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Should have said this!

First, I would like to make a slight detour here to address cars and corpo bureaucracy. Regarding bureaucracy and people scarcity, it is my opinion that ultimately higher labor costs can IMHO force an organization to become more efficient and innovative. Another country that managed to smash US...

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So basically ancaps or purity spiralling "Minarchists" turning into ancaps because they don't understand some specific aspects of human nature, like nationalism and other "non-objective" forms of unobjective behavior brought upon by kin selection?

Yes, and in that way you get a large pool of people who would work for pennies on the dollar and probably hate the host society and its ideals, like for example many Indians in the western tech industry. And when they get to key positions they push for more outsourcing to India and install their...

Well, some forms of migration, in particular company-sponsored migration, are pretty much a form of roman slave trade with a few companies importing cheap, often substandard staff and/or outsourcing important work outright. This puts downward pressure on wages and makes it harder for people to...

I thought both classic liberalism and the various leftist ideologies all got influenced byJean-Jacques Rousseau and his ilk. You know, noble savage, man is born free but everywhere he is in chains and all that jazz.

I think that the whole idea behind socialism/communism is that once all of the boogiemen are killed off and soviets have seized the means of production everyone will choose to live in the commie utopa. Marxists see the state as something they have to capture, but their belief is that afterwards...

Notice I said potentially. Also, libertarians have one subjective view of rationality, while rationality from a purely evolutionary standpoint might be very, very different. Also most Ancaps and the other True Libertarians TM that I met over the years were usually all too eager to call me a...

My soon to be even more worthless 0.02 Euros. Libertarianism has the exact same problem as Communism, liberalism and socialism, although it is a bit more realistic because it understands the profit motive. Those philosophies all view human beings as potentially rational, individualistic and...