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mircea_popescu: ears in reputable dealings before he could earn a position of trust sufficient to induce a number of investors to place funds with him. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.”
mircea_popescu: “Regulation - which is based on force and fear - undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. A fly-by-night securities operator can quickly meet all the S.E.C. requirements, gain the inference of respectability, and proceed to fleece the public. In an unregulated economy, the operator would have had to spend a number of y
mircea_popescu: i can't begin to imagine why. all the good slovak fucks i had were gypsy
mircea_popescu: if they should be sterilised, you have no conceivable reason to seek their approval.
mircea_popescu: if they're some people whose agreement you seek, they shouldn't be sterilised.
mircea_popescu: jurov in general, so that most of each generation succumbs to avoidable causes, and most of the survivors don't dare speak.
mircea_popescu: generally, because socialist government is by definition inept, i guess.
mircea_popescu: well inasmuch as something still exists for putin to run over, neither has russia "starved to death" ?
mircea_popescu: didn't bagels7 just bitch that her dad didn'g buy her a computer ? im sure he must at some point have bought some grain too.
mircea_popescu: generally, the leadership of "socii", ie "allies" ie vassals is worse than at the center.
mircea_popescu: jurov czechoslovakia isn't soviet russia tho or what are we talking about here
mircea_popescu: by 1980 the globalisation of trade makes such approach useless.
mircea_popescu: jurov and if you also count greece as part of europe, they had a famine tambien.
mircea_popescu: nah, the famines were criminal particularly because stalin's soviets were net exporters.
mircea_popescu: whioch reminds me. asciilifeform you know the irish "fear gortha" ?
mircea_popescu: <jurov> and there was no such famine in eastern eutope outside russia inn 20th century << silesia famine in 1850 ? hongerwinter ?
mircea_popescu: that's the clear and incontrovertible proof that mechanized agriculture wasn't available even beyond the pale. let alone inside russia proper.
mircea_popescu: <jurov> and it was *after* mechanized agriculture was available << it was not at all available. do you know what the tachanka was ? Makhno's thing.
mircea_popescu: <bagels7> they didnt have tchonology like today? <<< they didn't need it, because they weren't nearly as many.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> detectably plenty of starvation in ancient world, even with 'sound money' and good management << quite. famine is a great motivator, and to be honest i do not see why half the population should not at all points be hungry.
mircea_popescu: the substance of the squal of the little girl confronted with the underside of a large boulder exposed to air
mircea_popescu: the entire "putin doesn't understand how thwe world works" and "oh horror x! oh horror y!" is really the voice of a deconstructed postmodern intellect confronted with the sheer obscenity of reality.
mircea_popescu: this sort of ablated hipsterism is what passes for strategic thinking in the us.
mircea_popescu: and nobody could conceivably wish to do anything *seriously*
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "but nobody would dare sink a carrier, because THEN ITD MEAN THEYRE SERIOUS ANBD FOR REAL!!!!"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yet the us seems to be bringing it a whole lot these days lol
mircea_popescu: undata just look at how the southerners were coerce to become yanks after the war.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform at least, this;'d be the "most favourable possible ulterior retrospective construction"
mircea_popescu: if he makes it whole and says "without the gulags, from congo to CAR"
mircea_popescu: just, headcount is irrelevant in a discussion of bestness.
mircea_popescu: because if you don't then by your definitions eugenics, and if you do wtf you doing in slovakia instead of say b-a.
mircea_popescu: jurov do you believe that out of two possible situations, the one with more people in it is always best ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what is us academia if not exactly this ?
mircea_popescu: by definition you know ? if you're not hurtin yourself then why wouldn't it be fake.
mircea_popescu: <undata> this to me sounds like a very wealthy man lighting his wealth on fire to display sovereignty << afaik the only possible honest signal is exactly this.
mircea_popescu: <cazalla> bagels7: the beatings were way worse than any bdsm "master" i had <<< lol same << lol wait, bagels7 is into bdsm ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> jurov: maximizing meat now? << as far as i can tell, there's a certain subgroup of transhumanists for whom even the faintest hint of discussion as to whether rivers of meat is the correct minimaxing is "eugenics" which is to say their local equivalent of "fascist" ie, very bad mkay.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes so laughable, most of the world lives on less than that.
mircea_popescu: not feminists, they got thick scales over all that fat.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but was he being mindcontrolled by aliens.
mircea_popescu: since the romans were being used as the measurement unit.
mircea_popescu: jurov not sure you realise the problem with your thinking here, but anyway : is homosexuality an eugenic experiment ?
mircea_popescu: but should perhaps preface the general statement with a clue. "as far as everything's eugenics, then gulags are eugenics"
mircea_popescu: jurov well that's then a narrow view you're more than welcome to