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> But from a tech perspective its always destabilizing to endorse a political ideology just like it is destabilizing to endorse a religious ideology in what is
by geofft 8y ago
> But from a tech perspective its always destabilizing to endorse a political ideology just like it is destabilizing to endorse a religious ideology in what is a collective for economic output.
Is it destabilizing at all? The British Empire, one of the world's most economically successful projects, had its own religious ideology. The US has a "Protestant work ethic." When have we historically seen the adoption of religion as destabilizing?
It might be wrong, sure, but I don't think we have evidence to conclude that it's unprofitable.
- mc32 8y agoDidn't catholics in britain have a hard time og it for some period? Didn't that contribute to internal instability? Or am i misrecalling history lessons?
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- lhopki01 8y agoMuch earlier period in history before there was a United Kindom.
- pjc50 8y agoYes, a much earlier period that ended in the distant past of 1998. Sectarian violence is now limited to pubs and football matches rather than high explosive.
- mathw 8y agoThat wasn't/isn't just about religion though, it's about foreign rule, colonialism and national identity as well. And about to kick off again thanks to Brexit, because it was never really solved, just pushed aside for long enough for people (particularly people in Westminster) to start to forget.
- geofft 8y agoThere absolutely was internal instability, but if the claim is "Your company should not adopt a political worldview, you will at most be as economically successful as Britain between 1534 and 1998," that's... not much of a cautionary story at all.
- dash2 8y agoThis is true but whether it was profitable is a separate question. On which see Weber 1905 and the recent economics literature!