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@h4890 @freepatriot

We are entering an age where three people can run a major manufacturing firm by overseeing AIs and robots.

Private ownership means no meddling by the shareholders, and the ability to plan for a long-term future.

For example, if you make bolts, these are not going to change, so you just keep cranking... and reduce staff to the minimum.

@h4890 @freepatriot

We really, really were. He arrested the slide into socialism and the total state.

@h4890 @freepatriot

At the very least:

* Ensure competence
* Anything done by government must benefit everyone
* Reward the good
* Remove the bad

Government should not be as complex as people make it out to be these days.

@h4890 @korsier @freepatriot

Don't hate me, but politics is a market.

Our politicians are created by our voters.

What the voters want to buy, they vote for.

Illusion? Those are the best sellers!

@h4890 @korsier @freepatriot

I distrust popular movements. They are almost always lies.

The check on monarchy is always the aristocracy. This worked until the church got involved.

@h4890 @korsier @freepatriot

For a monarch, the _only_ success that can be had is in making a stronger society for the long-term duration.

They are judged by history, and aware of it before all else.

@h4890 @freepatriot

Ultimately, culture is based on overlap of ends/goals.

Even if this is simple as trying to survive in some barren place.

@h4890 @freepatriot

"Truth" is a human symbolic token series representing a conception of what is real.

Science works because reality is real, and sometimes we can understand each other enough to pass on basic bits of wisdom about how reality operates.

@h4890 @freepatriot

The "Gothenburg sound" is legendary in underground metal.

Looks interesting, and I will keep an eye out for this on the usual... um... file archiving areas.

@h4890 @Example @korsier @freepatriot

Or just drop "equal" entirely and focus on "opportunity."

Life is never equal. It in fact seems to be organized on difference, not uniformity.

@h4890 @cjd @korsier @freepatriot

To enable specialization, in other words.

I am skeptical of education. Those who can benefit it tend to require only general guidance.

The rest simply use it as a step up above their actual level of competence.

@h4890 @freepatriot

I have never been able to read Neal Stephenson.

But, I like the idea of a repurposed cargo ship with a nuclear reactor, cruising the globe, maybe meeting up with even larger market and repair ships... get away from the states entirely.

@h4890 @Example @korsier @freepatriot

I think he has insight as a technologist too.

Not all of his stuff works out, and some fails hard, but he tries something else then.

@Example @h4890 @korsier @freepatriot

And three-quarters of its budget in subsidies for the poor... which somehow benefits business... and also drives up inflation.

@h4890 @korsier @freepatriot

People always want more laws, but they lead to this kind of circumstance.

If you want to protect the wolves, protect their territory.

Interesting story... disturbing.

@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.

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).
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