tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post6135779170363896985..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Piketty and real inequalityUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-42245604918799670992014-05-08T22:05:50.889-07:002014-05-08T22:05:50.889-07:00In addition to emigration to the Americas and Anti...In addition to emigration to the Americas and Antipodes, there was the productivity of American and Canadian farms which was far better than British/Irish ones. Moynihan argued that it was the fact that North American farmers could produce cheaper food for Brits than their own aristocratic lords could that undermined the economic foundations of the old feudal economy. There is a modern day analogy, Britain buys a lot of the coal they use from Australia, which is 10,000 miles away, but Australian mining is so much more efficient than British mining that even with the cost of transport it is still cheaper.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-84194674607735205642014-05-08T14:00:12.662-07:002014-05-08T14:00:12.662-07:00The castle is nice I guess but the real beauty of ...The castle is nice I guess but the real beauty of Blenheim is here:<br /><br />http://www.westminsterkennelclub.org/breedinformation/toy/ckcs.html<br /><br />My dog Charlie is maybe a little cuter than this one, if not so well groomed.<br /><br />There are a lot of stories about The Blenheim version of the King Charles. Supposedly the white spot on their head was caused by Lady Marlborough pressing her thumb on the mother bitch's forehead when the pups were being delivered.<br /><br />All the Blenheim's ever since have had this spot. Must be epigenetics. I'll have to check this out with Greg Cochran.<br /><br />Pat Boyle Pat Boylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13477950851915567863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-51584220102985678662014-05-08T11:35:06.031-07:002014-05-08T11:35:06.031-07:00"So that still leaves us on the side of movin..."So that still leaves us on the side of moving as much from the rich to the people in general, as can be tolerated, functionally, within a healthy economic order. and this is the real dispute - what can be tolerated - not any libertarian flimflam about the wrongness of wealth transfers ."<br /><br />Sir, that's the best case for socialism I've ever heard.<br /><br />But once people accepted your worldview, that the poor are hopeless and we just need to make things livable, doesn't that just as easily imply segregation or sterilization as the answer?Heppnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-54260315225442225212014-05-08T10:06:45.837-07:002014-05-08T10:06:45.837-07:00Who and whom?
A newly Minted Baroness is Baroness...Who and whom?<br /><br />A newly Minted Baroness is Baroness Because her aspiring Astronaught son was stabbed by some local white gangsters. She's now Labour pre-candidate for Mayor of London. <br /><br />Baroness Lawrence. <br /><br />It's disgusting alright. Born in Stablenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-34315426248174527922014-05-08T10:01:46.725-07:002014-05-08T10:01:46.725-07:00These officers were all Ango-Irish ascendancy. The...These officers were all Ango-Irish ascendancy. They lost their estates when the Irish Republic was set up. <br /><br />Born in Stablenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-75198400506305641642014-05-08T06:05:00.756-07:002014-05-08T06:05:00.756-07:00The people that annoyed me the most were the pussy...<i>The people that annoyed me the most were the pussy white Palo Alto types who used the system to attack me and complained and left nasty notes on my car for parking too close to the sidewalk - shit like that and because they had a lot of time on their hands. Again, they inherited their homes and had easy jobs...unlike the Asian engineers who worked long hours.</i><br /><br />But the long-working Asian engineers will soon spawn the Asian mafia you mentioned, plus other pathologies. So it is a matter of picking your poison, I suppose, but a few notes on your windshield hardly seems a reason to condemn the community vs. the alternative...Shanghai?doombuggynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-16630324146082184792014-05-08T03:47:49.308-07:002014-05-08T03:47:49.308-07:00Monsieur Piketty is almost famous for thinking tha...Monsieur Piketty is almost famous for thinking that he was involved in a lesbian relationship but as a leftie it is not noticed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-80879056850053134632014-05-08T00:55:35.819-07:002014-05-08T00:55:35.819-07:00The thing with living with the rich, is that most ...The thing with living with the rich, is that most of the advantages of living alongside them would also exist if they weren't the bloody rich.<br /> <br />They'd still probably be energetic, organised, enterprising, psychologically well balanced, open minded, compared to the average. <br /><br />Sure they do pretty things with their money (I guess its more beautiful to spend money on the ballet or fine houses or what have you than welfare), but those aren't really what makes them nice to live alongside.<br /><br />On the other hand, most of the problems with living with the poor would be offset if they simply had more abundance to help compensate for their myriad flaws.<br /><br />So that still leaves us on the side of moving as much from the rich to the people in general, as can be tolerated, functionally, within a healthy economic order. and this is the real dispute - what can be tolerated - not any libertarian flimflam about the wrongness of wealth transfers .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-90823084163922508502014-05-07T22:38:52.506-07:002014-05-07T22:38:52.506-07:00"I'm not a jerk, but I'm not a pussy ..."I'm not a jerk, but I'm not a pussy either. If someone mistreats me or interferes with my livelihood I retaliate. I fight fire with fire. I never forget. Okay?"<br /><br />But don't you think that that's kind of being a jerk? What about turning the other cheek? It seems like you could have found a more civilized way to let the Palo Alto people know that they made you unhappy. However, I can understand why you would have been annoyed at them.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-21573524929991760752014-05-07T21:30:28.383-07:002014-05-07T21:30:28.383-07:00I raised the original comment about my experiences...I raised the original comment about my experiences living near entitled Palo Alto neighbors who inherited their money and harassed me when I built my home and reported me to the city. After that I tried to get even with them. <br /><br />I'm not a jerk, but I'm not a pussy either. If someone mistreats me or interferes with my livelihood I retaliate. I fight fire with fire. I never forget. Okay? <br /><br />Before that I lived in mostly Chinese Cupertino with Indians/Pakistanis and some Koreans troo. All educated engineers. I visit often to check on my parents who live in little Indian or "Sunnyvale". <br /><br />There was a comment about someone's Chinese American friends who avoid Cupertino for being too Chinese. There is some truth to that. I knew a Chinese man who owned a store in Cupertino but lived in Palo Alto. When I asked him why he didn't live in Cupertino, his response was that he wanted to live somewhere where the Chinese mafia of Cupertino could not track him down and rob him. A lot of these Chinese store owners keep their money literally under their mattresses, and there is a problem with Chinese gangs demanding "protection money". Plus, the Chinese can't run to the cops to help them. <br /><br />I've lived next to Filipinos in San Jose, Chinese in Cupertino, white trash in Sunnyvale before it was overtaken by Indians, and mostly elite white liberals in Palo Alto. I'm a live-and-let- live libertarian. The people that annoyed me the most were the pussy white Palo Alto types who used the system to attack me and complained and left nasty notes on my car for parking too close to the sidewalk - shit like that and because they had a lot of time on their hands. Again, they inherited their homes and had easy jobs...unlike the Asian engineers who worked long hours. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-24470032060061270662014-05-07T21:30:23.249-07:002014-05-07T21:30:23.249-07:00There are some guys, I'm sure, who actually us...<i>There are some guys, I'm sure, who actually use their wealth to advance their personal political agendas but most seem to just buy a yacht and troll for broads at St. Tropez like Frederick Lowe.</i><br /><br />Well, on the right (sort of) we have the Koch brothers, bêtes noires of Harry Reed. <br /><br />However, it's on the left where the real action is. We have George Soros, whom I heard an NPR host describe non-ironically as "the currency speculator with a heart of gold." We have mini-mayor Michael Bloomberg, who wants to singlehandedly match the warchest of the NRA in opposition to gun rights. We have Tom Steyer, who is bribing the DNC with $100 million as long as they continue to block the Keystone pipeline, an odd obsession of his. We have David Gelbaum, who has given the Sierra Club $200 million, predicated on them dropping their concern about the effect of immigration-driven population growth on the American environment. Ted Turner pledged a billion dollars to the United Nations. Peter Lewis, the billionaire owner of the aptly named Progressive insurance, donates exclusively to liberal causes. The so-called Gang of Four--Pat Stryker, Jared Polis, Tim Gill, and Rutt Bridges--put their wealth to such concentrated purpose in Colorado that they helped elect a Democratic majority in that states house and senate. Of course Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and a number of other billionaires are spending great sums to promote amnesty.Harry Baldwinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-57406356868243224442014-05-07T19:29:02.740-07:002014-05-07T19:29:02.740-07:00@ dearieme: "The daughter of a friend of min...@ dearieme: "The daughter of a friend of mine danced in the morning of her 21st birthday in the Orangery at Blenheim."<br /><br />--This line is instinct with poetry. I think of Eliot: but is this "Burnt Norton" or "The Waste Land"?<br /><br />Was this Blue Danube Waltz-type dancing or My Humps-type dancing?Lucius Somesuchhttp://luciussomesuch.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-78134269607099008002014-05-07T18:11:52.201-07:002014-05-07T18:11:52.201-07:00Steve, you ought to compare a photo of Gates' ...Steve, you ought to compare a photo of Gates' place compared to Blenheim and see which adds or subtracts to western civ.IAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-40869239303775466052014-05-07T16:18:18.033-07:002014-05-07T16:18:18.033-07:00Yeah, a lot of the Silicon Valley burbs are Asian,...Yeah, a lot of the Silicon Valley burbs are Asian, but the younger ones are totally white-Americanized. I was just in a fauxBritish pub in Cupertino, and a bunch of 20 somethings came in to drink and play darts. Usual banter and stuff. 6 of the 8 were Asian, though by their total lack of accent they were at least 2nd generation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-88376838994410937882014-05-07T14:56:45.850-07:002014-05-07T14:56:45.850-07:00"When it comes to masses, when you give them ...<i>"When it comes to masses, when you give them an inch, they'll take a mile."</i><br /><br />And vice-versa, mind you. I'm told there are as many domestic servants in the UK now as before the first world war.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-79441052450460699572014-05-07T14:52:45.423-07:002014-05-07T14:52:45.423-07:00"Blenheim Palace, the 300,000-square-foot mon...<i>"Blenheim Palace, the 300,000-square-foot monument that John and Sarah Churchill, the first Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, erected to themselves in Oxfordshire in the early 1700s. "</i><br /><br />But it was paid for by the taxes of a grateful nation, though Sarah overspent after her husband's death. <br /><br /><i>"Dwight Eisenhower was roughly as successful a general and politician as John Churchill had been"</i><br /><br />More successful as a politician, surely not a general in the same class. Marlborough as a general was pretty impressive.<br /><br /><i>"the farm Eisenhower retired to in Gettysburg doesn’t look anything like Blenheim"</i><br /><br />Different age. Montgomery, probably the UKs best WW2 general, lived post-war in a pleasant mill house, while Alanbrooke, Churchill's Chief of Staff, was so straitened after the war that he ended up living in the gardeners cottage of his former home. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-30689125106887799572014-05-07T14:32:42.580-07:002014-05-07T14:32:42.580-07:00The rich won't outbid you for servants, and mi...The rich won't outbid you for servants, and might generously lend a few of theirs out. The aspiring double-income-1.4kids UMC sure will, though. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-53812584290782048702014-05-07T14:25:31.536-07:002014-05-07T14:25:31.536-07:00I also grew up in Palo Alto and evirons. No sense...I also grew up in Palo Alto and evirons. No sense of community even then unless you were part of the local elite. It is much worse now. It is only for rich people. People only live in the area to make their fortunes and impose their PC social engineering schemes on their neighbors. Old Palo Alto is still sketchy as the criminals enter from East PA as they always have. Very few of my childhood peers stayed in town. I moved away and only go back to visit my mom. We moved into an affluent neighborhood in flyover country. No po' neighbors for me.<br /><br />As for Cupertino, my very chinese-american friends wouldn't move there saying, "it's too chinese." Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-80919361210153341412014-05-07T14:18:25.274-07:002014-05-07T14:18:25.274-07:00"There are broad historical reasons why Engli..."There are broad historical reasons why English country estates fell into disrepair from 1900-1960."<br /><br />Don't forget the repeal of the corn laws. That switch to free trade with America triggered (or sealed) a class revolution in England just as the switch to free trade with China is doing something similar in America today. In the first wealth (and power) were shifted from the land-owning classes to those who derived their incomes from capital, in the second from the laboring classes to, again, capital. Who, Whom indeed!Luke Leahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11290760894780619646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-72028373192724256482014-05-07T14:02:57.618-07:002014-05-07T14:02:57.618-07:00"we see the Sutherlands, with a mind-bogling ..."we see the Sutherlands, with a mind-bogling 1,358,000 acres": aye, but much of it is miles and miles of bugger all.deariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-47093588470104259632014-05-07T13:56:38.258-07:002014-05-07T13:56:38.258-07:00There are some guys, I'm sure, who actually us...<em>There are some guys, I'm sure, who actually use their wealth to advance their personal political agendas but most seem to just buy a yacht and troll for broads at St. Tropez like Frederick Lowe.</em><br /><br />I've had the same thought. Even guys like Ross Perot and Steve Forbes, who care enough about politics to run for office and put themselves out there to be savaged by the media, still only put up a small amount of their fortunes for it. Or you get the guys like Sterling who buy a few cars for a mistress. Sure, they own expensive houses and spend more on clothes than I do on cars, but they seem to have little imagination beyond that. Trump is known for his ostentation, but beyond buying gaudy stuff, what does he do with it, really?<br /><br />Why don't you ever hear about a tycoon spending $1B to have his favorite book filmed with his favorite actors as leads? Or buying the entire slate of Super Bowl ads one year to promote his kid's garage band? Or bribing all the entrants in one of the Kentucky Derby races to try to throw it? Why do <em>I</em> have to think of these things?Cail Corishevhttp://cailcorishev.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-27478412882939966532014-05-07T12:33:32.441-07:002014-05-07T12:33:32.441-07:00Re Palo Alto: I lived there until I was 13. We lef...Re Palo Alto: I lived there until I was 13. We left in 1962, which they tell me is a long time ago. It was paradise: clean, crime-free, no blacks except, literally, on the other (and very wrong) side of the tracks; quiet too, even sleepy. Stanford beckoned on the weekend, for concerts and meandering bicycle trips during the long hot summer days. There was even a lake to swim in - I wonder if that is still allowed?<br />When I was back there a few years ago it seemed amazingly unchanged. The stretch of Hamilton Avenue we had lived on was closed off to traffic for a block party. Everybody was still white; I gazed up at the redwood I had planted in our yard, now well over 100 feet tall, and thought: maybe we should never have left.<br /><br />Oh, and another thing - the Marlboroughs were never as rich as the real ducal grandees. Blenheim was always a burden. Their estates were too small to support it; compare their 23,000 acres in 1883 (worth £36,000 a year) to the 198,000 of the Devonshires (£180,000), the 183,000 of the Portlands (£88,000), or the 86,000 (£141,000) of the Bedfords. Looking even higher we see the Sutherlands, with a mind-bogling 1,358,000 acres (£141,000), and finally the richest of all, the Buccleuchs, with 460,000 acres worth £217,000 a year.<br />Now THERE is inequality, and very fine it was too.<br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-5375522745434685472014-05-07T12:01:27.223-07:002014-05-07T12:01:27.223-07:00"When the neighbor wanted to remodel his hous..."When the neighbor wanted to remodel his house, I objected to the planning board and city council just to get back at them - which delayed their plans by almost a year. (Turnabout is fair play.)"<br /><br />In all fairness, you kind of sound like a jerk.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-50684088990310779582014-05-07T11:41:11.562-07:002014-05-07T11:41:11.562-07:00http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/05/07/watch-a...http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/05/07/watch-a-student-go-absolutely-berserk-on-a-man-displaying-an-anti-gay-sign-on-arizona-campus/<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZXoNKBi3bQ<br /><br />Fruitkin turns into nutkin. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-22397393698923355462014-05-07T11:39:21.283-07:002014-05-07T11:39:21.283-07:00Yes, but organised labour was a very big factor in...Yes, but organised labour was a very big factor in the creation of what is called in America the middle class. In Britain too the beginnings of immigration coincided with the summit of organised labour.<br /><br />Capitalists don't like competing with each other for workers.<br /><br />"it's much easier to imagine the end of all life on earth than radical change in capitalism." Žižek!Seannoreply@blogger.com