Curt Doolittle

Theme: Productivity

  • USA Stock Market provides best return on risk. USA:Stocks, UK:Bonds, Germany:Hea

    USA Stock Market provides best return on risk. USA:Stocks, UK:Bonds, Germany:Heavy Capital, Russia: Military. Culture Risk = Biz. Risk

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-12 10:39:30 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/675626021895426049

    Reply addressees: @wef

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/675616196671221760

    IN REPLY TO:

    @wef

    Can #Europe ever build its own Silicon Valley? https://t.co/Yg2c68VzkH #tech https://t.co/n5pwtNqPhd

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/675616196671221760

  • HUGH SMITH ON THE DECLINING AMERICAN ENTREPRENEUR I’m a fan of his work. He look

    http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-death-spiral-of-american.htmlCHARLES HUGH SMITH ON THE DECLINING AMERICAN ENTREPRENEUR

    I’m a fan of his work. He looks at large trends, usually demographic.

    I see this for what it is: demographic, cultural and racial, as well as the result of exporting knowledge and industry overseas. But the article is full of graphs and wonderful to read.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-11 04:46:00 UTC

  • THE TERM “CAPITALISM”? I use the terms: 1) “Consumer Capitalism”; 2) “Voluntary

    http://fee.org/freeman/capitalism-is-the-wrong-word/RETIRING THE TERM “CAPITALISM”?

    I use the terms:

    1) “Consumer Capitalism”;

    2) “Voluntary organization of production vs involuntary organization of production”;

    3) “The voluntary organization of invention, investment, production, distribution and consumption, into sustainable adaptable networks of specialization and trade”;

    …depending upon how deep a point I want to make.

    There are only three methods of organizing man: force ( slavery/socialism ), exchange ( capitalism ), guilt/shame ( communism ). And under all three we keep only some of the proceeds. The debate is always how much.

    The purpose of Cosmopolitan Libertinism is to force others to pay for all the commons. This is why Cosmopolitan Libertinism (“libertarianism”) fails to catch on beyond the socially challenged and autistically biased.

    The purpose of Classical Liberalism is to construct commons free of privatization – since it is fear of privatization that diminishes incentive to produce commons. Despite the fact that commons – particularly normative commons that demand truth-telling, are a groups greatest competitive advantage.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-10 03:29:00 UTC

  • The middle class speaks honestly: it can’t rent-seek. So it’s the language of pr

    The middle class speaks honestly: it can’t rent-seek. So it’s the language of productive people. Trump speaks to producers.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-08 16:26:03 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/674263680050155521

    Reply addressees: @realDonaldTrump

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/674261110262992896

    IN REPLY TO:

    Unknown author

    @realDonaldTrump Trump is ending the postwar false consensus in domestic politics, as Putin ended it in international relations.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/674261110262992896

    IN REPLY TO:

    @curtdoolittle

    @realDonaldTrump Trump is ending the postwar false consensus in domestic politics, as Putin ended it in international relations.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/674261110262992896

  • #NRx The first question of ethics is why do we not kill others? Only because pro

    #NRx The first question of ethics is why do we not kill others? Only because productivity is superior if we cooperate.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-07 11:56:19 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/673833413510610945

    Reply addressees: @Outsideness

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/673809450592034816

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    Unknown author

    @Outsideness Physical Science as practiced is merely incomplete. Science is a moral discipline laundering imagination from free association.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/673809450592034816

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    @curtdoolittle

    @Outsideness Physical Science as practiced is merely incomplete. Science is a moral discipline laundering imagination from free association.

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/673809450592034816

  • TYPE DETERMINES ECONOMIC OUTCOMES (Of course) Abstract: We construct a family sc

    http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=2511173FAMILY TYPE DETERMINES ECONOMIC OUTCOMES (Of course)

    Abstract:

    We construct a family score according to the presence of these three characteristics following E. Todd’s 1984 classification of traditional family types observed around the world. This family score is significantly associated with higher economic outcomes. This association is robust to other factors already identified by previous research as having a role such as geography, ethnic fractionalization, genetic diversity, religion, quality of institutions and legal origin.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-06 15:13:00 UTC

  • Adam, Thanks for giving this book and this concept airtime. Le Griffe has been t

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/modeledbehavior/2015/12/06/iq-matters-for-the-economy/?utm_source=followingimmediate&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20151206http://www.forbes.com/sites/modeledbehavior/2015/12/06/iq-matters-for-the-economy/

    Adam,

    Thanks for giving this book and this concept airtime.

    Le Griffe has been talking about this issue for years. I have been stating it in relation to Pareto’s work on the distribution of property necessary to organise voluntary production. And the usual suspects in IQ research have been concerned about it for decades now.

    In my work – high trust societies – its almost impossible to form one if the distribution is either too low or too wide.

    Politics in particular suffers since at every two standard deviations people rely on almost entirely different frames.

    Lastly ( I have been giving talks in this lately ) the west may be the fastest developing because of our oath and our discovery of truth. But in addition westerners relied upon manorialism, prohibition on cousin marriage, delayed child birth, and hanging of .5-1% of the population for more than a thousand years

    So our success has just as much to do with our aggressive genetic pacification as it does to our institutions of truth, oath, jury, property, and common law.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-06 12:37:00 UTC

  • People who claim ‘equality’ are merely trying to guilt the productive and valuab

    People who claim ‘equality’ are merely trying to guilt the productive and valuable people to drag them along on the ride.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-06 04:18:00 UTC

  • Its not complicated: – Facebook used a dating game at exclusive universities to

    Its not complicated:

    – Facebook used a dating game at exclusive universities to reinvent email,

    – just like google used cheap distribution to reinvent the yellow pages.

    – just like slack used open source to reinvent IRC Chat.

    – just like amazon used freely given customer opinion to reinvent the bookstore.

    – just like apple used touch sensors to reinvent interaction with devices.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-04 09:05:00 UTC

  • CELEBRATE PLENTY AND CONSUMPTION, COOPERATE TO SAVE AND PRODUCE. TED Celebrates.

    CELEBRATE PLENTY AND CONSUMPTION, COOPERATE TO SAVE AND PRODUCE.

    TED Celebrates. Church of R-Selection. Nothing More. It’s not cooperation. It’s rallying consumption. Drawing the other bees to the flowers. Nothing more.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-03 06:14:00 UTC