“No one thinks for a single moment how consumer demand drives efficiency which d

—“No one thinks for a single moment how consumer demand drives efficiency which drives automation and scaled consolidation which collapses manual industry. Together with a regressive tax scheme and fealty to the faith of trickle-down economics, and that’s what you get: all over.”—

Yes. But just as heroin makes available incentives with profound consequences, fiat credit makes available incentives with profound consequences.

And there is a huge difference between REMOVING a resource that produces profound consequences, and trying to convince people to BELIEVE in a general good and not to follow incentives.

People don’t do that. They self report the moral high ground but they demonstrate a preference for pursuing the material incentives.

This is why I say that adults talk about institutions and incentives, well intentioned people talk about punishments, and fools talk about ‘beliefs’.

Remove the incentive.

The incentive is credit.

The solution is very firm borders, very firm citizenship, and high investment in the kinship commons.

People follow incentives. we cannot cast moral judgement on other for their beliefs. We can only make illegal those actions which are criminal.