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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In a diverse country, there's always a group that's less productive and one more productive Can't have the more productive as clients because there's no way to pay them off That's it - that's the whole problem and it's unsolvable.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon
You can exploit the less productive tho, it's called colonialism
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Replying to @xctlot
That's not exploiting them - that's making profit from ruling them better than the native ruling class. Exactly the same as the "rational" argument for immigration ("our better institutions allow them to be more productive"), funny enough.
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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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All of those states run taxation + "service" regimes that extract from the middle class in their non core areas, and actually make them less productive by forbidding broad swathes of economic activity (eg manufacturing or resource extraction).
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They extract from non-connected middle and give to a connected middle (MTA is a great example). They forbid manufacturing and resource extraction because that's part of their religion - the people who do those jobs are villainized as described in the OP.
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