Proposal: 4 axis model for classifying regimes for analyzing / predicting them. Axis 1: Power holders - Single, Group, Mass Axis 2: Power openness - Hidden, Open Axis 3: Formality - Formal, Informal Axis 4: Ruling cohesion basis - Priest, Warrior, Merchant
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The last one needs some explaining "We run the place well and there will be prosperity"- Merchant "Let's do good in the world" Priest "We stick together and protect our own" Warrior
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Some classifications as a sample: US - Many, informal, priestly, hidden power China - Many, formal, merchant, open power Recent history: Singapore under LKW - One, informal (not a formal King), merchant, open power
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon
US is peak merchant to the point that every other class is merchant's lackey.
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Replying to @handle_anonymus
Right, which is why when someone suggests doing something holy that will cost the company money - such as pandering to a tiny minority that people find repulsive everyone knows that demand will be ridiculed and the suggester will be fired. Because they're focused on money making
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon
Americans have a warped sense of reality as they are inside the system. What is proclaimed as holy in USA is focused on making money. US is an extractive machinery to transfer wealth from rest of the world to US (at least some people) with its prole getting significant crumbs.
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Replying to @handle_anonymus
You're the one with a warped sense of reality if you think wokeness is aimed in some way at making money. Disney buys Star Wars for $4 billion and utterly destroys the value of it because they'd rather signal their devotion to the prog religion. That isn't aimed at making money.
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You could not have MNCs, short of militarily subjugating a country, without migration & outsourcing. You would not have prosperity without free trade which inflate ability of $ to purchase products. You would not have vulgar level of agri-surplus for pennies without slave labour.
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>You would not have vulgar level of agri-surplus for pennies without slave labour Oh yeah, who controls the world? Strawberry farmers! This is insanity levels of "well if Marxism and reality conflict, I'm sticking with Marxism"
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