Curt Doolittle

Theme: Subsidy

  • Retweeted Eli Harman (@MartianHoplite): Western decline is caused by liquidation

    Retweeted Eli Harman (@MartianHoplite):

    Western decline is caused by liquidation of commons and subsidizing of fertility of the underclass — magnifying the cycle. – @curtdoolittle

    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-30 16:12:00 UTC

  • Russia’s economy is dependent upon the use of resource revenue to pay people to

    Russia’s economy is dependent upon the use of resource revenue to pay people to perform.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-25 09:08:23 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/713291426893791232

    Reply addressees: @UnitedforUkr @MFA_Ukraine

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/713105668119597057

    IN REPLY TO:

    @UnitedforUkr

    Russia talks of peace but refuses to implement its Minsk commitments – Amb Baer https://t.co/7E3YzEUEVS https://t.co/X1ouuUsuHY

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/713105668119597057

  • If men have to do the high risk and dirty jobs, work more hours, have a harder t

    If men have to do the high risk and dirty jobs, work more hours, have a harder time staying in the work force, fight in war, and die younger, or – pay high taxes for not doing so, then why can’t women have to produce children or pay taxes for not doing so? Women can’t fight (sorry it’s true), and men can’t bear children (self evident).

    I mean, why can’t we have equality?

    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-25 03:50:00 UTC

  • RT @libertarianism: How much are we spending on public transit? Does public tran

    RT @libertarianism: How much are we spending on public transit? Does public transportation even make sense? http://buff.ly/1Rt6X6S https:/…

    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-24 09:14:24 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/712930554866495488

  • Lots of posturing. Lots of hand-wringing. No declaration of war. No deporting. N

    Lots of posturing. Lots of hand-wringing. No declaration of war. No deporting. No cutting subsidies. No Action. NOTHING BUT EMPTY WORDS.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-22 19:51:33 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/712366123161878528

  • Lots of posturing. Lots of hand-wringing. No declaration of war. No deporting. N

    Lots of posturing. Lots of hand-wringing. No declaration of war. No deporting. No cutting subsidies. No Action. NOTHING BUT EMPTY WORDS.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-03-22 15:51:00 UTC

  • What Are The Key Differences Between Nordic Socialism And Other Flavors Of Socialism, And Is There An Example Of Nation That Has Prospered Under It?

    Nordics do not practice socialism but very high levels of taxation and redistribution. They are highly capitalist economies.  The reasons that they can achieve this state are that

    1. Northern europeans have been selectively eliminating the troublesome lower part of the gene pool for thousands of years (impulsivity and IQ under 80.)  Cold weather, short summers, darkness, manorialism, lots of hanging, no immigration from north Africa, Levant,  central Asia, steppe, or Asia to damage the gene pool.)
    2. These are very small countries.
    3. They have no diversity to create political conflict over redistributed wealth.
    4. They have no competitors on their borders to meaningfully defend against.
    5. They are bordered by near kin who have similar values and are not competitors.
    6. They are educated protestants exposed to Hanseatic and pre-Hansa cultures for many centuries.
    7. Northern european women have been able to use property and breed late for centuries.

    (BTW: I get very tired of these fake questions dreamed up by paid workers in india in order to generate clicks.)

    https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-key-differences-between-Nordic-socialism-and-other-flavors-of-socialism-and-is-there-an-example-of-nation-that-has-prospered-under-it

  • What Are The Key Differences Between Nordic Socialism And Other Flavors Of Socialism, And Is There An Example Of Nation That Has Prospered Under It?

    Nordics do not practice socialism but very high levels of taxation and redistribution. They are highly capitalist economies.  The reasons that they can achieve this state are that

    1. Northern europeans have been selectively eliminating the troublesome lower part of the gene pool for thousands of years (impulsivity and IQ under 80.)  Cold weather, short summers, darkness, manorialism, lots of hanging, no immigration from north Africa, Levant,  central Asia, steppe, or Asia to damage the gene pool.)
    2. These are very small countries.
    3. They have no diversity to create political conflict over redistributed wealth.
    4. They have no competitors on their borders to meaningfully defend against.
    5. They are bordered by near kin who have similar values and are not competitors.
    6. They are educated protestants exposed to Hanseatic and pre-Hansa cultures for many centuries.
    7. Northern european women have been able to use property and breed late for centuries.

    (BTW: I get very tired of these fake questions dreamed up by paid workers in india in order to generate clicks.)

    https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-key-differences-between-Nordic-socialism-and-other-flavors-of-socialism-and-is-there-an-example-of-nation-that-has-prospered-under-it

  • I am not sure I can do this in tweets. But I would say: direct distribution of l

    I am not sure I can do this in tweets. But I would say: direct distribution of liquidity to citizens.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-02-15 16:24:13 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/699267981172461574

    Reply addressees: @DuxHispanii @Rand_Trump

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/699267447946420224

    IN REPLY TO:

    Original post on X

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    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/699267447946420224

  • IP: Why Should An Author Have The Right To Income On Ideas and Opinions

    [W]ell, I am not sure we should unless we want to subsidize the production of more ideas and opinions than can be produced without subsidy. And the evidence is that we produce far more ideas and opinions than the market will bear. Propertarianism says the opposite: that you may not sell those ideas and opinions without contributing a percentage of the income to the author. We call this the Creative Commons license. Which is that creative products cannot have commercial use without compensation, but have free use for non-commercial use. This strategy does not violate the test of productivity or parasitism. This would have an enormous impact on the publishing industry, all of which would be for the better. One of the reasons, if not the most important reason that we have sh_t art, literature and cinema, is that the creative subsidy of copyright protection shifts the quality downward. This is what I object to, and I consider immoral. I do not consider individual cases of ip protection (subsidy generation) necessarily bad if they are to produce goods that the market cannot afford to. In other words, I consider IP an effective method with which a market can conduct off-book research and development at low cost and risk. In fact, I cannot think of a better combination of incentives than the private sector taking all the risk and paying all the cost of failure, and only profiting if they succeed. This is a great set of incentives.