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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You can exploit the less productive tho, it's called colonialism
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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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Taxes as understood by the majority (income, sales, property) may not get the T+B v. M dynamic across due to their nominally progressive nature. Other examples which may illustrate this: 1. the traffic tax (automated detection of speeding and red light violations)
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Denizens of wealthy neighborhoods are wont to use livery services, or worse try spiteful lawfare to flood entire precincts in paperwork. Around Da Projex: getting blood from a stone. Not worth putting up radar installations and cameras.
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Traffic enforcement is local too so even in the rich areas the money is going to the school administration ... of the rich area - on net the only effect is some skim. It's a training program to keep the cops sharp in case they need them to stop state sponsored anarcho-tyranny.
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Around the projex as you said - blood from a stone but on top of that *everyone* there has warrants already anyway, too.
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