Tiberius Thought

Tiberius Thought is the economically center to center-right and culturally center-left ideology of the blogger Tiberius. He occupies the Authoritarian Right quadrant.

Metaphysics
Tiberius Thought follows idealism, the idea that the world is the product of a collective, non-egoic consciousness; and thus "reality" is dependent upon subjective perception. As egoic souls will have different interpretations of this subjective reality, all epistemological claims are relative. In other words, Tiberius Thought uses idealism to justify relativism.

Morality
Tiberius Thought considers all moral claims to be relative as well. Two people with similar experiences can come up with different moral systems to justify (or condemn) what transpired before them. Morals boil down to individual preferences—shaped by one's personal experience and culture—comparable to a person's taste for food or clothing. This is why Tiberius Thought uses "desirable" and "undesirable" and not "good" or "evil." Morals only matter insofar as they can be enforced through power. Those who wield power can impose their moral preferences onto others.

History
Tiberius Thought believes that there is a course of history, one which is inherently, and that humanity should advance the dialectic towards that end-point. WIP

Free Will
Per his idealism, Tiberius Thought embraces libertarian free will. That outside of cases of cosmic injustice (e.g., being born to a drug-addicted single parent and an incarcerated father), humans have complete agency. From this, Tiberius Thought is a strong advocate of personal responsibility; and that factors like poverty and mental health are merely excuses to avoid self-improving activities.

Elitism
Tiberius Thought believes that under an, a property-owning elite of  merchants,  academics, and  entrepreneurs—in the  Schumpeterian sense of people engaged in innovative activities; creative destruction—will manifest. This "Natural Aristocracy" becomes the primary source of  social progress: Advances in the arts, science, technology, and medicine (expressions of human ingenuity, development, and creativity). When free to exploit resources (human or otherwise) in their self-interest, they generate the wealth necessary to pursue such creative and scientific endeavors. Tiberius Thought's thinking on this stems from four sources:
 * 1) [[File:Hamilton.png]] and [[File:Soclib.png]]  support for a [[File:Arist.png]] "natural aristocracy."
 * 2) The taking of [[File:Obj.png]] [[File:Elites.png]]  to its logical conclusion.
 * 3) The Schumpeterian defence of [[File:Corp.png]] big business by [[File:Civnat.png]] Michael Lind and [[File:3way.png]] Robert D. Atkinson.
 * 4) [[File:Nietzsche.png]] Friedrich Nietzsche's defence of [[File:Slaveism_icon.png]] slavery in The Greek State.

Positive Rights
Tiberius Thought believes individual autonomy necessitates the existence of positive rights. WIP

[[File:Authdem.png]] Civics [[File:Technocracy.png]]
Tiberius Thought's ideal form of government is republican. One which combines elements of representative democracy with  technocracy. He favors running the country like a corporation, in which elected representatives, belonging to a  like-minded ruling party, seek to maximize profits for the country and to guarantee their electorate (shareholders) a decent living standard in exchange for remaining in power. A strong, autocratic executive authority, wielding a cabinet of experts, should have the highest say in setting public policy. A real-life example of this would be Singapore. Some may see this, as they do with Singapore, as a moderate, liberal-friendly version of. It is sort of obvious he is a big fan of Alexander Hamilton.

[[File:Soccap.png]] Social Market Economy [[File:3way.png]]
When it comes to the domestic political economy of the United States, Tiberius Thought advocates for a   (or "social capitalism") reminiscient of what the   advocated for. He splits from the ordo-liberals in many regards, however; such as his friendliness to big capital—to the point of accepting monopolies and oligopolies in certain scenarios—inspired by ,  , and. As such, Tiberius Thought combines the social market economy with "growth economics"—which combines demand-side and supply-side policies to promote entrepreneurship (innovative activites)—in a similar vein to the.

What Tiberius Thought supports is enough state intervention in the  free market to ensure outcomes are close to their theoretical potential. (Read: What they ought to be in a perfect world.) This can include  through taxes and subsidies. Public funding for research and development, alongisde strong, to spur entrepreneurship. Regulations like the minimum wage since it increases productivity (by getting companies to invest in automation and by paying workers more) while addressing unequal bargaining power. Other than this, Tiberius Thought leans towards  (e.g., privatization and deregulation).

[[File:Paternalism.png]] Welfare State [[File:WorkWelf.png]]
Tiberius Thought by and large opposes the current welfare state. Wealth redistribution to merely "eat the rich" and  baby the masses (to prevent personal struggle) has ominous effects. For it punishes the successful in society  to sustain the existence of those who refuse to self-improve. In heterogenous societies the welfare state has the unintended consequence of creating a  permanent underclass that burdens the  country; subsidizing a  destructive culture which not only opposes thrift, productivity, and solidarity, but often embraces  criminal, anti-social lifestyles. What Tiberius Thought supports instead is a paternalistic welfare state; one which emphasizes personal responsibility—"pulling oneself up by the bootstraps"—and climbing the  social ladder through hard work (social mobility). Programs he supports include: This should all be combined with promoting—through taxes, subsidies, and other public policy tools— private charity and mutual aid.
 * [[File:Friedman.png]] A Negative Income Tax (NIT) to replace most other welfare programs. This will not only encourage work but it will be similar to expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)—the most effective anti-poverty program to date —to [[File:SyndieSam.png]] individual workers.
 * [[File:WorkWelf.png]] Workfare: Requiring the able and mentally abled unemployed to search for jobs in order to keep benefits (including the acceptance of part-time work).
 * [[File:Cball-Switzerland.png]] Compulsory private health insurance with a public option based on ability to pay.
 * [[File:Schoolicon.png]] School vouchers to enable low-income children to attend better schools, especially charter schools.
 * [[File:Edu.png]] Making tertiary education (e.g., vocational schooling and public colleges) tuition-free so people can acquire marketable skills in the digital, automated age.
 * [[File:Urbanism.png]] Social housing, which should be combined with land-use deregulation, as a public option in shelter.
 * [[File:Right-Distributism.png]] Tax incentives for generous profit sharing and employee stock ownership plans in [[File:Corp.png]] corporations.

[[File:Fiscon.png]] Taxation [[File:Econlib.png]]
Tiberius Thought supports maintaining a balanced buget. He feels deficit spending—when spending is not equal to tax revenue—is a net harm in the long-term, as it does three things. He agrees with, as did  Milton Friedman, that deficit spending is useful for dealing with national emergencies or bust cycles. But otherwise, balanced budgets are essential to maintaining high productivity. To accomplish this he favors the following:
 * 1) Higher interest rates, which discourages investment (hurts stock performance, cuts into real estate markets, and makes starting a business harder).
 * 2) It artificially enhances the currency's value by promoting foreign capital, which reduces global competitiveness.
 * 3) It acts as a birth tax, punishing future generations who will have to pay that off.
 * [[File:Econlib.png]] Privatizing, in whole or in part, public-sector services or functions to cut spending (e.g, the partial privatization of Social Security like in [[File:Cball-Sweden.png]] Sweden.
 * [[File:Statecap.png]] Using for-profit state-owned enterprises—like social wealth funds or [[File:Cball-Canada.png]] Canada's Crown corporations—to raise revenue for the [[File:Statism.png]] State.
 * [[File:Antiwelf.png]] Eliminating or cutting aforementioned wasteful or parasitic welfare programs, which cost the economy over $1 trillion a year.
 * [[File:Socdem.png]] Raising taxes progressively so that government revenue is closer to what is actually spent.

[[File:Tripartism.png]] Tripartism [[File:Corptism.png]]
Tiberius Thought supports  tripartism; a system of  class collaboration in which wage councils—where delegates of  workers,  businesses, and  government—set internal economic policy on a sector-to-sector basis. This will achieve two things:
 * 1) All tripartite agreements would be compromises which satisfy (hopefully) all parties as much as possible, with the [[File:Statism.png]] State only enforcing what are essentially contacts negotiated on the national, state, and local level. This minimizes [[File: Regulationism.png]] government intervention in the economy overall.
 * 2) It ensures all classes in society work harmoniously in the [[File:Nation.png]][[File:Cball-US.png]] national interest, getting the best of both productivity and profitability.

[[File:Imp.png]] Foreign Policy [[File:Necon.png]]
Tiberius Thought is a strong advocate of. He feels there should be two objectives to American foreign policy: He also approves of efforts by the United States to undermine socialist movements during the Cold War, including the propping up of  banana republics and  right-wing dictators by the  CIA. He opposes the Biden administration's pledge to cut funding to the  Saudi struggle against the Iran-backed  Houthis. All-in-all, his foreign policy attitude can be compared to British imperialism of the 19th century, adapted to a more  globalized situation. Tiberius Thought justifies this foreign policy on Social Darwinist and  Machiavellian grounds.
 * 1) To open up access to [[File:Neighborstan.png]] foreign resources so [[File:Corp.png]] entrepreneurs [[File:Cap.png]] can liberally exploit them to maximize profits (both [[File:Human.png]] human and [[File:Mountains.png]] natural).
 * 2) To undermine and eventually topple regimes hostile to American interests (e.g., [[File:Cball-Iran.png]] Iran and [[File:Cball-Russia.png]] Russia).

[[File:Neoimp.png]] Trade [[File:Globalism.png]]
As implied by his foreign policy, Tiberius Thought believes the prime aim of trade policy should be to exploit foreign resources to the benefit of American entrepreneurs. But he also feels that so long as countries are competing for power and influence, often at the expense of each other, national competitiveness and security should be factored into the equation as well. As such, he supports free trade agreements to project American soft power and coerce weaker countries into inescapable economic dependency. But he also wants to reduce the trade deficit through subsidies for successful domestic companies (e.g., tax cuts and land grants) to encourage exports without disrupting the free flow of cheap goods. He supports Biden's CHIPS and Science Act for subsidizing semiconductor manufacturing companies like Intel, which addresses a valid national security concern while promoting foreign investment.

Relations

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Positive

 * [[File:BERNHEflash.gif]] BERNHE0504 - Probably the person I have most in common with in this community! Apart from some of your conservative social views, I don't have many complaints with you.
 * [[File:Omega1065.png]] - Me, but more moderate.
 * [[File:Icon_oRange.png]] oRange System [[File:Icon_oRange_Alt.png]] - Same as above; my main disagreements with him are on civic nationalism and foreign policy. He's also further left than me.
 * [[File:Vexism.png]] Vexism - Great friend, although we don't have much in common outside of a few philosophical similarities.
 * - One of the most wholesome members of this community, albeit more economically left-wing than me.
 * [[File:Stilluserricon.png]] - Embrace the profit motive and your ideology would be epic.
 * - Embrace the [[File:3way.png]] Third Way and you'll be based!

Mixed

 * [[File:pixil-frame-0(38).png]] Neo-Majapahitism - You may have some based economic takes, but your conservative values are awful. Also, you should be supportive of [[File:Imp.png]] American imperialism since it was the biggest supporter of [[File:Suharto.png]] Suharto.
 * [[File:O%27Langism.png]] - A blend of syndicalism and mutualism actually seems based, but your anti-statism ruins everything. As [[File:Hamiltonianism.png]] Hamilton predicted—and which history only confirmed—you need a powerful central government and markets for [[File:Prog.png]] human progress.
 * [[File:Panth.png]] Pantheonism - Guild socialism is cringe and so is pacifism, but otherwise you're not too bad.
 * - Same with [[File:Vexism.png]] her pretty much, although you're a pleasant person.
 * [[File:NewMatthism3.1.png]] Matthism - Not bad, but not great either.
 * - You're alright I suppose, although you'd be slightly better if you embraced [[File:Egocap.png]] Ego-Capitalism.
 * [[File:Glencoe.png]] Glencoe - Your views are tolerable.
 * [[File:Iconfloofel.png]] - A very wholesome person but we have nothing in common (except for agrarianism but for vastly different reasons).
 * - Same as above pretty much.
 * [[File:Rock.png]] Rocksism - Too left-wing but otherwise okay.

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Reading List
Note: Braun Spencer Thought does not necessarily agree with everything stated in these books, although this collection of books and essays will help you understand his thought process.
 * [[File:Corp.png]] Big is Beautiful: The Myth of Small Business - [[File:3way.png]] Robert D. Atkinson and [[File:Civnat.png]] Michael Lind
 * [[File:Pragmat.png]] The Prince - [[File:Mach.png]] Niccolò Machiavelli
 * [[File:Protect.png]] Free Trade Doesn't Work - [[File:EconNat.png]] Ian Fletcher
 * [[File:Antichrist.png]] The Antichrist - [[File:Nietzsche-icon.png]] Friedrich Nietzsche
 * [[File:Accel.png]] Kant, Capital, and the Prohibition of Incest - [[File:Landian_Accelerationism.png]] Nick Land
 * [[File:Fed.png]] The Federalist Papers - [[File:Hamilton.png]] Alexander Hamilton, [[File:Jeffersoniandem.png]] James Madison, and [[File:Krit.png]] John Jay
 * [[File:Globalism.png]] World Order - [[File:Kisssingerism.png]] Henry Kissinger
 * [[File:Cdem.png]] Toward a Truly Free Market - [[File:DistributismIcon.png]] John C. Médaille
 * [[File:Darwinist.png]] Social Statics - [[File:SpencerDar.png]] Herbert Spencer
 * [[File:Libertarian_Paternalism.png]] Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness - [[File:Chilib.png]] Richard H. Thaler and [[File:Soclib.png]] Cass R. Sustein
 * [[File:Cap.png]] Basic Economics - [[File:Libcon.png]] Thomas Sowell
 * [[File:Slaveism_icon.png]] The Greek State - [[File:Nietzsche.png]] Friedrich Nietzsche
 * [[File:Schoolicon.png]] Charter Schools and Their Enemies - [[File:Libcon.png]] Thomas Sowell
 * [[File:Statecap.png]] The Closed Commercial State - [[File:Utsoc.png]] Johann Gottlieb Fichte
 * [[File:GControl.png]] Repeal the Second Amendment: The Case for a Safer America - [[File:DemocratF.png]] Allan Lichtman
 * [[File:Anticon.png]] Supply-Side Follies: Why Conservative Economics Fails, Liberal Economics Falters, and Innovation Economics is the Answer - [[File:3way.png]] Robert D. Atkinson
 * [[File:Statecap.png]] The Entrepreneurial State - [[File:WEF-Icon.png]] Mariana Mazzucato
 * [[File:EconInflate.png]] The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money - [[File:Keynes.png]] John M. Keynes
 * [[File:Necon.png]] The Neoconservative Persuasion - [[File:Trot.png]] Irving Kristol
 * [[File:Flatearthf.png]] The World Is Flat - [[File:Neoliberal-icon.png]] Thomas Friedman
 * [[File:AntiDem.png]] The Revolt of the Masses - [[File:LibSocAuth.png]] José Ortega y Gasset
 * [[File:Mach.png]] The Concept of the Political - [[File:CarlSchmitt.png]] Carl Schmitt
 * [[File:Edu.png]] The Case Against Education - [[File:Ancapf.png]] Bryan Caplan
 * [[File:Cap.png]] Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal - [[File:Obj.png]] Ayn Rand, [[File:Bankocracy.png]] Alan Greenspan, [[File:Egocap.png]] Nathaniel Branden, and [[File:Histval.png]] Robert Hessen
 * [[File:Mach.png]] Politics Among Nations - [[File:Pragmat.png]] Hans Morgenthau
 * [[File:Soclib.png]] On Liberty - [[File:Mill.png]] John Stuart Mill
 * [[File:Enlightab.png]] Leviathan - [[File:Hobbe.png]] Thomas Hobbes
 * [[File:SuccMin.png]] The Road to Serfdom - [[File:Hayek.png]] Friedrich von Hayek
 * [[File:Orlib.png]] The Foundations of Economics - [[File:NeoLiberal-icon.png]] Walter Eucken
 * [[File:Necon.png]] Vietnam: The Necessary War - [[File:Civnat.png]] Michael Lind
 * [[File:Community.png]] Equality as a Moral Ideal - [[File:Demsocstar.png]] Harry Frankfurt
 * [[File:Cultism.png]] Twilight of the Idols - [[File:Nietzsche-icon.png]] Friedrich Nietzsche

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