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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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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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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.
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@korsier @freepatriot @monarchist optimize for different stages of your life, I think is the best you can do at the moment.
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@monarchist @korsier @freepatriot
I think democracy is perhaps more stable as libertarian societies, but looking at the world now, it seems as if democracy starts to deteriorate latest at around 200 years or so.
Switzerland is probably one of the few exceptions to this that I know.
I suspect this is very much connected with swiss culture, and a strong sense of decentralization and self-government.
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When it comes to democratic socialism, that is no such thing. All socialism is by definition authoritarian, and any veneer of democray is just for show.
The trick, used in western europe, is just to give several varieties of socialism to vote for, but never to allow any party that is not socialist. We are all seeing how socialism has damaged western europe with mass importation of arabians and africans.
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Actually it is scientifically proven that capitalism and strong property rights are the key to high quality of life and material welfare. The nobel prize in economics 2024 was awarded for part of this discovery.
I think what you are referring to is _mercantilism_ where government and government sponsored corporations are collaborating.
This has nothing to do with capitalism or libertarianism.
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Every state is authoritarian if you end up on the wrong side of the overton window. Look no further than Robinson in the UK or Karl Hedin in sweden.
So no matter the country, sadly you will give up freedoms. The key is to triangulate which freedom to give up in return for what.
I know people who have lived happily enough in singapore as programmers for several years, earned a nest egg, and then moved on when the time came to start a family.
