4/ so basically Robert Heinlein / James C Scott / BAP synthesis: * a human being should be able to build a house / butcher a pig / start a fire * ...because doing so allows him to escape the bugman cities where he is countable and taxable by the elites
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5/ cities are for gay men who brunch, barren women who collect handbags, snivelling policy "wonks" and other castrati retainers bronze age / Heinleinian heroes must forgo specialization and thus economic peak development (no homo economicus here) in order to escape into Zomia
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sigh every time I'm serious, you crappoast in response ; I try to meet your style of crappoasting, and you effortpoast back yes, economics is a good / real science which can certainly handle utility functions like "competence is good".
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