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@monarchist @korsier @freepatriot
Well, I don't know about the "best", but certainly better than what you get in a modern democracy.
In small nations, missteps become very visible, which creates a pressure to perform. Perhaps that is why micronations that are monarchies perform so well? The rulers do not want to lose their property and be the end of their line. Therefore they cannot exploit their subjects, but must listen to them.
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Choice of kings / BDFL is the best system we know of, that's how open source and the fedi works.
If you don't have choice, you're a slave. Being a slave to the will of the majority somewhat blunts the pain (not much though).
If you don't have choice, you're a slave. Being a slave to the will of the majority somewhat blunts the pain (not much though).
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@cjd @h4890 @korsier @freepatriot
There may be some nuance here too.
I think we are coming to the state to realize that social engineering, micromanagement, and scientific administration are dead ends.
We cannot force everyone into a mold and produce perfect humans.
It's just not how things work!
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@EvolLove @h4890 @korsier @freepatriot
I do not buy the Jewish world conspiracy theory. It is not logically consistent with what I have observed.
However, let us look at your important point: capitalism leads to communism.
How is this so? The same way the kings led to the rise of the middle class... prosperity frees up people to be illogical.
I tend to see what you are targeting here as consumerism more than capitalism.
Consumerism happens when people have enough free stuff that their purchasing decisions do not have impact on their futures.
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Capitalism is in my view the only working economic theory, mainly because it is simply classical economics.
Everything else requires government/politics to create substitutes for the market.
This does not end well.
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Wisdom comes from the same process as adaptation, just at a finer level of detail (and longer time scale).
The idea of the individual improving himself instead of looking for a universal solution is also more compatible with Darwin.
As a nihilist, I simply refrain from engaging in the social projection of a consensual hallucination in which absolute, universal, and objective forms of truth, values, and communications exist. It is not an accurate model.
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@Example @h4890 @korsier @freepatriot
I disagree here: Elon Musk is an excellent manager and CEO.
He built companies out of very little into grand successes.
He has taken us back to space where governments were waving little fetus hands at the issue.
In ultra-capitalist systems, someone who is good at welding will command a high price.
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The hurricanes are scary, but there are a lot of abandoned oil platforms on the gulf.
It may be that a non-socialist community would have to be constantly moving, like a giant cruise ship but without the bullshit.
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The podcast is similar. We had a great discussion in part on how the Swedish language influenced Swedish death metal riffs.
Well, now that's something worth thinking about... if you are me.
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Well, all a CEO has to do is marketing & management. That is what Elon is kind-of to quite good at, and yet he takes tasks on hand he's not good at as well. For instance, design. Just look at the Cybertruck for an example of this. But that is why you hire good designers for a fair wage. A good CEO actually recognises that the reason you hire ppl is because you are not perfect or even good at everything, so you have to get help from others who are good at the tasks at hand.
Same for ideation. A tunnel to fix traffic, using ROCKETS as airliners are just 2 of his terrible ideas.
And as for taking humanity into space, look at the US government initiative Artemis for proof of the contrary of what you said.
I totally agree with the final statement here. But this is the same in systems based around equal oppprtunities.
As for your original point of rewarding ppl good at rote memorisation vs the actual task at hand, this is not an economic but an education system level issue. Many authoritarian socialist countries had coercive education systems in place, as do many ultra-capitalist democracies. And those are the thing that rewards for rote memorisation rather than actual experience.
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The ideal leadership would take care of a few things well and leave everything else up to nature.
But to do that, you need culture to fill in for the nanny state.
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@monarchist @korsier @freepatriot Yes! That's why the lack of customer and market perspective is so lethal to any system of government.
You could add evolution or darwinism to that as well.
On a grand scale, discarding darwinism, is a way to damage the structure of society and its productive capacity and that is yet another way (social) democracy is unfeasible in the long term.
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Who is Karl Hedin? I feel like I knew this and then forgot.
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@monarchist @korsier @freepatriot
How would you handle the creation of a new monarcy?
Who would be king? And who noble? And in such a society, how would you handle if you did not make the cut and ended up as a serf?
I think, by using the term monarchy, maybe you confuse some people who have different associations.
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@monarchist @korsier @freepatriot
True. This is why capitalism, and free, competitive, markets is the only way to run a long term functioning society.
Remove that, customers, and replace it with socialist drones and "everything is free for everyone" and society soon collapses.
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@monarchist @korsier @freepatriot
Agreed! The sad fact is, that this is a proven scientific fact.
Yet every single politiciand and nation works against this, with the sky high mountain of national debt, inefficiency, bubbles and crashes that we see.
Our politicians are either retarded, live in denial or both.
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@Example @monarchist @korsier @freepatriot vista to more modern innovations.
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I might add here that external control is a different beast from having shared and overlapping goals.
I see civilization as a force-multiplier for the individual.
If I write a great symphony, I can have it performed for centuries, where otherwise it would exist only on paper in my office.
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I do not think offices are inherited in the West, despite the goofy "dynasties" we have. That I think is a temporary thing.
The advantage of aristocracy is that the leaders come from the people, are dedicated to the success of the organic nation as a whole, and therefore, tend to make long-term decisions however unpopular they are.
Popularity is usually a sickness.
