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21 sats \ 4 replies \ @Undisciplined OP 18 Nov 2023 \ parent \ on: Meta Econ Takeover Day 32 meta
Sometimes I wonder if that's the extent of it. There's no obvious reason it would be different, it just is one time.
I have really felt like there's been an observable difference in how the ruling class has behaved since Trump. In game theory terms, it reminds me of the point in a repeated game when one player sees the end coming and starts openly brazenly screwing the other player.
Things usually stay the same and people go about their lives until life gets so hard that they can no longer cope and need to do something about it. These hardships can come from more rules, regulations, and restrictions from the ruling class; or they can come from the economic reality and total disastrous results caused by central planning.
Due to the freedom and ease of access to information that modern technologies introduced, the ruling class can feel that they are losing control over the populous. They are no longer able to control how people think and act through the control of information. The ironic thing is that the harder the ruling class try to grasp onto that control, the more draconian their regulations, the more people realize they are being control and will rebel against it. Furthermore, the more the ruling class try to central plan, the more the economy will fail, the more industries/production will collapse, and the more scarce resources will become. After all, humans want to be free and plentiful, and will likely to do something about it if they are not. When enough people / enough percentage of the population want to do something about them being not free and not plentiful, then that is when the time will be different.
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I think there's something to the idea that new communications technologies lead to the collapse of regimes. The old power structures were built on the old technology and when that gets displaced people get a peek behind the curtain.
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Hence, this time is different because people have more information and can see a bit more clearly and will act accordingly. Man must act my friend.
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It's not exactly that people have more information It's that they get access to information that the regime used to be able to suppress.
Yes, people have to act. Also, yes, people won't act unless they're under sufficient pressure. We're seeing that, though. People are irate about the economic and political situation, and the new communications technology paradigm makes the regime's attempts at controlling the narrative ineffective.
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