A world without masters is improbable and undesirable. I’d rather said masters be competent, sane, and efficient, as opposed to the endless stream of clown governments demotism has brought us.
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Also the only way a market is destroyed if all life on earth ends. As long as more than one person exists, so does the market. Think more abstractly and less economically.
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No. In order to have a free market, you need extremely complex legal machinary to have corporations, currency, monetary, and trade policy, then you have intellectual property, you need law enforcement to protect corporations, and to protect property from people who want it, etc.
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So mercantilism is the capitalist state of nature? Do you think Queen Elizabeth read The Road to Serfdom?pic.twitter.com/2ZPfrgvOXf
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Merely illustrating the fact markets can exist outside the set of conditions you proposed above. All I’d did was post a map that proved your assumption false, nowhere did I say anything about mercantilism and its relation to capitalism.
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Perhaps you should stop projecting preconceived notions of what you think an NRxer or a libertarian would believe or say on me and simply engage with the ideas and concepts I articulate in a vacuum
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I’m not exactly ideologically allergic to state-led markets (I.e China). You heard me say market and jumped to the conclusion that I’m some sort of libertarian. I was merely referring to optimization via competing for consumers.
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The kernel of this engagement isn’t free market vs alternatives. It’s that I’m arguing democracy and liberty are incompatible. And that the will of the mob is foolish governance theory.
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No, despotism can take control of any system.
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1/2 It *can* Anything *can* happen. It’s just unlikely. Your political existential myth (not denigrating by calling a myth, we all believe some kind of myth) requires you to believe that it always *does* in order to legitimize your views.
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2/2 It’s like people deplatforming rightists to “prevent genocide.” JBP surely won’t lead to genocide...but the leftist *has* to believe in that myth in order to justify their behavior or actions, because without that framework their actions are pointless and absurd.
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Everyone has a myth they believe. Everyone. The key is to find a myth that is the least distance away from material reality. This minimizes cognitive dissonance and allows you to cooly and analytically analyze reality removed from emotional motivators
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You have to analyze your models. And figure out if they really predict anything at all. Then you can test them and maybe make better ones.
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Replace models with governments and predict with govern and I maybe would’ve sent this tweet. I’m constantly optimizing my worldview. I’ve even had a socialist phase (strasserist however). I’m all about diversity of ideas, and filtering them out via conception and debate
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