Singapore has terminal fertility – a fertility rate so low that it is likely to end Singapore. Smart people go to Singapore, and just do not reproduce. Black hole dysgenesis. The Singaporean government has issued a bunch of laws and incentives intended to raise fertility, with rather small effect. Similarly, the emperor Augustus, noticing that Romans were on a similar path to oblivion, passed a bunch of laws to encourage marriage and fertility, with similar lack of effect. I have …
Category: economics
Firing Kathleen Sebelius
Everyone involved in the disastrous rollout of the disastrous Obamacare website has been fired or has had something horribly bad happen to their careers, from Human Health and Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius downwards. It turns out that people working for the government, like people with tenure, can be punished by the left, though not by the right. If ever the right should try to fire people, see my post on how to fire big bird. The website was fixed by …
The trouble with white nationalism
is that it is demotic. The trouble with our brahmins is that they are demotic. If, seeking power, you propose to give all white people a microslice of power, you will be outbid by those seeking power who propose to give everyone a microslice of power. White nationalism is moderate leftism, and moderate leftism will always be outbid by immoderate leftism Today’s white nationalism is yet another variant on the Republican program of backing away from the left singularity in …
Recap on Warmism
I have been ignoring the issue of Global Warming for a while, because it is pretty much settled. Â Anyone who still believes in Warmism is stupid, crazy, or lying. Â Usually stupid. But, a short summary:
Exhaustion of the low hanging fruit, or moral decay?
Photolithography is limited by the wavelength of light. Â Below 160 nanometers, UV is not light, but ionizing radiation. Â So at some point, have to switch from photolithography to contact lithography, such as imprint lithography, or direct contact printing. Â But did they stop shrinking stuff before we reached that limit? That they are lying about it suggests moral decay, rather than exhaustion of the low hanging fruit. Current photolithography is stuck using UV at 193 nanometers. Â Could they have gone lower? …
The USG immigration problem
The problem is that people we are allowing in have too much power over us. Also, most of them are stupid people, and when their children go to school, the Cathedral teaches them to hate us and attack us. When nonwhites have the majority, whites will be a market dominant minority, like Jews or overseas Chinese. In nonwhite countries, market dominant minorities seldom exist, because they get exterminated or expelled. In the middle east, sometimes enslaved. Smart fraction theory implies …
Working class consciousness
Working Class consciousness (in other words envy and covetousness) runs into economics: “The Chamley-Judd Redistribution Impossibility Theorem†which tells us that redistribution from capitalists to workers is impossible, and trying to do so merely buggers the economy making everyone worse off. This conflict between reality and ideology brings you nazism and communism. The Chamley-Judd Redistribution Impossibility theorem is economists admitting Ayn Rand was right while trying to sound as if they are not admitting it. The economy needs savings, investment, …
Sunshine Mary nails it
We have been discussing the demographic transition – the tendency of peoples to fail to reproduce, examining varying nations, religious groups and such to see what makes a difference and what does not. Sunshine Mary has proposed a theory which I think fits all our data. Ten changes that need to happen in order to promote society-wide traditional sex roles. The only way that it is safe for women to engage in traditional sex roles – keeping the home, nurturing the …
The collapse of fertility
Spandrel has a post wondering where all the babies went, and whenever I propose one of the usual suspects, for example no fault divorce, denormalization of masculinity, and such, he says “Ah, but many Muslim countries also have fertility collapseâ€. Good point. So let us look at a Muslim country with dramatic fertility collapse, and see if we can find any of the usual suspects.
Darkness is the norm
Copper production shows three peaks: The Roman Empire in the west, the Song Dynasty, and modernity. The Roman Empire in the west and the Song Dynasty had about seven times the preceding and following level of copper production, thus while those civilizations were going concerns, they had far more production and wealth than the rest of the world put together. When the Roman Empire in the West fell, its GDP dropped about a hundred fold. So, looking at the past …