This is a perfect illustration as to why merchants can *never* rule. Every merchant will take the deal because he knows some other merchant will if he won't - it's simply how merchants operate. Priests would coordinate, warriors would follow the man with imperium.https://twitter.com/CandideIII/status/1396560471604416512 …
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Funny that the USSR decisively proved that merchants absolutely cannot run society thereby disproving the basis of Marxism.https://twitter.com/CandideIII/status/1396560724499910656 …
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Covfefe has mentioned that communism suffers from the “principle-agent” problem. Soviet communism failed the 15 republics & people of them either by being a bureaucratic mess at best or just tons of death to populations, environments in work camps, famines & executions.
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I'm trying to think of specific examples of merchants failing to cohere because they tend to defect on each other as part of their regular way of doing business. The exception is something like the wage fixing cartel from a few years back with fb/aapl/goog.
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Arguments in favor other than that one example are a bit more subject to interpretation unfortunately. Companies give in to woke demands - giving in buys you some peace and if you're the only company that doesn't you're the only target and will lose worse. Classic Prisoner's D
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