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mircea_popescu: this is why slavery doesn't work as an educational ploy without
the whip.
mircea_popescu: "bitch, get your ass
to baltimore and don't come back until you've picked up a local."
mircea_popescu: perhaps it's useful,
though i have no idea how it would be.
mircea_popescu: instead, i'm merely exploring
the known, as found in
this here endless library.
mircea_popescu: well, i'm nor one
to ineptly suggest stuff. "Hey, you building house ? look into geodesic dome / $random crap!" because
that's what i last read in Nature and i fancy myself a cultivated fellow.
mircea_popescu: the ones like
the jew, lived in house invested by uncle, see above re cairo.
mircea_popescu: the ones like you, without uncle, fought hyena for cave. about as likely
to "construct" cave as hyena.
mircea_popescu: seems
to be
the dream here - if i carve
the right words into immutable functional space, mega meat army pops.
mircea_popescu: it didn't luck out
to be picked by
the "identity politics" circus, so it's not an insult at all! fancy its luck.
mircea_popescu: ow food or
to gaze at a limitless land and call it your own, no, no. You just go on and on and on repeating
this process over
the centuries over and over and suddenly you make a grand discovery. You have a mercantile heritage! You are a merchant. You are known as a usurer, a man with secret resources, a witch, a pawnbroker, a sheenie, a makie and a kike! "
mircea_popescu: cloth, cut it into
three pieces and sell it for
three pennies profit. But, my friend, during
that
time you must never succumb
to buying an extra piece of bread for
the
table or a
toy for a child, no. You must immediately run out and get yourself a still larger piece cloth and so you repeat
this process over and over and suddenly you discover something. You have no longer any desire, any
temptation
to dig into
the Earth
to gr
mircea_popescu: hy or an army or a land myth. All you have is a little brain. A little brain and a great bearded legend
to sustain you and convince you
that you are special, even in poverty. But
this little brain,
that's
the real key you see. With
this little brain you go out and you buy a piece of cloth and you cut
that cloth in
two and you go and sell it for a penny more
than you paid for it.
Then you run right out and buy another piece of
mircea_popescu: "You people? Oh, let's see. Yeah. I see. I see, you... you want
to learn
the secret of our success, is
that right? Alright I'll
teach you. First of all you start off with a period of several
thousand years, during which you have nothing
to sustain you but a great bearded legend. Oh my friend you have no land
to call your own,
to grow food on or
to hunt. You have nothing. You're never in one place long enough
to have a geograp
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> and yer
time has
to be worth ~0 << NO, it just has
to be worth less
than (tradeperson wage)/(2 or 3)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
there's exactly
two ways
to construct value into
this world. one's
to
take
the 1/4 * 350mn / 2 = 40 or so million currently useless refuse and
turn
them into women. even if you only manage a small %, it's still something. aka, uranium water filtering.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> whole gedankenexperiment was predicated on 'fix carcass' << White gase camp stove is $50
to $350.
There, kitchen.
mircea_popescu: cairo, for
the record, is a city ~the size of california.
mircea_popescu: but from HIS perspective, it's
that you can't afford
the
tools.
mircea_popescu: the reason white man doesn't build
the middle eastern
tower may be whatever you wish it
to be.
mircea_popescu: there's ONE
thing
the middle eastern guy has
that white man can't replicate, and
that is, a stable, and here i kid you not, a stable, of dozen+ pliable obedient females WITH offspring.
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2016-07-03 17:31 asciilifeform: i like
the idea of slowly building 'dirigible'
mircea_popescu: the question
to you is, are you building a dirigible in
the white man sense or in
the sand nigger sense ?
mircea_popescu: for
the anthropologist, god damned fascinating,
they're like a family-sized snail building its conch.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the
thing being,
that you walk around
the item and know
the social rank of
the inhabitants, and
then look up and see
the sluttery of
the X chromosome baked in.
mircea_popescu: should any of
the girls manage
to get knocked up,
the family is drafted
to pour more concrete, make another "roof" ie floor, and fill brick in between
mircea_popescu: so,
they do not have rooves, per se. just an unfinished floor, which has a foot or
two of pillar reinforced concrete, with
the rebar exposed.
mircea_popescu: the land surface of
this
tower reflects
the importance of
the clan inhabiting it.
mircea_popescu: but
to
this dubious race of
the east, a house is not a definite item. instead, it is a
tower.
mircea_popescu: see,
to you, or in general
to white people of
the
tribe
that invented houses, a house is a
thing, a definite item.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you familiar with
the house structure as a cultural item in
the middle east ?
mircea_popescu: it's either "paiont and scrub
this property" or else "go
to school" / "look for a job" / ruin perfectly good food "cooking" and be bitchy about it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform like it or not,
the
time of about 1/4 of us female population IS worth 0.
phf: my
time is expensive, but it's non linear. i can't be hacking 24/7, or parsing information, sometimes i need
to build
things out of wood
to let brain reset
phf: some people like
to go about
that way as an avocation
phf: of course you have
to actually be poor
to do it
that way
phf: mircea_popescu: my calculations assume
that you're not
trying
to move into up
to standards place upfront. mircea_popescu: i'm
thinking how much it
takes
to put it in a survival mode. fridge, stove and window AC,
then you spend
the next year working over
the place on weekends. i had a few friends who did it
that way, ended up with high resale value places when
the area inevitably gentrified 10 years later
mircea_popescu: for
THAT arrangement, new ducts will run you 3-400 bucks and you're done.
mircea_popescu: anyway, "<mircea_popescu> asciilifeform cheapo scheme above, cheaper
to replace
the ducts." denotes
that in
the "central air" image i linked,
the ducts exist in
the attic as free standing
tin foil.
they're connected
to a grate in
the roof of rooms.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform hey, depends. sometime "tear
the whole shit down" is cheaper
than fix. besides, if i'm going
to pour concrete in my kitchen, i'd much rather pour
the whole floor plane.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform cheapo scheme above, cheaper
to replace
the ducts.
mircea_popescu: last
time i
took over a place, ~50 girl-hours went into scrubbing surfaces.
mircea_popescu: and
this is with free female labour
to paint walls and scrub surfaces clean, and with paint, solvent and detergent included in
the figures for
the items (which alsoinclude
transport etc)
mircea_popescu: just proper fridge (1k at
the very least) ; proper stove (about 500, fittings et all) ; dishwasher (another 500)
touches your 2k.
this includes no cabinets or other furniture, no retiling
the walls, no holy shit expenses such as redoing
the floor, fixing holes in walls or adding a section of roof etc.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo even easier in autoclaved cellular concrete, w/e
they call it in anglolands
BingoBoingo: Anyways cutting a hole in brick
to install mini-split in book room is nbd, just use a sawzall
BingoBoingo: A<mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo aha. << Actually I was
thinking mini-split. But yes "central air" in US residential use almost always means a split system.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well, jews from bukovina. first pass,
the nazis. 2nd pass,
the russians
phf: makes sense,
though i suspect particular house was untouched, or
touched up anyway. reminded me of some of
the golden youth moscow apartments,
thick beams of hardwood floor,
tiny rooms with high ceilings, certain way
the place smells
mircea_popescu: so
they'd blow up a ceiling in
the entryway
to make
the house "look"
tall, and so on.
mircea_popescu: high end stuff such as oak (we didn't count oak parquet as anything. we did peach, and cherry, and nut
tree for
the up end) costs
to put in 1/5 of what it gets priced in as.
mircea_popescu: phf but for
the floors,
this is actually what
the smart "fixers" do.
phf: also i looked at
the apartment in philadelphia
that had wall window for
the street side room, 14'' ceilings, hardwood floor everywhere. was built end of 19th century. and of course
the rent goes exponential. instead of $1000
that was sop for
the size, it was something like $2500