The essential feature of leftism is that it's an alliance for coordination in group power seeking It has a few rules that allow this coordination the most important of which is "in a dispute, always defer to the more leftist". This strategy can certainly exist in other contexts
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @CryptonMaximus
Yes, but I'm arguing against your statement that they "aren't competing for limited slots." No, that's a very real thing that is part of the problem. There were too many people taking civil service exams in Imperial China and there are too many in college today.
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Replying to @bespokecommie @CryptonMaximus
Turchin is blinkered when he says things like "there are only 535 congressional offices and state legislators hope to rise to them". There are unlimited slots on the 900 person zoom call. The result isn't competition for fixed slots, it's destructive expansion of slots.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @CryptonMaximus
My brother complains about how many useless administrative positions pop up at his college. Part of this is due to leftist spiraling (need overwatch, ideological orthodoxy, and inefficiency in the workplace)....
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But it's also a feedback loop due to again, too many people being encouraged to strive. If everyone is told college is their ticket to an office job, sooner or later the market gets constrained, depressed, and made up sinecure positions start appearing to fill the void.
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Replying to @bespokecommie @CryptonMaximus
There's no natural force that wants to create sinecures because people want them - you need to apply power to people who are productive to get them to agree to skim some off for your confederates. It's the outcome of conflict, not a market adaptation.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @CryptonMaximus
Two things can be true, that the sinecure are obviously coming from leftist pressure, but they're also a useful release valve for preventing what would otherwise become roving bands of bitter, jobless single males a la Republican Spain.
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Replying to @bespokecommie @CryptonMaximus
Roaming jobless aren't really a threat to anyone - they need shelter and food and eventually will decide to offer labor in exchange for money. Unless someone decides to pay them to never accept that type of offer...
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @CryptonMaximus
Naw, you're just not getting Turchin then. People who didn't get the careers and status they thought their education or credentials would give them are a gigantic threat to any society. Hell hath no fury like an elite denied what they think is their right.
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Replying to @bespokecommie @CryptonMaximus
There's an old joke that goes - "one lawyer in a small town and he does ok, two lawyers in a small town and they both get rich". We may be overproducing useless "elites" (verbally selected people who are only good at applying the party lie) but they're not failing to find roles.
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They're finding roles and multiplying the destructiveness of the regime so they can all feel important. 900 person zoom call.
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