The problem is the marriage of liberalism and free markets. For that reason, I'd love to see "I'm socially liberal, but fiscally conservative" types try to answer this.https://twitter.com/michaelbd/status/1081417901423448066 …
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Liberalism is based on the idea of pure reason—individuals reasoning our way to political/social truth This is incompatible with what we might call "received culture," tradition, because tradition is not the product of individual intelligence—but of group intelligence. Early AI.
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A lot of social technology *just stops working* when you have to reason it out from first principles - because the individually rational thing to do is defect in the prisoner's dilemma Social tech was invented to allow people to be irrationally cooperative for their own benefit
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