Natural resources don't matter. It's better to be in a capitalist country with zero resources than a communist one with abundant resources, because by definition, under a socialist regime the state is going to confiscate whatever wealth exists within the borders.

> Only bad things depend on government subsidies.
>

So how will USA rebuild refined rare earths supply chains?

Without refined rare earths the US military industrial combine is fucked.

Solomonsatoshi

Britain and the western governments and peoples became infected with parasitic sense of entitlement and lost the ambition and strength of unity and cultural integrity.

It was statism that enabled parasitic individuals to succeed. If feminists had to compete for influence in a free market by providing goods and services, they would have starved. It's the irrationality of the tax code that allowed them to force their morality onto the rest of the country.

80% of the CCP poliburo are trained as engineers.

It doesn't matter whether the ticket to entry is a law degree or an engineering degree. It's still central planning. It's still a system where building things comes second to political scheming, because the engineer who focuses solely on engineering has to take orders from a partisan sellout.

Go back and live/starve in the jungle and get eaten by wolves or marauding tribes who are more organised under stronger leadership than you.

I think you're conflating statism with hierarchy. Just because there's no state doesn't mean hierarchical roles won't exist. They would exist voluntarily with conditions.

Again, not everything needs government subsidies to exist. Only bad things depend on government subsidies.

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denlillaapan

> Britain and the western governments and peoples became infected with parasitic sense of entitlement and lost the ambition and strength of unity and cultural integrity.

It was statism that enabled parasitic individuals to succeed. If feminists had to compete for influence in a free market by providing goods and services, they would have starved. It's the irrationality of the tax code that allowed them to force their morality onto the rest of the country. 

> 80% of the CCP poliburo are trained as engineers.

It doesn't matter whether the ticket to entry is a law degree or an engineering degree. It's still central planning. It's still a system where building things comes second to political scheming, because the engineer who focuses solely on engineering has to take orders from a partisan sellout.

> Go back and live/starve in the jungle and get eaten by wolves or marauding tribes who are more organised under stronger leadership than you.

I think you're conflating statism with hierarchy. Just because there's no state doesn't mean hierarchical roles won't exist. They would exist voluntarily with conditions.

Again, not everything needs government subsidies to exist. Only bad things depend on government subsidies.