Oddbean new post about login | logout You are saying western nations should move in the direction of becoming North Korea. US military has power because US is most free market economy and if you start killing it, you have nothing to feed on. At the core any form of money has value because of productive people.
I'm not making suggestions for the government. If I was it would simply be to fuck off, but since they are unlikely to follow my advice I am working through some possible negative scenarios 🙂 In most cases I get to the end of these exercises having realized I was worried for nothing, but this one still bothers me.