All Societies Are Based On A Sort

Aristotle [would] Probably Conclude Most Americans, For All Intents And Purposes, Are Slaves.

You Can't Have Cutthroat Competition When There's No One Stopping You From Actually Cutting Each Other's Throats. In Order To Build Up Trust We Also Have To Think About Each Other's Needs And It Creates An Entirely Different Dynamic.

If Your Father Is An Air-conditioner Repairman From Nebraska, Its Conceivable That You Might Become A Ceo, But You Can't Imagine Being The Drama Critic For The New York Times. So If You Come From A Background Like That And You Want To Actually Have A Career Which Involves Doing Something Noble In The World, What Can You Do? You Can Join The Army. That's About It. Or You Can Work For The Church. That Explains A Lot Of The Focus Of Right-wing Populism. The Right Wing Figured That Out, That People Want Enough To Survive And To Do Good.

People Don't Have An Ongoing Relation Unless It's A Form Of Debt Because Everything Is An Exchange, So Ongoing Relationships Are Incomplete Exchanges, And Therefore One Party Is Probably To Blame - More Likely Than Not, Both Are. Sociality Itself Seems To Become Like A Matter Of Sin, And Inherently Wrong.

When You Take Away The Violence From The Market, Even It Starts Shifting Into Something Else - Not Exactly Paradise, But It Doesn't Become The Market In The Way We See It Now.