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No, Aristocracy is when smart people get to compete with each other and keep the profits of their own competition for themselves, instead of having all their time wasting competing with a horde of lvl. 1 3rd world zerglings and then having their miniscule EXP half confiscated and handed to more 3rd worlders and proles.
Smart people are keeping the profits for themselves. Ergo, you're not smart enough to be an aristocrat if you're here complaining about taxes and nepotism.
Most smart people lose half of their income to taxes and make half of what they should because of anti smart people systematic efforts to lower their opportunities. In other words, most smart people are upper middle class and make six figures. Or less -- go check the IQ income correlation. 145 IQ people are on average at the 90th percentile of income, with a lot of spread. That sounds wrong to me.
Whatever you call "let the high IQs work without taxes or competition with anyone they don't like", it's not "aristocracy" in any established meaning of the word. Aristocracy is not when you "get" to do things. Aristocracy is when you do things, while other people less versed in politics "get" to do what you allow them and no more.
Bemoaning that the world isn't fair because you only get to keep 100k/year instead of 200k/year is a useless and undignified activity.
Polybius's "anacyclosis" idea (Wikipedia article short on citations, original text)
Monarchy (good) → tyranny (bad) → aristocracy (good) → oligarchy (bad) → democracy (good) → ochlocracy (bad) → monarchy
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I didn't say without competition. I said without meaningless competition. It's like banning France from the worldcup unless they play 3 games a day against U14 teams to qualify. Obviously in a lot of worlds France will just sit it out and the world cup will be won by some mediocre team that was willing to play all year against U14s.
Aristocracy is a privilege, nature is when animals just do things, like a bear eating a human for example. Aristocracy is like being born into a world where you don't have to waste your time fending off bears.
It's less undignified than having or expressing false consciousness and it's not more useless than anything else people comment on the internet for free.
I didn't say without competition either. I said without competition with anyone you don't like. Naturally everyone is incentivized to eliminate as much competition as possible, branding it "meaningless" and "below them" and shit. That isn't how it works. Competition only becomes truly meaningless when you're strong enough to make your lessers compete against it instead. Like the actual aristocrats of the world are currently doing to you. You're the bear barrier. You'll remain one until you become the kind of person who's better at wrangling people than bears.
If you're truly too smart for your current position in the world then complaining on wordcel forums is both undignified and useless. You should be out there lobbying, colluding and scheming.
I didn't say that either, I don't like all smart people. I like some non-smart people. But the point remains that a lot of my and your life has been spent in intellectual competition with people obviously less intelligent. This mainly is expressed through credentialism and dumb hiring practices. It's also expressed in lack of intelligence segregation. The consequence of having no segregation is a performative zero sum competition to separate yourself from someone you do not mix with. The reason you don't need to spend half your life demonstrating why you shouldn't be a farm animal or a wild animal is species segregation. Top 10% people are not segregated enough from the bottom half of humans even though they're as easy to tell apart as man and goat.
Stop criticizing how I spend my leisure time, it's rude and disrupts how I want to spend my leisure time. Do you never do anything for fun? The idea I have to spend all my time competing against Chinese rice peasants and white proletariat is what I'm against. Aristocrats philosophize. Maybe be happier that you're here also partaking in aristocratic leisure?
The aristocrats aren't doing anything to me. Literally, socialism is a bigger problem than billionaires by a magnitude of 10,000 times at least. Socialism takes all my money. I don't like the billionaires because they are not aristocrats, they are mostly lucky peasants or class traitors and that's that but they're basically not worth worrying about.
This is certainly not my experience. I have not found it difficult to live an intelligence-segregated life, apart from inevitable but brief interactions with the DMV and other similar organizations, simply by dint of pursuing my academic and career interests. There were dumb kids and affirmative action admits in college, but I was under no obligation to befriend them, and their mere presence in some introductory or mandatory course hardly counted as competition. Wherever these hordes of unwashed midwit Indian H-1B's everyone complains about are (some windowless warehouse in Silicon Valley, I am led to believe), it isn't anywhere near me. I knew of academic labs where everyone was from the same country as the professor, but it was obvious that they were to be avoided, and there was no shortage of other research opportunities. Hell, I can have the same sort of conversations I do here in-person if I go to enough rationalist meetups and suss out the crimethinkers.
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I am not talking about the billionaires. The billionaires are the equivalent of the rich who the aristocrats of old borrowed money from.
Do you feel in charge? If you're the top 10%, why do you not feel in charge? What are you doing about it?
I'm criticizing your leisure time because you're the one here who's unhappy about not being handed things like convenient and enriching competition. I work for 1/3 of the money someone in my IQ cohort could and apply 1/10 the effort. I feel quite alright with the ratio of money to effort I'm getting, and spend the rest of my time engaging in laborer leisure. Meanwhile, you're larping at "aristocratic leisure" while very evidently not being an aristocrat. (You could tell if you were because you'd feel in charge.)
The reason I don't have to demonstrate that is that farm animals are much better at dragging plows and being tasty than me (and tractors beat them at the former, too). If you lived in the era where draft animals were scarce you'd have to prove why you'd be more useful in the office doing shape rotating/wordcelry than dragging a plow. We don't have species segregation, we just made animal labor cheaper than ours.
Aristocrat is a phenotype, aristocracy is rule by that phenotype. I am an aristocrat, but there is no aristocracy. This whole exchange, you have struggled with distinguishing descriptive and normative statements, redefining my normative statements as different descriptive statements and then claiming that those descriptions are not true. For example, I say I want an aristocracy. You then define an aristocrat as any person that gets some social authority, and remark that you don't think I have any. Then you say I'm not an aristocrat. That is not a productive way to have this conversation.
We don't know that they are more tasty, because species segregation has banned any investigation into this question. You have that privilege. Now imagine if you had to fight tooth and nail not having the privilege, and if there were no species segregation police force you didn't invent, organize, or sufficiently fund that was willing to enforce your species privilege. Your existence would be much more precarious in such a world.
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