All norms tend to be suited to demarcating outsiders, the organization of production, and defense – across all of history. Of those I would say production, defense, outsiders is the order.
Source date (UTC): 2019-09-29 11:29:00 UTC
Theme: Productivity
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of people provide all substantive value. “Efficiency” is for hourly wage labor.
… of people provide all substantive value. “Efficiency” is for hourly wage labor. It doesn’t move the needle. 7. Men are more politically trustworthy and will endure more organizational stress and friction for loyalty, and will more likely trade favors across businesses …
Source date (UTC): 2019-09-28 23:47:56 UTC
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@razibkhan … so we are hired, invested in, promoted, by factors that add value outside of the work – additional possibilities. 6. Only silly people think their work is meaningful unless it generates substantially more revenue, more profit, more clients. ie: a single digit percent …
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@razibkhan … so we are hired, invested in, promoted, by factors that add value outside of the work – additional possibilities. 6. Only silly people think their work is meaningful unless it generates substantially more revenue, more profit, more clients. ie: a single digit percent …
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so we are hired, invested in, promoted, by factors that add value outside of the
… so we are hired, invested in, promoted, by factors that add value outside of the work – additional possibilities. 6. Only silly people think their work is meaningful unless it generates substantially more revenue, more profit, more clients. ie: a single digit percent …
Source date (UTC): 2019-09-28 23:45:15 UTC
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@razibkhan 1. You don’t learn much at school, but learn on the job. 2. people have to trust and see returns from investing in you. 3. Your ‘fit’ is more determinant in developing trust than your merit. 4. loyalty is more valuable than ‘merit’. 5. work products marginally indifferent …
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@razibkhan 1. You don’t learn much at school, but learn on the job. 2. people have to trust and see returns from investing in you. 3. Your ‘fit’ is more determinant in developing trust than your merit. 4. loyalty is more valuable than ‘merit’. 5. work products marginally indifferent …
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THE AMERICAN GOAL IS BREAKING OUT OF WAGE SLAVERY by Michael Churchill By the ti
THE AMERICAN GOAL IS BREAKING OUT OF WAGE SLAVERY
by Michael Churchill
By the time one gets wealthy, it’s often the case that one ceases really to give a damn. Once you get to the point of independence and agency, you basically have gotten the world off your back. Then, you know, at some level it’s like “Who cares?”
The way American society is set up (total atomization combined with war of all against all i.e. capitalism), the most important goal is just to break out of wage slavery. That consumes the bulk of a man’s effort.
After that … well … it’s an open question whether one has the energy to do much else other than play golf and watch football on TV.
Source date (UTC): 2019-09-28 15:55:00 UTC
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All norms tend to be suited to demarcating outsiders, the organization of produc
All norms tend to be suited to demarcating outsiders, the organization of production, and defense – across all of history. Of those I would say production, defense, outsiders is the order.
Source date (UTC): 2019-09-27 16:22:05 UTC
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All norms tend to be suited to demarcating outsiders, the organization of produc
All norms tend to be suited to demarcating outsiders, the organization of production, and defense – across all of history. Of those I would say production, defense, outsiders is the order.
Source date (UTC): 2019-09-27 12:21:00 UTC
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If you destroy mediterranean trade through raiding and piracy you will impoveris
If you destroy mediterranean trade through raiding and piracy you will impoverish its dependents. Arabs did.
Source date (UTC): 2019-09-26 23:32:36 UTC
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@roytapel @JohnMarkSays If you conquer the main trade routes between the four continents and tax them you will be wealthier like running a toll bridge – it’s not hard. The arabs destroyed the genetics, institutions, arts, literature, culture of every great civilization of the ancient world.
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@roytapel @JohnMarkSays If you conquer the main trade routes between the four continents and tax them you will be wealthier like running a toll bridge – it’s not hard. The arabs destroyed the genetics, institutions, arts, literature, culture of every great civilization of the ancient world.
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If you conquer the main trade routes between the four continents and tax them yo
If you conquer the main trade routes between the four continents and tax them you will be wealthier like running a toll bridge – it’s not hard. The arabs destroyed the genetics, institutions, arts, literature, culture of every great civilization of the ancient world.
Source date (UTC): 2019-09-26 23:31:54 UTC
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@roytapel @JohnMarkSays You didn’t provide a proof. Just straw men.
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@roytapel @JohnMarkSays You didn’t provide a proof. Just straw men.
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There is no comparison whatsoever to european civilization in the velocity of pr
There is no comparison whatsoever to european civilization in the velocity of production, innovation, and condition, in the ancient and modern worlds. We dragged humanity out of ignorance, starvation, poverty, disease, superstition kicking and screaming.
Source date (UTC): 2019-09-26 23:21:43 UTC
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MORE ON UNDERSTANDING POWER AND WEALTH by Michael Churchill “Eventually, the Mar
MORE ON UNDERSTANDING POWER AND WEALTH
by Michael Churchill
“Eventually, the Marginal Utility of Money Falls to Zero”
Eventually the marginal utility of money falls to zero. (Actually that happens pretty fast.) Then what is the game? What is the point? It has to be about moulding (molding?) the future to your wishes — creating a world that looks the way you want it for your descendants.
It’s a negotiation between rulers — each with his own fiefdom, none of whom NEEDS anything. It becomes Hegelian: People crave, more than anything, the respect of their peers. Respect cannot be bought from people who are already loaded. One has to earn it. Your ideas … your vision … have to square with their vision. You must have a mutually agreed upon view of the world and want to work together to make it happen.
Once you get rich the challenge ceases to be about making money, it becomes figuring out how to shape the world. It’s a whole new set of challenges. Soros was actually pretty eloquent about this problem at one point, before he became who he ultimately became.
(solid gold)
Source date (UTC): 2019-09-26 16:58:00 UTC