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Most of the rules of civilization are centered around preventing the 20% predators from devouring the 80% normal people.
by readthenotes1 4y ago
Most of the rules of civilization are centered around preventing the 20% predators from devouring the 80% normal people.
- lelanthran 4y agoMost? That's an understatement. The rules that aren't are so few they may as well be rounding errors lost in noise.
- lowbloodsugar 4y ago
- nathias 4y agomost are about 10% of predators trying to devour the other 10% of predators while preventing being devoured by the 80% of normal people
- Gasp0de 4y agoAnd here I sit, thinking those rules were so that the 1% could take all the value the 99% produced.
- baq 4y agoNuclear weapons made this a bigger issue since it closes the option of last resort, which is war. See North Korea…
- landemva 4y agoNot sure what you mean. After what was done to Libya after they gave up nukes, North Korea learned it can't disarm without subsequently being invaded and destroyed.
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- readthenotes1 4y agoHeh. The 1% are mostly the very successful predators and their heirs. They buy/make a lot of rules, but there's still (currently) a ton more to constrain predation. (The more money you have, of course, the easier it is to game a more complex system...)
- jasonwatkinspdx 4y agoThere's a line describing this in a failed US version of the cop drama Prime Suspect... I forget the exact wording but it's some grizzled cop talking about how their job is to protect the herd from the carnivorous sheep in it.
- kevinmchugh 4y agohttps://slate.com/culture/2015/01/american-snipers-wolves-sheep-and-sheepdogs-speech-has-a-surprising-history-with-conservatives-and-the-right-wing.html https://slate.com/culture/2015/01/american-snipers-wolves-sh...