Curt Doolittle

Theme: Productivity

  • FRUITFUL VS FRUITLESS EDUCATION by Steve Pender There is nothing wrong with educ

    FRUITFUL VS FRUITLESS EDUCATION

    by Steve Pender

    There is nothing wrong with education – just fruitless education. And fruitful Work is also education. Fruitless education makes children costly. Whereas in past eras, they would do productive work on farms or business as early teens, now they’re learning how to do haiku and other pointless shit well into their 20s. They’re still burdens to parents at 25 in many cases. The result is a net disincentive to have more kids, – the results of which you can observe everywhere in society.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-06 13:46:00 UTC

  • “Hong Kong is an example of exogenous derived AND implemented institutions appli

    —“Hong Kong is an example of exogenous derived AND implemented institutions applied to a high-IQ population. This is the recipe for Hong Kong’s success.”—Aaron Kahland

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-06 11:44:16 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1004328112094679040

  • TAXES AND REPRODUCTION (probably an important set of ideas you need to grasp) Th

    TAXES AND REPRODUCTION

    (probably an important set of ideas you need to grasp)

    The fact that we tax tradesmen and members of bureaucracies at the same rate is counter-progressive (regressive).

    If you’re going to tax progressively (effectively a sales tax on market participation), employment in or as Laborers, Tradesmen, Professionals, Small Medium Businesses, Industries, Government should be taxed progressively.

    However the single most detrimental policies have been:

    (a) inter temporal redistribution and risk propagation (which is incalculable) rather than the Singapore/Texas model of forced savings and redistribution into personal health and retirement accounts (which is calculable – and reinvest-able).

    (b) The redistribution of middle class reproduction to the underclasses due to (i) inability to self segregate, thereby forcing families to ‘buy their way’ into expensive neighborhoods and schools at the cost of increased female labor, and decreased rates of reproduction. (b) the taxation and burning of reproduction by the middle class to redistribute reproduction to the lower classes (that should either be sterilized or limited to one child.)

    Because ‘white people’ can live extremely well in high trust high quality well maintained commons by purely voluntary labor, it is possible for ‘whites’ to spend very little on redistribution and commons production, and also work less if they can isolate themselves from less advanced (domesticated) groups. There is zero reason, other than interest rates on home and auto, and the need to buy overpriced housing in overpriced neighborhoods, for more than 10% overhead of GDP. White westerners with small arms, required service, some artillery and nuclear weapons can build extremely low cost per capita high quality commons simply because IT IS IN OUR NATURE. Heterogeneity (diversity) has destroyed western civilization. We let pandora out of her box when we allowed women to vote without first limiting the damage that they could do once loosed in the polity by compensating for their dysgenic impulses. Civilization occured because of paternalism: the use of competition and capital to limit the reproductive damage done by women’s intuitions.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-06 10:17:00 UTC

  • TOP 100 SUPPOSEDLY SMART CITIES GIVEN SOME SUSPECT ONLINE DATA…. (NOTE 1: This

    TOP 100 SUPPOSEDLY SMART CITIES GIVEN SOME SUSPECT ONLINE DATA….

    (NOTE 1: This is a very-very-suspect data set but I think something can be learned from it. The cities that did NOT make the list are the take-away: immigrant cities.)

    (NOTE 2: that New York, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, Houston and Chicago were not on the list. The areas of greater Boston and Seattle were the only ones that made the list.

    1. Ithaca, NY

    2. State College, PA

    3. Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN

    4. Iowa City, IA

    5. Ames, IA

    6. Ann Arbor, MI

    7. Bloomington, IN

    8. Madison, WI

    9. Lawrence, KS

    10. Pullman, WA

    11. College Station-Bryan, TX

    12. Appleton, WI

    13. Champaign-Urbana, IL

    14. Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA

    15. Charlottesville, VA

    16. Boulder, CO

    17. Provo-Orem, UT

    18. Harrisonburg, VA

    19. Rolla, MO

    20. Houghton, MI

    21. Muncie, IN

    22. Corvallis, OR

    23. Boone, NC

    24. Logan, UT-ID

    25. Stillwater, OK

    26. Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI

    27. Claremont-Lebanon, NH-VT

    28. Lebanon, PA

    29. Moscow, ID

    30. Cedar Rapids, IA

    31. Lincoln, NE

    32. Bloomsburg-Berwick, PA

    33. Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI

    34. Starkville, MS

    35. Athens, OH

    36. La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN

    37. Brainerd, MN

    38. Burlington-South Burlington, VT

    39. Fargo, ND-MN

    40. Stevens Point, WI

    41. Columbia, MO

    42. St. Cloud, MN

    43. Rochester, MN

    44. Auburn-Opelika, AL

    45. Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA

    46. Oil City, PA

    47. Fort Collins, CO

    48. Sheboygan, WI

    49. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH

    50. Keene, NH

    51. Oshkosh-Neenah, WI

    52. Burlington, NC

    53. Pittsburgh, PA

    54. Fond du Lac, WI

    55. Concord, NH

    56. Morgantown, WV

    57. Bellingham, WA

    58. Mount Pleasant, MI

    59. Ottawa-Peru, IL

    60. Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, IN

    61. Laramie, WY

    62. Barnstable Town, MA

    63. Lancaster, PA

    64. Reading, PA

    65. Winchester, VA-WV

    66. Bozeman, MT

    67. Bloomington, IL

    68 Gainesville, FL

    69. Duluth, MN-WI

    70. Michigan City-La Porte, IN

    71. South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI

    72. Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA

    73. Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA

    74. Oxford, MS

    75. Altoona, PA

    76. Wooster, OH

    77. Bismarck, ND

    78. Grand Forks, ND-MN

    79. Grand Rapids-Wyoming, MI

    80. Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY

    81. Binghamton, NY

    82. Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA

    83. Wisconsin Rapids-Marshfield, WI

    84. Ogdensburg-Massena, NY

    85. Kansas City, MO-KS

    86. San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles-Arroyo Grande, CA

    87. Torrington, CT

    88. Trenton, NJ

    89. Rochester, NY

    90. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA

    91. Oneonta, NY

    92. Eau Claire, WI

    93. Warsaw, IN

    94. Norwich-New London, CT

    95. Eugene, OR

    96. Topeka, KS

    97. Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ

    98. Mankato-North Mankato, MN

    99. Helena, MT

    100. Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-06 09:13:00 UTC

  • UNDERSTANDING CITIES Cities = Markets = Decreased Opportunity Cost. It’s the abi

    UNDERSTANDING CITIES

    Cities = Markets = Decreased Opportunity Cost.

    It’s the ability to communicate that decreases opportunity cost.

    Opportunity cost = increasing choices.

    The question is whether increasing choices produces increasing outcomes.

    For business it does. For genes it does not.

    This is the fundamental problem. Cities Destroy Genes in exchange for lower opportunity costs of consumption.

    So we have a choice: (a) continue to bring people to capital at the cost of genes (genetic capital), or (b) bring capital to people to preserve genetic capital.

    In other words, redistribute the opportunity costs.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-06 09:07:00 UTC

  • Idiot. The fact that they were vastly worse times by all measures does not mean

    Idiot. The fact that they were vastly worse times by all measures does not mean that they did not produce ANYTHING, only that they produced much less and in most cases – worse (thought)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-05 19:02:45 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1004076075897491463

    Reply addressees: @Hispanogoyim @arsamosata @CONTNTINOPLE

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  • 2) …and the individuals in the polity capturing the differences as profits on

    2) …and the individuals in the polity capturing the differences as profits on decreased transaction costs, increased risk tolerance, and higher economic (monetary) velocity. (This follows my general method of analysis by via-negativa: we are always saving time via cooperation).

    Source date (UTC): 2018-06-01 16:09:28 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1002582912515047424

    Reply addressees: @MartialSociety

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1002367912512970752

    IN REPLY TO:

    @MartialSociety

    @curtdoolittle I searched your site & didn’t find anything related. Most discussions of externalities are at least tangentially prefaced with a description of the Coase theorem & its limitations. I’m interested in how you (or another propertarian) would approach the problem.

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1002367912512970752

  • “If the Indian States of Goa and Punjab were independent countries they’d be mor

    —“If the Indian States of Goa and Punjab were independent countries they’d be more affluent per capita than either Iran or Saudi Arabia.”— A Friend

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-31 19:32:00 UTC

  • We are not equal. We have different abilities. Limited value to one another. But

    We are not equal. We have different abilities. Limited value to one another. But if we all specialize and do our duty we can defeat the red queen.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-31 15:24:07 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1002209115244986368

  • We are not equal. We have different abilities. Limited value to one another. But

    We are not equal. We have different abilities. Limited value to one another. But if we all specialize and do our duty we can defeat the red queen.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-31 11:23:00 UTC