One of the most blatant glaring flaws of “globalism” is that every third world country is a low trust society, they will scam, deceive, and flat out steal and consider it justified. When you import these people (no matter iq or ability) this mentality carries over.
When you have no grounding principles in society it will inevitably collapse, this is because the cost to maintain that society skyrockets. Thinks of how much the US currently spends on security, whether physical ($21 billion on home security systems alone) or digital ($71.79 billion estimated in 2023). This doesn’t even touch the cost of government corruption, corporate corruption, or “multiculturalism”.
The reason nations develop is when they can maintain a cheap security and general wellbeing. This only occurs in high trust societies, when you reduce costs in an unnecessary market you allow allocation and expansion into other markets. This was common sense for centuries of western society, the entire basis of capitalism was founded on the auspices of a high trust society, same with the republic.
Case in point Japan, their economy on paper HASN'T recovered since the crash in the 1990s but due to high trust, they aren't in die straights an honestly still further ahead than countries with on paper, better economies.
I hope they can recover to their heights from the 1980s--this time not on a bubble, but on a strong foundation.
America First, of course, but if there's one other country I want to prosper, it's Japan.
Their next PM is a retarded puppet, probably worse than Biden.
They seemed ok to me when I visited. Decades or centuries ahead of the USA in terms of everything good.
Englands economy hasnt recovered from the 2008/9 subprime mortgage crisis.
Yes, but have you considered the boost to GDP??? Think of all the money and jobs created!
Number must go up! Always up. Low number bad.
Same number good last year, bad this year!
Just thing of all the authentic tacos you could have, and copper wiring that appeared just from nowhere!
Yes, whatever will we do without all those $15/hr mcjobs to dump the little people in.
Replacing you with pajeets? That's the sacrifice Benji willing to make!
As its been said, the economic hero of the GDP is a terminal cancer patient going through a contentious divorce.
High trust societies are inherently more efficient than low trust ones in all cases, and this is what causes them to become more productive. For people, particularly libertarians, who hyper-focus on economics, it's one of the reasons why they have no objection to the concept of infinite growth (and neither should you). Infinite growth simply means that productivity and efficiency is permanently increasing, and that is something that is good and would occur naturally from technological advancement, and experiential wisdom, regardless of all other factors.
Where lolberts fuck up, or where Koch Brothers Libertarians intentionally lie, is that they reverse cause and effect and claim that increasing GDP counts as real productivity and efficiency increases, represents wealth, and will somehow create more efficient and productive people. It will not.
People create economics through choices. Economics doesn't create people.
Corrupt employers need corrupt employees.
You're missing the bigger picture.
The USA is not and has not been a "high trust society" since the 1990s.
Just shift your framing. Everything makes more sense now doesn't it?
You mean the federal government firebombing child citizens isn't the epitome of high trust?!
"You shot my dog, you son of a bitch!"
It's globalized nationalism vs globalization. One has everyone in power stay in power, and try to extend their reach. The other is everyone extends their reach, but only as far as they want. Anime cowgirls fighting Florida gators vs a large homogenized low trust society.
It's quite easy for all economic growth to be destroyed by theft and corruption. And I'm talking about real value, not GDP bullshit.
A great example is grocery stores. They do big revenue, but profit margins are slim, 1-3%. Even a tiny fraction of shoplifters can make a location no longer financially viable. And indeed this happens and stores close down, then we all get to hear about "food deserts" as if it was a natural phenomenon.
food desert is a plus good double-speak.
A very simple understanding for gamers is think of any RTS, like StarCraft. In a low trust society you’ve got to spend all your resources building Barracks and amassing space marines for defense for the jeet-rush. Whereas in a high trust society you could be building more SCVs for increased resources and building research buildings that develop technologies not having to fend off any enemies.
It's a problem of low IQ people to envy and become criminals believing they are justified, that's why deterrents of prison and death sentences exist.
The problem with immigration is that their race has a lower IQ on average, so they will inevitably become resentful losers when placed together with higher IQ people. Ironically they give less problem when they are placed among rednecks and other dumb white trash groups.
Basically it has been proved that high and low IQ people should not live in the same place.
We cannot admit it because women are the prime example of resentful loser for their lower IQ compared to men. Despite all the diversity hire and quotas they still hate men and feel justified to ruin men's lives if possible.
The leftist political parties have women as their primary pool of voters, they also push for more immigration because it's the same rethoric and it strengthen their "victimhood" narrative.
High trust societies lead to USAID and "Climate change" taxes.
It's all a swindle, just dressed up a little prettier in the West.
That’s actually a factor of low trust societies. The US hasn’t been a high trust society in nearly a century, the main difference was the majority of America outside the cities maintained it, that’s where Americana comes from. The low trust inevitably swallowed most areas and contaminated the rest.
The "honor's system farmers market" and "putting the shopping cart back" measurements are good for measuring this, and it's clear that high-trust societies only exist in rural areas at this point, not even towns and suburbs.
Meanwhile, in the 1950's it was still cities that were still low trust, but that's still represented the majority of people living in America. People moved out of cities and into suburbs.
Part of being high trust is that if McScammington pulls shit like taking your money and not delivering on those noble goals he claims, you can either drag him into town square and beat him into an honest man or trust that the legal system will ruin him for doing so.
We have reached low trust because the people who run things like that get no consequence for their lies and stealing, and in fact get protections if you ask for that to happen.
A two-tier justice system is the ultimate indicator for a low-trust society.
Right. Even the low trust areas in the US. Like crime heavy neighborhoods, are more expensive to operate businesses in.
You need a lot more active security and you can't just expect a low level of loss and factor that into prices. You end up needing to spend so much on security that many businesses exit
From the elites point of view this is a feature, not a flaw.