This comes down to the real meaning of the NRx statement that progressivism is a religion. It's not a sneer; a way to say "ha ha! look at those idiots with their irrational belief" Religions are *powerful* because they provide a Schelling point for cooperation between strangershttps://twitter.com/DavidSharp84/status/1231054950748295173 …
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Look at the ex of the Oracle employees. Are they paying a cost by walking out and signalling progressive loyalty or are they gaining a benefit? There are two potential ways they could be paying a cost: Future employers will look less favorably on them Oracle will fire them
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Oracle isn't a single actor and relies on agents to protect its interests - agents that might *also* be more loyal to progressivism than to Oracle. Other employers aren't going to punish workers for being disloyal to Oracle for the same reason - their managers might be progs
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IOW, progs have a cooperative framework outside and above the money economy. This is the framework for NRx saying that merchants can't rule; only priests or warriors can rule
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In other words, they don't lend or give social capital to outsiders.
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That's part of it. The bigger part is that they work together to co-opt existing organizations. Progs in Oracle don't work for Oracle, they work for prog-dom.
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