Wokeness is not an ideology (or religion) that secondarily has a massive dead-weight social cost, but rather a massive dead-weight social cost that promotes itself through an ideology (or religion).
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Replying to @Outsideness
Dead weight exists, and religion (and ideology, which is religion) are the metaphorical equivalent of the brakes on an electric vehicle, capturing what they can from the entropy. I'm not peak oil, but I'm peak human capital.
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Replying to @The_WGD @Outsideness
braking increases entropy though a frictionless system runs forever
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Replying to @cryst4lb3pis @Outsideness
"Dead weight exists..." desiring this to be otherwise is a common failure mode.
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Replying to @The_WGD @Outsideness
eventually capitalism will have no need for dead weight brakes, whether they be trad/lindy or woke, seek to delay that as long as possible. today is just garbage time. the systems we live under are already being out-evolved, c.f. encryption, bitcoin, smart contracts, etc
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Replying to @cryst4lb3pis @Outsideness
This is indistinguishable from millenarian religious argument. Replace "capitalism" with your choice of religious indicator.
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Replying to @The_WGD @Outsideness
I have to disagree. Religions need ideology to exist and reproduce themselves. Capitalism just emerges spontaneously, it doesn't really need to brainworm you. Though certain religious/cultural milieus are obviously more conducive to its emergence than others
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>Capitalism just emerges spontaneously This is the Ayn Rand / libertarian mistake Humans naturally trade but sophisticated trading and capital use require good and stable governance or a short sighted government will empower itself through envy and simply destroy (as ours does)
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Yeah I agree ofc. I wasn't saying that it appeared ex nihilo, just that it doesn't really need to be bootstrapped by ideology and emerges from uncoordinated feedback loops as opposed to some king sitting down and saying "ok, we're doing capitalism now"
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The King really does need to sit down and say that though. He has to tell his lords things like: "Don't steal the capital of your wealthy subjects, even if you are in dire straits - it hurts the long-term value of my Kingdom" "Make sure to protect the roads in your fief" etc.
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He certainly has to set up certain conditions conducive to property ownership and a general lack of crime and unrest, but he doesn't really have to knowingly "press the capitalism button".
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Replying to @cryst4lb3pis @CovfefeAnon and
The earliest exponential processes of resource accumulation and technologization in Europe date back ~1000 years to when peasants started using mouldboard plows and horse collars so that they could plow w/ horses.
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