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... Inter-group aggression as a cultural meme has an advantage in culture group selection. Then, in gene-culture coevolution, this culture meme promotes biological tendencies for inter-group aggression in individual members. ...
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... As EDSC predicted, there is adaptive pressure on successful manipulation within a social group. Thus there is adaptive pressure for religious belief or spirituality. ...
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... Traits like ultra-altruism, large-scale cooperation, longing for belonging to a group, and intergroup aggression are hard to explain through individual gene selection alone. ...
... In comparison, Darwinian group selection (direct gene selection at the group level) has too many contingencies and, thus, is much less probable as the main selection force for these traits. ...
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... Oligarchy doesn't suffer legitimacy issue since it's the manipulators ruling the manipulatees. Oligarchy is the political structure parrell to the gene stratification structure in a society. ...
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... Intergroup aggression started as a meme that is adaptive in cultural group evolution. Then, in turn, it created biological selection pressure in the gene-culture coevolution process. it's more than likely already an evolutionary mismatch. ...
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... As long as social groups still compete against each other, the political structure of those groups has to serve the function of competition. The so-called liberalism democracy as of now is still more like an oligarchy republic (as envisioned by the founding father). ...
... Will it morph into something different when social group competition completely disappears? I.e. when there is only one social group: the human race. Does that mean will can have a more radical democracy? ...
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... In an oligarchy republic, one politician can exploit popular support to overcome other competitors, and in extremes become a despotist. The so-called democracy is basically populist politics normalized in an oligarchy. ...
... The legitimacy problem - i.e. how the members of the society accept the political institution, is only a problem within the elites. For the non-elite population, such questions can be easily settled through political manipulation, like Cesar and Hitler. ...
... Some of them may utilize popular support to overthrow the institution, but it's a kind of manipulation - not that the population awakens to some more legitimate alternatives. ...
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... The foundational idea of the End of History is inherited from Hegel - man's desire for recognition overriding other desires (mainly preservation) is something that transcends humans, something that proves man's freedom. ...
... This is an outdated view that sees humans as isolated individuals rather than members of social groups. This desire for recognition is probably a product of group competition and the recognition is about one's worth to the community in the context of fierce group competition between communities. ...
... Without a better understanding of this desire for recognition through the lens of group competition, ideas built on top of it are flaky as well. ...
... For example, we don't know which desire is more prominent: the desire for equal recognition for each member or the desire for the recognition of the community as a whole. In modernity, the further is represented by liberal democracy while the latter by nationalism. ...
... In *End of History,* Fukuyama took one paragraph to dismiss nationalism as an irrational one in contrast with the desire for recognition at the individual level. This distinction, as demonstrated above, is not well-founded. ...
... It's more evident that the majority of a social group is prone to manipulation, be it religion, ideologies, etc while liberal democracy is just one of them to support elected orligarchy. And that is supported by group competition theories. ...
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... The authors here show that readiness to cooperate between individuals from different groups corresponds to the degree of cultural similarity between those groups. This is consistent with the theory of Cultural Group Selection as an explanation for the rise of human large-scale cooperation. ...
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... [https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/how-emotionally-intelligent-people-use-send-a-bible-rule-to-become-remarkably-more-memorable.html](https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/how-emotionally-intelligent-people-use-send-a-bible-rule-to-become-remarkably-more-memorable.html) ...
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... There's a widespread view in inflation hawk circles that the BLS came under political pressure (in the 1990s and maybe before) to modify the CPI to reduced the measured inflation rate and hence reduce how much the government would have to pay in Social Security benefits. ...
... The CPI, the one used for adjusting Social Security benefits, tends to come in higher than the PCE index. Right now, for example, PCE inflation is 5.7 percent while CPI inflation is 7 percent. ...
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... When I share this image people sometimes suggest I'm cherry picking, since other major economies don't look like the ones for the UK, Canada and France here. ...
... I also think this chart is consistent with the explanation I prefer—that causation mostly runs from bad macroeconomic policy to a housing crash, rather than the other way around. ...
... Tight money put downward pressure on home prices throughout the Eurozone, but the effect was biggest for countries like Spain and Italy whose economies were otherwise most negatively affected by ECB policies. ...
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... Thread… Here’s my basic understanding of the model: the economy has some industries that are capital intensive and others that are not. When the central bank makes interest rates artificially low, it makes capital investment cheap and skews the economy toward capital intensive sectors. ...
... In 2006 and 2007 the home building industry was contracting while other industries were still growing. But in mid 2008, the situation changed. ...
... Instead of re-allocating workers and other resources from home building to other sectors, you suddenly had almost every industry laying off workers—even ones that were not capital intensive and did not see strong growth in the 2000s. ...
... The central question of macroeconomics is explaining why economies sometimes have periods of elevated unemployment, where not just one industry shrinks but almost all of them do at once. ...
... As far as I can tell the Austrian story is that high unemployment is purely a frictional side effect of workers making a necessary transition from over-built sectors to under-built ones. But that’s not what deep recessions look like at all! ...
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... One use of Twitter: to post background information that I may use in columns and newsletters. So, a bit about market expectations of inflation. Right now, the yield on one-year inflation-protected Treasuries is -3.2% 1/ https://t.co/fl2zU5H36X The one-year rate on ordinary Treasuries is 0.48%. ...
... But they may offer some evidence on whether a wage-price spiral is likely 5/ Other surveys, for example, of planned compensation also show no sign of a spiral; nor is there any indication of expectation-driven price or wage increases in the Fed's latest Beige Book 6/ https://t.co/wxyF4CUUab Again, ...
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... One is that this isn't just an American problem. Durable goods are manufactured goods that mostly trade in global markets. If their price is shooting up here it's shooting up elsewhere too. ...
... If we'd gotten less stimulus, strong demand from other countries would still be making this stuff more expensive. The same is true of gasoline, which is also shooting up in price. Another implication is that inflation is likely to moderate over the next couple of years. ...
... Once a household has bought a dishwasher or a couch, they probably won't buy another one for several years. Spending on durables can't keep growing at this pace. https://t.co/1ezz6V9lAU On the other hand, companies that make durable goods know how to make more of them! ...
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