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Nonsense, you're just forgetting the metrics that matter most: Number of pennies (or whatever currency happens to be in vogue that millenium) Number of people
by sophacles 2y ago
Nonsense, you're just forgetting the metrics that matter most:
Number of pennies (or whatever currency happens to be in vogue that millenium)
Number of people who will do what you say.
(Some say they are the same).
If you include those two metrics, it's a problem at least as old as writing.
- svieira 2y agoIf you have enough people who will do what you say it doesn't matter how many pennies you have. Mao was right (analogously to how Machiavelli was "right", not in the moral sense of "right" where, as Socrates says [paraphrased] "it would be better to be the one man unjustly put to death for doing what is right than the man who comes to power doing what is unjust").