My point about progress being made by people rejecting/avoiding power relations. Unless you think there's a fixed amount of cargo in the world and all that matters is who grabs it.
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This still has nothing to do with anything I said, and this repetition is boring.
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Huemer explains this better than I can, but in short: Violent conflict is almost always negative-sum: the losing party loses more than the winning party gains. Frequently both parties lose, as from a fight over trivial stakes.
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Replying to @St_Rev @woke8yearold and
Even when there's a winning party, that party expends resources on coercion, which functions as a tax on their winnings. Yet, mysteriously, the economy is vastly larger today than it ever was. The amount of knowledge available is many orders of magnitude greater than in the past
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Where's all that wealth coming from? From people pursuing their interests, either under coercion (which is intrinsically wasteful) or freely. That's all. One infers the amount of relatively free production/intellectual progress from the accumulation over time.
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counterpoint: wealth creation requires a certain set of conditions like "barbarians aren't coming in to kill you just for kicks", call collectively "low entropy" creating low entropy typically requires force resources needed to exert that force need to come from somewhere
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and if someone ex hypothesi can create low entropy in an area, they also can coerce its residents thus, why /wouldn't/ they recoup their costs/make a profit by coercing resources out of people
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Yes, yes, all government is kleptocracy, you won't get an argument from me about that.
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