Molson Hart

A little bit. But 1) the black market is capped (you can't be big). With UBI you can still be the CEO of Google. 2) In communism actual confiscations, forced evictions were fairly common. 3) Govt directly spent much of the GDP (e.g. on military) instead of subsidising people.

A little bit off topic but a very interesting thing i'm researching. In Germany the gov. redistributes ~45% of the GDP, but the federal budget is only ~10%. The rest goes to states (10%), municipalities (10%), individuals through social security (15%).

Nnt approved resource allocation! I think that's great, however, I think the world benefits, in general (not always e.g. Iraq and other u.s. military interventions), from a pax americanus driven by federal military expenditure. What do you think?

I plan to do a comparative analysis between countries. They do as long as the USA uses it very carefully :) Europe certainly has, Middle East not so much. But, in the 21th century there will be no pax X. There will be multiple powerful states. So more tricky.

Agreed. I look forward to your comparative analysis and hope, to the extent possible, it includes multiple nations.

Thanks, it's very hard to find reliable data though. Just for the above 3 German numbers I had to google for hours. Most public databases have very unreliable sub-national data if any... No wonder the idea of distribution is not really out there.

For example post WWI Germany got the idea from the Roman Catholic Church (subsidiarity in Catholic Social Teachings) which according to Taleb is the successor of the Roman Empire, not from any social sciences.

What about Switzerland? They've cantonning for a while now no? Also I thought that Prussia was a confederation?