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Originally Posted by fash
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Read about how r/K selection theory and how it models behavior in politics. That'll keep ya busy with the left/right topic for a while.
Try looking at it in terms of resource scarcity and competition. When resources are plentiful, a population (and not just humans) will grow and expand as far as possible by exploiting those resources to proliferate reproduction. As the left gains control of government (e.g. via democracy), they tend toward redistributing abundant resources to the unproductive and uncompetitive since that is the most successful strategy to expand that unproductive population. You can see this boon increase reproduction rates of several types of welfare recipients. A large government is necessary in order to extract the resources from the productive part of the population that owns the resources.
On the other hand, when resources are limited, there is naturally competition, and success in that competitive environment requires productivity, which drives survival and selection towards structures like family units.
Resources are finite, and only when made unavailable or exhausted, do you you see drastic shifts to the right e.g. government/economy collapse in severe cases. When resources are abundant, you see shifts to the left, and in that case the larger government facilitates redistribution.
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This is precisely the reason for my argument. In an far left environment, you NEED and strong central government to combat r-selection otherwise you'll bankrupt the state. You need to optimize by mandating things like which people do what work, who should reproduce, who is entitled to medical care, etc.
On a far right environment, competition ensures r-selection is of minimal concern, but in the presence of a strong government an entirely different problem arises: dominance. Ordinarily it wouldn't be a concern, because less efficient entities would fall to more efficient ones. However in the presence of a strong government, a successful entity may protect itself from future failure do to inefficiency by redefining the rules to its benefit. You effectually end up with a corporate Alex predator as indefinite overlord. The government no matter how powerful in a wholly free market setting becomes nothing more than a weapon of the wealthiest player.