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Vitalik Buterin
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This may be the strongest case for authoritarianism: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/how-liberal-democracy-might-lose Basically: the war for people's hearts and minds has no stable equilibrium except local hegemony of one dominant elite, much like (and for the same reasons as) what Hobbes pointed out for regular war.
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MingMing13
@mingming13
I don't like the article right from the get up because Noah is wrong. He was raised In a liberal democracy that defeated authoritarianism yet 35% of his income is taken from a barrel of a gun to pay for socialist causes. Communism is dead? Poppycock. Imperialism is gone until US needs oil. CCP exists...
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LONO 🎩🐹
@lono.eth
good thing socialism doesn't have to mean authoritarianism and can be part of a reasonable, hybrid capitalist/socialist liberal democracy.
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MingMing13
@mingming13
Capitalism and socialism don't exist. They're spooks. hence "hybrid". All that is are markets, and how freely you're allowed to use them A true Democracy means that the crowd can determine tax rate on market In practice we have criminal democracies where political elites choose the tax rate. all based on violence
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gill
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oh capitalism exists all right. Since the French Revolution, the elites have been quite successful in accumulating capital and molding power structures to work on their favor. Plus maintaining a hugely successful ideology of morally superior democrat society vs "evil dictators" in their (loosely) Socialist govts.
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