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Simple thought experiment to show how theft is a loosing game.

3 people are on one island and 3 on an identical twin island. On one island everyone is fishing. The fishers fish 4 hours a day and the rest of the day they read, write, build ships, cut trees and maintain their common house.

On the other island only two fish, read, write, bild ships and maintain the house. The third invests all his time in forging weapons and train to be the strongest. To sustain he forces the other two to gift him fish and a bed to sleep in the house.

Even in the case the other two do never revolt and accept all supression, their island lacks at least a third of productivity compared to the twinisland.

So whenever one of thos islands will be able to sail to the other island, it is very clear which island has the better odds to win this fight.

Comte de Sats Germain 6mo ago

Classic economics. It focuses on the one idea without any thought of what might break the model. These kinds of hypotheticals are only for learning the basics so you can move on to bigger models. I'd say you're at maybe freshman econ level - which is good, since you're trying.

Now, tell me one place on earth where slavery has never existed. Idk, maybe it exists. How about one place with no rent seeking behavior? No dominating special class of people?

Dude, even after we had this global second enlightenment and banned slavery, it only took us a couple of decades after finally ending its disguised form (Jim Crow) to reinstitute slavery on mass scale in the form of monetary debasement.

So your model is incomplete. There's something perpetually incentivizing a suboptimal, nonvoluntary form of organization. I have ideas, but I want **_you_** to have ideas. Seriously think about this.

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freemymind 🇨🇭 6mo ago

Do you know the concept of superposition? Means that something that does not work sustainable in small scale, will not magically work at large scale.

You are kind of arguing that a boser with cancer would have a chance fighting a boser who has no disability at all.

Now, tell me one place on earth where slavery has never existed. Idk, maybe it exists. How about one place with no rent seeking behavior? No dominating special class of people?

I never made any argument that there is no violence or suppression.

But do you also know that slavery was lowered for economical reasons?