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3 of these are stupid wrong. 4 if you count school as a job.

@monarchist @korsier @freepatriot I often think about the Coca Cola case.

Lots of people drink way too much Coca Cola.

I then try to come up with, how can markets be made more functional, and will that help people realize that they should not drink too much Coca Cola?

Is better education needed?

A long term fix is of course darwinism, but that only works over generations.

@korsier @freepatriot @monarchist

Is there a list of micro nations and how they are doing?

Also, this is an interesting observation. Is there anything that would have prevented pacific islands from innovating? Or is it that the heritage and culture of Liechtenstein and Monaco are superior which enabled them to survive?

Let me throw in the caribbean islands into the mix. There are quite a few which focus on banking and they seem to be pretty successful.

@korsier @freepatriot @monarchist

True! Since there is no accountability in politics, and since people are "captured" for 4 years, it makes long term, well thought out plans impossible, and socialism more or less inevitable in order to buy votes.

@monarchist @cjd @korsier @freepatriot

Oh yes! Modern education is a joke and is deteriorating world wide due to "equality" and woke.

I think a return to the school of the late 1800s or early 1900s would be the best way forward.

We also need to cut the time people spend in school. Todays 9 years + 3 + 4, in europe, if you aim at a bachelors degree, is completely ridiculous!

9 + 3 years should be _more_ than enough to learn what you want to learn in order to work in the private sector.

@monarchist @freepatriot Reading Max Stirners the ego and its own, another point of view is that monarchy was replaced by the "monarcy of the people". What he means is that instead of an all mighty king, now, the principle of "man"/"mankind"/"the people" became the new king with all the power.

The only difference is that instead of the king distributing the power to the nobility and so on, it now goes from the president and parliament.

@monarchist @freepatriot So what was eliminated was the need to follow another persons orders. Now the other person (the king/nobility) was replaced with the order of the "nation" or "the people" which of course does not exist, and is just a fig leaf for which ever organization happens to be in power.

But the masses swallowed this illusion more easily than monarchy.

Something like that, his reasoning goes.

@monarchist @freepatriot True. I would just add "public shareholders". Private companies have shares, but they are held by the owners. No "public" people moving in, and most definitely not blackrock buying stakes to promote wokism.

I do have to admit that being the sole owner of my business has significant benefits.

@monarchist @korsier @freepatriot

I'm not so sure I agree with the definition. For a market, there has to be buyers and sellers, there has to be free, informed consent, there needs to be competition, and freedom for all the players to act on the free market.

Now, taking all those criterias and applying them to western politics, I don't quite see enough of a similarity to call it a "market".

Politics has sky high barriers to entry, the choice is limited, there's no accountability, and there

@monarchist @korsier @freepatriot is no free informed consent in the transaction.

@monarchist @freepatriot They talk about him, and credit him. Did you know that his father was a producer of swedish country music?

Then one day he came into the studio and his son plays something very weird and new, and the father just said... "wow, we have to make a record"!

So his father his fathers instant insight was a key to their success.

@monarchist @freepatriot Could culture be defined as "overlapping goals"?

As a thought experiment, imagine a couple of families living in close proximity in a tough area. One overlapping goal is that they want to survive. Another one is that they want the others to survive, in order to be able to get help when building a house or harvesting. A third might be to build up a reserve of grain together as an insurance against a bad harvest.

@monarchist @freepatriot True. That issues and government is "complex" is just an illusion created to keep the political class in power.

In reality, you could probably remove 99% of the government tomorrow, and people would do exactly what they did today. They would still go to their (private) jobs and do what they enjoy.

This is the dirty secret that politicians want to hide. Imagine if it got out... then people might start to insist on no government or a small government!