2/ I entirely agree w the validity of racial statistics. If I had to pick a doctor based on nothing but skin color, I'd pick Asian or Jew, bc bell curve is centered higher. ...but if I was given MSAT scores, I'd pick the smarter one, no matter what the skin color.https://twitter.com/DarylJuice2/status/994670816762650624 …
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13/ No, usury (by which I think you mean "charging interest") is good on its own. https://twitter.com/archaeofuturist/status/994673572315521024 …
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14/ Spoken like someone who has no capital to loan out and dislikes that people who have low time preferences and have accumulated capital won't loan it out for free. https://twitter.com/archaeofuturist/status/994673852188770304 …
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15/ Well, rights are in fact kind of arbitrary and culturally dependent (e.g. we're settled people and we consider that property is a right, but nomads wouldn't). One can imagine all sorts of IP regimes. It just happens that ours allows renting DVDs. https://twitter.com/ManlyMerchant/status/994673883063218176 …
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16/ You have ZERO right to access other people's capital for free. If you don't like paying interest, don't borrow money. /shrug https://twitter.com/archaeofuturist/status/994674069550260224 …
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17/ Valid theory. This is the gypsy / traveler model. I don't think it's correct, but intellectual fairness suggests we look at it. My thought: people don't help randos they don't interact with repeatedly. You help your brother, your cousin but not...https://twitter.com/chrylis/status/994685507509551104 …
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"What they lent" yeah that and only that.
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