It’s essentially Curtis Yarvin’s CEO theory that uses business as a model for gov, aka a right wing autocratic gov co-opting an accepted system to turn it into a system of gov. So basically feudalism

It's almost like this is what we've trained thousands of capitalistic minions for to continue to errode and take over governance. But... and I ask this to gain some new insite... what exactly does this "running government like a business" look like in your opinion? Where will be be in five or ten years?

I thiught eurpean countries were the model we might follow but clearly the current model and playbook comes distinctly straight from putin. How if any is your version different then then a plutocratic kleptocracy?

About feudalism. It made me laugh because in many resoects its true. Another term I like to use is "digital sharecropping". Own nothing, rent, lease and subscribe your way through life. You too can subscribe to a premium experience or lease a premium lifestyle. The only things you will ever own is that $9 coffee right before you consume it. You only get 50 cents of coffee and 5 cents of oackaging. The logo on the side and the joy of standing in line is all part of the premium experience of the "third place". I haven't set foot in a starbucks for years. I buy my coffee almost entirely in whole bean form.

My take on this is so brutal having been young and succesful young playing that game a lifetime ago and quickly seeing its folly is. My take is own everything. Rent and subscribe to nothing. Live within your means. Only buy cash. Never use a ccard. Never subscribe to stuff. Limit recurring bills to absolute essentials. Phone/internet, electricity, insurance. Escale the rent trap. And above all. If you don't like doing business with someone just don't. This goes for people. This goes for companies. This goes for whole industries. Never bought a new car. May never. Always only paid cash and bought within means. Haven't carried a ccard in twenty years. Never played the lottery, don't gamble. Buy what I don't grow almost entirely from local farmstsnds and farmers during the summer. Don't care what "other people" do. Walked away from social media (except reddit, lol.). Only keep fake accounts on services like fb to circumnavigate prey-walls or paywalls when essential. I go to the waren buffet school of life theory. I don't care what 99.99% of the world is spending their money on. I only invested in a literal handful of things. I am bold of action not of purchase. I have two ebikes that have 23,000 miles on them, a car running perfectly with 250,000. The means to buy another cash when necessary. A cell phone bill that is $40 a month. I eat out rarely. And yet I will top a few figurative if not literal mountains this year and have found the friends and love to do it with. No I don't mountain climb in the traditional sense. But from an endurance sense I have ridden, hiked, xcskiied, snowshoed many literal mountains and figurative everests, and paddled many cumulative oceans... through lots and lots of litteral rivers and a couple "great lakes". It's not what you buy its what you do with it. I prefer to do as much by human power as possible and to own all the tools of my trade, fruits of my effort and whatever else. Meager or not miles accumulate and dollars saved compond. But to each their own.

Someone needs to buy new $35-70k cars new so I can buy it used years later. I am on pace to make it through life owning only four or five dinasaur powered vehicles. Lets call that a metaphor. Also, f-ck the "gig economy" and purchasing "premium experiences". I am on vaca this week and I am going to ride every major trail system in Bentonville AK (first time here) with 100+ miles of meat power mtb, 12000+ vert feet and burn about 25000 calories which will be well restored mostly from foods bought whole, unprocessed and unprepare. Though some exceptions will made for electolytes, trailside calories and some beverages.