• azureskypirate@lemmy.zip
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    1 month ago

    The Wealth of Nations made convincing arguments that mercantilism wasn’t the most effecient system. Paid laborers cost less than slaves. Hoarding [gold] bullion makes it abundant in your country, thus less valuable.

    It may be time for the next system. The manifesto will need arguments that appeal to one’s pragmatism rather than sense of charity (48 Laws of Power, Law 13, Robert Greene).

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      1 month ago

      You’re posting on an anarchist instance and I think federate with the tankie instances.

      Amoral arguments for doing the right thing abound. Nobody gives a shit. Its a cult. They need to be dragged out bodily,and the leaders shot.

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        29 days ago

        i feel like you could just start with Murdoch (well, his son set to take over the family business. seeing as murdoch is 90+ now).

        the power vacuum from that…his daughters would sell the whole empire off for scraps.

        murdoch is almost single-handedly responsible (the neolib politicians more than glad to sellout those media-ownership limits…) for shaping western democracy to what it is now