I just noticed my comments here have been flagkilled, as well as the comment I made yesterday that I linked to from this one. This is incredible. I'll have to readjust my sensor for what speech is and isn't verboten…
Yes, but you have to look at it from a societal-engineering mindset. Religion was vital in getting everyone to commit to the collective rather than the individual. FWIW, it's difficult to analyze this through today's…
I think our economic system more or less makes sense. By requiring a constant trend of growth, we can spur investment and make people more inclined to take on risk, which in general serves us better than not. As I…
> We're not in an agrarian society I made the wrong use of terms; by "agrarian" I meant non-nomadic; static; people living in one place working on things sometimes multiple economic edges from subsistence. Since we…
No one is going to make the case that motherhood could or should improve a woman's earnings. Motherhood is diametrically opposed to careerhood; you give to one what you take from the other. This article merely states…
> You are vastly overestimating how many children people have. Right, my post was complaining about how few children people are having. For the sake of contrast, I supposed an idealized situation where our fertility…
It is short-sighted to celebrate the economic returns of women having no/fewer children. Consider the average contribution to the furthering of mankind over one woman's lifetime (without children, her lineage stops…
Libertarianism is flawed in many ways, yes, and its proponents do not consider its peripheral realities. To what you wrote I would add the observations that markets are created from the will of a central authority, and…
I agree that many companies are discriminating against men in hiring and promotions, and that many managers are much more lenient toward women than men. I, too, am seeing contradictions of the statistics in many tech…
Yep. You're touching here on one of the common bridges from libertarianism to neoreaction. Libertarianism is based on a handful of simple principles that work -- in theory. Neoreaction takes a step back and looks at the…
I just noticed my comments here have been flagkilled, as well as the comment I made yesterday that I linked to from this one. This is incredible. I'll have to readjust my sensor for what speech is and isn't verboten…
Yes, but you have to look at it from a societal-engineering mindset. Religion was vital in getting everyone to commit to the collective rather than the individual. FWIW, it's difficult to analyze this through today's…
I think our economic system more or less makes sense. By requiring a constant trend of growth, we can spur investment and make people more inclined to take on risk, which in general serves us better than not. As I…
> We're not in an agrarian society I made the wrong use of terms; by "agrarian" I meant non-nomadic; static; people living in one place working on things sometimes multiple economic edges from subsistence. Since we…
No one is going to make the case that motherhood could or should improve a woman's earnings. Motherhood is diametrically opposed to careerhood; you give to one what you take from the other. This article merely states…
> You are vastly overestimating how many children people have. Right, my post was complaining about how few children people are having. For the sake of contrast, I supposed an idealized situation where our fertility…
It is short-sighted to celebrate the economic returns of women having no/fewer children. Consider the average contribution to the furthering of mankind over one woman's lifetime (without children, her lineage stops…
Libertarianism is flawed in many ways, yes, and its proponents do not consider its peripheral realities. To what you wrote I would add the observations that markets are created from the will of a central authority, and…
I agree that many companies are discriminating against men in hiring and promotions, and that many managers are much more lenient toward women than men. I, too, am seeing contradictions of the statistics in many tech…
Yep. You're touching here on one of the common bridges from libertarianism to neoreaction. Libertarianism is based on a handful of simple principles that work -- in theory. Neoreaction takes a step back and looks at the…