[ExI] retrainability of plebeians

[Stathis Papaioannou]

2009/5/4 Rafal Smigrodzki <rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com>:

> Think about it this way: from our general knowledge of science and
> perusing the Tesla website we can be reasonably sure that you can
> build good electric cars (like the T roadster) but unfortunately there
> is not enough lithium available to make them cheap as well. Same with
> capitalism - we know from theory and from occasional lucky situations
> (Hong Kong, Singapore) that you can build a more capitalist society
> than the US is, and that it would be a much better society.
> Unfortunately, building a capitalist society takes a lot of things
> that are in short supply - intelligence, humility, freedom from
> natural human biases, and that's why it isn't happening.

It doesn't matter what it takes, once everyone sees how good it is
they will copy it or be left behind.


-- 
Stathis Papaioannou