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"One of my tiny clients was billed over $10,000 recently because their customer-facing chatbot got locked in a loop with somebody's openclaw agent.
An acquaintance works for a small to mid sized private software company, and he alleges that they put restrictions on AI use after they already hit seven figures this month.
Overall, I don't know if that story is true, but what I'm seeing on the ground strongly suggests that executives really don't have the slightest fucking clue what's happening until the bill lands on their desk."
"Ultimately, power in the West will not be claimed through internet manifestos, but through the patient, multi-generational organization of localized communities. Forging a new elite requires individuals to abandon abstract pontification and dedicate themselves to the hard labor of on-the-ground institutional and physical power consolidation."
"Founding a modern monarchy requires material state-building, monopolization of force, and institution-building rather than political theory. Abdulaziz Al Saud, Ugyen Wangchuck, and Kim Il-sung succeeded by acting as pragmatic warlords and shrewd diplomats who united their respective nations and established lasting hereditary systems.
⢠Abdulaziz Al Saud (Saudi Arabia): Starting with a small group of loyalists in 1902 to retake Riyadh, he spent three decades expanding his territory through military campaigns and tribal alliances. He officially unified his dominions into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932, securing his regime's longevity by centralizing state power and laying the groundwork for the oil industry.
⢠Ugyen Wangchuck (Bhutan): Acting as a powerful regional governor, he utilized military victories and key diplomatic mediation to end internal civil wars. In 1907, he was elected and crowned as the first hereditary king by a consensus of representatives and clergy, legally cementing his state's sovereignty with the Wangchuck Dynasty that rules today.
⢠Kim Il-sung (North Korea): Emerging as a guerrilla leader, he consolidated power following the end of Japanese rule to establish a de facto absolute monarchy under the Kim Family. He achieved this through massive land redistribution, the purging of political rivals, and the creation of an enduring personality cult that successfully transferred supreme power to his bloodline."
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"Thinkers who denounce joining existing state apparatuses like the police or military ignore the fundamental rule of statecraft. Throughout history, the establishment of a new regime has necessitated engaging directly with the physical instruments of violence. Attempting to bypass the hard reality of physical force through cryptographic weapon locks, bitcoin, or digital escapism inherently fails to capture the territory and monopoly on violence required to establish a sovereign nation."
"Modern monarchists emphasize theory over force because they are attempting to justify restoring a monarchy within existing legal, democratic frameworks, requiring ideological rather than military arguments.
Caesar, Liu Bang, and Kim Il-sung
Looking at these figures shifts the focus from legitimacy to power dynamics. They represent three different ways singular rule is established:
⢠Julius Caesar (The Legal Subverter): Caesar was neither socially nor legally viable in the Roman Republic. He operated entirely "by doing it anyway," exploiting legal loopholes, military victory, and civil war to dismantle the Republic. He was assassinated precisely because the political class deemed his consolidation of power unacceptable.
⢠Liu Bang (The Populist Founder): As the founder of the Han Dynasty, he operated via practical realpolitik. He successfully built a coalition of warlords, pacified rivals, and adapted to the administrative framework left behind by the preceding Qin Dynasty.
⢠Kim Il-sung (The Hereditary Engineer): Operating in a modern framework, Kim Il-sung used military maneuvering, deification, and an ideology of self-reliance (Juche) to establish a rigid, hereditary dynastic system out of a fractured post-WWII state."
"Modern monarchists emphasize theory over force because they are attempting to justify restoring a monarchy within existing legal, democratic frameworks, requiring ideological rather than military arguments.
Caesar, Liu Bang, and Kim Il-sung
Looking at these figures shifts the focus from legitimacy to power dynamics. They represent three different ways singular rule is established:
⢠Julius Caesar (The Legal Subverter): Caesar was neither socially nor legally viable in the Roman Republic. He operated entirely "by doing it anyway," exploiting legal loopholes, military victory, and civil war to dismantle the Republic. He was assassinated precisely because the political class deemed his consolidation of power unacceptable.
⢠Liu Bang (The Populist Founder): As the founder of the Han Dynasty, he operated via practical realpolitik. He successfully built a coalition of warlords, pacified rivals, and adapted to the administrative framework left behind by the preceding Qin Dynasty.
⢠Kim Il-sung (The Hereditary Engineer): Operating in a modern framework, Kim Il-sung used military maneuvering, deification, and an ideology of self-reliance (Juche) to establish a rigid, hereditary dynastic system out of a fractured post-WWII state."
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So if you see widespread abolitionism in fantasy, you might ask: "when was the British Empire here?" :^D
I feel like it's almost the reverse on this one - if you want to make a fantasy empire the good guys (or close enough), introduce slavery to the setting, and then have the fantasy empire ban it. In fact, this is probably one of the easiest good guys/bad guys dividers to apply, including to introduce tension within factions, make more primitive factions less obviously uniformly good, etc.
Anyhow, it sounds like you've done more reading on this than me, so I'd like your assessment of the following position:
Privatized slavery (rather than criminalized slavery, state slavery, or labor-as-tax/corvee) involves the disconnection of individuals from institutional/social networks, and the thick web of social relations and expectations that makes a serf a serf. We would then expect it to occur (i) to members of outgroups who aren't part of the same social system, (ii) in border or frontier regions, where two social systems interface and there is more danger of raids, and (iii) when there is a breakdown in the state, as by war, resulting in the shattering of existing relations.
This was based partly on some pre-existing knowledge and some AI probing. To really establish it properly, I'd need to read more books and articles, which would be a good potential arc for later (because, among other reasons, this suggests that unfortunately, under conditions which support it, privatized slavery can come back; it sounds like something along those lines may have occurred in Libya).
My first reaction assessment is "What do you mean by privatized?"
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I don't think that's standard terminology. Almost all slavery is at least backed by the state because it's very hard for one person to keep a slave when the one person is sleeping. Some large organizations may be nominally called private but have state-like functions and capacity, such as a dedicated enforcement branch that's always on call.
Do you mean when the slave works in a private household, or has his contract held by a single person, or what? There is a very long continuous spectrum here with a lot of varying implementations that are hard to cleanly classify, like the Spartan helots who were nominally owned by government but practically assigned to households, or the Ancient Near East hierodules who were owned by the approximate equivalent of a NGO and were nontransferable.
Your statement of who slavery occurs to is spot on, AFAIK, but not the disconnection from social/institutional networks. Some examples:
The Roman system of slavery had such wide internal variation that one might arguably say it was two different systems that deserve separate names. Blue-collar-slaves (miners, farmers, rowers) in Rome were disconnected from the system, mistreated, often worked to death. White-collar-slaves (copyists, teachers, accountants) were part of the system in a way that starts to look like modern tenure with a work requirement. One recurring pattern was that a Roman head of household would buy for his son a slave-tutor, and when the old head dies and the son is grown up the slave receives liberty and becomes semi-adopted as a free client receiving the patronage of the family. The old rich families of Rome might have a lot of clients who traced descent from a freed slave that way.
Privately owned and some much more integrated than others.
Between these is a mid-range of household slave (maid, butler, cook, handyman, babysitter) and the sometimes surprising fact that mid and upper range Roman slaves could earn money, own property, and buy slaves of their own.
The Ottoman system of slavery had its own twist on the integration question: the janissary/devshirme/kul "blood tax", paid in slaves by subjugated peoples.
You may have heard of how the Byzantine Emperors tried to evade some of the palace intrigue with the Varangian Guard: hire foreign soldiers from a distant land to serve the Emperor, they'll be more loyal as they won't be part of any faction in the local spy games. (At least not at first.)
The Ottoman Emperors tried the dark mirror of this: hire foreign janissary soldiers, but also they're slaves. They could be quite high-ranking slaves who held authority over free natives in the Emperor's name. They were very selectively integrated, often castrated as part of keeping them out of palace intrigue by ensuring they couldn't build a hereditary power-base. Another comparison is to early bureaucracies established by kings trying to weaken the local and hereditary nobility, building a system that answers only to the central government. Hadim Ali Pasha was one such castrated foreign slave who rose to the rank of Grand Vizier.
State owned and partly disconnected from social networks.
The Wheel of Time books do some interesting stuff with slavery, specifically in the Seanchan empire with multiple forms of slavery, including powerful slaves.
I'd also like to chime in here to point out that fantastical settings can also introduce reasons for slavery without a clear real-world counterpart (with perhaps Aztec society coming the closest).
Like when a bunch of sheep-herders on a volcanic peninsula get tired of being preyed on by dragons, and so use blood sorcery (fueled, as with all magic in the setting, by sacrifice) to give themselves just enough of a draconic character to bond with and tame the beast â then conquer and enslave enormous numbers of people for the "human resources" to fuel further sorcerous endeavors, creating a society so horrific for those under them that it spawned a cult of literal death-worshippers who view the assassinations they perform as a "gift"âŚ
Or when your psychic interstellar civilization nucleated the coalescence of a giant psychic attractor â tearing a permanent Negative Space Wedgie into hyperspace in the process â so now you need an endless supply of captives to oppress, torture, and kill so that their suffering can feed said attractor and thereby temporarily lessen its ever-present pull upon your own soulsâŚ
"You are describing the exact mechanism of the "stateless protection" or "governance-first" theory of insurgency, which political scientists and historians recognize as fundamentally blurring the lines between parallel societies, political insurgencies, and organized crime.
Because of this overlap, the strategy of building parallel networks and seizing power during institutional vacuums exhibits both criminal and insurgent characteristics:
1. The Organized Crime Parallel
Your observation about the Mafia is historically accurate. Sociologists like Diego Gambetta describe the Sicilian Mafia not purely as evil syndicates, but as cartels of private protection that stepped in to guarantee trust and security when the centralized state was weak, corrupt, or hostile. Once they established a monopoly on order, they transformed that protection into a tax or extortion racket. Any group establishing an unauthorized, alternative justice or taxation system begins to function like a protection racket, regardless of its ideological goals.
2. The Insurgency Continuum
In political science, parallel societies and insurgencies often operate on the same spectrum. The "exit and step in" strategy you describedâbuilding independent economic/agricultural networks and stepping into the voidâmirrors Mao Zedong's classic doctrine for rural insurgencies. In the incipient phase, the goal is to build an invisible or parallel state that commands the loyalty of the population, bypassing the official government. When that "exit" strategy succeeds in displacing the state's authority, the line separating a legitimate political alternative from an insurgent state-within-a-state vanishes."
"The Roman Empireâs longevity is the ultimate historical blueprint for maintaining hegemony through military suppression and systemic coercion. By combining overwhelming armed force, rapid infrastructure development, and political manipulation, Rome successfully held defiance at bay across three continents for centuries."
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Obviously there are people who believe that the existence, anywhere, of people who disagree politically, is a threat that must be overcome.
But in practical terms, once a political coalition's supporters are reduced down to just this type of guy, the coalition can't do logistics anymore.
However, this position itself is a political one, depending on an understanding of hierarchy, so the kind of guy who thinks there can be no disagreement won't register this.
in my experience, a shocking amount of people firmly believe that their position is the only one that generates any sort of value
As someone who used to work in a place where we occasionally didn't make enough to cover our own wages in a night, I was disabused of this notion early.
"Guy who thinks that after the Revolution, the communist party will recognize him as one of the Creative Souls that are unfit for manual labor (somebody else does that. probably gross people.) so he can spend his days writing about metroidvanias through a queer lens." is a related but distinct phenomenon
Obviously there are people who believe that the existence, anywhere, of people who disagree politically, is a threat that must be overcome.
But in practical terms, once a political coalition's supporters are reduced down to just this type of guy, the coalition can't do logistics anymore.
However, this position itself is a political one, depending on an understanding of hierarchy, so the kind of guy who thinks there can be no disagreement won't register this.
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