Certainly, the manifesto is one-sided and oozes with the same kind of hubris one would have expected from a Jacobin at the eve of the French Revolution. But what really undercuts the entire thing is the following three little sentences: "David Friedman points out that people only do things for other people for three reasons – love, money, or force. Love doesn’t scale, so the economy can only run on money or force. The force experiment has been run and found wanting. Let’s stick with money." These claims are entirely unprovable and, taken to their logical ends, feudalist. It's worth stating the obvious: he has just publicly revealed his own core set of beliefs and how he sees reality. Who in their RIGHT mind would follow the directive of a person who favors materialism over the very forces that bind us to each other, that effectuate our very existence? In a world plagued with war, poverty, and so many social ills, where death is the only certainty, and in which society is systemically failing to support its constituents, it's time for leadership to orient those privileged to build anything valuable in a different direction.
Certainly, the manifesto is one-sided and oozes with the same kind of hubris one would have expected from a Jacobin at the eve of the French Revolution. But what really undercuts the entire thing is the following three little sentences: "David Friedman points out that people only do things for other people for three reasons – love, money, or force. Love doesn’t scale, so the economy can only run on money or force. The force experiment has been run and found wanting. Let’s stick with money." These claims are entirely unprovable and, taken to their logical ends, feudalist. It's worth stating the obvious: he has just publicly revealed his own core set of beliefs and how he sees reality. Who in their RIGHT mind would follow the directive of a person who favors materialism over the very forces that bind us to each other, that effectuate our very existence? In a world plagued with war, poverty, and so many social ills, where death is the only certainty, and in which society is systemically failing to support its constituents, it's time for leadership to orient those privileged to build anything valuable in a different direction.