks and profit from gating a market. If you think BTC is revolutionary for the government, imagine the effect that zero cost transactions on fractional stock purchases would have on the NYC financial system: it would destroy it. All trades would be transparent.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-25 08:41:00 UTC

  • MEN SHOULD BOYCOTT MARRIAGE

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D33L4zxjpH0WHY MEN SHOULD BOYCOTT MARRIAGE

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-22 06:42:00 UTC

  • Do Libertarians Believe There Should Be Federally Funded Interstate Highways?

    • That it was invented for war. (It was)
    • That it led to the decline of rail (it did)
    • That it led to the rise of trucks (it did)
    • That it led to the expansion of automotive use. (It did)
    • That it eliminated demand for public transportation (it did)
    • That it contributed to sprawl (it did)

    https://www.quora.com/Do-libertarians-believe-there-should-be-federally-funded-interstate-highways

  • Do Libertarians Believe There Should Be Federally Funded Interstate Highways?

    • That it was invented for war. (It was)
    • That it led to the decline of rail (it did)
    • That it led to the rise of trucks (it did)
    • That it led to the expansion of automotive use. (It did)
    • That it eliminated demand for public transportation (it did)
    • That it contributed to sprawl (it did)

    https://www.quora.com/Do-libertarians-believe-there-should-be-federally-funded-interstate-highways

  • “One such classification system is Fiske’s Relational Model that has the followi

    “One such classification system is Fiske’s Relational Model that has the following classes:

    1. Communal Sharing,

    2. Authority Ranking,

    3. Equality Matching,

    4. Market Pricing / Rational Legal.

    The last of these is the framework usually used by libertarians.”

    The reason we use it, is because, in a complex division of labor, greater than the family, extended family, or village, it is the only one in which we can be relatively certain that we are not free riding or rent seeking.

    There is simply no other combination of technologies that are available to us. NONE. Equality is impossible except among family members.

    Even if it were technically possible, I am not even sure it is desirable.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-18 11:04:00 UTC

  • “This guy wants to tell me we’re living in a community? Don’t make me laugh. I’m

    –“This guy wants to tell me we’re living in a community? Don’t make me laugh. I’m living in America, and in America you’re on your own. America’s not a country. It’s just a business. Now f___kin’ pay me.”–

    Killing Them Softly (2012)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-16 14:33:00 UTC

  • NECESSARY, PREFERENTIAL AND LUXURY PROPERTIES OF GOVERNMENT A) NECESSARY PROPERT

    NECESSARY, PREFERENTIAL AND LUXURY PROPERTIES OF GOVERNMENT

    A) NECESSARY PROPERTIES

    The NECESSARY properties of of a government are

    1) provide a means of resolving differences without the use of violence (ie: to create a monopoly of violence within a geography.)

    2) To provide a means of resolving differences requires a definition of property rights.

    3) To prohibit alternative definitions of property rights from being imposed by force, theft or fraud, (or immigration.)

    These are the minimum properties of a government.

    B ) ADVANTAGEOUS PROPERTIES

    In addition to these properties, it may also be possible for a group of people to afford to also have government engage in the following:

    4) To provide a means of investing in commons (human and physical infrastructure) by prohibiting free-riding, privatization, and competition when investing in commons.

    5) To provide a means of cooperation between classes where privatization, free riding, rent seeking and competition prevent cooperation between classes.

    6) To reduce both transaction costs and fraud by implementing weights, measures and currency.

    7) To perform as an insurer of last resort against catastrophes.

    These are advantageous properties of government.

    C) PROPERTIES THAT ARE LUXURIES

    In addition to these properties, it may be possible for a group of people to afford to also have the government engage in the following LUXURIES:

    8 ) Redistribution of all kinds, both in services, and in direct payments.

    9) Inter-temporal redistribution from young to old, rather than saving and lending from old to young. (But this is very fragile.)

    These are LUXURIES that can be provided by some governments under rare circumstances in exceptional periods of time, where malthusian and group selection problems have been temporarily held at bay by technological innovation.

    The government is not the source of the ‘good things’. The courts, under the common law and property rights is the source of ‘good things’.

    The government we have today, has destroyed the common law, the rule of law, and created both corporatism and socialism. And we now suffer between two factions that try to control the government for corporatist or socialist means.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-07 13:43:00 UTC

  • DRIVING FATALITIES AS AN INDEX OF TRUST (more on notoriously bad russian and ukr

    DRIVING FATALITIES AS AN INDEX OF TRUST

    (more on notoriously bad russian and ukrainian drivers)

    British drivers, after swedish drivers, are some of the best drivers in the world. Because they follow the rules. And rules and costs keep people off the road.

    American’s are not such good drivers. They are about average. America is big (like russia) and cars are a necessity, and rules and costs encourage people to be the road. Russian size, rules and cost likewise encourage people to be on the road.

    However, data is data is data. Russians and Ukrainians are disproportionately bad drivers.

    Russians (and ukrainians) do not adhere to ‘unnecessary rules’. Something which other authors have called ‘rules of low probability’. This is common the further east you go.

    My suspicion is that it is a trust measure. High trust societies are more aware of, cooperative with, forgiving of, and tolerant of minor errors on the part of their fellows.

    Reasons For Russian Driving Statistics

    (a) excessive cultural machismo (which I personally love)

    (b) lower observance of (probabilistic) rules,

    (c) lower attention to the road – phones etc

    (d) lots and lots of alcohol use

    (e) Poorer quality roads, signage, and design.

    (f) lower quality vehicles (less forgiving vehicles)

    In the muslim countries we have less observance of rules, higher speeds and machismo, and … very low IQ’s.

    Native American indians are interestingly terrible drivers, at nearly three times the black/white/hispanic fatalities. Theory is that this is alcohol driven. No way to know. Good spatial perception, but low IQ. But, gIven the disparities in IQ between whites, blacks and hispanics, and the high availability, and high use of vehicles, it’s pretty clear that driving is not an IQ problem. It appears that higher IQ countries are able to develop high trust more easily.

    The question is why is eastern (byzantine) europe (and russia) a low trust culture – lower than southern europe, and nearly as low trust as in islamic countries, if not as low trust as tribal countries in Africa.

    BAD DRIVING IS A LOW-TRUST PROBLEM

    That’s pretty interesting. We can measure social trust by driving fatalities, rather than surveys. But interestingly enough, surveys correlate driving fatalities (mostly).

    What I find most interesting here, is that while they disregard the rules and assume all other drivers are likely idiots or drunkards, they are as easily helpful to people in duress as americans.

    I like people here better. Period. in my view, they pay more attention to each other than to rules. Americans (And most western europeans) signal with their adherence to rules.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-06 05:21:00 UTC

  • Vladimir. They are a tribal and feudal people. Kill every relative out to three

    Vladimir.

    They are a tribal and feudal people.

    Kill every relative out to three generations.

    Use the family to control the family.

    Surprise if you guess where I got this idea from….

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-31 15:32:00 UTC