Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

ON MARGINAL REVOLUTION: MATTERS OF RACE

Forgive me for doing my job as philosophical policeman of political economy:

All humans demonstrate kin selection when forced to decide between kin and non kin, just as all people demonstrate racism when forced to decide between kin and race.

Race is a necessary and rational concern under democracy since people demonstrably vote in racial blocks. The do so because under democracy those with political power can obtain privileges and rents. But more importantly, the distribution of talents between racial groups is demonstrably vast, and each group seeks to impose an order most suitable to them. It is only white Europeans for whom meritocracy, rule of law, and Liberty are a preferable comparative advantage over other groups. And contrary to western myth and intuition we choose market meritocracy because it’s to our advantage to do so. It may in fact be a wise choice for many reasons but that is true if and only if one has the genetic, familial, normative capacity to compete by market meritocracy.

There exist only three methods of political coercion: theocracy/religion, aristocracy/law, democracy/commerce-and-credit. And each forms and oligarchy for reasons Pareto/Mises and Michels have explained economically, informationally, and organisationally.

As high trust westerners, almost all of whom are descendants of the genetic middle class, who live under rule of law, compete meritocratically, can compete by merit, and profit from a heterogeneous population for whom we desire to produce a single mass market intellectual product despite the fact that it is unsuitable for much of the world’s population.

So we should perhaps take heed that we do not confuse that which is good for us with that which is good for all.

It isn’t. And that is why the world has abandoned democracy, and is in the process of abandoning free markets.

Because we are unequal in our abilities and needs and for many groups what we propose is unachievable.

I have followers all over the world in every race for the simple reason that I don’t lie about this subject: the differences in the abilities of the races are the result of the suppression of the reproduction ( and outright culling by famine, war, and punishment) of the underclasses under agrarianism above 50 degrees north latitude in east and west. This was not possible in the warmer climes.

Every group can transcend the limits of their distributions if and only if they do the same. We can never fix favelas. Ever. Because the cost of the unproductive and organizing the unproductive using market incentives cannot be paid or constructed for the simple reason that the upper and upper middle classes cannot organize sufficient incentives to create a commercial, middle class order, with a heavily underclass population.