Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the bestseller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes in human history as we move into the next century. The Sovereign Individual details strategies necessary for adapting financially to the next phase of Western civilization.
Two renowned investment advisors and authors of the bestseller The Great Reckoning bring to light both currents of disaster and the potential for prosperity and renewal in the face of radical changes in human history as we move into the next century. The Sovereign Individual details strategies necessary for adapting financially to the next phase of Western civilization.
Few observers of the late twentieth century have their fingers so presciently on the pulse of the global political and economic realignment ushering in the new millennium as do James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg. Their bold prediction of disaster on Wall Street in Blood in the Streets was borne out by Black Tuesday. In their ensuing bestsellar, The Great Reckoning, published just weeks before the coup attempt against Gorbachev, they analyzed the pending collapse of the Soviet Union and foretold the civil war in Yugoslavia and other events that have proved to be among the most searing developments of the past few years.
In The Sovereign Individual, Davidson and Rees-Mogg explore the greatest economic and political transition in centuries -- the shift from an industrial to an information-based society. This transition, which they have termed "the fourth stage of human society," will liberate individuals as never before, irrevocably altering the power of government. This outstanding book will replace false hopes and fictions with new understanding and clarified values.
Karl Marx believed in the struggle for survival just as much as Charles Darwin, but he believed it was a war between social classes, themselves formed by economic forces. Adolf Hitler believed in the struggle for survival, and saw his own political career almost exclusively in those terms. But he believed that the struggle was one between different races. Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler can all be called social Darwinists, in that they saw the struggle for survival, “Mein Kampf” as Hitler called it, as the central political issue. The Marxists saw social classes as though they were separate species; the Nazis saw races in the same light. (查看原文)
The alternative to destructive “interference” competition is collaborative competition, and collaborative competition is the central idea of Adam Smith, and also of Malthus and of William James. (查看原文)
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7 有用 Individual 2022-02-13 16:44:52
可能是这个时代最重要的几本书之一，使用暴力回报递减作为主要分析框架。关于软件业和Crypto的描述我很赞同，但是制造业/机械等行业信息化程度暂不了解。描述了一个非常宏大的picture:) 在这个picture里SuperPower和Dictatorship将趋向于消失
22 有用 某人撇嘴 2022-09-18 15:55:22 北京
类成功学居然变成了web3的圣经，毫不意外。 艰艰难难看完了，论断很多，证明很少，本质还是上世纪末的新自由主义论调。网络经济的个人税收确实是个问题，但是本书只假设个人可以使用新技术，国家只会无动于衷，显然不可能。相反，国家拥有大量的资源去研究，更能掌握控制暴力的能力。并且只要人需要与物质世界交互，只要肉体会死，国家就永远有控制力。 不过看到最后我懂了，这本书并不是写给我的，穷逼不配做主权个人，穷逼... 类成功学居然变成了web3的圣经，毫不意外。 艰艰难难看完了，论断很多，证明很少，本质还是上世纪末的新自由主义论调。网络经济的个人税收确实是个问题，但是本书只假设个人可以使用新技术，国家只会无动于衷，显然不可能。相反，国家拥有大量的资源去研究，更能掌握控制暴力的能力。并且只要人需要与物质世界交互，只要肉体会死，国家就永远有控制力。 不过看到最后我懂了，这本书并不是写给我的，穷逼不配做主权个人，穷逼只配被主权个人剥削。 (展开)
28 有用 十一 2021-09-25 13:34:17
从技术与政治博弈的角度，拓宽了我对于世界的理解，此书是我今年看过的最好的书。
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39 有用 右侧好人 2020-04-10 07:17:19
作者探讨了暴力的逻辑及其与工业时代国家的崛起之间的关系，预言随着互联网时代的到来以及互联网货币的出现，国家使用暴力剥夺公民财产的能力受到很大的限制，西方的福利国家注定要衰落，随后崛起的将是主权个人，而国家这种工业时代的遗迹将转变成为为主权个人服务的商业机构。书中印象比较深刻的几个特色观点: 一，工业时代生产规模化，使得暴力收益大，而随着互联网时代的到来以及非对称加密技术的使用，财产抵抗暴力征收变得... 作者探讨了暴力的逻辑及其与工业时代国家的崛起之间的关系，预言随着互联网时代的到来以及互联网货币的出现，国家使用暴力剥夺公民财产的能力受到很大的限制，西方的福利国家注定要衰落，随后崛起的将是主权个人，而国家这种工业时代的遗迹将转变成为为主权个人服务的商业机构。书中印象比较深刻的几个特色观点: 一，工业时代生产规模化，使得暴力收益大，而随着互联网时代的到来以及非对称加密技术的使用，财产抵抗暴力征收变得轻而易举。二, 工业时代国家的衰落以及主权个人的崛起，不会是一个和平的过程，而是一个类似于中世纪混乱时代，提供人身安全将是各个国家竞争的焦点，而西方福利国家将穷尽各种手段，阻止富人的逃亡。 (展开)