DO INDIVIDUALS IN ARISTOCRATIC FAMILIES EARN THEIR STATUS? So are you saying tha

DO INDIVIDUALS IN ARISTOCRATIC FAMILIES EARN THEIR STATUS?

So are you saying that generation after generation of underclass membership is unearned? Generation after generation of working class membership is unearned? Generation after generation of middle-class membership is unearned? Generation after generation of upper class is unearned? Generation after generation of Aristocracy is unearned?

The ever-present grinding of (a) genetic regression to the mean, (b) economic competition (c) political competition , (d) military competition makes preservation of assets almost impossible.

Are you rationalizing or are you judging on the evidence. Becuase the evidence is that (a) classes are genetic in origin, (b) there is significant rotation between neighboring classes, (c) that the middle class contains most of the genetic virtue of the population, with aristocracy working aggressively through reproductive selection to preserve genetic, material, territorial, social, and political capital.

So if you have any example of any extant aristocracy that is not holding its own through merit then that would be a further empirical test. But your opinion otherwise is merely justification.

FAMILIES CREATE ARISTOCRATIC FAMILIES OVER GENERATIONS.

few wealthy families survive. few businesses survive, few civic organizations, and even few nations survive multiple generations of competition. Those families, businesses, civic organizations and nations that survive more than three generations do so because of their ability to compete.

In other words, a natural aristocracy (emphasis on natural), is evidence of excellence, unless you can find (Rothschilds) an immoral means of achieving it.

NO SPECIAL PLEADING

and one example does not invalidate a distribution, just as one example does not validate a distribution. Outliers do not determine general rules. If we look at the history of aristocracy it is the most successful political order in human history, and democracy is merely a method of distributing the spoils of technological or military windfalls (athenian silver mine comes to mind.)

WHY?

Because once you are self sustaining the only signals you can produce of value are those that improve the commons (arts). The germans created the high point in europe for the simple reason that many princedom’s competed for signals and in doing so financed the arts and sciences.

FALLACY OF THE BRITISH ARGUMENT AGAINST ARISTOCRACY

The fallacy of your argument is in attributing merit to the individual rather than the family and rather to the lineage. Aristocracy is a product of lineage. Individualism is merely an excuse for failing to produce a lineage capable of accumulating genetic, material, territorial, social and political capital. In other words, your argument is a (common British) excuse by failed peoples to attribute merit to individuals rather than to organizations, and to families. In other words, it’s the most common repetition of the most common British moral fraud: lowlife false virtue signaling.

INCENTIVES: ARISTOCRACY DEMONSTRATES LONGER TIME PREFERENCE AND THE ACCUMULATION OF COMMONS.

Whereas democracy demonstrates the tragedy of the commons writ large.

Curt Doolittle,

The Propertarian Institute

Kiev, Ukraine