Liberal democracy is bad because of a chain of implications: Politics need teams Coalitions need gibs To give gibs you need to take them from someone To take from someone you need to morally elevate the receiver and denigrate the ones getting robbed (continued)https://twitter.com/pompilivs/status/1428265323782881280 …
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It doesn't require a productivity gain from institutional efficiency, you can definitely run extractive taxation in a colony. Contemporary California, Illinois, NY, or colonial India or (attempted) North America provide examples.
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Who gets taxed in CA and NY? Combination of people collecting payments for being politically connected and a few people performing valuable economic activity. The low aren't paying any taxes in CA and NY - they're collecting taxes.
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No, that's bettering institutions elsewhere, this is worsening institutions here
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