My political/economic philosophy priors: 1. No rule about political/economic systems is completely accurate or universal 2. In general, emergent phenomenon from low-level agents is better than top-down rules 3. Culture has huge impact, and often determines the success of a system
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I agree. This is a point I frequently make to people who want to overthrow capitalism: you would need either several generations with massive popular support or to start anew on the moon with only willing people.
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There's a prob in that the term has acquired meaning that has little to do w free trade or owning fruit of your labor, but capitalism is the natural activity that arises among free ppl Even among ppl in cages, the most saleable good (usually cigarettes) become money for trade
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The aim of basic libertarian principles (of which political libertarians are often ignorant) is to allow ppl freedom to interact in the most efficient, creative, & culturally significant ways they can devise while minimizing costs imposed on those who wish to live another way
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The goal is to free ppl to create & adopt (or reject), in an emergent fashion, solutions to anything that may be perceived as a prob It's rejection of forced funding or subsidization of any idea or cultural practice that can't naturally sustain itself among those free to choose
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China is a perfect example of this which is why they have this incredibly weird mixture of capitalism and communism.
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Culture is memes. Opposing memes form equilibriums. Humans who don't see the world as memes shaped by game theoretic and evolutionary forces are doomed to model the world through some insufficient subset of the very memes they're modeling. Most people are just wrong all the time.
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Sure, but some system are intrinsically too down systems that won't emerge naturally.
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Good point. An example might be far east cultures being more collectivist & therefore political systems like communism might tend to work better (or just be less calamitous)
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