The one promised in this post several months ago.
@collectivist spotted the finished product was out:
When he posted the finished video on youtube yesterday, there were some quite critical comments on youtube, the EA forum and even lesswrong. Unfortunately they got little to no upvotes while the video itself got enough karma to still be on the frontpage on both forums.
the video is everything you’d expect. The power of classical liberalism and technology segues into uwu libertarianism. I made it about three minutes with a great deal of skipping.
Soviets were in theory democratic councils but were in practice ruled top-down (except in the very beginning, according to Emma Goldman in her book “My two years in Russia”). So I don’t think there is much similarity there.
On the other hand, charter cities are according to Wikipedia essentially areas where a more advanced economy “helps” a third world country by “temporarily” taking over governance to develope the area. In other words: a colony.
And in the historical part of their video I missed the other parts of the industrial revolution. You know the taking over other countries to get cheap raw materials, cheap labour and captive markets. Surely just an oversight that they forgot to mention how colonialism has worked before and its role in why poor countries are poor.
Thanks for the history lesson (serious).
I mostly just wanted to make a bad horseshoe theory reference.