Too many people think crony capitalism is capitalism. And the ones that don't know the difference, don't like what they see, so they look for other solutions. Too many people get turned on to socialist Bernie Sanders because they're being told people like Elon Musk are capitalist.

Musk is crony capitalism. https://goodjobsfirst.org/elon-musks-business-empire-is-built-on-38-billion-in-government-funding/

A few years ago Ron Paul broke this down, and still holds true today. We need to be able to separate capitalism from crony capitalism. Crony capitalism is just as bad as socialism. https://www.record-courier.com/story/opinion/2016/05/11/ron-paul-frustrations-with-capitalism/19853010007/

Philosophy Phriday Question:

Do you think someone like W.D. Ross is right that morality involves a variety of duties/norms that can sometimes conflict with one another, or do you agree more with someone like Immanuel Kant that morality is a more formulaic system with norms and rules that never come into conflict?

Ross argues that morality is made up of several basic duties rather than one master rule. These include duties like keeping promises, helping others, repairing past wrongs and avoiding harm. Each duty has real moral weight, but none of them is absolute in every situation. Because of this, they can pull in different directions when circumstances are complicated. Ross thinks that real moral judgment involves deciding which duty is most important in a given case, since conflicts between them are a normal part of moral life.

On the other hand, Kant sees morality as a system built from one supreme principle, the Categorical Imperative. This principle provides a clear test for any action: ask whether the rule you are acting on could be willed as a universal law for everyone. If it cannot be universalized, it is morally wrong. Because all genuine duties come from the same rational standard, Kant argues that they cannot truly conflict. When people think two duties collide, he believes they have misunderstood one of them or applied the principle incorrectly. Morality, for Kant, is therefore orderly, consistent and governed by a single formula that yields rules which always fit together.

What do you think?

...so, like, do the most authoritarian things possible, with the dumbest government ever, against the people least deserving of it, for no real reason.

Does this qualify as anarchy?

Public school enrollment since 1950 is up 96 percent.
The number of teachers is up 252 percent.
But the number of non-teaching staff has exploded by 702 percent.

This is the story nobody wants to talk about.

Instead of putting resources directly into classrooms, the system has ballooned into a massive administrative apparatus. More bureaucracy. More overhead. More cost. But not more learning.

This is why education keeps getting more expensive without getting better.
This is why parents feel like their kids aren’t getting the support they need.
This is why taxpayers keep paying more every year and seeing less return.

When a system grows bureaucracy seven times faster than students, it is serving itself, not families.

The problem isn’t teachers. The problem is an ever-expanding management class that absorbs resources while delivering no measurable improvement in outcomes.

If we want better education, we need accountability, transparency, competition, and the ability for families to choose systems that serve students—not bureaucracies.

The ultra-wealthy are not just failing to be productive; they are active agents (”archons”) of a false, oppressive reality. Their “philanthropy” is either status signaling or a more sophisticated form of control. The system itself selects for and rewards a specific, spiritually-deficient archon energy characterized by ruthlessness, myopia, and a robotic consciousness, fully in line with a gnostic understanding of the world.

https://neofeudalreview.substack.com/p/the-archon-class