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☟︎ mircea_popescu: otherwise, papers were always to be produced on demand, ever since la terreur.
mircea_popescu: before 1914 ie, after 1800, you could travel if you had a passeport.
mircea_popescu: before 1914 ie in the middle ages you could only travel if you were a journeyman, or in the service of a noble.
mircea_popescu: communist romania had similar regulations. you couldn't just herpy-derp settle in town cause you felt like it.
mircea_popescu: i think this is actually quite brilliant. make it illegal to have a mob[ile vulgus]
mircea_popescu: "Before the 1950s, this legislation largely applied to African men, and attempts to apply it to women in the 1910s and 1950s were met with significant protests. "
mircea_popescu: <bounce> and now, of course, with the advent of schengen and the resulting wonderful open borders, you're required to always be able to produce identity papers on demand in various countries in europe <<< this was a) never false and b) not currently true.
mircea_popescu: <bounce> man, those are some ugly banners. like fluffypony's take though, classy and shit. << aww!
mircea_popescu: if you can live with it you can, if not you'll do something about it, but in no case can it be that you just... never knew.
mircea_popescu: i make it my job to bother people exactly in this manner.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves leave a sauce ion the trilema article too ?
mircea_popescu: this is historically and geographically stable, too. i have writings from 1880s romania describing the exact same problem
mircea_popescu: in my experience it's usually the women that want to work hard
mircea_popescu: bounce it's a fact. there's 30 to 35 iq points buried in there.
mircea_popescu: this does not compare to your average bitcoin stupid in any sense.
mircea_popescu: all this aside : the guy made lemon and sold it out. then is making xapo
mircea_popescu: he was here for a little bit, but it was weeks really iirc.
mircea_popescu: is your thesis that wences has been reading the logs or what ?
mircea_popescu: i will go as far as to say that no person that has spent one year diligently (4hrs/day) reading this logs can be stupid.
mircea_popescu: and if you do what romania did with the displaced farm youth / urban poor youth
mircea_popescu: they think they know shit, is the problem, and they don't see why they should put inb the hard work of reading the logs for a year.
mircea_popescu: look at all the fuckwits starting "bitcoin businesses", a la danny
mircea_popescu: <bounce> hypothetically speaking, suppose you're hungry and poor, but you have the knowledge <<< it's not the knowledge. it's the attitude.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony well so maybe in another... 20-30 years ? things even out
mircea_popescu: the only reason this isn't happening right now is that, of course, a nude teenager is not worth money, generally speaking.
mircea_popescu: decimation no, because they're too stupid to figure it out.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony as you describe it, the only business i'd consider running in south africa would be something like kidnapping young women to be transported for sex work or somesuch.
mircea_popescu: the model is unsurprisingly pushed by the us, seeing how sa was their only ally for a long time.
mircea_popescu: whereas the bee stuff works in a black majority, trying to redistribute the revenue of the whites more towards the majority
mircea_popescu: decimation that the mafia works in a white majority, trying to make ends meet for a legitimately opressed minority
mircea_popescu: this is so ridiculous. the same principle displayed at work in disgrace, the malkovich film
mircea_popescu: yeah yeah. nobody seriously considers the shit they did "post colonialism" makes any sense.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony well that's what i said. they get outcompeted. cause stupid.
mircea_popescu: but still " I never had any of them complain" is a weak counter
mircea_popescu: fluffypony so whyd they be complaining to you, or what'd that do.
mircea_popescu: decimation yeah that gets into various local details. same principle tho.
mircea_popescu: bounce most rich people with a large gun stash and tax attorney have a gun llc
mircea_popescu: fluffypony but how much of the caught fish is caught by their little tug boats, as a % ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, the general point im proceeding from is that their problem is corporatism, and how it outcompetes their own dumb heads. the solution of pushing things further up the chain, through nationalisation (giving it to the state, the largest corp of them all) is exactly wrong
mircea_popescu: afaik (and i have no clue, so don't be shy in disabusing me of false notions) it never happened among black people.
mircea_popescu: ie, they don't have or want or could support a proper restaurant
mircea_popescu: restricting access to essentials would allow a softer transition.
mircea_popescu: anyway, from what i understand, the problem there specifically is that people are stupid, and western style corps are pwning them
mircea_popescu: bounce there's no corp that may take delivery of fish.
mircea_popescu: this is silly. it should work the other way around : no corporation may own real estate or any foodstuffs
mircea_popescu: generally speaking, disallowing corporations from owning certain classes of goods is the way to go. currently persons may not own guns, various substances, etc.