> Isn't it more a cultural issue though?

No. Culture is downstream of institutions.

Horses couldn't revolt.

And we won’t. Uber Eats Burger Reich and all.

What's the difference in predictions made between a theory of elite overproduction vs one of proletarianization?

Different systems and elite overproduction doesn’t discuss capital and production allocation eg means of production split.

> Yet we do not pay poll taxes today. We are not getting lynched in the streets. We are not being directly racially discriminated from employment.

No thanks to the present government, who post about deporting slightly less than 1/3 the US population.

But I think in this case an aging population can hold down the official unemployment rate, even when there are no new jobs outside services for the aged.

> "Perhaps", he speculated, "Singapore's destiny will be to become nothing more than a smug, neo-Swiss enclave of order and prosperity, amid a sea of unthinkable ... weirdness."

I think, reading this today, it probably describes what people like about the place.

> Because I believe it can be supported and be shown to be objectively correct.

Then that's not an opinion, it's a proposition aiming at fact, and you should back it up rather than restating it loudly and more slowly when asked for justification.

It can be both. There's such a thing as opinions that coincide with facts. Until I put in effort to support it though, I only offer it as an opinion.

> you should back it up rather than restating it loudly and more slowly when asked for justification.

It's a fair amount of work to do so, and I haven't seen anyone worthy of putting in such work. This site isn't great, from a practical point of view, for that type of lengthy debate, either.

> So aside from the subhuman Singaporeans who should be violently forced to adopt your ethics,

I didn't use the word subhuman, I used the word barbaric, and that's more regarding the authoritarian regime in power.

> it is also everyone on HN that is far below your golden ethical level and not worth of effortful discussion (but definitely worth moral lecturing and grandstanding), got it.

There's plenty of people who I could have a great, in-depth, reasonable discussion with, it's just that you're not one of them. Even this reply of yours is mainly bait, reliant on twisting things to get a reaction.

You're one of those commenters who needs to have the last word...this unproductive discussion is still going to go in for a few more replies yet because you can't let stuff go. I'm guessing my comment offended you because you live in Singapore and like it, is that it? All of this is just defensiveness?

I'm working on evaluating and documenting my application of a deep equilibrium model with a recurrent neural network as an inference encoder in a Poisson variational autoencoder.

> What percentage of people currently living off of welfare are doing meaningful work?

Most of them, since the vast majority of "welfare" programs exclusively assist people who are in work.

> Bubbles are a desirable feature of the American experiment.

No they're not. You don't get to decide what other people desire.