Yeah. To me your post first read like it was making a historical claim—about gradual voluntary self-disarmament. But maybe I misread and you only intended to make the smaller point about “getting epsilon more from participation”, in that case yeah, my criticism is off target and sorry.
It inspired me to add a line near the end, which I think should’ve been there in the original (so thank you):
There were two full chapters on slavery and conscription and indentured servitude, castes and patriarchy and institutional bigotry—all the various ways in which societies incorporate people into their machinery without respecting their dealbreakers, keeping them captive in roles they would not freely choose.
Yeah. To me your post first read like it was making a historical claim—about gradual voluntary self-disarmament. But maybe I misread and you only intended to make the smaller point about “getting epsilon more from participation”, in that case yeah, my criticism is off target and sorry.
It inspired me to add a line near the end, which I think should’ve been there in the original (so thank you):