Paelianism

Paelianism is a moderate Libertarian to Libertarian-Right ideology in support of free markets, open borders, zoning reform, a positive right to life, and negative rights to most other things. It also thinks space is cool.

Lazy Government
The government should only do what is necessary, mostly because the government is lazy and people can usually take care of themselves.

Antifragility
Antifragility is a concept introduced in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's book Antifragile, which states that some systems gain from uncertainty, stress, and disorder, as opposed to fragile or robust systems that are harmed from them or resistant to them. An example would be evolution versus a robot. Evolution changes creatures to fit their environment, and when the environment changes, creatures adapt with it. A robot on the other hand, would be unsuited for the new environment and wear down or become less useful over time. Systems such as the capitalist economy, decentralized government, evolution, and your body are antifragile systems and are therefore based because they have a harder time collapsing.

Capitalism
Capitalism is decent enough because it is one of the most efficient ways to allocate scarce resources and is the most antifragile economic system. It does however come with some downsides. The incentives for capitalism often misalign with the common good, leading to unethical behaivior. The solution is usually legislation but that's more of a bandage for an underlying issue.

Meritocracy
Paelianism wishes there was an easy way to do this.

Rights
Every citizen has the positive right to life, meaning the government ought to maintain their existence, and a negative right to most other things, including privacy, bearing arms, speech, religion, press, etc. The reason that citizens have a positive right to life is because death is bad.

Cultural Policy
In the vast majority of instances, cultural policy doesn't matter according to Paelianism. He thinks LGBTQ+ people ought to be free to do whatever they want as long as nobody is harmed. He believes abortion is bad unless the mother would be under threat. Also, since there are so many other kinds of birth control, killing babies should be an absolute last resort.

LVT
Paelianism thinks Georgism and LVT is based. It, like capitalism, makes sense as it relates to natural rights and will likely have good consequences. The punishment of undeveloped property and single-family homes is a good idea to promote more efficient land use.

Open Borders
Paelianism has two cases to support Open Borders with, the principles and the pragmatics. On a principled level, people can't choose where they're born. And even if they can, they should still have the right to travel elsewhere. It doesn't make sense to restrict travel on any arbitrary lines, as if those lines were elsewhere there wouldn't be a problem. On the pragmatic side, it's impractical to have completely open borders, but a better system is certainly possible. Paelianism most likes DRITI, short for "Don't Restrict Immigration, Tax It". It compensates all native workers whose jobs may be harmed by immigration, gives immigrants the means to enter and leave whenever they want, and simplifies the path to citizenship. Implementing it also means that there are no more "quotas" from the government on the maximum amount of people to let in per year. Opener borders would dramatically improve the world economy (some estimates put the number at 50% to 100% increase in world GDP), since labor has different value depending on location. Farming in Siberia will never be as profitable as farming in the Midwest. Most of these gains would go to the global poorest, as they are the ones who are being deprived the opportunity to improve their situation. Another convenient side benefit is that it makes it easier for people to leave authoritarian countries. They no longer have to go through complicated forms and such to enter better places. The specific plan of DRITI solves for many of the issues with open borders such as brain drain of developing countries and nativist backlash against immigrants.

SPAAAACE
Space is cool and you can't change Paelianism's mind. Space exploration ought to be encouraged. Paelianism has a step-by-step list of goals for humanity to be considered a successful spacefaring civilization.


 * 1) Construct a moon colony so movement around the Solar System is easier.
 * 2) Construct a robotic colony on Mercury, and begin to mine it for materials.
 * 3) Construct a Dyson Swarm from the materials of Mercury for practically unlimited energy.
 * 4) Start work on colonies around the solar system, spaceborne or on planets.
 * 5) Send out drones to other galaxies and stars within our own galaxy (in that order) to construct dyson swarms around as many stars as possible and terraform planets fit for human survival. Also, start human life on them.
 * 6) Profit

Experimental policies
Paelianism supports the government setting up experimental zones to try out different policies, so that way objective evidence-based policy is decided. Policies can be anywhere from trying out a UBI or LVT for a year, or complete anarchy (within the zone) temporarily. Following is a list of policies that Paelianism would like to experiment with

UBI
A UBI is the easiest and laziest way for the government to provide a positive right to life. UBI increases economic activity, eliminates the welfare trap, and has minimum bureaucracy. If there is a better system, Paelianism will adopt that instead, but so far this one seems like the way to go for him.

Sortition
Sortition is definitely worth trying; in fact, it should be tried on a local, and then state level.

Ideal
All sentient creatures are uploaded to a virtual space, in which they will be free to do whatever they desire, with no harm to others. Interaction with other individuals would also be possible, but they may perceive their interaction differently based on their desires of what the interaction would be. Essentially Hive-Mind Individualism.

An Example
A current test of the nonideal system is Paeliopolis, which is currently going fairly well. The government's current goal is to reduce taxation (52% effective tax rate is absurd).

Based


NUKE THE SUBURBS, BUILD THE CUBE, OPEN THE BORDERS.

Freedom in general? BASED!

Also, #BringBackTheHat.

Hive-Mind Individualism: Essentially the ideal version of me.



Mixed
NAP kind of makes sense, though it seems difficult to enforce given that you're reducing the power of the government.

Cringe
& : Ewww, two party system, yuck.



I'm not necessarily opposed to the idea of communism, I'm just extremely skeptical that it would work in any context larger than a town, and fairly skeptical of it working anywhere larger than a family.