I'm heartened by seeing more people catch on to my political philosophy:
1. Don't take the black pill. People are Good, and we can fix this.
2. Don't virtue signal. Everybody is welcome in the tent.
3. The people who vote in exacerbation of the problem are confused, not evil. They are not only our allies, they are us.
All we need to do is recycle enough money throughout the economy, so that it doesn't pool at the top. Such a simple, easy fix, if we could stop bickering about other crap.
@andrewrk I don't know what the black pill is, but the other points are fine.
Gotta push back against the last one though. Wealth is far too concentrated at the top that it would never cycle back down. It's gotten so bad that the only fix is seizing or taxing it.
@sumokirby black pill comes from incel culture, it means giving into depression and believing that nothing can be done, so you may as well give up. in other words it is cynicism.
as for how to recycle wealth, increasing the tax is exactly the fix that I (and many others) propose
@andrewrk Thanks for the explanation. It's not that nothing can be done, but it is exhausting to see a trajectory change and steps backwards in many significant ways.
Which means that grassroots change will become harder and any catalyst will have to be bigger.
@andrewrk I enjoyed this blog post that’s very related to these three points.
It’s been a few days but iirc my only major point of disagreement with the post I’m linking is in the last paragraph where he says nobody will try this in real life—I think it’s inevitable that someone will try this in real life, and that it will change the world for the better.
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/why-i-am-not-a-conflict-theorist
@MasonRemaley
Very good blog post indeed, thanks. I also remember a non-trivial-sounding study in which the set of people claiming to be rational, and the set of "subjective" people, behaved similarly.
It seems like:
• people are irrational, so anything rational, like the blog post's conflict theory, can't explain it
• any psychological theory or one's perception of people dynamics doesn't help change anything, because people aren't going to become rational
Is this cynicism or the black pill?
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