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mircea_popescu: (all the chicks came one by one to discreetly check me out)
mircea_popescu: last burger i had was at some irish restaurant in boston. i ate it with a knife and fork, much to the waitstaff's delight
mircea_popescu: this being, of course, romania, where labour an' materials are cheap
mircea_popescu: last time i ate in a popular joint i left like 40 dollars there iirc.
mircea_popescu: no, as in take the gf. you eat the big hoovespaste thing, she eats the small one
mircea_popescu: apparently mcd is taking advantage of the aussies' polyglot nature.
mircea_popescu: for one thing, the clannish groups don't actually need the large constructs like the alienated individuals do.
mircea_popescu: "remember that it’s the individualists who seem to work together best towards the collective — the BIG collective — society as a whole — a nation, for instance. meanwhile, the “collectivists” (as hofstede calls them) — or the clannish groups (as i call them) — don’t manage to handle, or even to create, commonweals hardly at all."
mircea_popescu: is this hbd supposed to be "sanity ready to fight spurious accusations of racism" ?
mircea_popescu: possibly because the term is in my mind strictly related to stalin.
mircea_popescu: which is fundamentally why england conquered scotland rather than the other way around
mircea_popescu: and it's a well known fact that the more connected model always emerges victorious.
mircea_popescu: in the end, this all yields a richer conenctivity in society,
mircea_popescu: so in the end, the future looks like, two to six slaves living i nthe care of one master, who gets in the wot and tries to make sense of whether mp or x or y is more sensible to keep his house's money.
mircea_popescu: not deliberately, just, they're too fucking dumb and uninformed to survive in the world as it is.
mircea_popescu: this meanwhile has expanded to college aged kids, who are in fact an opressed group by now.
mircea_popescu: in most large towns cops reflexively seek him out in any conflict
mircea_popescu: much like average people going out to drink have a designated driver, these cvasi-familial arrangements have a house mother
mircea_popescu: also other opressed groups (entertainers, especially sex workers, for instace ; drug users definitely)
mircea_popescu: heterosexual couples ended up doing cellular families, somehow, for some reason.
mircea_popescu: ownership is a muddled thing anyway. so you own your house. you can't set it on fire. you can't dig a hole in the livingroom. etc.
mircea_popescu: yeah, of which 69`999`923 people do banking with a select few :)
mircea_popescu: i guess it depends on how conspiracy-minded the approach is.
mircea_popescu: (fun fact : 50% of all wealth today is owned by 97 people, i hear)
mircea_popescu: the original observation, however, to wit that politics has very quickly diminishing marginal returns, and in general you don't need more than 100 men involved in it in any case, is sound.
mircea_popescu: yes, but apparently you won't have classes, and be happy inferiors of some selected caste of masters.
mircea_popescu: well more like... you know... what alternative shall i have, woe unto me. i dun see one, other than lieing it you
mircea_popescu: the day you decide your financial security is "to be" ensured by nebulous third parties...
mircea_popescu: the day you quit cleanning your house it will cease to be clean.
mircea_popescu: yet people don't generally want to nor generally can be renaissance complete personalities.
mircea_popescu: in general, the problem is vast. the day your average us citizen has decided that politics is a problem that other people should solve for him, so he can focus on w/e his job is
mircea_popescu: i've been measuring it across the board, you've perhaps seen the tail ends of ti
mircea_popescu: what's worse, i doubt there can actually be an alternative to toughening the agents the fuck up.
mircea_popescu: i don't have a fully polished, drop-in alternative in any sense.
mircea_popescu: because your model fundamentally doesn't work, and so they're all stuck
mircea_popescu: everyone involved has a definite interest to muddy them
mircea_popescu: "nothing i do now should be construed as rape" *pow* *smack* *riiiip*
mircea_popescu: that's wishful thinking in a bowstring. what the fuck.
mircea_popescu: you know how they pass laws going "nothing in the foregoing should be construed as doing X" ?
mircea_popescu: decimation something like that. you're basically saying "it should be done", like a govt.
mircea_popescu: sadly there is no such thing as a "verifiable true financial"
mircea_popescu: this is kind of the general point here : you ignore workload at your peril. sooner or later it will punish you.
mircea_popescu: if you need fineness as an input your system is thereby aborted.
mircea_popescu: fun fact : loan granularity only becomes fine in systems which well handle coarse.
mircea_popescu: it's basically the equivalent of driving a car by touch.
mircea_popescu: if you want to cut wood and feed stoves, "town heating services" aren't useful to you.
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids yes. if you want to do all the work, you don't need someone to do the work for a group of "you".
mircea_popescu: decimation you want sane business models at all times. this one you're contemplating proposes to make 10 dollar steaks out of nine meat. that leftover dollar isn't enough to hire anything but mcdonalds staff. which won't make what you want.
mircea_popescu: that's my point. if he wants a self-service thing he doesn't need the bank to anything.
mircea_popescu: what, you think financial top management particularly WANTED a crisis ?
mircea_popescu: decimation so then you try to "make it work" which means you push both ends and then a decade down the road your shitty officers bring about a crisis of unheard magnitude
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids i just mean that if you want to dd on your own you can't possibly need a bank for any purpose.