Kind of like how socialist regimes devolve into despotism 


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Replying to @la_bug_epoque @MoreSocialism
If warlordism wins out, then warlordism is optimal. But seeing how our techno-productive social base doesn’t graft well to despotism I doubt reality will shift into this scenario, as reality tends to select for the most stable scenario that advances techno-productive elements
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Replying to @la_bug_epoque @MoreSocialism
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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Replying to @la_bug_epoque
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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Replying to @MoreSocialism
>you need... [blah blah blah] Wrong! Try again.pic.twitter.com/PZIMpUMKHR
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Replying to @la_bug_epoque
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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Replying to @MoreSocialism
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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Replying to @la_bug_epoque @MoreSocialism
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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Replying to @la_bug_epoque @MoreSocialism
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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Replying to @la_bug_epoque @MoreSocialism
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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Stop trying to rhetorically “own” me and try to understand these ideas. Not agree with them. Just understand it.
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Replying to @la_bug_epoque
You get rid of democracy, and liberty dies pretty quickly. And the mob does pretty well.
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