The Myth of Male-Only Voting Rights Voting rights? What is this "voting?"
We now know when the best years for culture were.
Your Brain May Be Built For Socialism - But Your Country Wasn't. I have said the same thing less well. We resent rich people and assume they must be gaming the system or even stealing because in prehistory, that was true for hundreds of thousands of years.
Related and from the same source: Nordics are not socialists, they are compact capitalist societies with high social trust, built up over years.
"Gentle Parenting" of other adults. It's really grating, isn't it? This young woman, like many others, clearly gets off on using this tone. Did I mention there are also men that do this?
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Campbell got a little pushback in comments on his note, and while I agree with the general thrust of his post and your assertion, I think there's a bit of a false dichotomy there. If what you assert were literally true we'd have never developed large complex societies. Campbell notes that we use 'markets' (Arnold Kling likes to say 'specialization and trade') to organize how we interact beyond our immediate family and with unrelated strangers outside our tribe. Both systems, tribal cooperation and market exchange, operated in parallel for millennia, and complex structures for the distribution of charity developed alongside sophisticated markets. The coining of the terms 'socialism' and 'capitalism' is pretty recent, happening about two centuries ago. I think it's important to note that the people who started calling themselves Socialists usually want to replace *both* market and charitable distribution of resources (though they usually downplay the replacement of the latter now) with planned distribution of all resources. With them and their tribe in charge of planning the distribution, naturally. So the resentment of Socialists is not really a general resentment of people who have more but a more specific resentment of people who are often adjacent to the rich that they aren't the ones in charge. They exploit the fact that while it may be self-evident why people like LeBron James, and even Elon Musk, accumulate more than their 'fair share' of resources, why someone like Brian Thompson gets more than a subsistence wage is a lot less clear to the majority of the population.
The "gentle parenting" bit reminds me of this quote from C. S. Lews, from an essay of "The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment":
"This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals."
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