this theory "inequality => unrest" has about as much grip on reality as that other Whig story about how markets would inevitably birth a Cathedral-clone in China
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Replying to @marcoJcosta @Outsideness
guess nothing is happening right now in Chile, Lebanon, Ecuador, etc
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Replying to @marcoJcosta @Outsideness
why do you think people are protesting bro. too bored?
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Replying to @frostyPorcupine @marcoJcosta
Only left-wing Marxists think that people behaving like communist scum is some kind of argument.
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Replying to @Outsideness @marcoJcosta
so... no answer. funny when history actually starts moving you get completely lost. turn off your computer.
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Replying to @frostyPorcupine @marcoJcosta
The world is going to get ever more unequal and there's absolutely nothing you or anyone else can do about it.
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If no human or collection of humans can influence the long-term nature of human society, then what do you propose determines the nature of that society?
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Natural law.
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Damn, that's a surprisingly orthodox lib position from you.
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If there's more Orthodox Liberal than me, I've never come across it.
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Honestly, it is interesting that natural law theory emerged as a way to argue past the bounds of social law, and here it is reconstituted as just another way to justify social law. Something almost tragic about it, an old tool being put to poor use.
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Natural Law is not being able to run a machine without generating heat. You're over-thinking it.
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