# Cities, capital and the freedom to earn

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# Cities, capital and the freedom to earn

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it’s this kashtapadra poverty porn. it’s an addiction. if these guys don’t virtue signal atleast once everyday and not feel that p(l)easant rush in their brain, they’ll lose their minds. they need to jerk off to that porn daily.

i mean, if you don’t want to live in a city, there’re always villages inland where you can live your life.

high concentration of people in cities and sparsely populated inlands with villages are a perfect mix.

you don’t need footpaths in a village. their interior roads are a mix of both. you can enjoy all of that there.

all of this dialed down comes from the guilt of privilege. oh we got all of that. let me virtue signal to everyone and prevent development.

this is a first world phenomenon. they conquered third world barbarians. brought first world civilization and then felt guilty over their crimes and started virtue signalling to everyone.

no no no this is where you need to be careful.

they came back to the third world countries, and will tell them - oh don’t use that. you’ll hurt the environment. use unattainable ways for energy (because they don’t want you to be self reliant on energy) . they got rich and would prevent you from becoming so andrei would appeal to your sense of being good to everyone.

how’s that going for europe? what happened after you shut down your nuclear power plants?

how’s europe you suckers in winter with those renewable energy? how’s the summer without ac?

you pathetic doomercels. your days of conquering is over.

you don’t get to tell my country what we need to use and whether it concerns environment or not.

this is why i love china.

gave a middle finger to everyone saying anything about environment. they did huge energy projects, enough to alter the earth. they built the best cities, huge infra, exported to the whole world, amassed huge wealth and are continuing to do so - and are competing with americans in ai.

what india needs is a similar approach in development.

crush dissenting voices like china does and develop. the culture is what the state builds. anything other than that needs to align towards what the state requires. india isn’t a first world country to have first world ideals on freedom of speech. bring the people into order. read how they developed singapore and china.

*[a point to revisit: what limits would prevent the power to “crush dissent” from being used against the builders, researchers and ordinary citizens this argument wants to help? development needs a way to challenge bad decisions too.]*

you can have your freedom of speech and your ability to do virtue signalling (which is a soft power tbh) when you’re a rich country.

until then - it needs alignment with the state.

think of this like children getting their freedom when they’re adults. they go out of bounds? you give them a timeout and make them stand in the corner. that’s how it is if you seriously want to develop the country.

too many cooks spoil the broth. you can’t have development with sub 70 iqs constantly bickering in your ear. at that point it’s annoyance.

that’s why you see countries like china and singapore being so non democratic. you may not like it but that’s how you grow your country.

the only modern country following the same china singapore playbook perfectly is el salvador.  only difference? el salvador doesn’t have a firewall. china didn’t let anyone in the world know what’s happening.

it gets a lot of hate for what it’s worth - but it does grow the country even if you hate it (rightfully)

*[a tension to revisit: elsewhere these essays defend adult autonomy and oppose the state acting as a parent. treating citizens as children until the country becomes rich needs to be reconciled with that principle. who decides when they have earned their freedom?]*

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