tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204863782883637837.post6373235675963633001..comments2024-03-27T20:51:11.303-04:00Comments on Accepting Ignorance: Hobbit Creation of Dark Elves vs. Management ShortageAlrenoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11119846531341190283noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204863782883637837.post-31065020007183897022022-07-24T20:31:22.222-04:002022-07-24T20:31:22.222-04:00North Korea - enforces productive labour at the ba...North Korea - enforces productive labour at the barrel of a gun - low status.<br /><br />US - incentivises non productivity through the brrrrrrrr - high status<br /><br />Checks out!JBPGuynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204863782883637837.post-24143547665878630582022-07-21T21:00:24.000-04:002022-07-21T21:00:24.000-04:00You can tell America is a High Status Country beca...You can tell America is a High Status Country because it (by which I mean the Eccles Building + Bretton Woods) can afford so many useless eaters.<br /><br />That's how you stay High Status, right? By reducing productive labour as much as possible? Alrenoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11119846531341190283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204863782883637837.post-82824735263826759062022-07-21T20:39:15.344-04:002022-07-21T20:39:15.344-04:00Yeah, think you're right. But because they...Yeah, think you're right. But because they're so dim they don't realise<br /><br />>I'm so high status other people will work to feed me while chilling poolside<br /><br />Whos gonna feed the peasants who adopt this behaviour?<br /><br />(Part of this is the crisis of philosophy called "we are all equal". Even slave morality is more productive than "we are all equal", since, at least peasants are motivated to feed themselves due to indignance.<br /><br />Now they just think - I'm as good as Kim Kardashian, it's obvious, so I should do just as much manual labour as her. Someone else will feed me. Conveniently forgetting that everyone else thinks the same thing.)JBPGuynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204863782883637837.post-11500983737713376392022-07-20T03:44:03.765-04:002022-07-20T03:44:03.765-04:00You know, that's a good point.
Though, point...You know, that's a good point. <br /><br />Though, point 0: lording is less about the long hours and more about the fact cat-herding is an awful job. Peasants keep acting like children and demanding to be seen like adults at the same time. <br />Q: Why are lords violent to disobedient peasants?<br />A: You get seriously tired of their shit. <br /><br />After spending all day wiping their asses for them, often by force - because otherwise, like dogs, they'll wipe themselves all over the carpet - they complain that they're "just as good" as you are and whine you have too much money. <br /><br />Eventually, you're just like, "Fine. I don't need this crud. Have it your way."<br /><br />Anyway, although peasants are dim, as per stereotype, ultimately they copy high-status behaviour. Since high-status behaviour is, in fact, give it up as a bad job and chill poolside, eventually the peasants figure it out and also start quitting their job.<br />Not because they're underpaid, but because they think they're supposed to. Alrenoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11119846531341190283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5204863782883637837.post-59099366684261785412022-07-19T19:33:39.497-04:002022-07-19T19:33:39.497-04:00Hmm.
>they're "fading away" by q...Hmm.<br /><br />>they're "fading away" by quitting<br /><br />Similar to the labour crisis in parts of the west now, where labourers feel underpaid for their work.<br /><br />I'd guess lording would have been a pretty full time job relatively speaking. Quit the long weeks and use your lordly competence to extract wealth from peasants; have more leisure time.<br /><br />Or really, are peasants quitting because they too have noticed the lack of meaning; or are they just following the lords?<br />JBPguynoreply@blogger.com