The Error of Wealth Envy – Fixing the Real Problem
Nov 22, 2019, 12:20 PM Let’s say you have 10m in assets. 1M in a home, 100k liquid 60k in cars. What do you suppose the rest of that money is doing? You see, that’s all the separates us by income. People with more money have more investments and spend a bit more on food,…
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WHAT IS RENT SEEKING?: (economics) When an individual or organization seeks to gain added income without any reciprocal contribution of productivity. Typically involves trade policy, industrial policy, government-funded and social service programs.
Demographics Are Everything
Nov 22, 2019, 2:34 PM OK. So. Dammit. I was right that china would last until 2010. I just had no idea they could hang on this long. So. I did get the demographics right. (think-tank reports this month). So my one big prediction was still right on timing wrong on how much they could…
Sex Differences Have Been “settled Science” Since 2012
1 – Sex differences in physicality are HUGE. 2 – Sex differences in Personality LARGE 3 – Sex differences in Cognition are SIGNIFICANT. 4 – Sex differences in workforce TASK intelligence are LIMITED. Our differences demonstrated in TASK intelligence are caused by the accumulated application of our brains by differences in physicality and in personality…
Economic Language Is Always Superior in Psychology and Sociology
Nov 23, 2019, 8:58 AM We empathize (imitate emotions) We sympathize (imitate mind) We (must) negotiate (offer, acquire). We habituate negotiating strategies. We negotiate in a market. Markets evolve superior products as standards of weight and measure. Markets of superior products gradually adapt to one another creating commensurable networks of products with additive returns. Economic…
Womens and Men’s Brains
Nov 23, 2019, 9:19 AM Women’s brains are structured to deliver greater attention to empathy and fear (vulnerability), and even more so after puberty (leading to high female mental illness), unless cognitive load provided (children) – the mirror of men, physicality, and competition. Men’s brains are structured to deliver greater attention to physical reality, and…
Gender Differences in Personality
—“Personality measures were obtained from a large US sample (N = 10,261) with the 16PF Questionnaire. Multigroup latent variable modeling was used to estimate sex differences on individual personality dimensions, which were then aggregated to yield a multivariate effect size (Mahalanobis D). We found a global effect size D = 2.71, corresponding to an overlap…
Wealth Causes Genders to Specialize Not Compromise
—”Previous research suggested that sex differences in personality traits are larger in prosperous, healthy, and egalitarian cultures in which women have more opportunities equal with those of men. In this article, the authors report cross-cultural findings in which this unintuitive result was replicated across samples from 55 nations (N = 17,637). On responses to the…
Responding to Disgust
Nov 23, 2019, 12:44 PM RESPONDING TO DISGUST by Luke Weinhagen Responding to disgust – First we ignore it Until we can’t Then we isolate it from us Until we can’t Then we isolate ourselves from it Until we can’t Then we try to correct it Until we can’t Then we try to accept it…
Love is very simple to explain…
Nov 23, 2019, 8:34 PM by Joseph E. Postma Love is very simple to explain… For a woman, you get the feeling of love where there is the possibility of a nest. For a man, you get the feeling of love where there is the possibility of fertility. Love is THAT simple. It’s a nice…
There are 3 major competing ideas of rationality/irrationality in economic theory.
There are 3 major competing ideas of rationality/irrationality in economic theory. Mostly applied by neo-classical economists which assumes rational actors are at play. That people when they have access to information required to make what is deemed a ‘rational’ choice will pursue their own interests and act accordingly, and of paramount importance to all their…
the surest paths to success
—“One of the surest paths to success is to tell people good things about their bad habits/vices/economic shortcomings/etc…especially when dealing with fast lifestyle/r reproductive model…The success in the West was built on a k model and ruthless truth…unfortunately, due to mass third world migration (r dominated reproduction model) and the weakening of the West over…
To the Idiots Who Disagreed: “take the Countryside and The Cities Will Fall.”
Martin van Creveld is one of the top two military historians living today and was responsible for correctly predicting the rise of terrorism, and as a consequence 4GW (4th Generation Warfare). He has posted an article by William Lind – the man behind popularizing the arrival of 4GW. And so when I say (a)…
How Many of These Are Obtained by Baiting Into Hazard?
Nov 25, 2019, 1:56 PM (Then, go thru the rest of the Forbes list, and discover how the white people made their money. ) MERIT 3 Lawrence Ellison 27,000 65 Redwood City Oracle (earned) 13 Michael Dell 14,500 44 Austin Dell INGROUP MONEY RAISE ADVANTAGE W/MERIT 11 Sergey Brin 15,300 36 Palo Alto Google 11…
0ur European Natural Religion
0ur European Natural Religion We evolved technology (magic), and not astrology(occult) and found ourselves with dominion over man (others) and nature (gods) – so our natural religion is and always was philosophy(all choice is ours to make), with sacrifice and ritual (debt payment) to gods (archetypal forces) as our ‘literature’. The problem we faced is…
Either Make an Argument or You’ve Committed a Crime
If you can’t make an argument, you’re engaging in GSRRM. So either make an argument or you’ve committed a crime – because that’s what we’re going to do: federalize consumer credit, require a solution accompanying criticism, restore libel and slander, restore warranty of due diligence in speech, and outlaw false promise, baiting into hazard, pilpul,…
The End of Public Deciet
The only reason to tolerate free speech is in pursuit of truthful and reciprocal cooperation on shared means – even if different ends. If you can’t or don’t make a truthful and reciprocal argument, you’re violating the terms of cooperation, by engaging in undermining. So either make an argument or you’ve committed a crime. Because…
They have no f-king idea really.
Nov 26, 2019, 9:32 AM String Theory Loop Quantum Gravity Asymptotically Safe Gravity Causal Dynamical Triangulations and Emergent gravity They have no fking idea really.
Catholic Schools, Military Schools, Uniforms
A very very big fan of catholic schools in childhood, and military schools after twelve. I think mostly because it made me feel that someone else was as concerned about the semi-domesticated animals as I was. St Marys Church and School (Nuns are demon hellspawn) Canandaigua Academy (back when Germans taught classes) St Francis Xavier…
P Is Core Educational Curriculum
Nov 26, 2019, 10:26 AM I make a lot of mistakes. We all do. I don’t make many errors. (in business I’ve made two). In my thought-work, I don’t know of any … yet. And you needn’t either. P is very powerful. At least, it is very powerful if you are intellectually honest. Conversely, if…
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Nov 26, 2019, 1:51 PM —“The state exists as an institution for the production and protection of commons owned by its citizens. Benefiting from the commons does not make one a citizen. Refraining from the destruction of them does.”– Micah Pezdirtz
Beautiful Description of “the Commons”
Nov 27, 2019, 5:20 AM BEAUTIFUL DESCRIPTION OF “THE COMMONS” by JWarren Warren: The idea of a society’s common property is more than merely infrastructure and services and whatever we are taxed to provide. The commons can be public or private and it can be a community effort or merely between neighbors. It’s also the…
The Generations of Truth and Falsehood
Nov 27, 2019, 5:44 PM THE GENERATIONS OF TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD (via Brandon Hayes, The Propertarian Institute) 1 – Generation One: The Yamna, Law, Bronze, Wheel, steel and Paternalism Enlightenment –vs– The first Counter Enlightenment: Religion and Mythology > causing The indo-iranian-european divide. (See Armstrong) 2 -Generation Two: The Pythagorean, Socratic, Aristotelian, and Zeno Rational…
Western Action and Realism vs Eastern Verbalism and Mysticism.
Hayek didn’t correct Keynes, Hilbert didn’t correct Einstein. Poincare didn’t correct Cantor. Brouwer failed to correct mathematics Bridgman did try to correct the sciences. Doolittle does correct Mises. Same F—king Problem: Western Action and Realism vs Eastern Verbalism and Mysticism. Masculine vs Feminine cognition. Real is real vs Words are real.
The ‘mystery’ of Math Rapidly Disappears
Nov 28, 2019, 8:52 AM Observer, Start, Positional Name: If you name zero (0) “start” and each ‘number’ a positional name then the ‘mystery’ of math rapidly disappears, with the only question being why didn’t we use the right of the decimal rather than the left.