Curt Doolittle

Theme: Productivity

  • Business Terminology

    BUSINESS TERMINOLOGY, SCALE. ESTABLISHMENT (small/craft) An establishment is a single physical location where business is conducted or where services or industrial operations are performed. FIRM (regional/industry): A firm is a business organization consisting of one or more domestic establishments in the same state and industry under common ownership or control.

    ENTERPRISE(National/Federation) An enterprise is a business organization consisting of one or more domestic establishments under common ownership or control. –VS– SIZE Very small businesses Fewer than 20 employees Small businesses 20 to 99 employees Medium businesses 100 to 499 employees Large businesses 500 or more employees THEREFORE THIS GRAPH …………………Establishment -> Firm -> Enterprise Large >500 ^ Medium >100 ^ Small >20 ^ Very Small >0 WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE? It looks like half of the people are employed by LARGE organizations, the majority of the rest by Small and very small. I look at it like this: Given Median Family Income: 50K: 500*50K=25M * 4 = 100M+ 100*50K=5M * 4 = 20M+ 20*50K=1M * 4 = ~5M+ 1*50K=50K * 4 = 200K+ WHY? Revenue per employee goes up with scale. Ratio of employee to equipment costs balances out. As an average we tend to use 30%. (Since I’ve largely been in technology, I have never run a business where it is that low). If we use the median income, and multiply by four that seems to produce a fairly good “rule of thumb”. WHATS THE HIGHEST PAID OCCUPATION IN AMERICA? Management of companies and enterprises . . ..104,041 ..Enterprises with fewer than 500 employees . . . 76,484 ..Very small enterprises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155,557 ..Small enterprises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 70,065 ..Medium enterprises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 74,717 ..Large enterprises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 108,057 The organization of production distribution and trade is the highest paying sector in america. Entrepreneurship rules.

  • Business Terminology

    BUSINESS TERMINOLOGY, SCALE. ESTABLISHMENT (small/craft) An establishment is a single physical location where business is conducted or where services or industrial operations are performed. FIRM (regional/industry): A firm is a business organization consisting of one or more domestic establishments in the same state and industry under common ownership or control.

    ENTERPRISE(National/Federation) An enterprise is a business organization consisting of one or more domestic establishments under common ownership or control. –VS– SIZE Very small businesses Fewer than 20 employees Small businesses 20 to 99 employees Medium businesses 100 to 499 employees Large businesses 500 or more employees THEREFORE THIS GRAPH …………………Establishment -> Firm -> Enterprise Large >500 ^ Medium >100 ^ Small >20 ^ Very Small >0 WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE? It looks like half of the people are employed by LARGE organizations, the majority of the rest by Small and very small. I look at it like this: Given Median Family Income: 50K: 500*50K=25M * 4 = 100M+ 100*50K=5M * 4 = 20M+ 20*50K=1M * 4 = ~5M+ 1*50K=50K * 4 = 200K+ WHY? Revenue per employee goes up with scale. Ratio of employee to equipment costs balances out. As an average we tend to use 30%. (Since I’ve largely been in technology, I have never run a business where it is that low). If we use the median income, and multiply by four that seems to produce a fairly good “rule of thumb”. WHATS THE HIGHEST PAID OCCUPATION IN AMERICA? Management of companies and enterprises . . ..104,041 ..Enterprises with fewer than 500 employees . . . 76,484 ..Very small enterprises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155,557 ..Small enterprises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 70,065 ..Medium enterprises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . 74,717 ..Large enterprises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 108,057 The organization of production distribution and trade is the highest paying sector in america. Entrepreneurship rules.

  • (Diary) (I wish I understood. I am productive as hell today. I did a lot of walk

    (Diary) (I wish I understood. I am productive as hell today. I did a lot of walking yesterday. But I was alone too much yesterday. It’s because I felt very bad for much of the day because I got some preservatives somehow. So I was in ‘confused’ state. I couldn’t write at all. I watched a couple of movies in the hotel lobby. I went to bed very tired. It was too hot at night. I slept with headphones on listening to a book. This morning I’ve had a cappuccino and two eggs and an apple juice. I need a shower (I was too hungry this morning). The ‘noise’ in my autistic monster is calm for some reason. I have no idea why. I love ukraine like crazy today. Gotta be the exercise. All it can be.

    Lift heavy things. Walk don’t drive. Sleep. Write.)

    Source date (UTC): 2016-10-02 05:40:00 UTC

  • Aristocracy Made Us.

    The conservative organizing principle is meritocracy, and a significant percentage of mankind cannot productively compete. The primary reason being that they cannot compete productively is that they are nearly impossible to train, difficult and expensive to train, or more expensive to train than the organization of reproduction, production, and commons can tolerate. The conservative promise that everyone can rise if he so chooses, is false.

    The conservative belief that everyone desires liberty is false – they desire consumption. But they lack the capacity to produce other than by physical means, and under direct instruction. The conservative belief that we all can be raised to join the aristocracy is false – we cannot be – some of us lack the character. The conservative pretense that democracy is possible outside of the natural aristocracy is predicated on these lies: that we can achieve equality through discipline. But we have achieved our relative equality in the west through eugenics: in reproduction, in production, in commons. And commonly through warfare, and consistently through hanging (culling). Conservatism is a eugenic evolutionary strategy and that because of this genetic evolutionary strategy we have culled the ranks of the bottom, and limited our numbers by doing so, thereby concentrating reproduction in our best people. We have been practicing this evolutionary strategy aggressively for 1000, cautiously for 2000, in one way or another for at least 3500 if not 4500, and possibly as long as 7000 years. When in fact, small percentages of the (genetic)upper proletariat, much of the (genetic)lower middle class, most of the (genetic)middle class, and nearly all of the (genetic)upper middle and (genetic)upper classes can do so. This is in fact what ‘class’ means in practice. That we vary by economic class a lot, vary by social class less so, and vary by genetic class very, very little, has no impact on the fact that the primary determinant of social and economic class is genetic class. It is not only the left that lies. Conservatives lie as well. And we lie to ourselves when we try to enfranchise and convert those people without our evolutionary history, and therefore similarly narrow distributions of talents and defects. We – the majority genetic middle class – used the lie of democracy to seized power from the aristocracy. And the left – majority genetic lower class – uses it to seizes power from us. Democracy is a very bad idea. It’s unnatural. It’s dysgenic. And it is incompatible with our civilization. It was just an excuse to use our numbers to defeat the aristocratic minority, rather than preserve them, while ADDING ourselves – the those who organize production – to leadership in aristocratic civiization: those who organize the ability to organize economically. Aristocracy made us.

  • Aristocracy Made Us.

    The conservative organizing principle is meritocracy, and a significant percentage of mankind cannot productively compete. The primary reason being that they cannot compete productively is that they are nearly impossible to train, difficult and expensive to train, or more expensive to train than the organization of reproduction, production, and commons can tolerate. The conservative promise that everyone can rise if he so chooses, is false.

    The conservative belief that everyone desires liberty is false – they desire consumption. But they lack the capacity to produce other than by physical means, and under direct instruction. The conservative belief that we all can be raised to join the aristocracy is false – we cannot be – some of us lack the character. The conservative pretense that democracy is possible outside of the natural aristocracy is predicated on these lies: that we can achieve equality through discipline. But we have achieved our relative equality in the west through eugenics: in reproduction, in production, in commons. And commonly through warfare, and consistently through hanging (culling). Conservatism is a eugenic evolutionary strategy and that because of this genetic evolutionary strategy we have culled the ranks of the bottom, and limited our numbers by doing so, thereby concentrating reproduction in our best people. We have been practicing this evolutionary strategy aggressively for 1000, cautiously for 2000, in one way or another for at least 3500 if not 4500, and possibly as long as 7000 years. When in fact, small percentages of the (genetic)upper proletariat, much of the (genetic)lower middle class, most of the (genetic)middle class, and nearly all of the (genetic)upper middle and (genetic)upper classes can do so. This is in fact what ‘class’ means in practice. That we vary by economic class a lot, vary by social class less so, and vary by genetic class very, very little, has no impact on the fact that the primary determinant of social and economic class is genetic class. It is not only the left that lies. Conservatives lie as well. And we lie to ourselves when we try to enfranchise and convert those people without our evolutionary history, and therefore similarly narrow distributions of talents and defects. We – the majority genetic middle class – used the lie of democracy to seized power from the aristocracy. And the left – majority genetic lower class – uses it to seizes power from us. Democracy is a very bad idea. It’s unnatural. It’s dysgenic. And it is incompatible with our civilization. It was just an excuse to use our numbers to defeat the aristocratic minority, rather than preserve them, while ADDING ourselves – the those who organize production – to leadership in aristocratic civiization: those who organize the ability to organize economically. Aristocracy made us.

  • Why Will Fiat Currency Always Exist?

    The truth is that fiat currency is such an advantage that a people cannot compete without it. Competing currencies and commodities exist but they are not anywhere near as price stabilized as fiat money CAN be. So we are always going to have it. Probably digital will replace it and it will have to because the abuse of it has gotten out of hand. What real purpose does government debt serve over simply printing money and paying with it? You pay the price of interest in order to delay the equlibrial neutrality of money working through the economy. In other words, the faster new money moves the faster prices in the existing cycle of production adjust. Fast adjustment is bad if it interferes with production ( planning ) cycles. So instead we pay interest and sell government debt so that we inflate away the interest at about the same rate that prices adjust in the economy.

  • Why Will Fiat Currency Always Exist?

    The truth is that fiat currency is such an advantage that a people cannot compete without it. Competing currencies and commodities exist but they are not anywhere near as price stabilized as fiat money CAN be. So we are always going to have it. Probably digital will replace it and it will have to because the abuse of it has gotten out of hand. What real purpose does government debt serve over simply printing money and paying with it? You pay the price of interest in order to delay the equlibrial neutrality of money working through the economy. In other words, the faster new money moves the faster prices in the existing cycle of production adjust. Fast adjustment is bad if it interferes with production ( planning ) cycles. So instead we pay interest and sell government debt so that we inflate away the interest at about the same rate that prices adjust in the economy.

  • It’s Not Capitalism That’s The Problem

    —capitalism is a failure. It’s like the game monopoly. — Except monopoly is nothing at all like real life. And capitalism is responsible for raising the world out of endemic violence ignorance disease and poverty. The problem isn’t capitalism ( the voluntary organization of production ). It’s that the richer we become, the more talented you need to be to earn a living. When we had unused talent most people could move up. Now we have passed the period where there is *unused* talent and entered the period where we have *unusable* talent. Societies progress just as evolution progresses: by eliminating the failures to produce from the gene pool. So has capitalism failed? Or have we failed to continue to constrain the reproduction of the unproductive?

  • It’s Not Capitalism That’s The Problem

    —capitalism is a failure. It’s like the game monopoly. — Except monopoly is nothing at all like real life. And capitalism is responsible for raising the world out of endemic violence ignorance disease and poverty. The problem isn’t capitalism ( the voluntary organization of production ). It’s that the richer we become, the more talented you need to be to earn a living. When we had unused talent most people could move up. Now we have passed the period where there is *unused* talent and entered the period where we have *unusable* talent. Societies progress just as evolution progresses: by eliminating the failures to produce from the gene pool. So has capitalism failed? Or have we failed to continue to constrain the reproduction of the unproductive?

  • {Labor} -vs- {Calculating, Organizing, Negotiating, Risking}.

    (important) [L]abor itself is trivial in its contribution to value compared with the organization of production, and the organization of the institutions that make possible the organization of production at scale. We get more paid for calculating than laboring, more for organizing than calculating, more for negotiating than organizing, more for risking the accumulated results of laboring, calculating, organizing, negotiating, and risking more than for negotiating. Man does not need to persuade the physical world to choose from a multitude of options according to preference. The physical world cannot choose. Man can. And it is convincing large numbers of people to chose to produce some set of various goods and services in an enormous complex web versus choose to work toward producing some other set that is the difficult job that individuals in each layer of our hierarchy are paid more for, than the labor to force the world to change, versus the calculating, organizing, negotating, and risking that it takes man to change. Curt Doolittle The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine