The base rate of positive outcomes from genuine revolutions is poor. Very poor. The American Revolution is an unusual exception which more closely resembled a standard war than the total dissolution of social order.
Think about what total dissolution of social order means.
It means that sociopaths and psychopaths are no longer making your life hell at work.
They are killing and torturing people. And the worst of the worst quickly rise to the top, because the sorting pool switches from "localised power structure" to "everywhere in this society".
The linked article isn't really about revolutions as such. The author has discovered that markets don't optimise for virtue, they optimise for value. Hayek has pointed out that this is why they work at all; if you try to impose outside virtues on markets they either distort or become actively dysfunctional. There are limits to what can be done to align the world we want to live in with the world we actually live in.
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Think about what total dissolution of social order means.
It means that sociopaths and psychopaths are no longer making your life hell at work.
They are killing and torturing people. And the worst of the worst quickly rise to the top, because the sorting pool switches from "localised power structure" to "everywhere in this society".
The linked article isn't really about revolutions as such. The author has discovered that markets don't optimise for virtue, they optimise for value. Hayek has pointed out that this is why they work at all; if you try to impose outside virtues on markets they either distort or become actively dysfunctional. There are limits to what can be done to align the world we want to live in with the world we actually live in.
Beware the is/ought fallacy.