Randomized universal basic nobility RUBN. Every year 1% of land with titles is handed out by lottery to random people who pass a basic sanity and presentability test, get put through a finishing school, and get to hold the estate for lesser of 3 generations/100 years.
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Like dark age survivability But it has to be genuinely arbitrary, without even a whiff of justification. So billionaires as de facto nobility doesn’t work, no matter what Americans think. It’s not arbitrary enough.
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Basically a thread of civilization justified by nothing more than near-naked hobbesianism, ready to step in if more idealistic institutions weaken
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Needs a Reverse Hunger Games element though to weed out the failsonshttps://twitter.com/vgr/status/1201205015752298497?s=21 …
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An ambassador to India (from one of our neighbors) once said something that I found very insightful: the people of the Indian subcontinent never really bought into democracy/meritocracy; so we find ways to recreate dynasties in politics and business.
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