I came across The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth by James Altucher, and the sales pitch read like something I would write, but I decided to make some modifications. Original: This is a bold book by James Altucher because he not only gives you a new map for the new financial landscape, but he also… Continue reading Detecting Fake Amazon Book Reviews
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Neo-Reaction & Techno-Libertarianism
Recently I got into a debate with some about Neo-Reaction vs. Techno-libertarianism Techno-libertarianism and neo-reaction can compliment each other in that the both oppose democracy and egalitarianism. Techno-libertarianism, as the name suggests, tend to be pro-technology in a context of a free market, and is the ‘position’ that I support. Neo-reaction, which rose to preeminence… Continue reading Neo-Reaction & Techno-Libertarianism
Helping America’s Gifted Poor
In the unending online economics debate that we all find ourselves participating in, this article Telling Poor, Smart Kids That All It Takes Is Hard Work to Be as Successful as Their Wealthy Peers Is a Blatant Lie is going viral on sites like Reddit and 4chan. That’s why we need more gifted education programs,… Continue reading Helping America’s Gifted Poor
Libs Whining About Tesla Again
Elon Musk’s growing empire is fueled by $4.9 billion in government subsidies Libs complain about crony capitalism only if said companies are successful, such as Tesla or Goldman Sachs, but ignore the failures such as SOlyndra. The left wants the most successful companies to fail, but wants to bailout the losers like General Motors. The… Continue reading Libs Whining About Tesla Again
Superior vs. Inferior People
I agree that egalitarianism and fat acceptance is bad, but ‘superior’ people are not those who try to specialize, but those who have the innate biological gifts to specialize in fields that pay money and garner recognition, such as specializing in mathematics, physics, coding, and stock trading. Yeah, if you have an IQ of 90… Continue reading Superior vs. Inferior People
Malcom Gladwell, Exasperated Idiot
John Paulson, who made his fortune betting against loser homeowners, is donating $400 million to Harvard’s engineering school – a good use of money to help America’s best and the brightest. Malcom Gladwell, who along with Taleb, Ariely, Kahneman and other liberals is famous for his pseudoscience books that downplay individual cognitive exceptionalism, predictably opposed… Continue reading Malcom Gladwell, Exasperated Idiot
Good Tweets, Part 2
Is rising inequality due to an increase in winner-take-all markets? http://t.co/CFutEDvaZp — Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) May 29, 2015 Although I’m more partial to the Republican perspective on this issue, Wealth inequality and poverty is something that both sides get wrong to varying degrees, with the left tending to be more wrong the the right. The… Continue reading Good Tweets, Part 2
The Left’s Problem With Science
In an article for Taki Magazine, Jim Goad knocks it out of the park, especially with this paragraph: They want to eat their Darwin Fish—or, rather, they want to dispose of it and hide all evidence that it ever existed—when faced with the sheer preposterousness of what they’re proposing, which is that human evolution magically… Continue reading The Left’s Problem With Science
Defending Rational Markets
Liberals like to assume markets and individuals are irrational, in agreement with their denial of individual cognitive exceptionalism. After all, if everyone is an irrational blank slate, how can anyone be intrinsically better than anyone else? It’s then not surprising to see Michael Lewis – the inveterate liberal anti-banker journalist – be in favor of… Continue reading Defending Rational Markets
The Tyranny of the Bookish
Saw this re-tweeted by the great Charles Murray: Controlling for confounds, kids' test scores are unrelated to time in school, studying, TV. But reading = big deal http://t.co/cHHqYVUAXr — SteveStewartWilliams (@SteveStuWill) May 13, 2015 Perhaps it’s reading books, not grades, parenting, or TV, that is the biggest influence of success at life. It seems in… Continue reading The Tyranny of the Bookish