@MurderHobo the profit motive is really the difference as well as the private ownership of assets

Motive doesn’t matter if there aren’t enforcement mechanisms

@MurderHobo soviet union was only around output, china is only around output, nothing around profit of a relative commodity

incentive structures

incentive structures matter

@ARockRaider goodnight! good chat!

How does one incentivize a monarch who already wields supreme authority

Night @ARockRaider

with caramelized onions

@MurderHobo the passing down of his assets to his children

roasted mushrooms

or shares

He can do that without the profit motive

Or brutally oppressing the populace

Just like old kingdoms

Good ol war taxes

yes sometimes that is the optimal option

not all the time

@UnScottable thats some hot stuff right there

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@MurderHobo if i own a buisness, sometimes the best option is to fire some employees and downsize

optimally

on a nationwide scale, you may better allocate those resources to war or something

i hear its obtainable at a number of different establishments

Speaking in metaphors to disguise the fact that it involves killing civilians deemed “downsizable”

it is why monarchies were so prone to war, when it was efficient to do so, they did

Or over petty shite like marriage betrothals

@UnScottable the mushrooms or the unions? Onions

1/1000 did that

not even

and that is important as it would ruin your assets

that is bascially how they sued each other

for damages

But there’s no effective check against the abuses of power

AbUSes of PoWer

made up thing

power is power

So you don’t think anyone can be arbitrary or capricious with their position?

they totally can

and it will lead to their assets decreasing or going away entirly

while others who dont do that take them over