netstack
Texas is freedom land
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netstack
Texas is freedom land
4d ago
It's not about GDP. Individuals don't choose their career to please the Federal Reserve. So why are women--because men, naturally, aren't expected to do anything so fulfilling--choosing instead to sell their labor on the market?
As far as revealed preferences go, this one isn't particularly shocking. Since the dawn of civilization, the rich and powerful have been paying other people to deal with their kids. Technology has made that dubious ambition much more attainable.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
5d ago
I think you’re assuming the conclusion. The economic forces which make babysitters and dishwashers ubiquitous wouldn’t disappear if we’d never started critiquing imperialism.
I also think your view of the past is rose-tinted as hell. 1700s America wasn’t an endless quilt of Amish communities, waiting to be tempted out of Eden. It was a hungry, dirty, disease-ridden frontier just starting to climb the curve of industrialization. Communities weren’t solving each others’ problems “for free.” They were paying their dues on their own social contract.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6d ago
I agree that climate change gets the lion’s share of messaging, especially in outward-facing, soundbite-oriented places like that website. It has won the coveted position of shorthand for its whole cluster of related policy.
I don’t actually think that indicates loss of support for the old policies. More that their low-hanging fruit has been picked. Or, I guess, that the bureaucracy to do so has already been put in place.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6d ago
netstack
Texas is freedom land
6d ago
Please make your points without the gratuitous insults.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
8d ago
Ah, that makes me think of vintage Day[9] Funday Mondays. A different time.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
9d ago
Please refrain from attacking others as insincere. The generalized rage isn’t particularly constructive, either.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
10d ago
McGregor is a public figure, and it’s reasonable for a news outlet to blast him while ignoring random scumbags like Pulka.
The problem comes from ignoring some random scumbags based on their ethnicities. Or, as was done here, criticizing Schrodinger’s Perp for his male privilege up until the waveform collapses and he is revealed to have immunity. That’s despicable, but it’s got nothing to do with how one treats McGregor.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
10d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War
See also the Chechnya, Nagorno-Karabakh, and God knows what other conflicts in the region.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
11d ago
I get the impression that sub has been exploited by various wannabe substackers. If so, it wouldn’t be surprising that said wannabes are jumping on the Current Thing.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
12d ago
After the massive collective trip, people started thinking a reality TV Star and real estate mogul was running for President…
netstack
Texas is freedom land
12d ago
I always thought matching the gun was about the mark of the firing pin, not the rifling. But it’s not mentioned in the article or the case. Does that still hold up? @NickRiviera, any idea?
netstack
Texas is freedom land
12d ago
Wait, are you arguing with yourself? Is this a joke about schizophrenia or something?
Also, Rogan is known for endorsing DMT. Surely some of his guests have reciprocated.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
12d ago
I don’t think I’ve noticed such. Maybe a relative increase due to the lull in American presidential politics? But no absolute flood.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
12d ago
This framework suffers from the same flaw as every theory about a professional-managerial class: it bends over backwards to get the outgroup in a particular spot. Usually, I see this from conservatives looking to complain about PMCs, but here, it’s the author trying to distance his own class from immoral Elites. Very 2012, but not a recipe for accuracy.
(Mind you, I looked at @lagrangian’s diagram first, which adds an editorial spin more familiar to the Motte. Where Church sorted the Gentry by access to institutions, it suggests they’re ranked by “detachment from reality.” Not the most charitable reading.)
I don’t think Church did a good job explaining why the Gentry and Elite ladders are distinct. Both access the most prestigious institutions, command moderate to high wealth, and network amongst the beautiful and clever. Moving between them is more about preferences than about ability. So why are they two separate ladders?
G1 doesn’t really exist. Church says it doesn’t include celebrities; that ought to rule out Jon Stewart, Malcolm Gladwell, Walter Cronkite, and Carl Sagan alike. It doesn’t include top politicians or policymakers, who either fall into G2 technocracy or low-E resource management.
No, the gap between gentry and elites is the same disdain which has been discussed since F. Scott Fitzgerald. The nouveau riche won’t clear that gap by cultural or capital accumulation. E4 and E3 and maybe E1 go on the upper rungs of the G ladder, and the traditional upper class stay in their Adirondack retreats. Welcome to America.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
12d ago
I don’t know at what point this went off the rails, but you both eventually end up sounding like assholes. @ControlsFreak, you’ve been specifically warned for arguing with this exact poster! One or both of you needs to make use of the block feature.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
12d ago
Leave off the personal callouts, please. Everything up to the last sentence was fine.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
12d ago
Who do you have in mind?
In America, we’ve got elites from elite families who do some service. See W or Ted Kennedy. They’re on the elite ladder regardless.
I don’t think they dominate the careerist military, like the CSA or CMC, because there are a lot more proles. Nobodies from random Southern or Midwestern families would probably be classed as low-level gentry even as they reach the peak of military careers.
But there’s definitely an intersection with people like McCain. For all I know JFK might have continued to rank up if not for the medical discharge. Regardless, these officers are elites.
Frankly, I think the whole “gentry” ladder is the weakest part of the model, and is mostly an excuse to loathe blue-tribe cultural figures. So I wouldn’t take that part too seriously. You’ve got elites who may or may not take their military careers to a peak. And you’ve got a lot more proles who fill out most of the technocratic slots at the top. The former can transition to civilian political power, while the latter cannot. That’s more important than the specific ladders.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
13d ago
Thin Larry pays for fat Pete just as fat Pete pays for him. Perhaps less, since premiums might have some correlation with health.
Slicing the categories arbitrarily fine just destroys what advantages insurance actually provides.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
13d ago
Mistake not Twitter outrage for consensus.
This particular incident is getting a level of coverage that I, too, find unsavory. The posts exist because people want to be edgy; they get signal-boosted because it’s a slow news week. Compare reports about mass shooters, who receive unwarranted fascination even when their manifestos are objectively stupid.
I think this is dumb, but in a way which basically can’t be disproven. It just screams “confirmation bias.”
Is there a site somewhere that tracks casualty announcements?
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