The Real Solution to Lowering the Murder Rate
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This is how most historians and social scientists handle causality.
Hoppe has a great take on historians.
Basically they look at the 19th century and there was monarchy, and they look at the 20th century and there was democracy, and the 20th century is wealthier, and conclude that democracy creates more wealth than monarchy.
That is a priori not true, since democracy redistributes income, creates public debt and consumes capital.
Hoppe has a great take on historians.
Basically they look at the 19th century and there was monarchy, and they look at the 20th century and there was democracy, and the 20th century is wealthier, and conclude that democracy creates more wealth than monarchy.
That is a priori not true, since democracy redistributes income, creates public debt and consumes capital.
Kings only need so much though. Sure he may live at a level of extravagance that most people would hate him for, but the fact is that if it's just one family living like that off of the masses, then there is a LOT more money to be put to good use left in the system.
Meanwhile, this king is brought up learning that he has to be a good shepard of his people if he wants to keep his head... That tends to keep them in line far more than the modern politician, who with term limits has limited exposure and responsibility for the happiness of the masses.
Hoppe does a really good job of laying out the differences in his book, Democracy: The God that Failed.
Basically, a king isn't regarded the same way a President/PM is, and enjoys a much shorter leash. In a democracy, you elect a new leader. In a monarchy, you overthrow the King. Very different social dynamics.
Maybe when it comes to some of their personal opinions or whatever, but at least in psychology and sociology research classes, for example, the "correlation is not necessarily causation" message is repeatedly driven into the student's heads. In the actual research papers, they try to control as best they can for other variables and they don't make causal conclusions, but others sometimes end up interpreting it that way, similar to this :
Yes, taxes were lower with kings. But do you really think giving 1 person the power to make all laws is better than the current system?
I'm thinking... how would you like it if before you ever had sex with your girlfriend you'd be required to hand her over to be raped by the king once? Good stuff ey?
One of the most enlightening courses from college was Public History, some 4000 level class.
I had no idea what it was about and took it my senior year to fulfill a missing credit but it turned out to be one of my favorites.
This class indirectly affirmed all of my religious (atheistic) beliefs by showing how the concepts of history work. We had to write a shit load of papers elaborating on the concepts of historical accounting such as "the winners of wars write the history" and how first-hand accounts are riddled with human error.
Their is enough physical proof and trends in historic accounts to inference hypothesis and make strong theories, but bias and opinion flood everything.
We did a lot of course work around the Civil War and Katrina and it was amazing how much information is wrong or has conflicting opinions or data.
tldr: All History is wrong
I had no idea what it was about and took it my senior year to fulfill a missing credit but it turned out to be one of my favorites.
This class indirectly affirmed all of my religious (atheistic) beliefs by showing how the concepts of history work. We had to write a shit load of papers elaborating on the concepts of historical accounting such as "the winners of wars write the history" and how first-hand accounts are riddled with human error.
Their is enough physical proof and trends in historic accounts to inference hypothesis and make strong theories, but bias and opinion flood everything.
We did a lot of course work around the Civil War and Katrina and it was amazing how much information is wrong or has conflicting opinions or data.
tldr: All History is wrong
I don't think you understand the argument.
How would you like to have your family bombed to death by secular democratic armies lead by psychopathic demagogues?
