I mean yes, there are more people who could produce wealth than there are people who are systemically able to produce wealth under any given system. But not that many more. Not enough that you can replace them. "Too big to fail" is ultimately "too rare to waste"
I support leftist's right to be wrong in speach but almost everything the left wants to implement is coercive if not outright violent. Redistribution isn't non coercive. It's not even distributedly coercive. It targets a minority of people disproportionately and continuously.
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But I suppose technology might change that. Maybe neuralink will make people universally competent or something. In the end hierarchies can only be abolished by tangible changes in material circumstance, which means tech, not yelling at or cancelling people. Not even bad people.
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There are upsides and downsides. The elimination of moral hazard among the elites would be good. The fact that cancellation becomes more tenable the more technology the elites produce is sort of an instance of selling them the rope to hang you with.
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Progress is built on forms of coercion that progress itself iterates past. This is worth understanding. Mercy to evil people is very closely related to respect for one's ancestors and precursors. At least, whenever evil is more than pointless, which is often enough.
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