Monday, September 03, 2018
Natural law working as it should 2
Immediate followup on previous item. Deserves to be a separate item, not a footnote.
China and Russia are uncomfortable partners in the Silk Road because of the cultural contrast of debt vs saving. So far the countervectors have yielded a strong resultant, but it's an unstable balance.
China loves gambling more than life. Russia wants security and savings. Russia is firmly on the Natural Law side of the fence without any Muslim influence. (To put it mildly!)
I can only guess at the pre-Soviet origins of the culture clash. In terms of human genetic types, Russians are farmers and winter people. Chinese are traders and summer people. Farmers are locked to the land, always seeking to store up food through the winter. Traders are always on the move, always betting on the Next Big Deal.
In the Soviet era I don't need to guess. The system was designed to run without corporate and individual debt. Businesses made things and created value. The state took the excess value in the form of VAT tax, and distributed it to businesses with the goal of supplying basic needs. Useful employment is one of the basic needs.
When the Soviet era ended in both countries, China reverted to its innate casino mentality, and Russia tried to carry on its innate store-for-the-winter mentality, INTERFERED and MEDDLED by our Sorosian bets-n-debts invasion.
After our invasion was ousted, Putin has been restoring the healthy and productive parts of the Soviet system, thanks to the utter stupidity of our Sorosian sanctions.
Natural Law always wins in the end because Natural Law is the record of how winners win. Tautology.
Labels: Constants and Variables, Natural law = Soviet law, skill-estate
¶ 1:32 AM
