Curt Doolittle

Theme: Productivity

  • Why Does Russia Seem So Apathetic Towards Economic Progress Despite Having So Much Potential And Resource?

    THIS IS A GOOD BUT MISLEADING QUESTION. LETS PUT A PERSPECTIVE TOGETHER:

    Why are the chinese so obsessed with preserving their empire rather than dividing into many competing states like europe? I mean, that was the reason for the communist revolution…. to stop it. It was their ‘reformation’ and they failed.

    Why are middle eastern muslims so obsessed with blaming others for their condition rather than organizing secular, economic, governments and dividing the government by tribe the way the west divides them by house?

    Why is iran so concerned with evolving into an empire from the mediterranean to the indian border?

    Why is Pakistan so intent on seizing indian territory when it cannot govern it’s own?

    Why do north koreans seek to preserve their despotism when their relatives across the border live in one of the best societies on earth, second only to the Japanese?

    Why are french and germans so intent on creating a ‘united states’ of europe, while man of us in america understand that just results in cultural oppression, and bureaucratic oppression, and we want to break into different states like europe?

    Why do south americans blame everyone else for their condition when the fact is, that they were catholics and like most catholic countries made a malinvestmnet in socialism which has destroyed the window of opportunity that they had to transform into high trust societies?

    The Reason russia (a) centralized industrial income, and (b) focused on improving rule of law, and improving infrastructure, and restoring defense, is because they need a great deal of money to compete with local corruption, and slowly build a diverse economy. (Read Fukuyama Trust, Political Order 1 and 2.)

    The russian mythos is a disaster becasue (a) the Tsars were good and nearly made russia a western country. (b) the communists destroyed that opportunity. (c) the communists destroyed millions of lives, and eventually failed. (c) the only good myth russia has to unify is ‘the great war’ against germany. And even then, it is probably hard to argue that germany was not both in the right, and ‘good’ for russians. So, just as the chinese have ‘a chip on their shoulder’ for being humiliated for their long history of bad decisions, the russians have ‘a chip on their shoulder’ for their long history of bad decisions. Lastly, we overstate the russian military interest – the military is the best jobs program a country can enter into becuase just as the USA did, you build a big military infrastructure which builds a large manufacturing and organiational base, and skilled population, and then you incrementally turn it over to the private sector.

    There is very little the russians do that doesn’t make sense if youi’re trying to govern russia. It’s 11 time zonse of very paranoid people who in their minds are surrounded by enemeis.

    The greatest mistake in the past thirty years was not bringing russia into nato.

    Russians are very easy to understand. And very easy to love. You just have to understand how they think about the world. “Poor little Russia”. And they only feel safe when so strong there is no chance of vulnerability.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Russia-seem-so-apathetic-towards-economic-progress-despite-having-so-much-potential-and-resource

  • Why Does Russia Seem So Apathetic Towards Economic Progress Despite Having So Much Potential And Resource?

    THIS IS A GOOD BUT MISLEADING QUESTION. LETS PUT A PERSPECTIVE TOGETHER:

    Why are the chinese so obsessed with preserving their empire rather than dividing into many competing states like europe? I mean, that was the reason for the communist revolution…. to stop it. It was their ‘reformation’ and they failed.

    Why are middle eastern muslims so obsessed with blaming others for their condition rather than organizing secular, economic, governments and dividing the government by tribe the way the west divides them by house?

    Why is iran so concerned with evolving into an empire from the mediterranean to the indian border?

    Why is Pakistan so intent on seizing indian territory when it cannot govern it’s own?

    Why do north koreans seek to preserve their despotism when their relatives across the border live in one of the best societies on earth, second only to the Japanese?

    Why are french and germans so intent on creating a ‘united states’ of europe, while man of us in america understand that just results in cultural oppression, and bureaucratic oppression, and we want to break into different states like europe?

    Why do south americans blame everyone else for their condition when the fact is, that they were catholics and like most catholic countries made a malinvestmnet in socialism which has destroyed the window of opportunity that they had to transform into high trust societies?

    The Reason russia (a) centralized industrial income, and (b) focused on improving rule of law, and improving infrastructure, and restoring defense, is because they need a great deal of money to compete with local corruption, and slowly build a diverse economy. (Read Fukuyama Trust, Political Order 1 and 2.)

    The russian mythos is a disaster becasue (a) the Tsars were good and nearly made russia a western country. (b) the communists destroyed that opportunity. (c) the communists destroyed millions of lives, and eventually failed. (c) the only good myth russia has to unify is ‘the great war’ against germany. And even then, it is probably hard to argue that germany was not both in the right, and ‘good’ for russians. So, just as the chinese have ‘a chip on their shoulder’ for being humiliated for their long history of bad decisions, the russians have ‘a chip on their shoulder’ for their long history of bad decisions. Lastly, we overstate the russian military interest – the military is the best jobs program a country can enter into becuase just as the USA did, you build a big military infrastructure which builds a large manufacturing and organiational base, and skilled population, and then you incrementally turn it over to the private sector.

    There is very little the russians do that doesn’t make sense if youi’re trying to govern russia. It’s 11 time zonse of very paranoid people who in their minds are surrounded by enemeis.

    The greatest mistake in the past thirty years was not bringing russia into nato.

    Russians are very easy to understand. And very easy to love. You just have to understand how they think about the world. “Poor little Russia”. And they only feel safe when so strong there is no chance of vulnerability.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Russia-seem-so-apathetic-towards-economic-progress-despite-having-so-much-potential-and-resource

  • My answer to Do governments create wealth and jobs for it’s citizens?

    My answer to Do governments create wealth and jobs for it’s citizens? https://www.quora.com/Do-governments-create-wealth-and-jobs-for-its-citizens/answer/Curt-Doolittle?share=1dbcc7c2

    Source date (UTC): 2017-12-29 01:37:32 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/946555754458128384

  • It is one thing to take genes evolved in a territory hostile to lack of industry

    It is one thing to take genes evolved in a territory hostile to lack of industry to a new one not so, and another to use the genes that evolved in a territory hostile to human life itself, and ask why they present less industry.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-12-29 00:01:23 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/946531558613241857

    Reply addressees: @Oneofthecrowd1 @RickyVaughn_II @simongerman600 @charlesmurray

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/946338475506327553

    IN REPLY TO:

    @Oneofthecrowd1

    @curtdoolittle @RickyVaughn_II @simongerman600 @charlesmurray Did white South Africans/rhodesians not survive? They did. They thrived and developed the land.

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/946338475506327553

  • COMPLETE AND CORRECT ANSWER. —-”Do governments create wealth and jobs for citize

    https://www.quora.com/Do-governments-create-wealth-and-jobs-for-its-citizens/answer/Curt-Doolittle?share=1dbcc7c2&srid=u4Qv*THE COMPLETE AND CORRECT ANSWER.

    —-”Do governments create wealth and jobs for citizens?”—-*

    First, let’s understand some terms to make sure we know what we’re talking about.

    SERIES: *Defense > Rule > Government > Bureaucracy (monopoly) > Institutions (anonymous cooperation at scale) > Markets (speculation, investment, production, distribution, trade) > Norms (friction reduction) > Truth Telling (friction reduction) > Trust (risk taking) > Economic Velocity > Social Order.*

    TERMS

    **- Defense** (*producing a territorial monopoly on the organization of decidability over uses of assets (property)*),

    **- Rule** (*dispute resolution, or resolution of differences*),

    **- Government** (*the production and management of commons*), and;

    **- Bureaucracy** (*a monopoly that manages daily operations*) are four different things.

    DEFINITIONS:

    **Defense** secures territory from appropriation by other large organizations capable of physical appropriation. Defense produces possibility of choice of **SOCIAL ORDER** (portfolio of property, norms, traditions, laws, legislation, regulation, institutions)

    **Rule** resolves disputes between people given the property allocations (in china, none, in russia, some, in europe some more, in america most.) In most cases norms are produced by the consequences of rulings by kings, judges, priests, and ‘authorities’. This is why laws vary: they must reflect the needs of the current stage of development of the people in the polity. Adjudications of differences produce **LAW**.

    **Government** produces commons through charging and maximizing fees (taxes) of members, and directing those fees to the production of commons, that they assume will produce multipliers (greater returns than private sector will) for the simple reason that some commons are extremely expensive. Legislation(contract) or Command(Dictate) produces **LAW SUBSTITUTES** we call Law but are not. This ‘conflation’ is endemic in discourse.

    **Bureaucracy** does labor that a market cannot yet perform through competition. In theory, a bureaucracy functions as portfolio (financial) manager of a function that the market cannot yet produce, or produce in sufficient quantity, or produce at a sufficient price. But like all monopolies they pursue self interest and always become corrupt. In a perfect world, states would start multiple competing bureaucracies like startups, and the best one or two would survive.

    **WHAT GOVERNMENTS DO**

    Governments create the possibility to organize increasingly complex markets with increasingly complex divisions of labor, with increasingly complex concentrations of capital, with increasingly complex abilities to adapt to shifts, changes, and shocks.

    Governments do this by prohibiting rent seeking, corruption, parasitism, theft, murder at the local level, and capturing the gains as taxation, which they then use to pay for the production of commons, that in turn produce multipliers (returns), that in turn increase standards of living – or governments fail to do so, by not suppressing corruption and not producing commons, and not producing multipliers.

    So governments create the possibility of increasingly productive and rewarding polities. But it is the entire network of people from the monarchy (Rulers) to the peasantry (laborers) that create jobs through constant increases in the velocity of production.

    Why? Because our only wealth is time. We are not wealthier than cave men. We simply make everything cheaper by taking less time with more hands in greater coordination to produce everything we desire for less and less of our time.

    Rules make a game. Governments make rules so that we can play economic games – and moreover that we cannot play anti-economic gains.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian InstituteUpdated Dec 28, 2017, 8:38 PM

    Source date (UTC): 2017-12-28 20:38:00 UTC

  • *The Complete And Correct Answer.

    —-”Do governments create wealth and jobs for citizens?”—-* First, let’s understand some terms to make sure we know what we’re talking about. SERIES: *Defense > Rule > Government > Bureaucracy (monopoly) > Institutions (anonymous cooperation at scale) > Markets (speculation, investment, production, distribution, trade) > Norms (friction reduction) > Truth Telling (friction reduction) > Trust (risk taking) > Economic Velocity > Social Order.* TERMS **- Defense** (*producing a territorial monopoly on the organization of decidability over uses of assets (property)*), **- Rule** (*dispute resolution, or resolution of differences*), **- Government** (*the production and management of commons*), and; **- Bureaucracy** (*a monopoly that manages daily operations*) are four different things. DEFINITIONS: **Defense** secures territory from appropriation by other large organizations capable of physical appropriation. Defense produces possibility of choice of **SOCIAL ORDER** (portfolio of property, norms, traditions, laws, legislation, regulation, institutions) **Rule** resolves disputes between people given the property allocations (in china, none, in russia, some, in europe some more, in america most.) In most cases norms are produced by the consequences of rulings by kings, judges, priests, and ‘authorities’. This is why laws vary: they must reflect the needs of the current stage of development of the people in the polity. Adjudications of differences produce **LAW**. **Government** produces commons through charging and maximizing fees (taxes) of members, and directing those fees to the production of commons, that they assume will produce multipliers (greater returns than private sector will) for the simple reason that some commons are extremely expensive. Legislation(contract) or Command(Dictate) produces **LAW SUBSTITUTES** we call Law but are not. This ‘conflation’ is endemic in discourse. **Bureaucracy** does labor that a market cannot yet perform through competition. In theory, a bureaucracy functions as portfolio (financial) manager of a function that the market cannot yet produce, or produce in sufficient quantity, or produce at a sufficient price. But like all monopolies they pursue self interest and always become corrupt. In a perfect world, states would start multiple competing bureaucracies like startups, and the best one or two would survive. **WHAT GOVERNMENTS DO** Governments create the possibility to organize increasingly complex markets with increasingly complex divisions of labor, with increasingly complex concentrations of capital, with increasingly complex abilities to adapt to shifts, changes, and shocks. Governments do this by prohibiting rent seeking, corruption, parasitism, theft, murder at the local level, and capturing the gains as taxation, which they then use to pay for the production of commons, that in turn produce multipliers (returns), that in turn increase standards of living – or governments fail to do so, by not suppressing corruption and not producing commons, and not producing multipliers. So governments create the possibility of increasingly productive and rewarding polities. But it is the entire network of people from the monarchy (Rulers) to the peasantry (laborers) that create jobs through constant increases in the velocity of production. Why? Because our only wealth is time. We are not wealthier than cave men. We simply make everything cheaper by taking less time with more hands in greater coordination to produce everything we desire for less and less of our time. Rules make a game. Governments make rules so that we can play economic games – and moreover that we cannot play anti-economic gains. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute

  • *The Complete And Correct Answer.

    —-”Do governments create wealth and jobs for citizens?”—-* First, let’s understand some terms to make sure we know what we’re talking about. SERIES: *Defense > Rule > Government > Bureaucracy (monopoly) > Institutions (anonymous cooperation at scale) > Markets (speculation, investment, production, distribution, trade) > Norms (friction reduction) > Truth Telling (friction reduction) > Trust (risk taking) > Economic Velocity > Social Order.* TERMS **- Defense** (*producing a territorial monopoly on the organization of decidability over uses of assets (property)*), **- Rule** (*dispute resolution, or resolution of differences*), **- Government** (*the production and management of commons*), and; **- Bureaucracy** (*a monopoly that manages daily operations*) are four different things. DEFINITIONS: **Defense** secures territory from appropriation by other large organizations capable of physical appropriation. Defense produces possibility of choice of **SOCIAL ORDER** (portfolio of property, norms, traditions, laws, legislation, regulation, institutions) **Rule** resolves disputes between people given the property allocations (in china, none, in russia, some, in europe some more, in america most.) In most cases norms are produced by the consequences of rulings by kings, judges, priests, and ‘authorities’. This is why laws vary: they must reflect the needs of the current stage of development of the people in the polity. Adjudications of differences produce **LAW**. **Government** produces commons through charging and maximizing fees (taxes) of members, and directing those fees to the production of commons, that they assume will produce multipliers (greater returns than private sector will) for the simple reason that some commons are extremely expensive. Legislation(contract) or Command(Dictate) produces **LAW SUBSTITUTES** we call Law but are not. This ‘conflation’ is endemic in discourse. **Bureaucracy** does labor that a market cannot yet perform through competition. In theory, a bureaucracy functions as portfolio (financial) manager of a function that the market cannot yet produce, or produce in sufficient quantity, or produce at a sufficient price. But like all monopolies they pursue self interest and always become corrupt. In a perfect world, states would start multiple competing bureaucracies like startups, and the best one or two would survive. **WHAT GOVERNMENTS DO** Governments create the possibility to organize increasingly complex markets with increasingly complex divisions of labor, with increasingly complex concentrations of capital, with increasingly complex abilities to adapt to shifts, changes, and shocks. Governments do this by prohibiting rent seeking, corruption, parasitism, theft, murder at the local level, and capturing the gains as taxation, which they then use to pay for the production of commons, that in turn produce multipliers (returns), that in turn increase standards of living – or governments fail to do so, by not suppressing corruption and not producing commons, and not producing multipliers. So governments create the possibility of increasingly productive and rewarding polities. But it is the entire network of people from the monarchy (Rulers) to the peasantry (laborers) that create jobs through constant increases in the velocity of production. Why? Because our only wealth is time. We are not wealthier than cave men. We simply make everything cheaper by taking less time with more hands in greater coordination to produce everything we desire for less and less of our time. Rules make a game. Governments make rules so that we can play economic games – and moreover that we cannot play anti-economic gains. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute

  • Do Governments Create Wealth And Jobs For Its Citizens?

    THE COMPLETE AND CORRECT ANSWER.

    —-”Do governments create wealth and jobs for citizens?”—-

    First, let’s understand some terms to make sure we know what we’re talking about.

    SERIES: Defense > Rule > Government > Bureaucracy (monopoly) > Institutions (anonymous cooperation at scale) > Markets (speculation, investment, production, distribution, trade) > Norms (friction reduction) > Truth Telling (friction reduction) > Trust (risk taking) > Economic Velocity > Social Order.

    DEFINITIONS:

    – Defense (producing a territorial monopoly on the organization of decidability over uses of assets (property)),
    – Rule (dispute resolution, or resolution of differences),
    – Government (the production and management of commons), and;
    – Bureaucracy (a monopoly that manages daily operations) are four different things.

    Defense secures territory from appropriation by other large organizations capable of physical appropriation. Defense produces possibility of choice of SOCIAL ORDER (portfolio of property, norms, traditions, laws, legislation, regulation, institutions)

    Rule resolves disputes between people given the property allocations (in china, none, in russia, some, in europe some more, in america most.) In most cases norms are produced by the consequences of rulings by kings, judges, priests, and ‘authorities’. This is why laws vary: they must reflect the needs of the current stage of development of the people in the polity. Adjudications of differences produce LAW.

    Government produces commons through charging and maximizing fees (taxes) of members, and directing those fees to the production of commons, that they assume will produce multipliers (greater returns than private sector will) for the simple reason that some commons are extremely expensive. Legislation(contract) or Command(Dictate) produces LAW SUBSTITUTES we call Law but are not. This ‘conflation’ is endemic in discourse.

    Bureaucracy does labor that a market cannot yet perform through competition. In theory, a bureaucracy functions as portfolio (financial) manager of a function that the market cannot yet produce, or produce in sufficient quantity, or produce at a sufficient price. But like all monopolies they pursue self interest and always become corrupt. In a perfect world, states would start multiple competing bureaucracies like startups, and the best one or two would survive.

    WHAT GOVERNMENTS DO

    Governments create the possibility to organize increasingly complex markets with increasingly complex divisions of labor, with increasingly complex concentrations of capital, with increasingly complex abilities to adapt to shifts, changes, and shocks.

    Governments do this by prohibiting rent seeking, corruption, parasitism, theft, murder at the local level, and capturing the gains as taxation, which they then use to pay for the production of commons, that in turn produce multipliers (returns), that in turn increase standards of living – or governments fail to do so, by not suppressing corruption and not producing commons, and not producing multipliers.

    So governments create the possibilty of increasingly productive and rewarding polities. But it is the entire network of people from the monarchy (Rulers) to the peasantry (laborers) that create jobs through constant increases in the velocity of prodcutiion.

    Why? Because our only wealth is time. We are not wealthier than cave men. We simply make everything cheaper by taking less time with more hands in greater coordination to produce everything we desire for less and less of our time.

    Rules make a game. Governments make rules so that we can play economic games – and moreover that we cannot play anti-economic gains.

    Curt Doolittle
    The Propertarian Institute

    https://www.quora.com/Do-governments-create-wealth-and-jobs-for-its-citizens

  • Do Governments Create Wealth And Jobs For Its Citizens?

    THE COMPLETE AND CORRECT ANSWER.

    —-”Do governments create wealth and jobs for citizens?”—-

    First, let’s understand some terms to make sure we know what we’re talking about.

    SERIES: Defense > Rule > Government > Bureaucracy (monopoly) > Institutions (anonymous cooperation at scale) > Markets (speculation, investment, production, distribution, trade) > Norms (friction reduction) > Truth Telling (friction reduction) > Trust (risk taking) > Economic Velocity > Social Order.

    DEFINITIONS:

    – Defense (producing a territorial monopoly on the organization of decidability over uses of assets (property)),
    – Rule (dispute resolution, or resolution of differences),
    – Government (the production and management of commons), and;
    – Bureaucracy (a monopoly that manages daily operations) are four different things.

    Defense secures territory from appropriation by other large organizations capable of physical appropriation. Defense produces possibility of choice of SOCIAL ORDER (portfolio of property, norms, traditions, laws, legislation, regulation, institutions)

    Rule resolves disputes between people given the property allocations (in china, none, in russia, some, in europe some more, in america most.) In most cases norms are produced by the consequences of rulings by kings, judges, priests, and ‘authorities’. This is why laws vary: they must reflect the needs of the current stage of development of the people in the polity. Adjudications of differences produce LAW.

    Government produces commons through charging and maximizing fees (taxes) of members, and directing those fees to the production of commons, that they assume will produce multipliers (greater returns than private sector will) for the simple reason that some commons are extremely expensive. Legislation(contract) or Command(Dictate) produces LAW SUBSTITUTES we call Law but are not. This ‘conflation’ is endemic in discourse.

    Bureaucracy does labor that a market cannot yet perform through competition. In theory, a bureaucracy functions as portfolio (financial) manager of a function that the market cannot yet produce, or produce in sufficient quantity, or produce at a sufficient price. But like all monopolies they pursue self interest and always become corrupt. In a perfect world, states would start multiple competing bureaucracies like startups, and the best one or two would survive.

    WHAT GOVERNMENTS DO

    Governments create the possibility to organize increasingly complex markets with increasingly complex divisions of labor, with increasingly complex concentrations of capital, with increasingly complex abilities to adapt to shifts, changes, and shocks.

    Governments do this by prohibiting rent seeking, corruption, parasitism, theft, murder at the local level, and capturing the gains as taxation, which they then use to pay for the production of commons, that in turn produce multipliers (returns), that in turn increase standards of living – or governments fail to do so, by not suppressing corruption and not producing commons, and not producing multipliers.

    So governments create the possibilty of increasingly productive and rewarding polities. But it is the entire network of people from the monarchy (Rulers) to the peasantry (laborers) that create jobs through constant increases in the velocity of prodcutiion.

    Why? Because our only wealth is time. We are not wealthier than cave men. We simply make everything cheaper by taking less time with more hands in greater coordination to produce everything we desire for less and less of our time.

    Rules make a game. Governments make rules so that we can play economic games – and moreover that we cannot play anti-economic gains.

    Curt Doolittle
    The Propertarian Institute

    https://www.quora.com/Do-governments-create-wealth-and-jobs-for-its-citizens

  • Explains (obviously) why whites have less education but higher incomes: what we

    Explains (obviously) why whites have less education but higher incomes: what we don’t address is why this is so. Even though it’s obvious. minority immigrants requires virtue signals that are not demonstrated by genetic, cultural, class, and family properties.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-12-26 02:57:24 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/945488687541895168

    Reply addressees: @conradhackett

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/942637450320629760

    IN REPLY TO:

    @conradhackett

    Median household net worth
    Whites $132,500
    Asians $112,300
    Hispanics $12,500
    Blacks $9,200

    https://t.co/5h8RAcWDeT https://t.co/IlCTYJk1a8

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/942637450320629760