Like china and north korea are a one story state because eveyone has to believe in the party doctrine. The west is a two story state (or three) trapping you into a false dichotomy

well more or less, yeah

im not sure how accurate it is

I think I will read part 2 later I didn't know it was already out.

i guess we are outside of the overton bubble and threaten the whole regime unless they can brand us as na zis and have those be an indicator for evil person, which makes people dismiss us along with our true ideas. and they are doing that. but if we can break through those surface level insults then we are a legitimate danger to the regime

it came out in november

i will read it later today i guess

So we are the third story.

That no one is supposed to listen to maybe.

what i just wrote there, and what yarvin wrote in that regard, are not new ideas though. my mind has not been blown yet

we knew for a long time we are outside the overton window

and that our ideas are true and will win in a free market of ideas so have to be repressed by the regime which is threatened by them

@Fighting Gold its not much different from his original work. i think he is sort of reiterating his 8 year old blog for a new audience

that would be a good idea, even fewer people read blogs in current year

“The wanting of what may be lost”

https://youtu.be/pk8gN68crMU

I am beginning to like the idea of protectionism

for certain countries

small countries where its cheaper to buy everything from other countries

export whatever you can but dont import anything you dont really need

unless you have the luxury of being high in exports, produce your own food

Protectionism is good

^

I don't think a country like Singapore could be protectionist

The policies only really work if you have a large enough domestic market/demand to creat a manufacturing base

It is always a trade off. You trade some money or access to better products for a more independent economy.
Division of labor works across borders but if you are too specialized a little virus boy and a few closed ports can kill you. All the money you made by not being protective isn't going to help you in that case.
I see protectionism as insurance if we look purely at the material side.

The larger you domestic market is the smaller are the consequences of protectionism. This is why china can pull off a level of protection that most smaller countries could not.

I actually disagree with the division of labour applying to national economies

There's economies of scale yes but that runs into diminishing returns (and the few cents you save in part are due to just using cheaper labour or less regulated markets)

If you have a large market like the EU or America you are very much capable of not importing manufactured products without much of a downside

But it's nor like free trade has relied on specialization in that sense to jsutify itself

Smith and Ricardo were relying on comparative and absolute advantage in production

Somehow magically some countries are just better at producing something

Therefore they should specialize in what they have an advantage

It's really retarded when you think about it

Because in what way is the output of steel going to be impacted by which country it is made in

In a geographic sense

These sorts of advantages are limited to the primary sector

Abundance of ore, fertility of land and climate, how plentifull fish is (ignore aquaculture)