We observe high fertility in those nations and cultures where patriarchy is legally and socially enforced, in particular Muslim Afghanistan and Christian Timor Leste. Affordability of family formation has little effect. Clearly males in patriarchal societies are highly motivated to have children. They will do whatever it takes so that they can afford a family. Thus, if pro social behavior in a patriarchal society is rewarded by a wife and …
Category: economics
Defense of capitalism:
Reactionary future criticizes capitalism from the right. Capitalists have power independent of the state. They are apt to use that power politically. Example George Soros. By and large, capitalists overwhelming back the left. But, if they back the left, they are sucking up to power, or like the NGOs, serving the state when the state wants a smidgen of deniabity. For example you cannot see daylight between George Soros in …
Fixing housing, health, and education.
Housing, health, and education are unaffordable. So people think something must be done, and punishing the rich sounds like something. Hence Sanders. Housing Getting stuff zoned for building houses is basically illegal, and when you somehow bribe and litigate enough bureaucrats to get houses built, tends to be overrun by inferior races who make the housing very cheap by driving out whites – typically around a quarter of the cost …
Bitcoin crisis
Back in the beginning, I argued bitcoin would not scale. The counter argument was that we could muddle our way through somehow with ad hoc solutions, which could be sort of true, in principle. The scaling problems started to bite in 2013. They are now biting really hard. The scaling problems are now well and truly here. Downloading the blockchain is slow and expensive. Doing transactions is slow, unpredictable, expensive, …
Externalities of IQ
“Hive mind” is in error by comparing the individual correlation between income and IQ with the national correlation. Correlations are dimensionless quantities, and we need a quantity with dimension “increase in income per IQ point” From Scott’s graph of income by IQ decile, I conclude that within a nation, individual income increases by a factor of 1.024 per IQ point, that for IQs in the normal range, average income for …
What to do in a restoration
That which cannot continue must end. Thus one way or another, the movement ever leftwards, ever faster, is going to stop, going to be stopped, probably after the fashion of Stalin, if we are lucky after the fashion of conspiracy of 9 Thermidor, if really lucky after the fashion of Cromwell. That does not necessarily mean things will get better, merely that, as in Stalin’s Soviet Union, they will stop …
A lost military technology
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, wealthy private individuals substantially supported the military, with a particular wealthy men buying stuff for a particular regiment or particular fort. Noblemen paid high prices for military commands, and these posts were no sinecure. You got the obligation to substantially supply the logistics for your men, the duty to obey stupid orders that would very likely lead to your death, the duty to …
How to stop mass illegal immigration to Britain
Lately the British government has been making feeble ineffectual gestures vaguely in the general direction of attempting to slightly slow the flood of illegal immigrants, most of them black and Muslim, into Britain. This has resulted in dramatic scenes of disruption at the Calais truck terminal, but … All of them get there in the end,’ he said. ‘No fence is too difficult – in the end, borders are there …
Greece to receive yet another bailout
If you know the the details of the bailout, your brain is being filled with useless misinformation. The important facts are the thirty thousand foot view: That this bailout is much smaller than the previous bailouts. That the previous bailouts had extremely harsh conditions that Greece was unable and unwilling to fulfill, and this bailout has even harsher conditions that Greece is even less able and even less willing to …
Yet another final deadline for Greece
Supposedly, if no agreement by Sunday, the ECB will stop funding Greece . There have been a lot of final deadlines. That which cannot go on forever will stop, but I would not bet on it stopping on Sunday. Greece does not need austerity nor does it need stimulus. Greece does not need to remain in the Euro nor to exit the Euro. What Greece needs is a a massive …