eagleseven
Quod Erat Demonstrandum
1. Individual men cannot fully understand a system with 6 billion individual actors, and thus the rule of unintended consequences is always in effect.eagleseven said:Politicians cannot stop a hurricane, nor can they direct the global economy.
Your personal objective should be to seem wealthy in comparison with the average Homo sapien, rather than in comparison with the average American.
Why?
2. Our technology has advanced to such a point that gross income inequality between nations is obsolete. Thanks to things like the internet, international shipping, and the mass-adoption of the English language, no single population will maintain its economic superiority over another. For instance, Nigeria is becoming an economic power...a thought once unimaginable.
In other words, because of the very internet we now enjoy, you will forever have to compete against the whole of humanity, rather than just your local neighborhood, for wealth. If you cannot compete against the brightest and hardest-working of other countries, you will become part of the global under-class.
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Since we are now competing against the whole world, we ought to adjust our standards to include the whole world, else we will be eternally unhappy.
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