Choosing from your nobles ends in heredity (eventually one will appoint their own bloodline).
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it might be inevitable given a highly clannish culture but outbred NW Europeans? It's at least not easily fated.
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I'm familiar with HBD, yes. However I just couldn't parse the "but outbred NW Europeans" part.
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I'm saying it is less likely that an outbred NW European society will result in clannish or familial/inbred corruption.
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modern NWE I assume? Royals have always worked differently, they have other incentives for children as the middle class has.
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Also, there is another, better, option, not royalty but neocameralism. A CEO selected by stockholders.
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That selects for sociopaths though :/
(Or puts the market entirely in charge which is a bad idea)
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It's just instead of stockholders its "citizens" who of course select for whoever promises the biggest bribes.
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That carries the seed of its own destruction. Voter populations are dumb enough to vote for unsustainable tax cuts.
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(At least when you play it straight like that, without necessary checks/balances)
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We are both arguing now with completely different priors. I have work to do. It was an informative chat.
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