Curt Doolittle

Theme: Productivity

  • 8) We are only equal in poverty. We are only prosperous in inequality. Because i

    8) We are only equal in poverty. We are only prosperous in inequality. Because inequality is the product of defeating the red queen through genetic, institutional, economic, cultural, and normative capital investment in defeating the red queen in every one of those disciplines.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-15 14:02:45 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1184107345774813184

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    @JonHaidt @EveningStandard 7) I don’t make errors. Don’t bother trying to refute it. Try to understand it. Belt Tightening will come either by the restoration of nationalism, capital accumulation, and economic and political eugenics or it will come from collapse.

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    @JonHaidt @EveningStandard 7) I don’t make errors. Don’t bother trying to refute it. Try to understand it. Belt Tightening will come either by the restoration of nationalism, capital accumulation, and economic and political eugenics or it will come from collapse.

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  • 7) I don’t make errors. Don’t bother trying to refute it. Try to understand it.

    7) I don’t make errors. Don’t bother trying to refute it. Try to understand it. Belt Tightening will come either by the restoration of nationalism, capital accumulation, and economic and political eugenics or it will come from collapse.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-15 14:01:41 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1184107076148191233

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    @JonHaidt @EveningStandard 6) And in doing so created scarcity of the very goods you seek to hyper-consume. Humans are not insulated from the laws of physics and our productivity, particularly by the consumption of hydrocarbons, not as the liberals presumed – infinite. Welcome to consequences you created.

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    @JonHaidt @EveningStandard 6) And in doing so created scarcity of the very goods you seek to hyper-consume. Humans are not insulated from the laws of physics and our productivity, particularly by the consumption of hydrocarbons, not as the liberals presumed – infinite. Welcome to consequences you created.

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  • 6) And in doing so created scarcity of the very goods you seek to hyper-consume.

    6) And in doing so created scarcity of the very goods you seek to hyper-consume. Humans are not insulated from the laws of physics and our productivity, particularly by the consumption of hydrocarbons, not as the liberals presumed – infinite. Welcome to consequences you created.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-15 13:59:57 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1184106639416287232

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    @JonHaidt @EveningStandard 5) And we have no choice but to defeat genetic and economic red queens. Why? Demographics is destiny. Your hyperconsumption has expanded the world underclass, reversing thousands of years of human domestication (economic and political eugenics).

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    @JonHaidt @EveningStandard 5) And we have no choice but to defeat genetic and economic red queens. Why? Demographics is destiny. Your hyperconsumption has expanded the world underclass, reversing thousands of years of human domestication (economic and political eugenics).

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  • by Bill Joslin As far as I know, the difference between guilds and unions is tha

    by Bill Joslin

    As far as I know, the difference between guilds and unions is that guilds worked in both directions (internal-external). they policed the reputation (value) of the guild by training and policing merit within their ranks (the internally facing focus) as well as negotiated with the employers (collective bargaining i.e. external focused activiry)

    where as fraternities looked to insure their own against misfortune (pass the hat to help members in need) as well as policed membership (shine shame those acting immorally). i.e. and two way focus – internal-external. and they didnt seek to provide this insurance beyond their membership (provide what insurance they could by what resources the could collect internally)

    unions only focus externaly. they seek resources from the.employer based on moral justifications for “workers rights” opposed to insuring quality workers. i.e. they don’t bring anything to trade with outside of the threat of state enforced boycott). and don’t ensure quality of work via the merit of their membership but rather replace merit with seniority (disenframchises the most capable of the younger members, who generally then leave to either contract as independents and eventually start their own businesses – i.e. unions incentives the flight of their best and brightest out of their ranks).

    its an imbalance of malincentives offset by moral posturing.

    in other words – guilds and fraternities responded to and use market forces, while unions insulate from market forces.

    think of it this way – a.union which ensures they have the best and brightest within an industry brings to the table something of value to negotiate with employers.

    a union that only brings to the table the option of state enforced boycott equates to extortion.

    ive had many conversations with both owners and tradesmen in the toronto construction market, about establishing a guild, where by membership requires one to maintain a quality of service and skill – if you don’t meet this requirement, or deviate from guild approved best practices, then you’re tossed out.

    by doing so the guild represents quality control of the workforce, in exchange they can then demand better treatment of workers.

    in short, unions do not offer reciprocity.

    guilds as i envision it would be based squarely on reciprocity.

    reciprocity

    reciprocity

    reciprocity.

    Curt Doolittle – might be something of interest here. i.e. how unions would be transformed by reciprocity.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-12 20:54:00 UTC

  • MORE ON GUILDS Guilds limited access, all but eliminated competition and preserv

    MORE ON GUILDS

    Guilds limited access, all but eliminated competition and preserved quality, which prevented optimum market pricing in exchange for optimum benefit to workers – because transport costs for goods were higher than local premium prices. So it’s more of an question of eliminating labor arbitrage.

    Now, other issues were important in the era because tools cost quite a bit, and it prevented the privatization of these tools.

    And they were also like guarantees of weights and measures in that Guild members found guilty of cheating on the public would be fined or banned from the guild.

    One of the policies I want to enforce is right-to-repair which will drive out the cheap goods, drive up prices and durability of goods, ending the disposable, and closing our competitive difference with japan and germany.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-12 20:18:00 UTC

  • As far as I know this graph illustrates the increase in the industrialization an

    As far as I know this graph illustrates the increase in the industrialization and globalization of agriculture,the use of irrigation, fertilizer, and pesticides which is improving worldwide -much less so in some countries(shorter lines) than others(longer). ie: Petroleum Effect.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-07 21:24:27 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1181319400454008832

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    Can someone, in very specific toddler-speak, explain the labels of this graph to me? Been trying to figure this out for a little while and still have no idea what I’m looking at. https://t.co/gOpvwkzVpQ

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  • 1 Year AgoEric Danelaw updated his status.Oct 7, 2018, 9:12 PMNeither of the iss

    1 Year AgoEric Danelaw updated his status.Oct 7, 2018, 9:12 PMNeither of the issues Stiglitz mentions will make any difference because the problem we face is (a) human capital is no longer in reserve in europe, but underperforming from the third world, (b) we have concentrated all growth in a few immigrant cities that are all on the edge of bankruptcy, and these are so expensive they have become ovary graveyards; and (c) proximity creates hostility because of signaling competition and cannot be fixed. There is no reason that what failed in levantine/semitic civilization will not fail here in western civilization. (d) the reason that we are in decline is reproductive redistribution downward and a continuous drop in human capital because of it, and this is caused by (e) the consumption of all income produced the the addition of women into the workforce by taxation and redistribution to said underclasses, and (f) the financialization of the economy wherein trillions are extracted from working families but not under and upper classes, thereby creating the reproductive redistribution. On top of that (g) unions caused the industrial, technological, and job flight. GM alone is priced out of the market by intergenerational rents that cannot possibly be paid, and should never have been tolerated as a legal obligation.

    I can’t even believe he’s dishonest and incompetent enough to even make those two nonsense arguments.

    Hence why I write so much about economic pseudoscience, particularly via Krugman, Stiglitz, and DeLong.

    I am fairly sure they know what evil they do, and they do it precisely because it is evil.Updated Oct 7, 2019, 11:24 AM

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-07 11:24:00 UTC

  • Just be prepared to be away for 120 days, but to return loaded with cash

    Just be prepared to be away for 120 days, but to return loaded with cash.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-06 16:21:30 UTC

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  • And this is why services business can survive in cities and production cannot, a

    And this is why services business can survive in cities and production cannot, and why production must eventually move offshore. Density is not the advantage people think it is. Every doubling of population produces 20% more – of both goods and bads.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-05 22:23:09 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1180609395568369664

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    @ClownBa73413423 @RobertJamesHurd They can say no all they want, but there is even an economic law named for the effect. And so I would love to see examples. The Baumol effect is universal, and every city demonstrates this. All urban centers are in competition between advantages of density, and employee payroll.

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    @ClownBa73413423 @RobertJamesHurd They can say no all they want, but there is even an economic law named for the effect. And so I would love to see examples. The Baumol effect is universal, and every city demonstrates this. All urban centers are in competition between advantages of density, and employee payroll.

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  • They can say no all they want, but there is even an economic law named for the e

    They can say no all they want, but there is even an economic law named for the effect. And so I would love to see examples. The Baumol effect is universal, and every city demonstrates this. All urban centers are in competition between advantages of density, and employee payroll.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-05 22:21:27 UTC

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    @curtdoolittle @RobertJamesHurd All increases in income are eventually consumed by housing/rents. I tell them that, but they say no.

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