Milei: ‘Return to Greek philosophy, embrace Roman law, and go back to Christian values!’

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embrace Roman law,

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Are we getting gladiators again? That would be pretty cool

Our oligarchs appear to be on the verge of shifting from open borders. I think the predictions of AI and worker displacement is what is driving this.

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None of those 3 have much at all to do with each other which is what makes this pretty funny.

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Roman Law is quite different from Common Law. Common Law has a much stronger judiciary, where Roman law has a much stronger legislature. For example, Roman Law has no concept of "stare decicis", meaning that just because a court precedent is old doesn't mean it can't be reconsidered or reversed. Both have many similarities, but Roman Law has a vastly superior property/inheritance system, and I prefer how they interpret statutes.

Greek philosophy includes values such as stoicism, democracy, and individual liberty including the roots of the scientific method. Christian values include the importance of family, treating others the way you wish to be treated, doing good works for the sake of doing them (not for the attention), and the importance of gratitude and humility in all you do.

Over the course of the 20th century, we have effectively neutered the power of legislatures by empowering unelected technocrats in bureaucratic agencies to rule on their behalf. The entire will of the world order is now decided and carried out by unknown, faceless, nameless cogs who do not answer to anyone the public has the means to elect or fire. As such, democracy and representative republics have become merely shibboleths. Chief executives, prime ministers, and presidents are merely elected figureheads. They have no real power over the bureaucrats beneath them which run things regardless of how elections are decided. No matter who the public elects, the bureaucracy barely changes and continues right on. That's why no matter who you vote for, you get offshoring jobs, a shrinking middle class, and mass-importation of migrants. That is what the bureaucracy decided decades ago, and you have no levers to pull to stop them.

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kingbob

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Well said, sir.

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doing good works for the sake of doing them (not for the attention

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Well, there go the Twitter/TikTok Karens.

I've mentioned before in here that Milei does a better job than anyone else I've seen combine both the moral and utilitarian arguments for libertarianism / free markets. That's what his entire speech was today and it was glorious.

The entire speech was about why free markets are moral and government intervention is unjust.

Currency swap.

FIFY