I honestly thought all those libertarian asteroid mining scifi novels I read as a kid were exaggerating the extent to which people would call for crackdowns on unpermitted innovationhttps://twitter.com/Ebonyteach/status/961649680152186880 …
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Replying to @hikikomorphism
It’s funny how people apply those ideas to space without noticing how politically radical they would be to apply on earth.
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Replying to @chenoehart @hikikomorphism
According to Fukuyama it's how land use rights work in Melanesia (and it's terrible)pic.twitter.com/0nlijzm38C
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Check out de Soto’s _The Mystery of Capital_, which says that cadastral registry is the One Weird Trick that makes developed economies work. Probably overstated, but he makes a strong argument, which I found inspiring.https://www.amazon.com/Mystery-Capital-Capitalism-Triumphs-Everywhere/dp/0465016154 …
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Fukuyama definitely makes a big deal of that although it's lumped more generally under "rule of law"
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Replying to @The_Lagrangian @Meaningness and
though interestingly developing alienable political titles is identified as the source of political decay (Ottoman Janissaries / French rente-seekers of the ancien regime)
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Interesting! Analogously, simony seems to have been the main issue that drove the Protestant Reformation
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