Unless by "cow" you are referring to the fact that I am forced to sit in an office chair and type at a computer in relative social isolation, instead of freely roaming the African savannah to scavenge for carcasses like my ancestors did, I don't see the difference between a happy, productive person in ancient versus modern society. Then again, I guess I'm fairly privileged.

Is there anything inherently wrong with working for a living? Are people who need to work to earn a living by definition less free? For what it's worth, my gut tells me the only real difference between those well connected to money and power and the rest of us is that they have a monopoly on various forms of coercion, and we don't: the existence of things like a police force can make us safer from one another (or sometimes do a shamefully bad job at this, and make things objectively worse like killing / tossing poor people in prison for minor offenses), but ultimately it's the rich and powerful who benefit. But beyond not having the right to help the government bomb a bunch of people in the Middle East just so I can buy another yacht? I don't exactly like the idea that I'm a 'cow' just because I have to work for a living. That doesn't mean there aren't parasites leeching off my salary (or that it wouldn't be nice to have to work less and live longer), but there are parasites all over the planet. Of course it becomes a serious problem when the parasite sucks the host dry or causes serious systemic problems. I don't think that having a parasite makes me a cow, though!

the problem with capitalism is you eventually run out of your parent's money

The problem with capitalism is that it is designed to set apart a permanent, autocratic class of economic decision-makers.

So what? Economic decisions are a really hard class of problems. I sure as hell don't want it decided democratically. I think if you have a very small number of very wealthy people who make highly effective economic decisions, and are incapable of consuming the vast majority of their wealth, than that's not really an issue in terms of economic fairness, because at the end of the day, consumption is a much better metric for economic quality than wealth.

I think the real issue is the value of labor vs. capital, which is sort of technology dependent. In the long term labor should usually be more valuable, but there's a lot of stuff that can mess that up over the short term, like poor workforce mobility. If capital gets to valuable, then you get into issues with capital over-investment and that can cause issues.

So what? Economic decisions are a really hard class of problems. I sure as hell don't want it decided democratically. I think if you have a very small number of very wealthy people who make highly effective economic decisions, and are incapable of consuming the vast majority of their wealth, than that's not really an issue in terms of economic fairness, because at the end of the day, consumption is a much better metric for economic quality than wealth.

Doesn't it seem like Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez's win has actually had a profound effect on discourse? Immediately after she won, a few establishment figures in the Democratic Party tried to downplay the significance of the win by attributing it to demographics rather than her ideas/policy proposals. But it seems that her win was actually an inflection point, and that in its wake, many now take for granted that the Democrats need to adopt a more aggressive leftist economic agenda. There seems to be growing recognition that this is the future of the party.

Also, I feel the comment section of most websites I visit are about as chaotic, morbid, and overpopulated as any slaughterhouse.

I think of the internet as one big charnel ground

the funny thing is, monarchists aren't wrong in some sense. countries that had a benevolent dictator, who truly worked their hardest for the benefit of their country, can sometimes be more efficient than democratic systems.

lol, this is what Hans-Hermann Hoppe thinks

Does this mean that, in having recently upgraded your property to connect to the internet, you are in fact now living in a charnel house?

At the risk of characterizing my own qualities, that post contains just enough complexity and cringe in convex combination that I cannot completely comprehend it. I'm a cuck!

I am actually still modestly interested in understanding what Reid wrote actually means,