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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @didiplaywell 18 Nov \ parent \ on: Etatism: Self-generated Entropy Will Bring Down The Leviathan Politics_And_Law
History is on the making, will share what shape this arrives to on 2027, when we will have elections again and the result of re-culturization will be revealed.
The leviathan can not but fail and only fail. His inherent collapse mechanism you are referring to was actually the first critique made to socialism by Mises.
That's not the problem, however. The problem is that it always comes back.
That's what we are trying to revert once and for all here in Argentina. Milei calls his strategy for this as "right wing gramscism".
i think he might be right
Oh, he is. I can tell you.
must be quite satisfying to watch him chainsaw the shit out of the parasites
Orgasmic, that's the word. It feels orgasmic.
It's quite divided here:
- There's an army of millions of state parasites who "work" for the state (all of them being progressively severed by Milei right now), who are in all aspects and senses a modern nobility, for the state grants them special economical and legal privileges. Those are the ones which hold a status quo, but are not a majority.
- There's a 10x bigger (hard numbers, 20 million indigents) army of parasites who live entirely out of pensions and state benefits, but dwell in cluttered slums. The trick there is to have them always on the edge, so that even if they despise socialism, they have to vote for it just to not to die from hunger.
- Then there's the other half of the population who works entirely just to keep the two groups above, but are so indoctrinated into socialism that despite of being humiliated and exploited by it (no wealth, no status quo), still will vote for it because is the only thing they can understand. When something is "private", is "evil", when something belongs to the state, is "holy". And all failures and shortcomings are due to the evil imperialist countries who permanently boycott the country to make socialism fail.
Here the boomers feel the exact same, except that their special cocktail of not having a clue on economic and political affairs, thus being solely responsible of the current economic and political distress, and on top of that, vehemently rejecting and ridiculing the one guy that came to fix it (Milei), made them a laughing stock for the youth. The teenagers are solely responsible for our current comeback from never-ending decadence. You have this kids explaining their fathers how reality works. It's to be recognized that, besides the blind pride of our boomers, which almost causes Milei to lose last year, most at least have a reluctant but noble inclination to hear their sons. Had this happened in previous generations, Milei would not exist for teens were culturally forbidden to raise up an opinion to their fathers.
I'm having an excellent experience so far. Content is good and informational. Just be diligent at muting bad quality authors and bad quality territories and you are good to go.
I have muted:
- Aliens and UFOs
- Conspiracy
- Dogs and Cats
- A tad lot of bad posters
I think I follow barely a couple of stackers, and I'm looking exclusively at the "hot" page to have a quick glance at SN. Simple and efficient. So far, no complaints!
Allow my autism to stretch this a bit further in regard to the phrasing we are using.
I understand from your phrasing that while you can supply what the market demands, you can't not take the word of the market on how to actually make it. This is a well known effect, traditionally illustrated by the Simpsons episode Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?.
But I would like to separate that from the demand itself. To "follow the market" is to hear and answer the overall demand of the people. That was my case: I was looking for something like Nostr and I was more than happy to find it. You saw the need and you provided a solution. Now if I demand that I want to be able to edit "tweets", you know that I actually don't want to, that what I want is a communication system that's not a walled garden. A similar effect happened to me when I was looking for note taking apps: I was looking for an app full of features I thought I needed, and when I found the apps that provided it, the experience ended up being a bloated, laggy, cluttered and unwieldy mess, and I found out that I was way better off with plain txt notes. Then I understood that I did not needed anything of what I thought I needed, and reasoned better my way towards obsidian and it ended up being absolute gold and never looked back: I did not needed complex mind-mapping graphs and integrations and etc. My overall demand was "I need a note-taking tool", but I didn't knew I only needed my file structure in the left, my content structure in the right, and my outlines in the middle, to get it. Simple, efficient. I vow for core Nostr to be the same.
Anything that mimics a real market (p2p, v4v) will work. Maybe the question is "where do SN differs from a real market, so that it provides undesirable incentives?". How will SN differ? In a real market every interaction is equilibrated, for you can only interact via v4v. So wherever there's no v4v, quality will degrade.
For example: low quality content in Nostr is being caused due to zero initial investment that can potentially lead to apparent effortless gains. But the risk to try is zero so even if it doesn't work it's a no-brainer to try just in case.
In social networks where there's no immediate economic revenue, there's nothing like "try just in case", and at most you have to spend great effort to attract a large enough audience to even start being able to make money. So at first zero risk is found with zero gains. This is a special case of v4v where costs are equally 0, so v4v transitions to content/reaction: you write to get a reaction you consider worthy. You give content to get content back.
In the case of SN, zap gains are equilibrated with the fact you have to spend to post. Having a high enough initial risk, the v4v in terms of money is equilibrated enough, so that v4v in terms of content/reaction is more independent of an imbalance in v4v in terms of money (Nostr is still imbalanced), prompting good quality content back again.
Follow the market. Exchange equilibrium is the maximum law. Anything else follows suit.
I love so much to see the historical evolution of this symbols. It's like seeing water flowing. It's beautiful how the markings evolved to converge with others whose meaning was close enough to enhance the original one.
Delightful as always sensei :)
The day I be able to start learning the language, I will be able to absorb it much better thanks to this bits of criteria.
It's not a line but a cycle: hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, weak men create hard times.
Here in Argentina the younger generations see the previous ones, their fathers specially (our boomers), as weak and naive. And they are right. In today's political arena the teenagers are the sharpest, and boomers are helpless.
If Germany keeps repeating this modus operandi my guess is that by 2089 a second Berlin wall will be taken down.
Thus, devastation when they are exposed to outside influences.
No, this is the part you are not getting. Devastation occurs because local businesses become both non-competitive and expensive (for prices can rise up to the tariffs and more), and before markets are re-opened, which is done indeed to allow the economy to come back to life and correct the damage protectionism caused. I'm not theorizing, I'm not making assumptions based on something I was told, I'm telling you exactly how it works from within, because I'm living it.
Trump will not apply tariffs because that will blow up the economy. He is blandishing that possibility as a weapon to actually negotiate free-trade treatises, as with Argentina right now, and China soon.