So, continually changing the rules once Capitalist Central Takeover End of History gets too close? I like capital, but there's an obvious flaw in this within a closed system
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Replying to @17cShyteposter @distronamous
The flaw in every closed system is that in the long run the selection process for how systems get run is to tilt entirely towards people good at taking over systems rather than keeping systems functional. The market solves this through competition but ...
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... the market only allows competition when its players don't get cordycepted by the same agents that run the state - which is what has happened to very large degree and is only increasing. Market players are tempting prizes to capture b/c they're better run than demotist states
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @distronamous
All capitalism converges on this, though. That's what Land and Moldbug understand. Moldbug is a terrestrial, Land is an extraterrestrial
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How does the state prevent its capital agents from selling out to outside-state interests?
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So, fascism? This is not a trick question
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Let's take a concrete theoretical example. Let's say someone is appointed the Royal Lord-Protector of His Majesty's National Phone Network and it turns out that the phone network is unusable for communicating with people because it is overwhelmed by scam calls from India.
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Now, one year a plague rolls around and His Majesty decides that after closing off foreign travel he would also like to rely on the ability to contact his subjects to trace any possible spread of this plague. Who is responsible for harming His Majesty's nation?
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Simply solvable because of responsibility wedded to authority. Who is responsible for the people's telephone system in the US and that it's unusable? No one.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @17cShyteposter and
Someone Is calling the shots but there is no one to take responsibility for the failure of those shots, curios. A "formalist manifesto" indeed.
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