Idk I’ve been watching the occasional BBC archives or some other old archive source, and the UK has seemed relatively authoritarian compared to Europe or the US for a while.

> It's not something government should regulate but it is something that government policy should incentivize.

Every time this comes up, there are numerous instances reported of welfare states in Europe, Asia, etc. trying this and it not working.

The west, and especially the US is falling out of love with republicans and liberal democracy as they learn that some problems need to solved with an iron fist.

> 1) If you're a rent seeker, current trends will probably see you lose out to a bigger and more powerful rent seeker. He's probably right about that.

> 2) Creating more value than you consume is a great form of self-preservation, when you do this no one wants to get rid of you.

> None of it's political. It's just good advice for life. I hereby forbid the masses from responding to these points with political rage bait.

They’re both tautologies. No new or useful info to glean. I didn’t need some highly intelligent security researcher to explain these things that are explained by intuition by anyone with an above room temp IQ.

There must surely be more to this, and given how many of his other recent blogs are a mix of political rant and a screed against da haterz. I suspect it’s a lot more political on his side than you think.

> If there was tech that forced commenters to read the article before they could comment on it - now THAT would be a valuable innovation!

lol, gotta love people who whine about HN quality and then just write pointless crybaby paragraphs like this. If you can’t beat em, join em I guess.

> Great advice if you want to be old and poor.

A more conspiracy minded version of myself might suggest there’s an active attempt to break the politically active middle class. Subtle changes in messaging that have been happening over the past few years from business owners and politicians seem to suggest that the future will involve masses of poverty. Gone are the days of “hard work” and “meritocracy” and they have been replaced by beef liver and romanticization of peasantry

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