> you seem to think that everyone in these countries is the same

Your words, not mine. Everyone is an individual. I think many of these individuals should fix their own countries before fleeing to mine. They are not the meek and downtrodden. Every one at the university has blown through at least $125K on immigration attorneys for the student visa alone.

> smart, well-educated, and generally "good" people

There is more to being good than calculus and not murdering people. Given the immense purchasing power they would have in their own countries, why aren't they raising up their own instead of fleeing? So many brahmins blowing through half a mil on a 3rd-rate US compsci degree, while people back home don't even have clean water.

For nearly every time I’ve been accused of bullshit, vindication is right around the corner.

But hey, nice job putting words in my mouth.

As for evidence, you also have bing and google. There’s no shortage of it.

But I'm not a journalist, and I'm not going to scrounge through all of my books for a post that's probably going to get flagged and removed anyway. I'm sure the good journalists will eventually pick up the slack. There's bound to be another Robert Caro out there for this generation. We just have to wait and see.

2. Assault eugenics on the poor (even if they get big refunds in April, they are still subject to withholding on their meager paychecks). More time wrestling with payday lenders and scrambling to get their 39 hours in == less time making more babies.

And for this nugget:

“It’s also you, the software engineering community, that has made no effort to warn the non-expert public of the dangers of these tools.”

I say he deserves it without lube. Hardly a day goes by on Lobsters or HN where we (including many C++ devs) don’t complain at great length on what a reeking dumpster fire C++ is.

"Go calculate the angle, Linus."

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Even Hitler was not immune. There's a story in Speer's biography where he was lecturing the gauleiters for wasting materials and skilled laborers on their McCastles when the military was in dire need. After the lecture, Speer was warned by Hitler to never do this again. Speer noted that this was the first and only time he had ever seen Hitler visibly afraid and shaken. No one is indispensable.

Similar issues arose in ancien régime Europe for the same reasons (nobles of the robe).

Of course, if we bomb, starve, or plague ourselves back into the stone age, that would definitely flatten the org chart, and forms of government would regain their distinctions.

I think Yarvin's only beef is the same one held by most of our malcontents. They aren't upset because our system is evil (it is). They are upset because they aren't at the top of it.

edit: Will also add that China is perfect example of this. In the first generation, Mao starved the peasants and executed his enemies. Once the patriarch was pushed aside, the system scaled-up and took control, and now we have a nation which is regularly held up as an example (or even a necessity!) by our own Western elites.

Regardless of one’s ideological starting point, the complexities of the modern world will necessitate an org chart which is both very broad and very deep.

A better explanation of what we have—and will continue to have barring some cataclysm—is laid out in Burnham’s “The Managerial Revolution” and Michels’ “Iron Law of Oligarchy.”

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Lonnie Johnson grew up in segregation-era Alabama. That probably set him back, but it did not stop him.