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Re: Economy Errata
By: K-Dog Date: September 28, 2021, 8:23 am
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How do you support 7.5B Homo Saps on Planet Earth without FFs?
Answer is: YOU CAN"T!
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The workers who keep global supply chains moving are warning of
a 'system collapse'
By: RE Date: September 29, 2021, 2:00 pm
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Tick, Tock, Tick Tock...
The workers who keep global supply chains moving are warning of
a 'system collapse'
HTML https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/29/business/supply-chain-workers/index.html
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Re: Economy Errata
By: Digwe Must Date: September 30, 2021, 7:42 pm
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I think most of Peterson's remarks here are germane to the
discussion you've been having regarding IQ and ethnicity,
particularly about Jews.
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56UmHs_6Cfs
I tried to quote several of you regarding this topic but I
couldn't get the quotes to carry over from previous pages.
Sorry about that. This discussion has been very interesting and
I've looked forward to all of your contributions. I've been
getting in firewood every day since being able to walk again
which leaves me tired and a little goofy. That isn't really the
best frame of mind to be in when commenting on intelligence.
So, I haven't chipped in on the subject until now. I'm still
goofy - but I don't want the subject to completely fade.
I just reviewed what I've written below. It is more personal
than I'm completely comfortable with - so if it gets too into
the self-absorbed and boring I apologize and urge you to skip
it. Whatever the censor built into this thing has some odd
ideas about what is kosher to say. In one obvious spot I am
writing about forced sexual activity and in another have had to
change my reference to a body part.
For me, it's about character. All the brainpower in the world
doesn't make you a good person. Benjamin Disraeli, Einstein,
Leonard Bernstein Gershwin, Mendelssohn, Dylan all brilliant
Jewish minds. So were Bernie Madoff, Jeffery Epstein and Meyer
Lansky. Loeb and Leopold both graduated from college in their
teens.
If one is using material success as the sole measure of a
person's value, then indeed IQ is important. However, I've
known good, simple people who are a joy to be around, though
perhaps not the most intellectually stimulating company. I've
also known smart, entertaining, glib people who will rob you
blind and kill you if you aren't careful. Intelligence is
certainly no guarantee of happiness or stability. We've all
known brilliant people who are lunatics. A person, in my
opinion, needs a good balance of integrity and intelligence to
bring out the best of both qualities in themselves. (I say that
from the outside looking in.) I believe this works in
communities as well.
Regarding Jews and stereotypes...
My perspective is, I believe, unique - at least in this group.
I was raised in the Jewish faith, but I have no Jewish genetics.
Zero.
When I was 3 weeks old I was adopted in a shady arrangement. My
adoptive parents were too old (late 40s) to be eligible to adopt
through an agency. But the real impediment was that they were a
"mixed marriage". My adopted father was an Italian Catholic and
my mother was Jewish. At the time this was enough to make
normal legal adoption impossible. Her brother was an attorney
who arranged the adoption. He married a gentile woman who was
related to my biological mother - that's how he knew about me.
My adopted father was an immigrant. He'd come over on the boat
with his family when he was 5. He was 5'2'' (I'm 6'2'') and was
a butcher with an 8th grade education. He'd left the church
because of abusive priests and my education from him was mostly
about how to fight, bet the horses and cut meat. My adoptive
mother was first generation. Her people had come from the Pale
of Settlement in the Ukraine. Most of her mother's siblings
were killed by the Cossacks in a pogrom. So, when they could,
they left the yeshiva, the shtetls and emigrated. My adoptive
mother boldly carried on the family tradition of hyper-drama and
mental illness. By the way, much of the non-Jewish genetics
found in Ashkenazi Jews is the result of rape. Murder pillage
and rape - just another Saturday night for the Cossacks.
We lived in a suburb of Boston in a neighborhood that was about
50% Jewish. I didn't fit in. I was never going to be taken for
a landsman by the Jews. I didn't look at all Jewish and the old
man was a guinea, so I was a goy to them. To the Irish and
Yankee kids I was a kike. As I got older no one wanted me to go
out with their sister or daughters. Socially awkward without
many friends, I spent a great deal of time alone reading. I
read everything I could get my hands on. I hated school and
after a while refused to participate. I hated authority and
didn't trust any of them. But I kept reading. When I was 13 I
had my bar mitzvah. I left the Jewish faith (and all organized
religion) at 16 and never looked back.
My Jewish relatives were of a class of Russian Jews who were
musicians, show people, gamblers and hustlers. There wasn't a
Nobel winner in the whole outfit. As one example - here is my
uncle, Ziggy Talent (his real name). I warn you, it's really
terrible.
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3jpEpb0uto
At the time I was growing up, the metro Boston area was the most
segregated city in the northern US. It was also among the most
corrupt. It was blatant. The first time I saw the old man pay
off a cop I was ten years old. He ran a crummy little store in
a neighborhood soon to be torn down in an urban renewal project.
There was no political power there for the residents or
business owners so the cops put the squeeze on. Irish cops. This
happened all the time.
I tell you all this just to point out that I did not lead a
sheltered life and that has helped to shape my perspective about
certain ethnic groups, intelligence and integrity. It may also
explain why I cheer for the underdog, don't trust authority and
will take a stand even when scared shitless. But I also bring
it up because of how that circumstance affected my own brain and
my use of it.
I never believed that I was smart. They had always told me
otherwise. I had no self-discipline when it came to academics
and I believed I was inept with tools and had no mechanical
skills. So when they tested us for aptitude in high school I
simply didn't believe the 97% in mechanical engineering score -
and the others in spatial relations etc. Just didn't accept it.
I've had three IQ tests in my life. The first and most
comprehensive was taken when I was 18. I scored at 129. I took
two more in my 30s and scored in the upper 130s in both - but
that first one was really more complete. I never took the SAT.
There was never a hope of my going to college. That was for
smart people with some self discipline.
I made my living all these years mostly with muscle. Never
really participated in school after 9th grade and never trusted
my brain. I'm mostly an autodidact, it's really obvious in my
writing. I have one friend from the old days. We shared many
adventures, escapades and capers. Apparently the folks who knew
me as a young idiot that he is still in contact with are amazed
that I am alive and not in prison. As it happens, I was saved
by the love of a good woman - but that is a story for another
time.
My biological mother's family - mostly German - came to the
states in the 1840s except for one branch that was here a little
earlier. My father's people were French with some Irish and
Native American mixed in later. They came down the Mississippi
when the British defeated the French in Canada. One of my
ancestors explored with Champlain. Two of my mother's other
children (She had six more) are very bright. I've never met my
father's other children and have no intention of doing so. It's
complicated. He had 8 children with his wife and 4 outside of
marriage with 4 other women including my mother. At one point
he had 3 women pregnant at the same time. He was a lying anus
itinerant musician. Smart though.
When I first contacted my biological mother I was 42. When I
got to her house I was astounded at the number of books we both
owned- several of the same favorite authors.
Hope this hasn't been too tedious and I hope it has added to the
conversation.
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Re: Economy Errata
By: K-Dog Date: October 1, 2021, 12:48 am
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That was interesting Digwe Must.
I like you did not think myself smart when I was young. Sadly
it appears most people are a lot dumber than I though they were.
I am, sad to say, reluctantly smart by default. To imagine
others as we imagine ourselves to be is the normal thing. A
natural human delusion and a delusion it is. I wish I was still
so deluded and that is pure altruism because feeling inferior
does not feel good. To wish it on myself so that the world
would have more clues, I would do. If it mattered. But,
nothing would change.
I think IQ is all a joke mostly. Smart people do not function
at a high level all the time. For a myriad of reasons smart
people are dummied down, but human nature only wants to remember
good moments. How smart are you when you are sleepy and nodding
off? Am I still on the 97th percentile when I am more stoned
than my usual and natural state of stonedness?
I think not.
What do we call a genius when they get depressed and drool. Are
they still genius?
I admit not having the gifts to at least shine bright some of
the time would really suck but as a stoic IQ has little meaning.
It is external and subject to whims of fate. It is good to be
able to asses your circumstances; but the only people true
stoics compete against are themselves. Self improvement is
something we control. The central focus of a stoic philosophy
is to accept what you have no control over. You concentrate on
what you can control and that which can't be taken away from
you. What you control is yourself, and we have natural ability
to develop character and skill in thinking. The natural thing
is to improve and part of that is paradoxically to only compare
where you are to where you have been. What is outside of you
such as the opinions of others, you can't control. What you do
not control is not an appropriate concern.
I suspect even Goethe had his bad days.
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Chinese developer misses bond payment as stress spreads beyond E
vergrande crisis
By: RE Date: October 5, 2021, 12:18 am
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The Bond Vigilantes strike!
Chinese developer misses bond payment as stress spreads beyond
Evergrande crisis
HTML https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/05/china-property-default-risk-for-fantasia-sinic-amid-evergrande-crisis.html
As I suspected, Evergrande is not the only property developer
in the deep doo doo in China. Papering over this mess is likely
to cost TRILLIONS, not Billions. Crank up the Printing Press!
Playing the Long Game doesn't seem to be working out too well
these days.
Beijing, we've got a problem.
Well, several problems, actually.
RE
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America Is Choking Under an ‘Everything Shortage’
By: RE Date: October 7, 2021, 8:30 am
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We should just MAKE MORE! hahahahaha.
America Is Choking Under an ‘Everything Shortage’
HTML https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/america-is-choking-under-an-everything-shortage/620322/
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Trashing the planet and hiding the money isn’t a perversion of c
apitalism. It is capitalism
By: RE Date: October 8, 2021, 12:17 am
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Which problem is worst? Rank in order of worst to less worse.
1- Covid
2- Resource depletion
3- Capitalism
4- Supply Chain Breakdown
5- Climate Change
HTML https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/06/offshoring-wealth-capitalism-pandora-papers
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Re: Economy Errata
By: RE Date: October 12, 2021, 1:46 am
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No worries. In 24 hours the Lebanese Army will step in and
resolve all the problems. ::)
Walmart and Costco limit toilet paper sales while toy companies
warn parents their kids' Christmas gifts won't arrive in time
thanks to backlog at ports, rail yards and on the roads
Supply chain problems that have been tormenting retailers
for months are showing up in America's stores
Around the country, there are shortages of goods on shelves
in Target, Costco, Home Depot and Sears
The issues aren't specific to any one type of good and are
down to problems with shipping and distribution
Cargo ships off can't get into overworked ports to drop off
goods and are hovering off the coast
There is a global shortage in truck drivers which is
stalling distribution of goods and railroads are also jammed
The cost of shipping a single container from China to LA
reached $20,000 last month - four times what it cost last
October
There are fears that some of the backed-up ships at the port
in L.A. will not be emptied before Black Friday - the biggest
retail day of the year and the start of the Christmas shopping
season
Some retailers are telling people to buy Christmas gifts now
to ensure they arrive on time
There is no immediate end in sight: Biden has launched a
White House supply chain task force but businesses fear the
problems will stretch on for months yet
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell predicts the issues
will last until next year - which will prolong inflation
HTML https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10079935/The-shortage-Shelves-bare-delays-deliveries-pharmacies-without-medication.html
Despite this, other reliable sources tell us the economy is
strong and demand is robust. Buy your Xmas gifts now, and maybe
they will be delivered next spring!
Sense a disconnect from reality here?
RE
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Re: Economy Errata
By: John of Wallan Date: October 12, 2021, 2:49 am
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[quote author=RE link=topic=60.msg1156#msg1156 date=1633670247]
Which problem is worst? Rank in order of worst to less worse.
1- Covid
2- Resource depletion
3- Capitalism
4- Supply Chain Breakdown
5- Climate Change
HTML https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/06/offshoring-wealth-capitalism-pandora-papers
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[/quote]
1. Climate change. Its going to screw up the whole planet,
including us, very badly, quite soon and for ever.
2. Resource depletion. This will severely restrict the response
to issue1..
3. Covid. Short term mayhem which directly leads to 4, with help
from 2..
4. Supply chain breakdown. Will restrict ability to do anything
short term... Will ultimately lead to lower standards of living,
localisation and return of craftsmanship, acceptable
destinations, but with a hell of a trip to get there...,
5. Capitalism. True capitalism requires trust, a functioning
democracy, and the rule of law. These would not allow
distortions which stop us responding to 1 and 3, and which cause
2 and 4. Dont kid yourself, there has been little to no
capitalism in the west since probably 1945, and definately 1971.
Capitalism allows some to get rich by helping many do well. What
we have now is a system that allows very few to get very, very,
very rich by grinding many into the dirt.
JOW
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Re: Economy Errata
By: RE Date: October 12, 2021, 7:05 am
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[quote author=John of Wallan link=topic=60.msg1223#msg1223
date=1634024982]
[quote author=RE link=topic=60.msg1156#msg1156 date=1633670247]
Which problem is worst? Rank in order of worst to less worse.
1- Covid
2- Resource depletion
3- Capitalism
4- Supply Chain Breakdown
5- Climate Change
HTML https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/06/offshoring-wealth-capitalism-pandora-papers
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[/quote]
1. Climate change. Its going to screw up the whole planet,
including us, very badly, quite soon and for ever.
2. Resource depletion. This will severely restrict the response
to issue1..
3. Covid. Short term mayhem which directly leads to 4, with help
from 2..
4. Supply chain breakdown. Will restrict ability to do anything
short term... Will ultimately lead to lower standards of living,
localisation and return of craftsmanship, acceptable
destinations, but with a hell of a trip to get there...,
5. Capitalism. True capitalism requires trust, a functioning
democracy, and the rule of law. These would not allow
distortions which stop us responding to 1 and 3, and which cause
2 and 4. Dont kid yourself, there has been little to no
capitalism in the west since probably 1945, and definately 1971.
Capitalism allows some to get rich by helping many do well. What
we have now is a system that allows very few to get very, very,
very rich by grinding many into the dirt.
JOW
[/quote]
I disagree. I put Capitalism first, because it is Capitalism
that led to Climate Change and Resource Depletion. Capitalism
is all about unfettered GREED and Privatizing the Profits while
you Socialize the Losses. Capitalists have been moving around
the globe enslaving people, destroying indigenous lifestyle and
leaving a path of destruction in their wake since its inception
in 1692 with the founding of the Bank of England and the British
and Dutch East India Companies. Theyy will continue to destroy
the planet, until there is nothing left to wreck.
Capitalism is the first thing that has to go. Only after it is
dead and buried can you address the problems of CC & RD.
RE
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