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by nadir_ishiguro 472 days ago
Read his stuff years ago and it's so transparently ... stupid.

You really have to be blessed with the right kind of mix between psychopathy and idiocy to think that he's somebody to listen to.

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Reading Yarvin, I get the impression that he has never seriously investigated and contemplated how both governments and corporations work. His ideas are very feels-oriented. He makes a lot of bizarre and invalid assertions about both regarding operations, inputs, and outputs. He seems to live in an ironically academic affluenza bubble that's quite divorced from reality.

He is a fairly deplorable contributor to political theory and an uninspiring writer who hasn't done anything useful in any of his endeavours as far as I an tell. Has Urbit ever done anything useful? How much money has gone into it, and how much of it was his? Wait, sorry Curtis; tell me again about the efficiency of private corporations.

> right kind of mix between psychopathy and idiocy

Affulenza is real. These guys are brain-damaged.

At least they only have all the money.
At least money is not power.
Or you just have to be the Vice President of the United States!