It would be one thing if they were successful Machiavellian operators, cynically hoarding good neighbourhoods for themselves.
It would be one thing if they told you that you have to live around dirty strangers and criminals, while they lived in clean, safe, homogenous neighbourhoods.
The major issue is that they're not. Almost all of them suck. If they don't have any problems imposed from outside, they busily start causing problems for each other.
Yes, they are trying to hoard all the wealth for themselves. They can't manage it. Predictably, they keep getting scammed.
Think about it. Yes, you can live in an all-European neighbourhood in America, as long as you're moderately wealthy and are willing to live in deep blue.
You know what deep blues are like. Is it worth it? Having those neighbours?
I don't hold with 'mask off' moments. These ones are far too terrified to ever take the mask off. They would be far more tolerable if it really were open hypocrisy. Ultimately the blues turn on each other, and the lesser blues get the red-state treatment. You, the cynical termite, have to keep a weather ear out constantly, just in case they start eating each other - and probably need to keep a cool million in the bank to trade up out of the danger zone.
If they don't have any problems imposed from outside, they busily start causing problems for each other.
Of course, red-staters would do the same thing. They merely never escape the external/blue problems.
There do appear to be genuine aristocrats in Europe, though of course they have to put so much effort into hiding that you'll never find individual samples. Around 1/1000, as I predicted. In America there are only psycho lords. You can live with them, and it would be safe, if they weren't, you know, psychopaths. Want all your neighbours to be literal serial killers like FDR?
How do you estimate the 1/1000?
ReplyDeleteOh, just IQ
ReplyDeleteDemocracy doesn't happen when peasants overthrow the lords. It happens when the lords quit due to being underpaid.
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Population growth is inherently dysgenic. When population pressures are relaxed, aristocrat children go from living to adulthood to still living to adulthood. Only peasant children go from dying to surviving. Result: aristocratic families stay the same size, peasant families explode.
https://nitter.freedit.eu/amicus_univ/status/1752386109936664635#m
ReplyDeleteApparently America has always had a lord shortage, although that's to be expected since it was founded on anti-lord principles. For a while it did have the best lords though, but the country was too large for them to manage >>> whatever control they had eventually disappeared. A comparison can be made between Rome and America re original sizes of their polities and how long their empires lasted/will last.