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Re: Libertarian theory and altruism (was: some incorrectly spelled thing not worth repeating
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Tue, 11 Jan 2000 07:41:52 GMT
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Jasper Janssen wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Jan 2000 05:17:05 GMT, Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net>
> wrote:
> > Matthew Miller wrote:
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> > > Authoritarian fascism. (Not that I'm comparing ANYTHING to Nazis, Jasper.
> > > *grin*) It's ALL regulated. 100% simple.
> >
> > You got me there, it DOES deliver on the predictability aspect (as long
> > as the reich actually lasts 1000 years, and as long as the supreme
> > leader isn't very whim driven). How does it do on the rest of the list?
> > Rather more poorly, I'd venture.
>
> War is actually quite a good driver of economy. The Germans weren't
> doing all that bad financially. They robbed a hell of a lot of people
> to do it, though.
No, they weren't doing all that badly--they were doing *abysmally*! The entropy
of that system was increasing dramatically, because 40%+ of GNP was going to
militarization--the only way to sustain the veneer of prosperity at the upper
levels was to rob the out-groups of everything--capital, assets, and finally
their very bodies. Not only was it horrifying, it remains one of the greatest
snow-jobs of history: that Nazi Germany was somehow prosperous, or even
sustainable, economically. It's right up there with the 1950s as a "Golden Age"
of the USA, the French First Republic as a great and true democratic experiment,
and slavery as the central issue of the US Civil War.
best,
Lindsay
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