Comments for Rowing, Steering, Anchoring, Equity, Mutiny will go here for now. I hope to post the whole piece to the Forum separately, but I’m currently having trouble with formatting. I will post a link to it when it’s up so that future comments can go there.
I haven’t heard much in the way of specific proposals for how the existing “system” could be fundamentally reformed, other than explicitly socialist and Marxist proposals such as the abolition of private property, which I don’t support.
How would you classify populist anti-establishment movements like Donald Trump’s presidency or Brexit?
To me these are also a kind of mutiny, in that their proponents are motivated more by a sense of grievance that the system is not working for them than a specific idea of what the system should look like instead.
Holden, I’m curious where you would put painist organizations—those who are only trying to reduce / alleviate pain. One Step for Animals and Lewis’ Open Phil work are along these lines. Or do you think this is not a big enough area to warrant discussion (which could well be).
In my head, these seem like “equity,” though I’ll admit my phrasing in describing “equity” doesn’t make this clear. A somewhat broader version of “equity” might be: “focus on improving the day-to-day lives of the people on the ship, rather than anything about where the ship is headed or who’s deciding that.”
Comments for Rowing, Steering, Anchoring, Equity, Mutiny will go here for now. I hope to post the whole piece to the Forum separately, but I’m currently having trouble with formatting. I will post a link to it when it’s up so that future comments can go there.
More right-wing flavoured versions that you could run into include flavours of anarcho-capitalism (see e.g. The Machinery of Freedom and The Problem of Political Authority) and Hansonian proposals such as futarchy and private criminal law enforcement.
How would you classify populist anti-establishment movements like Donald Trump’s presidency or Brexit?
To me these are also a kind of mutiny, in that their proponents are motivated more by a sense of grievance that the system is not working for them than a specific idea of what the system should look like instead.
I don’t think the link in the comment works. Here is a direct link:
https://www.cold-takes.com/rowing-steering-anchoring-equity-mutiny/
Holden, I’m curious where you would put painist organizations—those who are only trying to reduce / alleviate pain. One Step for Animals and Lewis’ Open Phil work are along these lines. Or do you think this is not a big enough area to warrant discussion (which could well be).
In my head, these seem like “equity,” though I’ll admit my phrasing in describing “equity” doesn’t make this clear. A somewhat broader version of “equity” might be: “focus on improving the day-to-day lives of the people on the ship, rather than anything about where the ship is headed or who’s deciding that.”