1/ I've read everything written about State Capacity Libertarianism with an open mind ... and I'm not remotely convinced. The core axiom makes sense. "We need government empowered to achieve good liberty-producing things for people". HOWEVER >>>https://twitter.com/elidourado/status/1238097103177551874 …
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@tylercowen and that crowd are all very smart. So if they have any ideas about the meta level of State Capacity Libertarianism, I'd like to hear them. Until then, SCL object-level ideas are just as boring as object-level normie-con or normie-prog ideas.Show this thread - End of conversation
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The traditional solution is to invest state power in the singular body of a King, and to align his governance incentives towards the long-term health of his polity by allowing his son to inherit. Without a formal & biological union of evaluation, democracy always entropizes.
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Agree. More "if wishes were horses" political fantasy without at least a general plan of implementation. Where I get a little hung up - and this is probably just because, frankly, you know more about this than I do - is that there appear to be NO better workable alternatives.
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Everything I've read about lately - alternatives to the current system more or less as-is (maybe with minor reform) - are either straight up fantasy, or complete bullshit. So I have to wonder: IS this as good as it gets?
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This is the classic question Moldbug posed. Most of NRx have accepted, like Hoppean an-caps, that trying to make government good everywhere is impossible, but at small scales and *locally* very achievable, thus physical removal becomes necessary.
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Given Cowen's bent towards extremely high immigration, he's undoubtedly against physical removal. At least some of the NRx sphere is accepting of small localized pockets of terrible regimes specifically to draw out the dregs from the better ones that make good governance hard.
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