Why are the Jews so powerful?

Quote from Martinghoul:

There's a theory that I heard that attempts to explain competitive advantage within any given setting through several factors (if you're curious look at work done by Thomas Powell). Most importantly, it's 1) population size (self-explanatory), 2) search efficacy (how well the group can locate individuals most likely to outperform), and 3) performance incentives (how individuals are rewarded for outperformance). It's quite clear to me that, in spite of having no luck with #1, the Jewish tradition has managed to perfect #2 and #3.
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russia tried this kind of stuff

didn't work out too well for them in the aggregate

works better when people are free to follow their own desires and objectives


if obama and his crew remain in power, i have little doubt that they, too, will try to pick the winners among us
 
Going to race as the prmary factor is itself racist in nature.

Quote from AlpineTrout:

People misuse the words racist and racism quite often.

A bigot is a person that HATES certain people, because of their, race, religion, nationality, haircolor, whatever.

Someone that is prejudice, is a person that PREJUDGES someone based on their religion, race, etc.

A rascist is a person that believes that he is GENETICALLY superior to others based on his particular race.

Based on the above definitions I don't find anything racist about his post. Human history is full of disgusting facts, but the truth is never controversial, it's simply the truth.
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How about jews have a more efficient belief system. I am talking about religion(that is one of the reasons people missed in this thread altogether).

Few people know that christianity originally advocated giving personal property to the poor and the all time priceless "camel through the eye of a needle and richman to heavens". This retarded system of beliefs surely results in greater poverty than communism can ever imagine. Not suprisingly, most important and controversial aspects of christianity are pushed under the rug so to speak.

Judaism advocates dealing with this world in this world instead of ignoring it altogether in favor of after life. Success in this world is worthwhile in part because existence in this world has a meaning distinct from after life.

If you take Islam and Christianity when implemented fully, they are EXTREMELY destructive for purposes of progress and achievement.

Why are muslisms lagging according to that article? ISLAM that is why.
 
Quote from IShopAtPublix:

How about jews have a more efficient belief system. I am talking about religion(that is one of the reasons people missed in this thread altogether).

Few people know that christianity originally advocated giving personal property to the poor and the all time priceless "camel through the eye of a needle and richman to heavens". This retarded system of beliefs surely results in greater poverty than communism can ever imagine. Not suprisingly, most important and controversial aspects of christianity are pushed under the rug so to speak.
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Yeah, but we're also prone to shameless narcissism, unfortunately.

What else could possibly compel me to search the archives every time I encounter someone echoing the exact same point I've made in the past? :p

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11-19-08

Generally speaking, Jews haven't acquired above-average levels of wealth by 'Jewing it out of' other people... we just don't have certain obstacles that many others have been saddled with since childhood. While little Christian kids are indoctrinated that "“It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God”, Jewish kids are unequivocally taught that there's <b>absolutely nothing</b> admirable or virtuous about poverty.
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http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=2184556&highlight=needle#post2184556
 
Quote from achilles28:


their culture values discipline, formal education and achievement.
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This is the most important point. Its all about CULTURE.

Even if you took all the political and economic power away from Jew AMERICANS, they'd gain it right back in a few generations because their competition (niggers, spics, and white trash) are laughably dumb and lazy.

Jews value whole families (instead of broken families) and academic/career/business achievement and so they excel in these areas.

So what do niggers, spics, and white trash value? Broken families, all forms of abuse, disdain for education, disdain for capitalism, disdain for hard work - typical impoverished mentality of people that can't survive without government welfare.

I emphasized Jew AMERICANS earlier because America enables ANYONE to succeed - this is not true in any other continent/country.

And everything I said about the Jew Americans also applies to most Asian Americans (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian).

Its all about CULTURE. Israelis and Palestinians are cousins yet culture makes a huge difference. North and South Koreans are cousins, yet culture makes a huge difference. Indians and Pakistanis are cousins, yet culture makes a huge difference.

BTW I HATE the Jews - them money changers have been blowing up banking systems for thousands of years (in every country they exist in). But you know what? I only want to live in neighborhoods with lots of Jews. And I'd want my kids to hang out with Jews rather than your typical nigger, spic, or white trash underachievers.
 
"jewish genes have been selected for intelligence..."

Oy vey Adolph...


Quote from Mom0/pH0x:

I think that the most prevalent factor which has engendered jewish achievement has been ignored here... sure there are cultural imperatives which encourage success in jewish homes and hinder success in some gentile ones... but i think the true explanation has still eluded our discussion here... Much like genes of North American blacks have been manually selected for physical strength, jewish genes have been selected for intelligence...

For over a millennium, we have been restricted to occupations which demand higher levels of cognitive ability. Bankers, lenders, merchants, and traders were the only vocational options for us, for most of recorded history. Unlike today, where the richest tend to have fewer children, then wealth was typically associated with numerous offspring. At this point in history, the vast majority of humanity was either a soldier, a farmer, a ruler, or a clergyman. All of these occupations have significantly lower cognitive demands than the vocations open to us.

Finally, and most importantly... think of all the expulsions, pogroms, and massacres we experienced throughout all the centuries... as numerous as they were... who survived them? The strong ones? No. The big ones? No. The SMART ones.... the clever ones... and what was left over? The smart ones to reproduce with other smart ones...

Here we have a genetically isolated population of which the dumbest 50% is eliminated every few generations and the smartest are left to reproduce with the smartest at each bottleneck with VERY VERY little genetic admixture... On top of that they are restricted to cognitively demanding professions... after 800-900 CE we weren't allowed to have weapons and also had to think of more clever and creative ways to survive... cultural solidarity and regular travel implicit in the available vocations to us gave us unique abilities to communicate across far flung communities... Cultural imperatives of literacy were also a factor, given these condition... can you really be surprised with the jewish achievement we see today?
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Quote from Mom0/pH0x:

I think that the most prevalent factor which has engendered jewish achievement has been ignored here... sure there are cultural imperatives which encourage success in jewish homes and hinder success in some gentile ones... but i think the true explanation has still eluded our discussion here... Much like genes of North American blacks have been manually selected for physical strength, jewish genes have been selected for intelligence...

For over a millennium, we have been restricted to occupations which demand higher levels of cognitive ability. Bankers, lenders, merchants, and traders were the only vocational options for us, for most of recorded history. Unlike today, where the richest tend to have fewer children, then wealth was typically associated with numerous offspring. At this point in history, the vast majority of humanity was either a soldier, a farmer, a ruler, or a clergyman. All of these occupations have significantly lower cognitive demands than the vocations open to us.

Finally, and most importantly... think of all the expulsions, pogroms, and massacres we experienced throughout all the centuries... as numerous as they were... who survived them? The strong ones? No. The big ones? No. The SMART ones.... the clever ones... and what was left over? The smart ones to reproduce with other smart ones...

Here we have a genetically isolated population of which the dumbest 50% is eliminated every few generations and the smartest are left to reproduce with the smartest at each bottleneck with VERY VERY little genetic admixture... On top of that they are restricted to cognitively demanding professions... after 800-900 CE we weren't allowed to have weapons and also had to think of more clever and creative ways to survive... cultural solidarity and regular travel implicit in the available vocations to us gave us unique abilities to communicate across far flung communities... Cultural imperatives of literacy were also a factor, given these condition... can you really be surprised with the jewish achievement we see today?
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Nice theory, but such a theory is easily testable and so I'm sure it has been tested. If there was any truth to it, we'd know it by now.

So again, I'm confident that Culture plays the biggest role in whether an individual person, group of people, or even nations succeed or fail.

But culture don't mean shit without opportunity, the opportunity has to be there. And America is still the land of opportunity. If you can't make it in America, you can't make it anywhere.
 
Quote from Mom0/pH0x:

http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/articles/media/2006_06_17_thenewrepublic.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_intelligence

http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=4032638

http://homepage.mac.com/harpend/.Public/AshkenaziIQ.jbiosocsci.pdf

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+B...Intelligence,+and+the+Future+of...-a016823476

and finally a video of a lecture if you don't care to read so much

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6037708729636407580

it simply flies in the face of the collective PC entity to acknowledge the fact that genes could have anything whatsoever to do with intelligence... people who study and advocate these theories have been threatened and intimidated by those who pray to the PC god..

but yes, studies have been done, and it has been tested, ever read "the bell curve"? :)
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Okay, you have me convinced.

Here is another article on the subject:
http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/culture/features/1478/
 
Quote from OPTIONAL777:

"Yeah, but we're also prone to shameless narcissism, unfortunately."

And damn proud of it, right?
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I'm sorry your Jewish ex-wife left you, but isn't all that really just between you & her? I think I read somewhere that resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
 
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