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Corporate virtue signaling and holiness investing

From Jim’s blog: Holiness and corporate performance Notoriously, corporations that are Social Justice converged behave in ways that are not only evil, but self destructive, leading to loss of shareholder value.   It is difficult to objectively assess social justice convergence, but we can expect it to have a pretty good correlation with the company’s… Continue reading Corporate virtue signaling and holiness investing

The Permanent Ascendance of ‘Bobos’

From Alnold Kling Bobos’ Paradise Lost? What Brooks might have foreseen, but did not, was how this Bobo project would play out as it gathered momentum. In the last two decades, we have witnessed the acceleration of the long-term trend toward expansion of the more abstract-oriented industries, such as finance and entertainment, and a decline… Continue reading The Permanent Ascendance of ‘Bobos’

Why do some countries fail and others succeed?

Why do some countries fail and others succeed? The reason why some countries are much less successful than others is due to low-IQs and overall incompetence and ineptness of the government and people. Look at how much corruption Brazil has had for the past decade. Also, low-IQ countries are often dependent on exporting commodities (which… Continue reading Why do some countries fail and others succeed?

You Are the Product: Analysis

This story is going massively viral: You Are the Product The most intense, critical essay on Facebook that I've ever read. https://t.co/7RXmcujr6I pic.twitter.com/pGJglyUgW0 — Nicholas Thompson (@nxthompson) September 2, 2017 IMHO, I don’t understand what the big deal is. People knowingly create Facebook accounts with their personal information, such as name and address, so why… Continue reading You Are the Product: Analysis

Jordan Peterson and Stefan Molyneux discuss IQ

Here’s an excellent video by Jordan Peterson and Stefan Molyneux about IQ and how Charles Murray’s The Bell Curve is becoming reality in terms of IQ predicting social stratification, but also how IQ is immutable, impervious to ‘brain training’, and intrinsic to the individual. The depressing reality is that 10% of the population (IQ less… Continue reading Jordan Peterson and Stefan Molyneux discuss IQ

Hurricane Harvey Analysis

This story is going viral, having been shared and up-voted hundreds of times on Reddit and elsewhere: For years, engineers have warned that Houston was a flood disaster in the making. Why didn’t somebody do something? Who is ‘somebody’? The flood fairy? The most obvious answer is that insurance is cheaper than re-engineering everything. That… Continue reading Hurricane Harvey Analysis

Getting the correct story is hard

Following the Charlottesville Unite the Right Protest, Trump was criticized for not sufficiently condemning ‘hate groups’ such as the KKK and Neo Nazis. Bret Stephens of the NYTs in a column Trump, Obama and the Politics of Evasion ended by saying: None of this history excuses Trump’s stubborn reluctance, rectified far-too belatedly on Monday, to… Continue reading Getting the correct story is hard

The ‘Metamodern Condition’

A podcast by Ezra Klein featuring guest Angela Nagle, author of Kill All the Normies: Online Culture Wars From 4Chan And Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right: From 4Chan to Charlottesville: where the alt-right came from, and where it’s going And Embracing metamodernism: Perhaps why we’ve so far struggled to make ourselves comprehensible is that… Continue reading The ‘Metamodern Condition’