“…his behavior became increasingly erratic.” A theme with several of these guys. Not getting laid is probably another commonality, just a guess based on their substantial free time to manifesto (on their intense fixation on not wanting to pay taxes).
I don't know if anyone has written on Chin Wan in the context of European right-wing fetishisation of the Asian city state, but it seems like a thread worth pulling.
I'm curious about sci-fi influences. His celebration of political systems with exit reminds me of Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota series. One of the seven world nations, the Masonic Empire, is an absolute monarchy, but its power is checked because people can leave for others.
Superb. A geoengineering researcher once told me that the impact agenda was obsessed with the amplitude of impact, not its sign. Universities should be rewarded for net impact, not gross. Two start-ups plus ten patents and a think tank report minus the demise of a superpower.
"Its guiding principle is “no voice, free exit”: the residents or clients (not citizens) of such a state have no rights, but do have the ability to take their custom elsewhere."
How generous! What if the residents or clients have nowhere to go and are stuck with no right to have rights?
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How generous! What if the residents or clients have nowhere to go and are stuck with no right to have rights?