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mircea_popescu: basically our colonies, be their russia or the us, being a little new, still have to learn on own skin the history of medieval europe.
mircea_popescu: it did not show force in the sense of making anyone likely to not try.
mircea_popescu: it showed force in the sense of making everyone realise they must be killed.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and that display failed. similarly, in both cases, for the same reason.
mircea_popescu: war is always a game of "there's a limit of how much X you can bear"
mircea_popescu: but there's a limit on how much cost you can bear, which caps your results
mircea_popescu: the end result of a failure is not indicative of the absence of a plan more than of the poor quality of a present plan tho.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 how'd you know if there was ? plans are usually secret.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and then how much do you pay haliburton to clean up and run the platforms ?
mircea_popescu: the equation is quite simple : you kill more bioforms, you get your convoys bombed more.
mircea_popescu: they simply did not have the ability to do any better.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you're very much mistaken. this is the us army propaganda as to why they failed.
mircea_popescu: the only place where that works is fuckland, and fuckland a) doesn't care and b) is tougher than you and will fuck you.
mircea_popescu: they rely on some very convenient separations that are no longer factual.
mircea_popescu: said weapons (if you mean the atomic bomb) are already useless.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but the direct transfer system has infinite population growth baked right in
mircea_popescu: if yo uget them rare enough courtier chicks will start adding mole stickers to their cleavage
mircea_popescu: "It may be clear to us that fuffles must be eradicated." < ha! you can't eradicate these any more than you can eradicate moles
mircea_popescu: i mean i guess it's proper in the sense of "proper fucked"
mircea_popescu: but no, he said the converse : unlike a fluffy casino, where they let you play, a proper casino takes your clothes and then makes you put out a show for their porn franchise.
mircea_popescu: obviously the consumer thinks so, clearly visible i nthings such as "bitcoin must be a sort of supermarket payment option to really exist"
mircea_popescu: haha, i wouldn't go as far as to say that the litmus for "working economy" is "consumer sector" tbh
mircea_popescu: except the politburo spent from the tontine all the damn time.
mircea_popescu: s not less broken. in the russian crisis of the 90s pensioneers bore most of the burden
mircea_popescu: no, he says "transfer a percentage of earnings from working-age people directly to retirees"
mircea_popescu: the question is, what sort of a fool contemplates the notion that direct transfer better, let alone proper.
mircea_popescu: look i know how 401k/iras etc work. after all, we wouldn't have our friendly second market without them
mircea_popescu: no but the other end. a proper system is bismarck's ponzi ?!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "Unlike proper retirement systems, which transfer a percentage of earnings from working-age people directly to retirees, this fuffled scheme takes these earnings and invests them in some fuffles" << do explain ?!
mircea_popescu: in the end, money is an expression of culture. the chase for money in se is not much unlike the making of worthless paintings as a "commercial venture".
mircea_popescu: no three ring binder or company policy can help you there.
mircea_popescu: that part is important. you have to understand your story well enough to be able to contextualize it in different contexts.
mircea_popescu: it makes me realise that in becoming very able to preserve through application of technology, we are losing the incentive to re-write and recall, which probably explains why we suck.
mircea_popescu: however, i've retold this joke dozens of times, and it seems to have gotten better every time.
mircea_popescu: intellectually, the main reason my blog exists is that i hate repeating myself.
mircea_popescu: you must be careful however, the lynchpin of this story is
mircea_popescu: indeed. a secure asset of ever-appreciating value, who'd not want fuffel on his books ?
mircea_popescu: quoth the distraught brothers "that stupid girl. and what great business we had with that painting"
mircea_popescu: until one day, a young girl one has hired for the purpose of cleanning the house in between polishing the cock
mircea_popescu: the painting moves back and forth at ever increasing nominal values among the families, as their capital needs dictate
mircea_popescu: and then in a couple months when he was building a new stable, his brother buys the painting back from him, at yet a heftier premium
mircea_popescu: returning the call, itzhak buys the painting back a few weeks later,
mircea_popescu: the next week, hirsz is beating down itzhak's door. for he must have the painting, it is keeping it up at night that his older brother in the pooer neighbourhood should have the piece of art!
mircea_popescu: itzhak tells him the exorbitant sum he has paid, and some theory about its artistic value.
mircea_popescu: he notes the shitty painting, and asks his brother wherefore.
mircea_popescu: his younger brother hirsz, a respectable moneylender in the slightly larger small neighbourhood of Sucker's Lament visits one day
mircea_popescu: so as to not agress the public morals, itzhak upon living her house picks up a worthless old smoked over painting, and declares it to be the payment for the debt.
mircea_popescu: one day an attractive young widdow that can't repay her husband's debts agrees to put out, like every other day, except with different girls.
mircea_popescu: Itzhak is a respectable moneylender in the small neighbourhood of Fool's Crossing.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the old jew joke, which is why trilema has been making the point since the naughts.
mircea_popescu: this is a better model, they're not so much into socialism per se
mircea_popescu: and also the abundance of time it generously provides.
mircea_popescu: easy to stack games, especially when you have the excuse of material scarcity the prison offers
mircea_popescu: he has a point in that i suspect it's perhaps the easiest way to explain to the layman in laymen terms what exactly is the difference separating "me" or "us" from "them". teh fuffle readily makes sense or not at all.