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I found his politics around libertarianism to be a little ideologically incoherent, since he (correctly in my view) rejects the idea of labor/capital negotiatio
by airza 6y ago
I found his politics around libertarianism to be a little ideologically incoherent, since he (correctly in my view) rejects the idea of labor/capital negotiations without unions to be fair and other things espoused in that essay. But then the archipelago and atomic communitarism (https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/07/archipelago-and-atomic-communitarianism/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/07/archipelago-and-atomic...) piece was accidentally an argument that stumbled in some of the same ways libertarianism does.
In the end, I don't think it's damning to have an incoherent ideology (almost everyone, myself included, seems to) and on the whole I think that his blog is interesting and has high upside. (There is a lot of other stuff that I find kinda repulsive tbh.) But it seems worth examining that ideology when it seems to have a lot of billionaires in its orbit, and especially when those people are going to end up shaping the future of life in the US in a big way. (Especially given that the world that they have such a large hand in creating doesn't seem to be working super well for a lot of people.)
- wizzwizz4 6y agoHe literally wrote an essay generalising “capitalism is bad”: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/. If a lot of billionaires read Slate Star Codex and took it to heart, he's one of the best billionaire-activists around. (Of course, it doesn't look like many did, and activism-at-billionaires is often considered not worth an activist's time.)